The 18th event of its kind hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), ESTF2021 aims to showcase a broad array of technology research and development projects related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. From May through early July eight virtual sessions will be held on Thursdays.
These 2.5-hour sessions will include a targeted set of technology presentations around an Earth science theme, followed by a panel discussion.
Todays topic: The Water Cycle
Panelist Presentations:
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Soil Moisture Integration – Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California
- Next Generation GNSS Bistatic Radar Receiver – Chris Ruf, University of Michigan
- Preparing NASA for Future Snow Missions: Incorporation of the Spatially Explicit SnowModel in LIS – Ethan Gutmann, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation (SNOOPI) – James Garrison, Purdue University
Additional NASA Panelists:
- Jared Entin, Global Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area
- Marge Cole, Earth Science Technology Office
Last Session:
- Thursday, July 1 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Earth Surface Deformation and Change
For more information and registration click here.
The 18th event of its kind hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), ESTF2021 aims to showcase a broad array of technology research and development projects related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. From May through early July eight virtual sessions will be held on Thursdays.
These 2.5-hour sessions will include a targeted set of technology presentations around an Earth science theme, followed by a panel discussion.
Todays topic: Atmospheric Gases
Panelist Presentations:
- CHAPS: A Compact Hyperspectral Imager for Atmospheric Composition Space Remote Sensing – William Swartz, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Predicting What We Breathe: Federating Satellite and Smart City Data – Jeanne Holm, City of Los Angeles
- NACHOS: A 3U CubeSat for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging of Atmospheric Trace Gases – Steven Love, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Surrogate Modeling for Atmospheric Chemistry and Data Assimilation – Daven Henze, University of Colorado Boulder
- New Approaches to Microwave Remote Sounding of Atmospheric Composition Profiles – Nathaniel Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional NASA Panelists:
- Richard Eckman, Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Program
- Keith Murray, Earth Science Technology Office
Next Sessions:
- Thursday, June 24 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – The Water Cycle
- Thursday, July 1 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Earth Surface Deformation and Change
For more information and registration click here.
The 18th event of its kind hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), ESTF2021 aims to showcase a broad array of technology research and development projects related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. From May through early July eight virtual sessions will be held on Thursdays.
These 2.5-hour sessions will include a targeted set of technology presentations around an Earth science theme, followed by a panel discussion.
Todays topic: Aerosols, Clouds, Convection, and Precipitation
Panelist Presentations:
- Compact Midwave Imaging System – Michael Kelly, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- CloudCube: a compact, multi-frequency mm-wave radar – Raquel Rodriguez Monje, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- CAPRi: Cloud-based Analytic Framework for Precipitation Research – John Beck, University of Alabama Huntsville
- Integrated Receiver and Switch Technology (IRaST) – William Deal, Northrop Grumman Corporation
- HyperAngular Rainbow Polarimeter HARP-CubeSat – Vanderlei Martins, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Additional NASA Panelists:
- Barry Lefer, Tropospheric Chemistry Program
- Bob Connerton, Earth Science Technology Office
Next Sessions:
- Thursday, June 10 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – New Observing Strategies for Earth Science
- Thursday, June 17 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Atmospheric Gases
- Thursday, June 24 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – The Water Cycle
- Thursday, July 1 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Earth Surface Deformation and Change
For more information and registration click here.
The 18th event of its kind hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), ESTF2021 aims to showcase a broad array of technology research and development projects related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. From May through early July eight virtual sessions will be held on Thursdays.
These 2.5-hour sessions will include a targeted set of technology presentations around an Earth science theme, followed by a panel discussion.
Todays topic: Weather
Panelist Presentations:
- SToRMSAR: Satellite Tomography of Rain and Motion via Synthetic Aperture Radar – Kevin Maschhoff, BAE Systems
- Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST-D) – Steven Reising, Colorado State University
- Observing System Development and UQ in a Parallel Bayesian Framework: Applications for Weather, Clouds, Convection, and Precipitation – Derek Posselt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Atmospheric Boundary Layer Lidar PathfindEr (ABLE): Cross-cutting DIAL for Humidity Profiling – Amin Nehrir, NASA Langley Research Center
- RainCube, A Precipitation Profiling Radar in a CubeSat – Simone Tanelli Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional NASA Panelists:
- Gail Skofronick Jackson, Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Program
- Tsengdar Lee, Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Program
- Amber Emory, ESTO Advanced Component Technologies Program
Next Sessions:
- Thursday, June 3 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Aerosols, Clouds, Convection, and Precipitation
- Thursday, June 10 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – New Observing Strategies for Earth Science
- Thursday, June 17 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Atmospheric Gases
- Thursday, June 24 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – The Water Cycle
- Thursday, July 1 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Earth Surface Deformation and Change
For more information and registration click here.
Background
The Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci) is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) with the overall goal to generate climate data records (CDRs) of atmospheric water vapour for use in climate applications. The project develops, validates, and releases quality-controlled, long-term CDRs of total column water vapour (TCWV) and water vapour profiles in the stratosphere (2D), as well as a five-year data record of water vapour profiles in the troposphere and lower stratosphere (3D).
Objectives
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the broader water vapour community, including those interested in the generation of water vapour CDRs and data users (such as climate modellers and NWP researchers) in order to discuss the most recent scientific applications and challenges in processing and using water vapour CDRs.
Topics of the workshop include:
- Discuss challenges related to the generation of water vapour CDRs.
- Show-case climate user applications of water vapour CDRs (with focus on WV_cci CDRs).
- Collect and update user requirements for atmospheric water vapour.
- Present and discuss results from climate analysis, climate applications, and process studies using water vapour CDRs.
For more information please visit the official webpage.
The 2021 Annual Seminar on Observations will be held jointly with the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis in Bonn, Germany. The event is likely to combine elements of a face-to-face and virtual event. If the pandemic continues to cause restrictions for travel and it is not possible to meet in person, the seminar will be held online.
The Annual Seminar will provide an Earth System view of observations, identifying where the current global observing system is meeting new and existing Earth System requirements. How effectively the current observing system is being used for NWP and reanalysis will be explored, as well as consideration to gaps and how they may be addressed in the future. The seminar will consider science and technical issues common to observations across multiple components, and also issues specific to these components.
The seminar is part of ECMWF’s educational programme and is aimed at early career scientists as well as those who are more established in their field.
For more information, please visit the official website.
Hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis will be held in Bonn (Germany), 13-18 September 2021 alongside the 2021 ECMWF Annual Seminar on Observations. Both events are scheduled as an in-person meeting with the possibility for anyone to join remotely as well. If the pandemic would cause important travel restrictions and it is not possible to meet in person, the meeting will be held virtually.
The overall objective of WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis, with local organization let by DWD is to review latest developments and address issues of common interest to data assimilation and reanalysis communities, such as Earth system and coupled approaches, ensemble techniques and covariances, process studies, handling of systematic errors, diagnostics and verification, emerging AI and Machine learning techniques, open science and collaborative platforms. The Symposium will build on the program of the Annual Seminar focusing on an Earth system view of observations.
For more information, please visit the official website.
The Open and Virtual Workshop, “Improving understanding of land-atmosphere interactions through integration of surface flux and atmospheric boundary layer measurements”, is organized in support of the AmeriFlux “Year of Water Fluxes”, and in collaboration with community representation from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program.
The workshop will address the following questions:
- What are the high-priority research questions that can be addressed with existing measurements (e.g., data from AmeriFlux sites with collocated instrumentation for boundary layer measurements, or nearby radiosonde/profile measurements)?
- What new boundary layer measurements should be prioritized, and where? What are the cutting-edge research questions that could be addressed with these new measurements?
- What is needed to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between ecologists/biogeoscientists and atmospheric scientists? How can we best share tools that are necessary to process, analyze, and interpret boundary layer measurements?
- How can this kind of collaboration improve predictive understanding of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and land-atmosphere coupling?
For more information and to register click here.
The 2021 Global Water Futures (GWF) Annual Open Science Meeting, May 17 – 19, will bring together the GWF community (researchers, affiliates, partners, collaborators, and stakeholders) in a virtual setting to share our latest scientific achievements and success stories, provide updates on end user solutions, and support the actions needed to secure Canada’s water future.
Themes
- Climate-driven changes of water environments in cold regions
- From anthropogenic pressures to ecosystem services
- Turning research into policy and management solutions
- Innovations in water science and technology
- Knowledge co-creation with Indigenous communities
The themes are supported by the following cross-cutting challenges and opportunities:
- Transferable knowledge and tools
- Predictive modelling and forecasting
- (Big) data science and management
- Social, economic and health determinants and impacts
- Stakeholder engagement and knowledge mobilization
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The objectives of the Committe on Space Research (COSPAR) Assemblies are to promote scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information and opinions and to provide a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research”.
Of special interest to the GEWEX community are the topics of the Scientific Commission A:
- Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
- The Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
- Big Earth Observation Data for Resiliance and Sustainability of Social and Economic Sectors
- Space-based and Sub-orbital Observations of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry: Vital Information on the Health of Our Planet
- Science and Applications Enabled by Satellite Missions for the Ocean and Sea Ice
- Update on Copernicus Land Products Validation Activities
- New Developments and Applications of Land Surface Phenology (LSP)
- Earth Observation for Monitoring Photosynthetic Variables in Mangrove Forests.
For more information go to the official website of COSPAR 2022 44th Scientific Assembly or check out the information on the COSPAR website
