Climate & Radiation: Mission
We investigate atmospheric radiation, both as a driver for climate change and as a tool for the remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere and surface. Our Climate research program seeks to better understand how our planet reached its present state, and how it may respond to future drivers, both natural and anthropogenic.
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- NASA Set to Launch New Fleet of Hurricane-Tracking Small Satellites
NASA is set to launch its first Earth science small satellite constellation, which will help improve hurricane intensity, track, and storm surge forecasts, on Dec. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. - NASA Small Satellites Set to Take a Fresh Look at Earth
Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet. - NASA Announces Media Briefing on New Hurricane Mission
NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a constellation of eight microsatellites that will gather never-before-seen details on the formation and intensity of tropical cyclones and hurricanes. - NASA to Hold Media Call on New Small Satellite Missions to Study Earth
NASA will host a teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 7, to preview several Earth science missions using small satellites heading into space, starting this year, to help us better understand our home planet. - NASA Sets GOES-R/Atlas V Launch Events Coverage
The first spacecraft in a new series of NASA-built advanced geostationary weather satellites is set to launch into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Wednesday, Nov. 16. The two-hour launch window opens at 4:42 p.m. EST. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. - NASA Using Aircraft to Measure Mid-Atlantic Greenhouse Gases
NASA is conducting low-level aircraft flights measuring greenhouse gases over the mid-Atlantic region through September. - NASA Flies to Africa to Study Climate Effects of Smoke on Clouds
NASA scientists and two research aircraft are on their way to a unique natural laboratory off the Atlantic coast of southwest Africa to study a major unknown in future climate prediction. - NASA Opens Media Accreditation for NOAA?s GOES-R November Launch
Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NOAA?s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) weather and environmental satellite, currently planned for Nov. 4. - NASA, USAID Open Environmental Monitoring Hub in West Africa
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have opened a new environmental monitoring program in West Africa that will enhance the role of space-based observations in the management of climate-sensitive issues facing the world today. - NASA Flights to Track Greenhouse Gases Across Eastern US
This month, NASA begins an airborne experiment to improve scientists? understanding of the sources of two powerful greenhouse gases and how they cycle into and out of the atmosphere.
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613 Seminar: Teppei Yasunari
Wednesday, December 7, 2016