Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (614)
Science Highlights: 2008
November- NASA ATM Flights to the Antarctic Peninsula/Patagonia
- NASA-modified Precipitation Products to Improve EPA Nonpoint Source Water Quality Modeling
- First Hurricane Observations from NOAA Operational Replacement for the NASA Scanning Radar Altimeter
October- Rapidly Declining Winter Multiyear Ice Cover
- Calibration and Validation Office (CVO): Intercomparison Study on Inherent Optical Property (IOP) Instrumentation
- Bio-optical algorithms for ocean color satellite applications: Can community consensus be achieved?
September- Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere
- Retrieval of coastal water turbidity from CALIOP and MODIS
August- Assessment of Aqua AMSR-E Ross Sea Ice Concentrations using Aqua MODIS
- Satellite-Derived High-Resolution Distributions of Particulate and Dissolved Organic Carbon and CDOM in the Coastal Ocean
- NASA research to NOAA operations
July- Use of Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) Data for ICESat II Planning
- Freshwater Fluxes From Aquarius
- Sea Ice Drift In The Arctic Since The 1950s
- Potential Satellite Based Prediction of Lake Chad Water Levels
- A Unified Land Surface Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework for the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)
- Regional Aboveground Forest Biomass Using Airborne and Spaceborne LiDAR in Québec
- Mapping North American Forest Disturbance from Landsat
- NASA & USGS Release 2005 Global Land Survey (GLS)
- Near Real-Time Satellite Processing Systems
June- Comparison of Satellite-Derived and In-Situ Observations of Ice and Snow Surface Temperatures over Greenland
- Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometry at L-band for Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
April - May- An Anomalous Phytoplankton Bloom in the Patagonian Shelf: A 10-year Event Observed by Ocean Color Satellites
- Development of a combined passive/active microwave soil moisture retrieval algorithm based on a vegetation scattering model employing discrete random medium techniques
- Agricultural Research and Training Supported by Unique Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
March- Antarctic Sea Ice Results from the AMSR-E Bootstrap (ABA) and NASA Team (NT2) Algorithms: Similar but Not Identical
- Assessment of ICESat sea ice elevation accuracies using airborne laser altimeter data
- Using Mycosporine-like Amino Acids as Taxonomic Indicators in Remote Sensing Reflectance
- Determination of Tree Layer Properties for Improved Microwave Soil Moisture Retrieval
- Radiance assimilation shows promise for improving microwave snow retrievals
January - February- ICESat Data Showing Decline in Arctic Sea Ice Thickness
- Tipping Point for the Arctic Perennial Ice Cover
- A New Blended Global Snow Product Using Visible, Microwave and Scatterometer Satellite Data
- Passive Millimeter-Wave Satellite Sensors Can Detect Falling Snow over Land
- A Better Way to Measure Water Vapor in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS)
