Earth Science Branch

The Earth Science Branch conducts research of the Earth as a system with a focus on lightning and precipitation processes, weather and climate variability, monitoring fluxes of heat and water from the surface, and associated data management and mining activities for scientific discovery and applications for societal benefit.

Earth Science Branch Projects

ALOFT Making New Discoveries About Gamma Radiation from Thunderstorms

November 1, 2023

Within the first week of science flights, the Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) campaign has already made startling discoveries about the abundance of gamma-ray glows and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) in tropical thunderstorms. Originally thought to be …

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Thunderstorm-Focused Airborne Field Campaign Concludes and is Featured in NASA Video on Youtube

November 1, 2023

The Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS and TGFs (ALOFT) airborne campaign concluded on 7/31/23. During July, the campaign used the NASA ER-2 to overfly tropical thunderstorms in the Americas to hunt for lightning and gamma-ray emissions. ALOFT was a tremendous …

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The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program Announces the Availability of Popular MAXAR Collections in Earthdata Cloud for NASA-Funded Users

November 1, 2023

Helen Parache (ST11) and Aaron Kaulfus (ST11) supported the announcement on 9/14/23 of a selection of commercial data products in Earthdata Search. The CSDA Program archives commercial data to enable scientific reproducibility and reuse of data based on end user …

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Invited Speaker at the FBI’s Data analytics Support Hub (DASH) Conference

November 1, 2023

Rahul Ramachandran (ST11) gave a presentation on 9/19/23 at the DASH conference hosted at the FBI’s campus on Redstone Arsenal. The purpose of DASH is to expose FBI data professionals to the tools and techniques within the Bureau as well …

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Participation in the 5th NOAA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workshop

November 1, 2023

Manil Maskey and Rahul Ramachandran (ST11) participated in the virtual NOAA AI workshop on 9/19/23 and 9/21/23. The workshop focused on building AI centered applications around use cases that are relevant to NOAA’s mission areas. Maskey was on the organizing …

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