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

SPoRT and Earth Science branch Scientists Organize and Lead the 2023 Joint Applications Workshop on NASA’s CYGNSS and TROPICS Mission

June 26, 2023

Patrick Duran (ST11), SPoRT tropical meteorology team lead and Deputy Program Applications Lead for NASA’s TROPICS mission, co-organized the 2023 Joint Applications Workshop on NASA’s CYGNSS and TROPICS missions, held at the University of Miami, FL, 4/11-13/23. Formulated in collaboration …

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Paper Published in AGU’s Earth and Space Science: Integrating NASA Aqua Airs in a Real-time NUCAPS Science-to-Applications System to Support Severe Weather Forecasting

June 26, 2023

Emily Berndt (ST11) and collaborators from Science and Technology Corporation, Nadia Smith and Chris Barnet, developed a methodology to process NASA Aqua AIRS satellite sounding retrievals in real-time to enable rapid delivery of NASA observations to National Weather Service forecasters. …

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SERVIR Amazonia Closeout Ceremony for Trinidad and Tobago Training Series

June 26, 2023

On 4/27/23, SERVIR Amazonia held the closeout ceremony for the training series they carried out in Trinidad and Tobago. SERVIR Amazonia received USAID funding for two years to hold geospatial workshops in Caribbean countries, including Trinidad and Tobago. Each country …

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SERVIR Amazonia Hosts Kickoff Event for New Applied Science Team

June 26, 2023

From 4/24-27/23, SERVIR Amazonia introduced a new cohort of NASA Applied Science Team (AST) projects to the hub at an event hosted by Brazilian consortium member Imaflora in Piracicaba, Brazil. The new AST-4 PIs include Naiara Pinto, Michael Keller, Izaya …

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The Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) Aids NASA Management Address Records Stored at the Federal Records Center

June 26, 2023

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) San Francisco Federal Records Center (FRC) in San Bruno contains data records from the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) shipped to the FRC for storage starting as early as the 1960s. The Airborne …

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