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SSAI Celebrates JPSS-2
JPSS-2 launched November 10, this satellite was developed to help forecasters better predict extreme weather and monitor climate change.
Congratulations to the Ocellus Lidar Team!
Congratulations to the Ocellus Lidar Team for a successful completion of a Preliminary Design Review!
Forecasting Extreme Flood Events
Severe flooding in late July led Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to declare a state of emergency early on July 28, 2022
SSAI Participation in the 5-year Study of ACTIVATE
The NASA EVS-3 field mission ACTIVATE (Aerosol Cloud meteorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment) just recently completed three
SSAI’s Claire Robinson and Team Study Dropsonde Measurements using Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS)
Claire Robinson, a Scientific Programmer/Analyst at SSAI and part of the Sonde Measurement of Atmospheric Layers at Langley (SMALL) Group, presented the latest statistics and relevant work utilizing the newly acquired Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) Dropsonde system at the recent AVAPS Dropsondes Users Meeting.
Upper-troposphere, lower-stratosphere aerosol package successfully flight-tested for high-altitude airborne science
NASA, SSAI, and the University of Denver have developed and flight-tested the instrument package Particles in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (PUTLS), which characterizes the microphysical properties atmospheric aerosol from the NASA high-altitude aircraft.