Earth Science Branch

The Earth Science Branch conducts research of the Earth as a system with a focus on lightning and precipitation processes, weather and climate variability, monitoring fluxes of heat and water from the surface, and associated data management and mining activities for scientific discovery and applications for societal benefit.

Earth Science Branch Projects

Airborne Data Management Group Announces Full Release of the Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations

August 30, 2023

The Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) has been developed and managed by the Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) within IMPACT for the past four years. CASEI is a web-based, openly accessible user interface that provides the most …

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Lightning and Gravity Waves: Insights Into the Giant Eruption Plume from Tonga’s Hunga Volcano

August 30, 2023

This collaborative effort between USGS, Los Alamos, Earth Networks, Vaisala, MSFC, Langley, and NOAA examined the explosive eruption of Tonga’s underwater Hunga Volcano on 1/15/22. A giant volcanic plume rose out of the ocean and into the mesosphere with heights …

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Use of SERVIR Geodashboards in Rio Branco, Brazil

August 30, 2023

From 6/15-16/23, SERVIR Amazonia Brazilian representatives Jose Fernandes (Alliance of Bioversity and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture) and Adeandro Mota (Imaflora) traveled with previous Applied Sciences Team (AST-3) PI, David Salisbury to Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, to follow-up on …

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IMPACT Team Members Lead Trillion Pixel Challenge Discussions

August 30, 2023

Rahul Ramachandran, Manil Maskey, Brian Freitag (ST11), Elizabeth Fancher and Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian (UAH/IMPACT) participated in the Trillion Pixel GeoAI Challenge workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on 6/21-22/23. The workshop invited experts in the area of geospatial data, artificial intelligence …

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Science Discovery Engine Curation Workflow Completed: Streamlining Data Curation in Science Discovery Engine

August 30, 2023

Science Discovery Engine (SDE) has just launched its web application, the SDE Indexing Helper. This tool streamlines curation by enabling users to handpick the URLs they want to index from diverse science sources. Enhancing control, it also facilitates modification of …

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