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Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)

Science Highlights: 2005

November - December
  • Ice Sheet Mass Changes and Contribution to Sea Level Rise
  • Global Carbon Cycle: Recent Progress Toward a Bicarbonate Ion Raman LIDAR
October
  • Hurricane Katrina Forced Extreme Changes in Barrier Islands
  • Development of global snow water equivalent (SWE) and dnow depth products from AMSR-E
  • The PALS Program
  • Evaluating UV-B Effects and EDU Protection in Soybean Leaves Using Flourescence
September
  • Labrador/Subpolar Gyre Circulation Continues to Weaken
  • Updated Altimetric SSH and Geostrophic Velocity Field EOF1's
  • Precipitating Snow Signatures over the Polar Region
  • Scattering Database for Atmospheric Snow Particles
  • Upper Air Instrumentation: Research and Projects
  • Investment in Instrumentation Improvement is Having Positive Impact on Understanding Atmospheric Behavior Better!
  • Enhanced Arctic Warming Signal
  • Ocean Sciences Branch Research Cruises
  • Relationship between dissolved organic carbon...
  • Hurricane Rita Waves
  • Observing The Ocean's Mixed Layer Depth Using Ocean Color Observations
  • Figures to go with Slide 12
August
  • A Physically-Based Soil Temperature Retreival Model with Remote Sensing Inputs
  • Remote Sensing-Based Soil Temperature Model
  • Hurricane Katrina Waves
July
  • Soil Moisture Retrieval Using "Effective Vegetation" with Simulated HYDROS Brightness Temperatures
  • OSSE Domain Characteristics
  • Effective VWC and SM Retrieval Accuracy
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  • Sea ice drift and its relationship to altimetry-derived ocean currents in the Labrador Sea
  • Recession of Glaciers in the Harding Icefield and the Grewingk-Yalik Glacier Complex, Alaska
  • Comparison of MODIS Daily Global Fractional Snow Cover Maps at 0.05 and 0.25 Degree Resolutions
  • Airborne Measurement of Hurricane Storm Surge
June
  • Sea Surface Salinity from Space
  • Sea Surface Salinity from Space: Aquarius
  • 2003-2005 Operations Periods
  • Global Elevation Data - Laser 2a
  • Polar Elevation Data - Laser 2a
  • Assessment of EOS Aqua AMSR-E Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations Using Landsat 7 Imagery
  • Simulated Surface Salinity for December 2004
May
  • Airborne Science Technology Institute (ASTI)
  • Coupling High-Resolution Earth System Models Using Advanced Computational Technologies
  • LIS Impact on WRF Precipitation Forecast
  • Impact of ESMF on Coupled Performance
April
  • Early Phytoplankton Blooms in the Beaufort Sea
  • Hurricane Charley Impact on North Captiva Island, Fla.
  • The effect of changes in precipitation on sea ice volume in the Southern Ocean using data assimilation
  • Update on the MODIS Snow and Ice Product Suite
  • Forest physiology assessment using high (10mm) spectral resolution imagery
  • Regional Calibration of Satellite-Derived Snow Depth for Continental-Scale Hydrological Modeling
  • Regional Calibration of Satellite-Derived Snow Depth for Continental-Scale Hydrological Modeling: Discussion and Conclusions
March
  • New L-Band Imaging Radiometer takes to the Air Down Under
  • Results from MODIS/Aqua Reprocessing in March 2005
  • Complex Permittivity of Antarctic Sea Ice
  • ICESat - Insights on Ice Shelves
February
  • Cloud Clearing Using 1064 nm 40 Hz Data
  • Feasability Study for Estimation of Water Vapor and Precipitation Parameters using a 2-frequency Radar
  • GRACE Holds Promise for Satellite Based Monitoring of Ground Water
  • Comparison of GRACE-Derived Terrestrail Water Storage with Ground Water Observations in the Mississippi River Basin
  • The Relationship of the Terra MODIS Fire Product and Anthropogenic features in the Central Siberian Landscape
January
  • Atmospheric Thermodynamics Responsible for the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave Along the Sea Ice Edge Around Antarctica
  • Low Temperature SEM of Snow Crystal Metamorphism in Winter Snow Covers
  • Hurricane Erin (2001) Brightness Temperature Simulations
  • Chlorophyll and SST around New Zealand's North Island
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