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.
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The MSFC Disasters team led the NASA Disasters Program’s response for a recent activation for a severe weather tornadic outbreak in the panhandle of Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia. The team supported FEMA Remote Sensing and FEMA Region 4…
The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program led by OSTP/NSF went live on 1/24/23. The NAIRR pilot is a first step towards realizing the administration’s vision for a shared research infrastructure that will strengthen and democratize access to critical…
Krishna Vadrevu (ST11) served as the primary author, with Aditya Eaturu (UAH) as co-author, for the paper titled “Trends in Nighttime Fires in South/Southeast Asian Countries,” published in the journal Atmosphere. The research focuses on nighttime vegetation fire trends using VIIRS I-band…
Timothy Lang (ST11) is a coauthor on an article titled, “An Airborne Multi-Band Microwave Analysis of Precipitation Within Two Winter Cyclones,” which was recently accepted for publication in the Monthly Weather Review. The article – which was led by Amanda Richter,…
Pontus Olofsson (ST11) co-authored a paper titled “Review of drivers of forest degradation and deforestation in Southeast Asia.” The study, funded by a grant from the NASA Carbon Monitoring System awarded to Olofsson, presents a review of studies of drivers…