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
Manil Maskey and Rahul Ramachandran (ST11) co-moderated a webinar titled “Maximizing Earth Science Observations with Data Harmonization: Harmonized Landsat/Sentinel-2” hosted by IEEE GRSS on March 1, 2022. Brian Freitag (ST11), who leads the HLS data production team at MSFC, gave …
On March 2, 2022, Shelby Bagwell (UAH) and Danielle Groenen (UAH) presented the Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) knowledge portal to an Introduction to GIS class of thirteen undergraduate students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville …
IMPACT’s Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) Presents CASEI in the Classroom Read More »
The 2nd deployment of the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign just completed after more than 6 weeks of operations. This Earth Venture Suborbital mission is studying heavy snowfall in the central and eastern …
Paper Accepted by Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society and Early Online Release Published
A paper entitled “Satellite-Based Characterization of Convection and Impacts from the Catastrophic 10 August 2020 Midwest U.S. Derecho” led by Jordan Bell (ST11) has been accepted by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This manuscript takes a comprehensive look …
In the context of the joint statement that NASA signed with the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA, in Spanish), the SERVIR Science Coordination Office helped coordinate a training webinar with representatives from the eight SICA countries …
NASA/Central American Integration System (SICA) Training on High Spatial Resolution Data Read More »