Aerosol, Cloud, and Precipitation research are among the nine cross-cutting themes of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The AeroCenter-Cloud Precipitation Center (AeroCenter-CPC) is an interdisciplinary union of researchers at NASA Goddard and other organizations in the Washington DC metropolitan area (including NOAA, University of Maryland, and other institutions) who are interested in many facets of atmospheric aerosols, clouds, and precipitation. AeroCenter interests include aerosol effects on radiative transfer, clouds and precipitation, climate, the biosphere, the role of aerosols in air quality and human health, and the atmospheric correction of aerosol blurring of satellite imagery of the ground. CPC topics include 1) cloud-precipitation processes and interactions with surface processes, aerosols, mesoscale dynamics, and large scale circulations, 2) remote sensing, radiative transfer, and scattering theory of cloud and precipitation particles, 3) cloud microphysics and convection measurements and parameterizations, and 4) satellite missions and field campaigns associated with cloud and precipitation processes.
Our regular activities include strong collaborations amongst the aerosol, clouds, precipitation communities, informal weekly AeroCenter-CPC Forum (seminars, discussions, posters, and paper reviews) and annual aerosol research update.
If you would like to join AeroCenter-CPC, please send an email to aerocenter-cpc-join@lists.nasa.gov with the subject line "subscribe".
Yoram Kaufman, a leading scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center whose research has led to greater understanding of global warming, died May 31 at Prince George's Hospital Center. He was seriously injured May 26 when he was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle near the Goddard center's campus in Greenbelt. He died one day before his 58th birthday.
Dr. Kaufman began working at the space flight center in 1979 and spent his entire career there as a research scientist. His primary fields were meteorology and climate change, with a specialty in analyzing aerosols -- airborne solid and liquid particles in the atmosphere. In recent years, he was senior atmospheric scientist in the Earth-Sun Exploration Division and played a key role in the development of NASA's Terra satellite, which collects data about the atmosphere. Read more
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AeroCenter Committee:
Jasper Lewis, Sampa Das, Mijin Kim.
CPC Committee:
Toshihisa Matsui, Kerry Meyer
