Events

Recent Events

 29-Jan-2024 - 01-Feb-2024
 Baltimore, MD and Online
 
The 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) provides an opportunity to bring together world-class experts on extreme weather and climate with researchers in the fields of water quality/scarcity, energy, food, and health/diseases. AOS science features in a number of talks during this meeting (https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2024/).
 11-Dec-2023 - 15-Dec-2023
 San Francisco, California, USA
 
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is the primary gathering for Earth and space scientists, students, and those in affiliated fields to share scientific findings and identify innovative solutions. Several AOS-related presentations will be given at this year's meeting.
AOS Applications Seminar: Satellite PM2.5 with Randall Martin (Washington University in St. Louis)
   (Recording and presentation are unavailable for this seminar)
 14-Sep-2023
 Online
Randall V. Martin is the Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished Professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University. His research is at the interface of satellite remote sensing, global modeling, and measurements, with a focus on characterizing atmospheric composition. He leads an open-source global community model of atmospheric composition (GEOS-Chem), leads a global fine particulate matter network (SPARTAN) to evaluate and enhance satellite-based estimates of fine particulate matter, and serves on multiple NASA and NOAA science teams including HAQAST, MODIS-VIIRS Atmosphere, TEMPO, MAIA, and ACX. His professional honors include an Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award by the American Geophysical Union, being named a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science, and being recognized by Research.com - Leading Academic Research Portal - Leading Academic Research Portal as one of the top 50 environmental scientists worldwide. Google Scholar reports over 80,000 citations of his publications.
 13-Jul-2023
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 9.5 MB)
NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project improves decision-making in renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure and agroclimatology application areas. POWER achieves this by providing reliable, value-added, application-ready solar and meteorological datasets that span a data record of more than 40 years. To lower the barriers to use these datasets, POWER also provides users with a range of services, including data analysis and visualization tools, APIs, Geospatial image services and data access through NASA managed AWS cloud. Through the integration of modern technology in its infrastructure and workflows, POWER has witnessed a significant increase in demand and usage. Over the past five year, POWER has received more than 340 million data requests (equivalent to 110 terabytes of data) from over 730,000 unique users worldwide. In this presentation, Dr Patadia provides an overview of the POWER Project, highlighting the learnings on how it takes Earth Science to enable actionable decisions in the real world.
 25-May-2023
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 3.1 MB)
NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities.
 17-May-2023
 Online
 Recording
The AOS Project hosted a virtual Community Forum on May 17, 2023, from 10 am to 1 pm Eastern. The agenda included status updates from NASA HQ, AOS Project Management, Science, and Applications, and descriptions of AOS remote sensing capabilities, including international contributions. Please email aos-comments@lists.nasa.gov for more information.
 06-Apr-2023
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 3.0 MB)
The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) mission will facilitate advances in severe weather monitoring and forecasting by providing revolutionary and novel satellite observations of cloud and precipitation processes responsible for severe weather events.
 09-Mar-2023
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 3.4 MB)
Over the past two decades, satellite remote sensing instruments has seen applications beyond their original design parameters and made great advancement in generating a wide range of societal benefits.
 26-Jan-2023
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 2.9 MB)
The radar and lidar onboard CloudSat and CALIPSO have provided a decade and a half of joint observations of the vertical structure of clouds, aerosols, and precipitation in the atmosphere. These are research missions, but measurements from these instruments have contributed significantly to operational products through more indirect pathways. This work examines how historic spaceborne radar and lidar data have been used to add "depth" to the mostly cloud-top information provided by operational passive sensors like the GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and JPSS Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), specifically through contributions to NOAA's Cloud Base Height and Cloud Cover Layers products. Applications that will be discussed include development of passive sensor-based cloud vertical cross sections for Alaska pilots operating in challenging terrain, as well as experimental global 3D gridded cloud products for aviation. The use of active sensor data to train a machine learning model to determine the presence of low-levels clouds in ABI/VIIRS scenes will also be discussed.
Key Decision Point (KDP) A
 13-Jan-2023
 08-Jan-2023 - 12-Jan-2023
 Denver, Colorado, USA and Virtual
 
The 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) provides an opportunity to bring together world-class experts on extreme weather and climate with researchers in the fields of water quality/scarcity, energy, food, and health/diseases. AOS science features in a number of talks during this meeting.
 17-Nov-2022
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 4.7 MB)
The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) will help provide transformative three-dimensional space-based and suborbital observations enabling improved understanding of synergistic cloud, precipitation, and aerosol processes, leading to improved predictions of weather and climate that will directly support societal applications.
 27-Oct-2022
 Online
 Recording
The stratospheric volcanic eruption creates both local hazards and climate-perturbation potential. The young volcanic cloud (VC) is inherently extreme and peculiar in its form and composition, which hampers accurate characterization; most individual satellite remote sensing (SRS) instruments are not designed for such extreme atmospheric conditions. The aged VC may be so tenuous as to be nearly undetectable by certain SRS techniques. A basic understanding of the evolving VC lies in combining observations from different sensors that together can fully capture the physical features- height and concentration of ash, sulfur, or ice. NRL's research thrust is to optimally combine measurements of volcanic events to better understand how the VC adversely affects individual SRS and impacts the earth/atmosphere system. Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) are fire-induced and smoke-infused thunderstorms that serve as the primary pathway for smoke to reach the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). The magnitude of smoke plumes observed in the UTLS has increased significantly in recent years, rivaling or exceeding the impact from all volcanic eruptions observed over the last decade, with the potential for significant climate feedbacks on seasonal and hemispheric scales. We summarize what the community has learned from these extreme events and identify science questions that remain unanswered. Emphasis is placed on NASA satellite observations that serve a critical role in this rapidly growing and interdisciplinary research community.
 15-Sep-2022
 Online
 Recording
The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) will have a suborbital component that will add measurements from the air and from the surface. In this seminar, invited speakers discussed how suborbital activities have enhanced or could enhance operations/applications among air agencies.
 18-Aug-2022
 Online
 No Recording
 
Flyer (PDF, 122 KB)
The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) is a NASA funded EVS-3 project to study Northeast United States snowstorms. The goals of IMPACTS are to improve the understanding of snowfall processes, remote sensing of snow, and the prediction of banded structure and evolution.
 13-Jul-2022
 
Presentation (PDF, 5.5 MB)
Members of AOS teams will present the current status of the mission.
 26-May-2022
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 1.9 MB)
The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) will help provide transformative three-dimensional space-based and suborbital observations of essential collocated cloud, dynamic, precipitation and aerosol processes, leading to improved predictions of weather and smoke that will directly support and enhance aviation applications. In this seminar invited panelists, Danny Sims (FAA AWRP), Nathan Polderman (United Airlines), and Ty Higginbotham (AWC), discussed their current uses of remote sensing products for monitoring and modeling hazardous weather, with a particular focus on data product use for turbulence, icing and low-level cloud hazards.
Mission Concept Review
 16-May-2022 - 20-May-2022
Pre-Acquisition Strategy Meeting
  - 31-Mar-2022
Instrument Technical Management and Cost Reviews
  - 31-Mar-2022
Final Preparations for MCR Kickoff
  - 31-Mar-2022
 31-Mar-2022
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 5.5 MB)
Please join us at the next AOS Applications Seminar Series talk: UNICEF data needs and barriers in the area of public health and air quality. This talk, presented by Amy Wickman (UNICEF), provided an overview of UNICEF's work in the climate, energy, environment and disaster risk reduction sectors, including action to address air pollution. This was then followed by a discussion of how measurements from the upcoming AOS mission such as weather and air quality forecasting and modeling can benefit UNICEF, its partners and communities where UNICEF works.
 24-Feb-2022
 Online
 Recording
In this seminar, invited panelists will discuss their current uses of lidar for applications and the benefits of these instruments for societal decision-making activities.
2nd Science Quarterly Meeting
 31-Jan-2022 - 02-Feb-2022
102nd AMS Annual Meeting
 23-Jan-2022 - 27-Jan-2022
 Virtual
The 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society provides an opportunity to bring together world-class experts on extreme weather and climate with researchers in the fields of water quality/scarcity, energy, food, and health/diseases. AOS science will be featured in a number of talks during the 102nd AMS Annual Meeting to be held online on January 23-27, 2022.
 20-Jan-2022
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 5.4 MB)
Please join us at the next AOS Applications Seminar Series talk: Could wildfires amplify drought and heatwave through the coupling between aerosols, clouds, precipitation and atmospheric circulation?. Our invited Speaker is Dr. Rong Fu (UCLA).
Study Contract Awards
 31-Dec-2021
2021 AGU Fall Meeting
 13-Dec-2021 - 17-Dec-2021
 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is the primary gathering for Earth and space scientists, students, and those in affiliated fields to share scientific findings and identify innovative solutions. Over 45 AOS-related presentations will be given at this year's meeting.
Design Session for Polar Spacecraft and Instruments
 08-Nov-2021 - 19-Nov-2021
 LaRC
 17-Nov-2021
 Online
 Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 11.4 MB)
Speakers Emily Berndt (MSFC/SPoRT), Aaron Naeger (UAH/SPoRT), Anita LeRoy (UAH/SPoRT), and Aaron Jacobs (NOAA NWS), will discuss NASA's SPoRT research and application activities as well as application opportunities relevant to the future AOS mission.
 10-Nov-2021
 
AOS Community Forum (PDF, 4.3 MB)
Members of AOS teams will present the current status of the mission.
1st Science Quarterly Meeting
 25-Oct-2021 - 28-Oct-2021
 23-Sep-2021
 Online
 No Recording
 
Presentation (PDF, 4.8 MB)
Please join us at the first AOS Applications Seminar Series talk. Invited speaker, Armin Sorooshian (U. of Arizona), will speak about NASA's ACTIVATE program and AOS applications. Email Andrea Portier to register.
 29-Jul-2021
 Virtual
 
Agenda (PDF, 33.5 KB)

Members of the Study Management and Executive Science teams will present the current definition of ACCP science objectives and the status of candidate mission architectures that have been studied.
Pre-Acquisition Strategy Meeting Dry Run #1
 12-May-2021
Mission Design Lab Study
 21-Apr-2021 - 06-May-2021
Pre-Phase A All-Hands Meeting
 21-Apr-2021
 16-Mar-2021 - 18-Mar-2021
 Microsoft Teams
 
Agenda (PDF, 631 KB)

In a series of three half-day virtual meetings, this workshop will focus on current applications and future opportunities of ACCP observations to support air quality and disaster applications.
 25-Jan-2021
 WebEx
The ACCP Webinar Series leads off with Advances in Aerosol Assimilation and Future Perspectives by Dr. Angela Benedetti, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
 02-Nov-2020 - 05-Nov-2020
 Virtual
 More Information
In a series of half-day virtual meetings (Nov 2 and Nov 4-5), this workshop focused on current applications and future opportunities of NASA precipitation and cloud data products to support transport and logistical activities for aviation, maritime, roads and highway transportation systems.
 22-Jul-2019 - 23-Jul-2019
 Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
 NASA Global Precipitation Measurement
 
Agenda (PDF, 53.9 KB)
This two-day workshop will focus on current applications and future opportunities for NASA precipitation, cloud, and aerosol satellite data and products to support numerical weather prediction (NWP) and air quality forecasting activities.

Archived Events

2nd ACCP Suborbital Workshop
 29-Mar-2021 - 16-Apr-2021
The workshop will meet five times from 10AM - 1:30PM ET on Monday March 29, Friday April 2, Wednesday April 7, Friday April 9, and Friday April 16.
Architecture Study Wrap-up All Hands Meeting
 15-Apr-2021
 19-Feb-2021
 
Agenda (PDF, 543 KB)
Please contact Vickie Moran for meeting invitation. Download the Knowledge Capture Matrix.
HQ Preferred Architectures Briefing
 05-Feb-2021
Dress Rehearsal Chart Walk-Through HQ Preferred Architectures Briefing
 25-Jan-2021
Chart Review/Walk-Through HQ Preferred Architectures Briefing
 19-Jan-2021
Chart Review/Walk-Through HQ Preferred Architectures Briefing
 13-Jan-2021
Full Team Review Preferred Architecture Score Cards
 11-Jan-2021
Telecon: Accommodation of Radar on HP Bus #2
 11-Jan-2021
Telecon: Accommodation of Radar on HP Bus #1
 07-Jan-2021
Weekly Review of Value Framework Score Cards
 04-Jan-2021
Cost Peer Review Part 2
 18-Dec-2020
Telecon with CSA
 15-Dec-2020
Debrief from SCC AEW #6
 14-Dec-2020
Weekly Review of Value Framework Score Cards
 14-Dec-2020
Telecon with CNES
 14-Dec-2020
CNES Bilateral with HQ
 14-Dec-2020
Check-in with HQ
 10-Dec-2020
Telecon with JAXA
 10-Dec-2020
Final SALT Science & Appl Scoring and Recommendation for Top 3
 09-Dec-2020
Weekly Review of Value Framework Score Cards
 07-Dec-2020
Cost Peer Review Part 1
 07-Dec-2020
Week of 12/7, TBS.
 01-Dec-2020 - 03-Dec-2020
 WebEx and Telecon
Architecture Evaluation Review #6 (Architecture Science Benefit Scores, Technical Readiness Assessments, Risks, and Costs Frozen) took place during week of December 1-3, 2020.
Cost Peer Review
 30-Nov-2020
 10-Nov-2020 - 12-Nov-2020
 Virtual via WebEx
 More Information
This workshop brings together experts in simulations and satellite observations of clouds, aerosols and chemistry to discuss (1) past, present and future of cloud and aerosol observations, (2) the future of cloud and aerosol models, and (3) state of the art methods for model-data fusion.
Special Topic #4 (Wrap-Up) with HQ
 08-Nov-2020
Special Topic #4 (Wrap-Up) with HQ
 05-Nov-2020
 28-Oct-2020 - 30-Oct-2020
 WebEx and Telecon
Architecture Evaluation Review #5 (Lidar Trade Study Independent Review Results) took place October 28-30, 2020.
Special Topics #1-#3 (TBD) with HQ
 29-Oct-2020
Special Topics #1-#3 (TBD) with HQ
 26-Oct-2020
ACCP Webinar Series - Dr. Gavin Schmidt
 19-Oct-2020
 Online
Earth system modeling: can we stay ahead of what's actually happening? Webinar (MP4, 43.7 MB) »
Collaborative Design Center Study #6 of 6
 05-Oct-2020 - 09-Oct-2020
 Goddard MDL
The Collaborative Design Center Study #6 of 6 - Clean-up of Architectures (Flight Dynamics/Sampling Studies, Ground System and Ride Share/Hosted Payload Opportunities AF, Army, NOAA) met at Goddard Space Flight Center's Mission Design Lab from October 5-9, 2020.
Special Topics #1-#3 (TBD) with HQ
 05-Oct-2020
HQ Annual Review
 01-Oct-2020
Reviewed designated observable study progress with HQ Earth Science Division (ESD) Leadership. Attendance was by invitation.
 29-Sep-2020
 
Agenda (PDF, 75.4 KB)
Members of the Study Management and Executive Science teams presented the current definition of ACCP science objectives and the status of candidate mission architectures that have been studied.
HQ Special Briefing on ACCP Science Scoring
 18-Sep-2020
 01-Sep-2020 - 17-Sep-2020
 WebEx and Telecon
 
Agenda (PDF, 149 KB)
Final architecture freeze, independent review of Lidar Trade Study results took place on September 1-2, 8-11, and 17, 2020.
HQ Special Briefing on ACCP Risk Process
 25-Aug-2020
HQ special briefing on ACCP risk process to Charles Webb.
HQ Quarterly Review
 18-Aug-2020
ACCP Briefings with Karen St. Germain
 23-Jul-2020
ACCP Briefings with Karen St. Germain
 10-Jul-2020
Architecture Evaluation Workshop #3
 16-Jun-2020 - 17-Jun-2020
Collaborative Design Center #4 (Week 2)
 01-Jun-2020 - 05-Jun-2020
 LaRC
JAXA Special Study Case 2.
Collaborative Design Center #4 (Week 1)
 18-May-2020 - 22-May-2020
 LaRC
JAXA Special Study Case 2.
TRA Assessment Lidar 5, 6, 9 Due
 22-May-2020
HQ Quarterly Review
 11-May-2020
Lidar06 Contributions to Objective 1
 04-May-2020
Space-X Meeting #2
 30-Apr-2020
Final Debrief Collaborative Design Center #3
 30-Apr-2020
MSFC SmallSats.
Follow-Up 3+2 Lidar Direct Observables for Goal 1
 30-Apr-2020
Obj 1 and 2 (CNES).
Radar TIMs Start (Multiple)
 27-Apr-2020
C2OMODO (Radiometer delta t) Presentations by CNES
 24-Apr-2020
Deliver MELs Lidar Trade Study (Lidar 5, 6, 9)
 24-Apr-2020
Lidar Working Group Follow-Up
 24-Apr-2020
3+2 Lidar Contributions to ACCP Goal 1 (Obj 1 and 2) Cloud Feedbacks (CNES Presentation).
Suborbital Workshop Debrief to HQ
 17-Apr-2020
Architecture Evaluation Workshop #2
 14-Apr-2020 - 17-Apr-2020
Space-X Initial Meeting
 08-Apr-2020
Suborbital Workshop #1
 11-Mar-2020 - 13-Mar-2020
Collaborative Design Center #4
 10-Mar-2020 - 13-Mar-2020
 LaRC
JAXA Special Study Case 1.
Collaborative Design Center #3
 10-Mar-2020 - 13-Mar-2020
 MSFC Start
Designed SmallSats.
Architecture Evaluation Workshop #1
 12-Feb-2020 - 13-Feb-2020
Collaborative Design Center #2
 14-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
 JPL Team-X
Designed ESPA Grande Spacecraft. Meetings were held January 14-16 and 28-30, 2020.
SCC Independent Assessment SATM & Qualitative Scoring for Architectures
 04-Dec-2019 - 05-Dec-2019
 03-Dec-2019
 Fort Collins, CO USA
Team members from the different NASA Centers, JAXA, and CSA are shown at the A-CCP Study Framework meeting in Fort Collins, CO USA.
Community Comments SATM Rel E
 31-Oct-2019
Collaborative Design Center #1
 30-Sep-2019 - 07-Oct-2019
 GSFC MDL
Designed Large Spacecraft.
HQ Annual Review DO Study Teams
 24-Sep-2019 - 25-Sep-2019
Architecture Refinement
 16-Sep-2019 - 20-Sep-2019
 GSFC MDL
1st ACCP Quarterly Community Forum
 20-Sep-2019
Splinter with SBG on Architectures
 17-Sep-2019
SATM Rev E Delivery
 16-Sep-2019
Splinter with SBG on Architectures
 06-Sep-2019
Preliminary Architecture Evaluation Team Meeting
 07-Aug-2019
Selection for 1st Collaborative Design Center
 07-Aug-2019
Aerosol Instrument Performance TIM
 06-Aug-2019