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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Earth Science Updates
On 5/6/24, the U.S. GHG Center (beta) went live with its second release now featuring updated GHG datasets, a new visualization and exploration environment, new content, and other development changes, most of which were led by the IMPACT GHG Center…
The Disasters Team recently has been providing support to the broader Disasters Program as they respond to different flooding events. The first event was after heavy rainfall caused catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil. The program has connected with stakeholder with…
Emil Cherrington and Christine Evans led the final chapter of the S-CAP Regional Road Show 5/9-10/24 at the SERVIR HKH hub at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal. The exchange at SERVIR HKH followed up…
Betzy Hernandez (UAH/ST11) represented SERVIR at a SilvaCarbon mission to Guatemala, which was focused on forest fire monitoring. The mission included representatives from the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (NASA IMPACT), the US Forest…
Timothy Lang (ST11) and Jackson Remington (ST11 Postdoc) traveled to Bergen, Norway to participate in the ALOFT field campaign workshop during 4/22-24/24. ALOFT stands for Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s Eye Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Simulator (FEGS) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray…