Abstract: The transport of chemicals is a major uncertainty in the modeling of tropospheric composition. Here…
Author: New NASA STI
Signatures of the Impact Histories of Comets and Asteroids within Shocked Phyllosilicates, Enstatite, and Forsterite Minerals
Abstract: Throughout the lifetime of the solar system, collisions between small bodies and impacts on the…
Full Facility Shock Frame Simulations of the Electric Arc Shock Tube
Abstract: Radiative heating computations are performed for a range of high speed Earth entry experiments conducted…
The SMAP Level-4 ECO Project: Improving Terrestrial Flux Estimates Through Coupled Hydrology-Vegetation Data Assimilation
Abstract: Simulations of hydrologic and vegetation states as well as water, energy and carbon fluxes from…
The NASA-Rio de Janeiro Partnership
Abstract: In Dec. 2015, NASA and the city of Rio de Janeiro signed an agreement to…
Recent Updates in the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture Algorithm
Abstract: The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission generates, among other data sets, the Level-4…
S-band Fence Study Phase 1: Estimating the Increased Level of Screening Volume Incursions
Abstract: Motivation: CARA assesses collision risk for a set of high-value satellites. Deploying the S-band Fence…
MoonBEAM: A Beyond Earth-Orbit Gamma-Ray Burst Detector for Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Abstract: MoonBEAM is a 12U CubeSat concept of deploying gamma-ray detectors in cislunar space to increase…
Telescope Design for LISA
Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Mission Proposal was selected in June 2017 for the…
Assimilation of GMI and ATMS Observations in the Rainbands of Hurricanes
Abstract: We propose a novel Bayesian Monte Carlo Integration (BMCI) technique to retrieve the profiles of…