News Archive
February 17, 2012
Atmospheric scientist Abhay Devasthale of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute answers a few questions about his latest published paper. >>
January 20, 2012
Atmospheric scientist Leonid Yurganov of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology answers a few questions about his latest published paper. >>
October 20, 2011
Atmospheric scientist Sun Wong of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory answers a few questions about his latest published paper. >>
October 6, 2011
Atmospheric scientist Brian Kahn of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory answers a few questions about his latest published paper. >>
August 10, 2011
An overview of the AIRS mission by space blogger Jason Davis. >>
July 28, 2011
Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The current dry conditions are illustrated in this new map, created using nine years of data on surface relative humidity from AIRS. >>
July 28, 2011
The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations. Four movies created from AIRS data show the movement of a dome of heat across the eastern two-thirds of the country. >>
July 22, 2011
As a summer intern for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Jarrod Suda answers a few questions and details what the intern experience has been like for him. >>
July 14, 2011
The use of satellite measurements in climate studies holds the promise of new insights if those data can be efficiently exploited. To overcome the inherent challenges, researchers Matthias Katzfuss and Noel Cressie make use of a spatio-temporal mixed-effects statistical model. >>
July 14, 2011
Movie shows volcanic ash transported around the Southern Hemisphere >>
June 9, 2011
AIRS images show high concentrations of carbon monoxide moving across the United States. >>
May 28, 2011
AIRS shows Grimsvotn released huge amounts of SO2 and ash. >>
May 10, 2011
On March 18, 2011 Dr. Moustafa Chahine received the first-ever "Outstanding Presentation Award" from the Program Chairs of the IOAS-AOLS. An audio recording of this last interview with Dr. Chahine is included on the web page. Dr. Chahine passed away on March 23. >>
May 9, 2011
The AIRS spaceborne instrument is helping in the campaign to understand some of Earth's most powerful storms. >>
March 24, 2011
It is with great sadness the AIRS Project announces the passing of AIRS mission visionary and founder, Team Leader Dr. Moustafa Chahine. Known affectionately as "Mous" to friends and colleagues, Mous leaves behind a distinguished legacy of science, discovery, mentorship, and deep friendship. >>
December 22, 2010
Lead author Baijun Tian gives an overview of his new paper published in Monthly Weather Review. >>
December 22, 2010
Lead author Joao Martins gives an overview of his new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters. >>
December 21, 2010
View how different seasons look from space in this slideshow created by the JPL Education Office. >>
December 7, 2010
For outstanding contributions in improving weather forecasting using data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and production of its key climate data products. >>
November 17, 2010
Eco Company came to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to interview AIRS scientist Dr. Ed Olsen about how the AIRS instrument in space is contributing to the study of Earth's climate. >>
November 4, 2010
SPIE article details how advanced IR measurements improve hurricane forecasts. >>
September 23, 2010
A new coupled global NCEP Reanalysis for the period of 1979 to the present is now available at much higher temporal and spatial resolution for climate studies. >>
April 1, 2010
The AIRS mission was chosen as an award winner in the Science & Technology category on Treehugger.com. >>
April 15, 2010
The AIRS family lost a much beloved colleague in Dr. Wallace McMillan, associate professor of physics as well as the director of the graduate program in atmospheric physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. >>
March 30, 2010
PL researcher Moustafa Chahine is the 2010 winner of the George W. Goddard award in recognition of his exceptional achievement in optical science and instrumentation for aerospace and atmospheric research. >>
March 30, 2010
This visualization is a time-series of the global distribution and variation of the concentration of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide. >>
April 19, 2010
The latest eruption, on Wednesday, April 14, spewed a cloud of ash into the atmosphere and is disrupting air travel in Northern Europe and around the world. >>
April 3, 2009
While working on a way to improve the simulation of clouds in climate models, Brian Kahn and Joao Teixeira of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveal Earth's atmosphere to be much more dynamic than was previously thought. >>
April 3, 2009
In this interview, atmospheric scientist Brian Kahn talks about why we need to know a lot more about clouds, and what his research is revealing. >>
November 19, 2009
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer applications that incorporate geographical features with tabular data in order to map and analyze real-world problems. >>
May 11, 2009
In early May 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Burma causing devastating floods and the loss of more than 135,000 lives. New research shows the cyclone's landfall position could have been much better predicted. >>
September 14, 2009
In the interview titled "No area on Earth immune from effects of greenhouse gases", Mous is asked about carbon dioxide and the AIRS mission and instrument. >>
May 11, 2009
In his lecture on climate change at the TED 2009 conference in Long Beach, California, former Vice-President Al Gore featured the July 2008 AIRS carbon dioxide image when talking about the increase in this greenhouse gas. >>
October 8, 2008
JPL Historian Erik Conway provides an overview of the sequence of events that lead to the link between human activity, carbon dioxide, and global warming. >>
October 8, 2008
How does a spaceborne instrument like AIRS extract carbon dioxide fro Earth's atmosphere, and what are its data revealing? >>
November 17, 2008
Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change. >>
December 1, 2008
In this article that appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Engineering and Science magazine, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Chief Scientist Paul Dimotakis summarizes viewpoints of the climate change challenge put forth by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, and other institutions. >>
December 8, 2008
This feature story printed in the December 8, 2008 issue of Space News details how data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder has uncovered a belt of carbon dioxide that is rapidly circling the southern hemisphere, and what this is revealing about the nature of global CO2 distribution and transport. >>
November 1, 2006
In this excellent article in the publication Engineering and Science, Dr. Eric Fetzer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory discusses how scientists are using satellite data to help understand the complicated processes that govern Earth's climate. >>
July 1, 2006
The paper titled "AIRS: Improving Weather Forecasting and Providing New Data on Greenhouse Gases" was published in the July issue of BAMS, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The paper describes how AIRS data has improved forecast skill, and how it's being used in research. >>
June 10, 2006
Global water vapor and other greenhouse gases are measured daily from space with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder. >>
June 10, 2006
Water plays a very complex role in the atmosphere, because it can exist as a gas in the form of water vapor, a liquid in the form of water clouds and rain, and a solid in the form of ice clouds and snow. >>
June 10, 2006
The scientific method usually takes the form of posing a hypothesis based on some observed phenomena. One such hypothesis is that climate change, such as global warming, will lead to wider swings in weather patterns and to more occurrences of more severe weather events. >>
June 10, 2006
Predicting the weather is different than predicting climate change. Using the power of supercomputers, scientists have been able to create models of Earth's atmosphere that can be used to make forecasts. >>
June 10, 2006
Since the ability to study climate change requires a long time series of top quality observations, it is very important to continue the task that the AIRS project has started, even after the AIRS instrument system eventually fails. >>
June 7, 2006
NASA's most prestigious honor awards are presented to a number of carefully selected individuals and groups of individuals, both government and nongovernment, who have distinguished themselves by making outstanding contributions to the NASA mission. >>
May 18, 2006
Large dust storms emanating from northwestern China's Inner Mongolia region traveled eastward and caused the worst period of air pollution in six years in Beijing. >>
April 3, 2006
AIRS is shedding new light on how natural and human-produced pollutants can have wide-reaching effects on the health of our global village. >>
January 1, 2006
Thomas Hearty and Inseok Song have hit on an approach that may one day lead to the discovery of Earth-like worlds. >>
December 16, 2005
Dr. Moustafa Chahine was one of 15 international participants invited to speak at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 'Working Group on Water and the Environment', which took place in inside Vatican City. The goal of the workshop was to discuss the scientific frontiers of the main environmental issues related to the impact of hydrologic dynamics on sustainable development. >>
September 1, 2005
In a career spanning five decades, Moustafa Chahine's work in the field of atmospheric science has helped forward our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and its processes. Chahine continues to guide discovery and search for answers to some of the most difficult questions in climate science. >>
November 1, 2005
In this article published in the November 2005 issue of Aerospace America, NASA and NOAA scientists at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) in Camp Springs, Md., come up with procedures to improve forecast accuracy. >>
January 28, 2005
Two-and-a-half years of nearly flawless operation and outstanding results. >>
September 14, 2005
On September 14, 2004 in the span of 5 hours, NASA's Aqua satellite "bagged" four hurricanes on four consecutive orbits. >>
September 18, 2004
To improve hurricane tracking and prediction methods, researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are collecting and analyzing data related to those factors gathered by several lab-managed NASA instruments flying aboard Earth-orbiting satellites. >>
November 22, 2003
A four-member research team from the University of Idaho will travel to the Antarctic this week to check the accuracy of a NASA satellite that helps measure weather conditions. >>