Philip T. Partain
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View article: The INCUS Mission
The INCUS Mission Open
<p>The INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) is a recently selected NASA Earth Ventures Mission. The overarching goal of INCUS is to enhance our understanding of why, when and where tropical convective storms form, and why onl…
View article: Assessments of Assimilation of TEMPEST-D into the NCEP Global Forecast System
Assessments of Assimilation of TEMPEST-D into the NCEP Global Forecast System Open
<p>Unlike large, expensive, and high-risk operational satellites, small/cube satellites (SmallSats) are a small, inexpensive, and a low-risk type of satellite. As a NOAA Cooperative Institute with specialties in satellite data proces…
View article: GHOST: A Satellite Mission Concept for Persistent Monitoring of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Induced by Severe Storms
GHOST: A Satellite Mission Concept for Persistent Monitoring of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Induced by Severe Storms Open
The prediction of tropical cyclone rapid intensification is one of the most pressing unsolved problems in hurricane forecasting. The signatures of gravity waves launched by strong convective updrafts are often clearly seen in airglow and c…
View article: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data
Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data Open
The objective of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission is to retrieve the column-averaged carbon dioxide (CO2) dry air mole fraction (XCO2) from satellite measurements of r…
View article: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Cloud Screening; Validation Against Collocated MODIS and Initial Comparison to CALIOP Data
Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Cloud Screening; Validation Against Collocated MODIS and Initial Comparison to CALIOP Data Open
The retrieval of the column-averaged carbon dioxide (CO2) dry air mole fraction (XCO2 ) from satellite measurements of reflected sunlight in the near-infrared can be biased due to contamination by clouds and aerosols within the instrument'…
View article: Upper atmospheric gravity wave details revealed in nightglow satellite imagery
Upper atmospheric gravity wave details revealed in nightglow satellite imagery Open
Significance As an unforeseen windfall of its high sensitivity, the Day/Night Band (DNB) low-light visible sensor carried on the Suomi satellite enables global detection of gravity waves in the upper atmosphere at unprecedented subkilometr…