Science Highlights: 2014
October
- Goddard’s new airborne SMAP simulator-- the Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP)--conducts first test flights in preparation for SMAP cal/val
- Goddard’s new airborne SMAP simulator-- the Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP)--conducts first science flights in preparation for SMAP cal/val
September
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Operationally Applying NASA Soil Moisture Product For Improved Agricultural Forecasting
- Landsat 8 Surface reflectance performance evaluation
August
- Exploiting Satellite Observations of the PBL for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Studies
- LIS-based NLDAS Transitioned to Operations at NOAA/NCEP
- TRMM and GPM observe a rare Sahara Desert storm
July
- Marked Decreases in the Length of the Sea Ice Season Throughout Most of the Arctic Seasonal Sea Ice Zone, 1979-2013
June
- For melt detection, MODIS ice surface temperatures (IST) compare well to NOAA air temperatures (TA) at Summit, Greenland
- Effect of snow surface metamorphism on Aquarius observations at Dome C, Antarctica
- Weekly gridded Aquarius L-band radiometer/scatterometer observations and salinity retrievals over the polar regions
May
- New availability of near real-time Arctic sea ice thickness results from IceBridge and CryoSat-2 data
- Consistent canopy structure and reflectance properties of Amazon forests during the dry season
March
- Initial in situ measurements of Perennial Meltwater storage in the Greenland firn Aquifer
- South Pacific Bio-Optics Expedition 2014
- Floods in the Amazon basin from HyMAP and multi-satellite products
- Surface freshwater dynamics within the LIS-HyMAP coupled system
- Stereo IKONOS is a viable tool for measuring forest canopy height
February
- Greenland Ice Sheet Melt from MODIS and Associated Atmospheric Variability
- Spatial Scaling of Soil Moisture and Groundwater Variability
- Oso Landslide in Snohomish County, Washington
- Global Leaf Area Index Product Validation Good Practices
January
- Amplified Surface Temperature and Climate Change Indicators in the Arctic
- Observations of Bioluminescence in Arctic and Antarctic Regions from VIIRS Nighttime Visible Data during the Polar Winter
