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SPoRT Science Seminar Series
"NASA's Earth Venture-1 (EV-1) Airborne Science Investigations"
Date/Time: 10:30 AM, Monday, May 14, 2012
Location: NSSTC 2096
Speaker: Anthony Guillory, Earth System Science Pathfinder Program Office, NASA LRC
"Soil Moisture Data Assimilation in the Land Information System"
Date/Time: 1:00 PM, Thursday, May 17, 2012
Location: NSSTC 2096
Speaker: Clay Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association
Wide World of SPoRT Blog
The NASA 1km LIS and Recent Applications for the U.S. Drought Monitor
Wed, 09 May 2012 21:46:45
In addition to being the Applications Integration Meteorologist for the NASA SPoRT program, I have retained my climate focal point duties at NWS Huntsville, AL. As a part of those duties, each week, I am honored to be able to provide feedback to the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM). The USDM consists of a consortium of [...]
Product Status Page
Though we're not 24/7, SPoRT strives to provide the most timely and reliable data products to its partners and end users. A system has been developed to monitor the availability of LDM and FTP products and categorize each product based on its age. Summaries are posted every 10 minutes to the link below.
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The AMSR-E instrument uses microwave observations to peer through cloud cover and estimate rainfall rates. This images comes from the early morning hours of 10 December 2008 as a strong line of storms swept through the Southeast delivering large rainfall totals. The heaviest rains are concentrated along the front, particularly in west-central Alabama and east-central Mississippi.
Featured Article
A modeling and verification study of summer precipitation systems using NASA surface initialization datasets
One of the most challenging weather forecast problems in the southeastern U.S. is daily summertime pulse-type convection. During the summer, atmospheric flow and forcing are generally weak in this region; thus, convection typically initiates in response to local forcing along sea/lake breezes, and other discontinuities often related to horizontal gradients in surface heating rates. Numerical simulations of pulse convection usually have low skill, even in local predictions at high resolution, due to the inherent chaotic nature of these precipitation systems.
