• Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources as Targets for Indirect Dark Matter Detection with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope 

  Coronado-Blázquez, Javier; Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A.; Domínguez, Alberto; Aguirre-Santaella, Alejandra; Di Mauro, Mattia; Mirabald, Néstor; Nieto, Daniel; Charles, Eric (2019-06)

  One of the predictions of the ΛCDM cosmological framework is the hierarchical formation of structure, giving rise to dark matter (DM) halos and subhalos. When the latter are massive enough they retain gas (i.e., baryons) ...

• An improved test of the general relativistic effect of frame-dragging using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites 

  Ciufolini, Ignazio; Paolozzi, Antonio; Pavlis, Erricos C.; Sindoni, Giampiero; Ries, John; Matzner, Richard; Koenig, Rolf; Paris, Claudio; Gurzadyan, Vahe; Penrose, Roger (Springer Nature, 2019-10-23)

  We report the improved test of frame-dragging, an intriguing phenomenon predicted by Einstein’s General Relativity, obtained using 7 years of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) data of the satellite LARES (ASI, 2012) and 26 ...

• Satellite Laser-Ranging as a Probe of Fundamental Physics 

  Ciufolini, Ignazio; Matzner, Richard; Paolozzi, Antonio; Pavlis, Erricos C.; Sindoni, Giampiero; Ries, John; Gurzadyan, Vahe; Koenig, Rolf (2019-06)

  Satellite laser-ranging is successfully used in space geodesy, geodynamics and Earth sciences; and to test fundamental physics and specific features of General Relativity. We present a confirmation to approximately one ...

• Translating the Physics of Snowfall to Radar-Based Validation of GPM 

  Petersen, W.; Pettersen, C.; Kirstetter, P.; Moisseev, D.; Lerber, A. von; Kulie, M.; Marks, David; Tokay, A.; Wolff, D.; Hudak, D. (NASA Technical Reports Server, 2019-06-19)

• Atmospheric Acetaldehyde: Importance of Air‐Sea Exchange and a Missing Source in the Remote Troposphere 

  Wang, Siyuan; Hornbrook, Rebecca S.; Hills, Alan; Emmons, Louisa K.; Tilmes, Simone; Lamarque, Jean‐François; Jimenez, Jose L.; Campuzano‐Jost, Pedro; Nault, Benjamin A.; Crounse, John D.; Wennberg, Paul O.; Kim, Michelle; Allen, Hannah; Ryerson, Thomas B.; Thompson, Chelsea R.; Peischl, Jeff; Moore, Fred; Nance, David; Hall, Brad; Elkins, James; Tanner, David; Huey, L. Gregory; Hall, Samuel R.; Ullmann, Kirk; Orlando, John J.; Tyndall, Geoff S.; Flocke, Frank M.; Ray, Eric; Hanisco, Thomas F.; Wolfe, Glenn M.; Clair, Jason St.; Commane, Róisín; Daube, Bruce; Barletta, Barbara; Blake, Donald R.; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Dollner, Maximilian; Conley, Andrew; Vitt, Francis; Wofsy, Steven C.; Riemer, Daniel D.; Apel, Eric C. (American Geophysical Union, 2019-05-28)

  Abstract We report airborne measurements of acetaldehyde (CH₃CHO) during the first and second deployments of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom). The budget of CH₃CHO ...

• Hydrocarbon Removal in Power Plant Plumes Shows Nitrogen Oxide Dependence of Hydroxyl Radicals 

  Gouw, J. A. de; Parrish, D. D.; Brown, S. S.; Edwards, P.; Gilman, J. B.; Graus, M.; Hanisco, T. F.; Kaiser, J.; Keutsch, F. N.; Kim, S.‐W.; Lerner, B. M.; Neuman, J. A.; Nowak, J. B.; Pollack, I. B.; Roberts, J. M.; Ryerson, T. B.; Veres, P. R.; Warneke, C.; Wolfe, G. M. (American Geophysical Union, 2019-07-05)

  Abstract During an airborne study in the Southeast United States, measured mixing ratios of biogenic hydrocarbons were systematically lower in air masses containing enhanced nitrogen oxides from power plants, which we ...

• SBG Applications: Aquatic Ecosystems Including Corals, Harmful Algal Blooms, Water Quality, Restoration 

  Uz, Stephanie; Tzortziou, Maria; Guild, Liane; Ortiz, Joe; Turpie, Kevin; Lee, Christine; Stravros, Natasha; Luvall, Jeff; Glenn, Nancy (NASA Technical Reports Server, 2019-06-12)

• Learning from GES DISC's MLS and OMI Data Users: Metrics Matter 

  Wei, Jennifer; Shen, Suhung; Shie, Chung-Lin; Johnson, James; Lei, Guang-Dih; Owens, Elaine; Alcott, Gary; Meyer, David J. (NASA Technical Reports Server, 2019-08-27)

  It has been over 15 years since Aura research satellite launched in 2004 to observe the Earth's ozone layer, air quality, and climate from four different instruments - the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS), ...

• A Tale of Two Dust Storms: analysis of a complex dust event in the Middle East 

  Miller, Steven D.; Grasso, Louie D.; Bian, Qijing; Kreidenweis, Sonia M.; Dostalek, Jack F.; Solbrig, Jeremy E.; Bukowski, Jennifer; van den Heever, Susan C.; Wang, Yi; Xu, Xiaoguang; Wang, Jun; Walker, Annette L.; Wu, Ting-Chi; Zupanski, Milija; Chiu, Christine; Reid, Jeffrey S. (EGU, 2019-09-24)

  Lofted mineral dust over data-sparse regions presents considerable challenges to satellite-based remote sensing methods and numerical weather prediction alike. The southwest Asia domain is replete with such examples, with ...

• Why do models overestimate surface ozone in the Southeast United States 

  Travis, Katherine R.; Jacob, Daniel J.; Fisher, Jenny A.; Kim, Patrick S.; Marais, Eloise A.; Zhu, Lei; Yu, Karen; Miller, Christopher C.; Yantosca, Robert M.; Sulprizio, Melissa P.; Thompson, Anne M.; Wennberg, Paul O.; Crounse, John D.; St. Clair, Jason M.; Cohen, Ronald C.; Laughner, Joshua L.; Dibb, Jack E.; Hall, Samuel R.; Ullmann, Kirk; Wolfe, Glenn M.; Pollack, Illana B.; Peischl, Jeff; Neuman, Jonathan A.; Zhou, Xianliang (Copernicus Publications, 2016-11-01)

  Ozone pollution in the Southeast US involves complex chemistry driven by emissions of anthropogenic nitrogen oxide radicals (NOx  ≡  NO + NO₂) and biogenic isoprene. Model estimates of surface ozone concentrations tend to ...

• Assessing Water Budget Sensitivity to Precipitation Forcing Errors in Potomac River Basin Using the VIC Hydrologic Model CyberTraining: Big Data + High-Performance Computing + Atmospheric Sciences 

  Majumder, Reetam; Walid, Redwan; Zheng, Jianyu (2019)

  The Potomac River Basin is a watershed located on the East Coast of the USA across West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Inter-annual variations in precipitation makes it challenging ...

• An Overview of Low‐Level Jet Winds and Corresponding Mixed Layer Depths During PECAN 

  Carroll, Brian J.; Demoz, Belay B.; Delgado, Ruben (American Geophysical Union, 2019-08-09)

  Thirty southerly low‐level jet (LLJ) events were observed during the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign in the Great Plains region of the United States during summer 2015. Here we present Doppler ...

• Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Ocean-Color Imagery During the PACE Era 

  Frouin, Robert J.; Franz, Bryan A.; Ibrahim, Amir; Knobelspiesse, Kirk D.; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Cairns, Brian; Chowdhary, Jacek; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Tan, Jing; Dubovik, Oleg; Huang, Xin; Davis, Anthony B.; Kalashnikova, Olga; Thompson, David R.; Remer, Lorraine Ann; Boss, Emmanuel; Coddington, Odele; Deschamps, Pierre-Yves; Gao, Bo-Cai; Gross, Lydwine; Hasekamp, Otto; Omar, Ali; Pelletier, Bruno; Ramon, Didier; Steinmetz, François; Zhai, Peng-wang (Frontiers, 2019-07-26)

  The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will carry into space the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), a spectrometer measuring at 5 nm spectral resolution in the ultraviolet (UV) to near infrared (NIR) with ...

• Impact of the ARSET Program on Use of Remote-Sensing Data 

  Prados, Ana I.; Carleton-Hug, Annelise; Gupta, Pawan; Mehta, Amita; Blevins, Brock; Schmidt, Cynthia; Barbato, David G.; McCullum, Amber Jean; Hook, Elizabeth; Podest, Erika; Follette-Cook, Melanie; Hudson-Odoi, Selwyn; Kinsey, Tom (MDPI, 2019-06-04)

  We show that training activities conducted through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Applied Remote-Sensing Training (ARSET) program led to a significant increase in remote-sensing data use for ...

• Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 2: Multi-Angle and Polarimetry 

  Remer, Lorraine A.; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Zhai, Pengwang; Xu, Feng; Kalashnikova, Olga V.; Chowdhary, Jacek; Hasekamp, Otto; Dubovik, Oleg; Wu, Lianghai; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Boss, Emmanuel; Cairns, Brian; Coddington, Odele; Davis, Anthony B.; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Diner, David J.; Franz, Bryan; Frouin, Robert; Gao, Bo-Cai; Ibrahim, Amir; Levy, Robert C.; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Omar, Ali H.; Torres, Omar (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-23)

  The Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission presents new opportunities and new challenges in applying observations of two complementary multi-angle polarimeters for the space-based retrieval of global ...

• Retrieving Aerosol Characteristics From the PACE Mission, Part 1: Ocean Color Instrument 

  Remer, Lorraine A.; Davis, Anthony B.; Mattoo, Shana; Levy, Robert C.; Kalashnikova, Olga V.; Coddington, Odele; Chowdhary, Jacek; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Xu, Xiaoguang; Ahmad, Ziauddin; Boss, Emmanuel; Cairns, Brian; Dierssen, Heidi M.; Diner, David J.; Franz, Bryan; Frouin, Robert; Gao, Bo-Cai; Ibrahim, Amir; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Omar, Ali H.; Torres, Omar; Xu, Feng; Zhai, Peng-Wang (Frontiers Media S.A, 2019-07-23)

  NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission is scheduled to launch in 2022, with the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) on board. For the first time reflected sunlight from the Earth across a broad ...

• Spaceborne observations of sun glint and near-cloud aerosols 

  Várnai, Tamás; Marshak, Alexander; Wen, Guoyong; Yang, Weidong; Eck, Thomas; Levy, Robert; Kostinski, Alexander (2006-06-02)

• Satellite-detected Ocean Ecosystem Response to Volcanic Eruptionsin the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean 

  Westberry, Toby, K.; Shi, Yingxi R.; Yu, H.; Behrenfeld, Michael J.; Remer, L. A. (American Geophysical Union, 2019-09-16)

  Volcanic eruptions in the Aleutian archipelago during the summer of 2008 deposited large quantities of iron-laden ash to the Subarctic North Pacific Ocean. The surface ocean ecosystem response has been previously ...

• Hybrid Causality Analysis of ENSO’s Global Impacts on Climate Variables Based on Data-Driven Analytics and Climate Model Simulation 

  Song, Hua; Tian, Jing; Huang, Jingfeng; Guo, Pei; Zhang, Zhibo; Wang, Jianwu (Frontiers, 2019-09-18)

  Numerous studies have indicated that El Niño and the southern oscillation (ENSO) could have determinant impacts on remote weather and climate using the conventional correlation-based methods, which however, cannot identify ...

• CAFE: a new, improved non-resonant laser-induced fluorescence instrument for airborne in situ measurement of formaldehyde 

  Clair, Jason M. St.; Swanson, Andrew K.; Bailey, Steven A.; Hanisco, Thomas F. (Copernicus Publications, 2019-08-30)

  NASA Compact Airborne Formaldehyde Experiment (CAFE) is a nonresonant laser-induced fluorescence instrument for airborne in situ measurement of formaldehyde (HCHO). The instrument is described here with highlighted improvements ...

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