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
The article describes challenges in managing water resources to effectively balance the benefits and costs, including associated ecosystem services (ES) from sustainable agriculture. Methods are presented in the Middle Alabama watershed case study to evaluate ES in terms of how …
MSFC – Earth Science – Lightning Research team members hosted visitors from Sandia National Labs to perform integration of a Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) radiometer onto the Fly’s Eye GLM Simulator (FEGS) instrument. The SWIR radiometer was built by Sandia …
Integration of SWIR Radiometer Built by Sandia N.L. onto FEGS Instrument Read More »
On 4/13/23, Emil Cherrington from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office participated in a panel discussion during Planet’s annual Planet Explore! Conference, which was held in Washington, DC, from 4/12-13/23. In addition to SERVIR representation, the panel also featured the participation …
SERVIR Representative Participates in Planet Explore! Conference Read More »
On 3/13/23, Micky Maganini of SERVIR’s Science Coordination Office delivered a guest lecture regarding SERVIR’s surface water mapping tool “HYDRAFloods” to the graduate-level course “Observing and Modelling Surface Water In A Changing World” offered at ITC. ITC is the faculty …
Sarah Bang (NASA MSFC) and Kristopher Bedka (NASA LaRC) were co-authors on a paper authored by Heinz-Jürgen Punge, Michael Kunz, and Kyle Itterly. The paper explores the creations of an event catalog of the hail hazard in South Africa guided …
Paper Accepted to the Journal of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Read More »