April

Atmospheric Science Highlights

• – First Flights of ER-2 X-band Radar - EXRAD
• – Particle shape matters for dust sedimentation and vertical structure
• – Attribution of sources of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign

March

Atmospheric Science Highlights

• – Phytoplankton Biodiversity: Role in the Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
• – Minimum Precipitation Rates Detectable By GPM
• – Aerosol Indirect Effect on Tropospheric Ozone Via Lightning
• – The 2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Highlights

• – First US Forest Disturbance Time Series from Landsat Analysis

February

Atmospheric Science Highlights

• – The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3)—Initial Findings From 2012
• – Improving Precipitation Forecasts with a New Data Assimilation System
• – Hemispheric Impacts of Regional Anthropogenic Emissions of Aerosols
• – High Spatial Resolution Trace-gas Measurement Results from ACAM during DISCOVER-AQ

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Highlights

• – A Land Climate Data Record

January

Atmospheric Science Highlights

• – AIRS Impact on Tropical Cyclone Forecast in the GEOS-5
• – Discrimination of Biomass Burning Smoke and Clouds in MAIAC Algorithm
• – Bay Breeze Circulations Magnify Surface Air Quality and Boundary Layer Venting

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Highlights

• – Observations of the Late 1980s Regime Shift in the Earth’s Climate System
• – Reducing Land Surface Model Uncertainty with Remotely Sensed Surface Soil Moisture
• – Taking Stock of Circumboreal Forest Carbon with Spaceborne LiDAR
• – Use of In Situ and Airborne Multiangle Data to Assess MODIS- and Landsat-based Estimates of Directional Reflectance and Albedo