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PACE-PAX: A Day in the Life of a NASA Field Campaign
2024.12.17
It’s a flight day for one of NASA’s most expansive and complex field campaigns.
The goal: to check the data collected from orbit by NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. To do that, members of the PACE-PAX (PACE Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment) field campaign deployed two aircraft and a research ship from multiple locations in California over the duration of September 2024.
2024 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers
2024.11.19
Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Nima Pahlevan (619), and Ben Poulter (618) were selected as 2024 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science). Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.
WHyMSIE Campaign Completes Successful Flights
2024.11.01
A mid-wave IR Airborne Imager was successfully flown on NASA's ER-2 on Oct 18, 22 and 23, 2024, for the WHyMSIE campaign thanks to the team efforts of Dong Wu (613), Mariel Friberg (613/UMD), Matt Mclinden (612), Peter Pantina (612/SSAI), Skylar Hoffert (555), Murzy Jhabvala (550), Allen Lunsford (693/AmUniv), and Don Jennings (550/SSAI).
Notes from the Field: Twenty-one Hours a Day on 30-Foot Floating Science Lab
2024.09.24
Off the coast of southern California, a research team sails for science on the Research Vessel Blissfully. https://earthobserv
PACE Blog: NASA Pilots Use Specialty Suits to Validate Data
2024.09.24
Welcome to NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment (PACE-PAX). PACE-PAX uses the unique vantage point of the ER-2 aircraft to gather data on small particles in the atmosphere and ultimately help verify the data gathered by the satellite in orbit.
Notes from the Field: Sailing Away for PACE
2024.09.13
Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!
Notes from the Field: Day-in-the-Life of a PACE-PAX Mission Flight
2024.08.12
We are in the field supporting PACE-PAX (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment), a multi-disciplinary mission that involves two aircraft—the NASA ER-2 and CIRPAS Twin Otter—and several mobile ocean assets, all helping to validate observations and data products from NASA’s new satellite observation platform, PACE.
GOES-U Has Lift Off!
2024.06.25
On Tuesday, June 25th the GOES-U satellite successfully launched at 5:26 pm EDT.
GOES-U Satellite is Gearing Up for Launch
2024.06.21
Follow the progress on the NASA GOES-U blog. Launch is June 25, 2024.
ESD Scientists Support ARCSIX Campaign
2024.05.28
ESD scientists are in Pituffik, Greenland, or are participating remotely this month for the first Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface-Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX) aircraft campaign deployment. ARCSIX seeks to understand how coupling between radiative processes and sea ice surface properties influence summer sea ice melt, understand processes controlling the predominant Arctic cloud regimes and their properties, and improve our ability to monitor Arctic cloud, aerosol, radiation, and sea ice processes from space.
Happy 25th birthday, NASA’s Earth Observatory
2024.04.29
Since the launch of NASA’s Earth Observatory (EO) on April 29, 1999, the EO Group (613/SSAI) has published more than 18,000 image-driven stories, featuring everything from the newest satellite imagery to decades-long records of change. View a video highlighting 25 of our favorite images and data visualizations. The collection represents Earth’s diverse landscapes—deserts, mountains, oceans, and polar regions—along with depictions of human interaction with the environment.
Earth Day Toolkit Available
2024.04.18
NASA’s fleet of satellites see the whole Earth, every day. This year, you can celebrate Earth Day with NASA wherever you are! Host your own Earth Day event—supported by NASA science—with activities, demonstrations, handouts, posters, videos, and more.
SED Scientists on Chasing the Eclipse
2024.03.29
Tom Colligan (618/UMD) and Jie Gong (613) discussed their work detecting atmospheric gravity waves during a total solar eclipse with NPR's podcast The Pulse.
Chasing the Eclipse
2024.03.29
Jie Gong (613) was interviewed, together with her colleague Jen Fowler (LaRC), by WHYY-FM about the upcoming National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP). Jie discussed the science motivation behind the NEBP national campaign. The team will launch ~600 weather balloons and ~ 600 engineering balloons along the April 8th eclipse path to collect and analyze a valuable dataset to unveil transient atmospheric responses to this magnificent 3-minute shadow on Earth. The full podcast can be found here or search “Chasing the Eclipse” using Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
GPS World Features Research by Wu
2024.03.13
In a recent research report entitled “A Black Hole in Earth Science” appearing in GPS World, Dong Wu (613) found a significant loss of GNSS radio occultation (RO) data in 2023 over Europe and the Middle East, which is likely a result of the intensified electronic warfare used in Ukraine-Russia and the nearby conflict regions.
PACE Data Webinar Registration Open
2024.03.13
Ready to work with data from the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? Join members of NASA’s Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 PM ET (-0400 UTC), to learn how to discover, access, and use PACE data at OB.DAAC. Registration for this Earthdata webinar is open to everyone.
Zhou Receives AAS Editor's Award
2024.02.23
Yaping Zhou (613/UMBC) received the 2024 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) Editor's Award for her meticulous contributions to a 2023 article, which significantly enhanced the quality of the manuscript.
PACE Mission Blog: Liftoff! NASA’s Earth Science Mission Launches Into Space Coast Sky
2024.02.08
3, 2, 1 … LIFTOFF! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8.
PACE Mission Blog: Signal Acquired -- NASA’s PACE Spacecraft Begins Its Science Mission
2024.02.08
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft has successfully made contact with ground stations back on Earth providing teams with early readings of its overall status, health, operation, and capabilities postlaunch.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Clears for PACE Launch
2024.02.07
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 95% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The team is targeting liftoff at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s PACE Mission
2024.02.07
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Wednesday, Feb. 7 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 50% For Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.06
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 50% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 40% Favorable for Tuesday PACE Mission Launch
2024.02.05
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 40% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission at 1:33 a.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 6, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.05
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Tuesday, Feb. 6 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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