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
A NASA Marshall Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) has been installed in South Korea to support a field campaign, called Korea Precipitation Observation Program (KPOP): International collaborative experiments for Mesoscale convective system (MCS) in Seoul metropolitan area (KPOP-MS). The campaign’s goal …
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Pontus Olofsson (ST11) co-authored a paper titled Near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbance by fusion of Landsat, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 data which has been accepted for publication in Remote Sensing of Environment. The paper showcases a method based on …
MSFC-Earth Science researchers hosted scientists and engineers from the University of Bergen and Naval Research Laboratory for integration and testing of the ALOFT Instrument Rack. The ALOFT instrument suite observes lightning signatures in radio frequency, UV-NIR, and gamma-ray emission from …
Kaylin Bugbee (ST11) was included in a NASA Group Achievement Award for the Enterprise Data Platform team. The Enterprise Data Platform Team was selected for a NASA Group Achievement Award at the HQ Honor Award Ceremony on 4/26/23. This award …
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On 4/21/23, the SERVIR Science Coordination Office’s Africa Flores-Anderson and Emil Cherrington (ST11) participated in NASA’s Live Shots interviews at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in commemoration of Earth Day (4/22/23). Africa and Emil participated in eight interviews with …