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Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Science Highlights: 2009

September
  • PIgs in Space
  • GOES Cloud Analysis for GEO-CAPE
  • Statistical Evaluation of Combined Daily Gauge Observations and Rainfall Satellite Estimates over Continental South America
  • APT Image Received at Lanham, Maryland Home Station
August
  • Heat Exchange and Ice Production in the Arctic Ocean as Derived from ICESat
  • Impacts of Climate Variability on Primary Productivity and Carbon Distributions on the East Coast (CliVEC)
  • NASA Provides a Global Soil Moisture Product for the USDA Crop Forecasting System
July
  • Adélie Penguins Confront Climate Change in the Ross Sea
  • Shifts in the warm surface water pathways in the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Shifts in the warm surface water pathways in the North Atlantic Ocean (continue)
  • NASA provides key datasets for monitoring of global agricultural production
  • Declining Per Capita Agricultural Production and Climate Change Threatens Food Security in 2030
  • Determination of Effective Tree Parameterization for Improved Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval
  • Satellite-Scale Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Coupling
  • Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site
June
  • Cooling and Enhanced Sea Ice Production in the Ross Sea
  • Advective Time Scale for Surface Salinity
May
  • Delineation of Surface and Near-Surface Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet using MODIS and QuikSCAT Data
  • Physical-Biogeochemical Interactions that Alter the Uptake of Atmospheric CO2 in the Barents Sea
  • An Automated Registration and Orthorectification Package for Landsat and Landsat-like Data Processing
  • The Peatland Forests of Equatorial Southeast Asia are a Significant Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
April
  • Changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freeze-up, and melt season length derived from satellite data
  • Deriving Ocean Surface Drift Using Multiple SAR Sensors
  • Application of a Source-to-Sink Runoff Routing Scheme to Improve Simulated River Discharge
March
  • The Norway – United States Scientific IPY Traverse of East Antarctica
  • Revision: Daily Rapid Response MODIS Mosaic of the Arctic
January - February
  • Wintertime Measurements of Temperature and Microwave Penetration Depth from Summit, Greenland
  • Mapping Snow Cover Extent and Snow Mass in South America
  • Daily Rapid Response MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica
  • Evaluation of Ensemble Habitat Mapping Applies MODIS Data to Model Invasive Plant Species
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