The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) is responsible for the entire Colorado Basin (CRB) and the eastern Great Basin (GB). From a water management perspective, the commitment of water to various users most often occurs in the spring, and is almost entirely based on...

Hydro-meteorological extremes such as droughts severely impact crop yields, globally. Quantifying and managing the impact is critical for making informed decisions regarding crop management, commodity trading, and food security. This proposal aims to develop and implement an operational methodology, in partnership with a global company...

It is estimated that the annual value of water from the major watersheds being forecasted in California is ~$3.3 billion, and the corresponding value of hydropower is equal to ~$1.3 billion, with the specific value of the forecasting program estimated at $140-230 million. The proposed...

Many whale populations have been slow to increase in numbers following cessation of commercial whaling, and one of the reasons for this is human-induced mortality. There were 21 blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) strandings along the California coast during 1988 to 2007, of which 8 were...

We propose to design and implement an Observation System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) testbed for obtaining space-borne high resolution soil moisture data in support of the NRC?s 2007 Decadal Survey Missions. The OSSE testbed focuses on land surface studies which are related to 8 of the...

The Autonomous Modular System - Wildfire (AMS-Wildfire) is a NASA remote sensing system that combines the strengths of airborne infrared imagers and multispectral satellite instruments. AMS-Wildfire has been used operationally, to deliver imagery of active wildfires during the large outbreaks in California in 2007 and...

This partnership between the City University of New York (CUNY) Remote Sensing of the Earth Science and Technology (CREST) Institute and the New York City (NYC) Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the water supply operating agency, will use remote sensing to assess and calibrate the...

This proposal requests membership for Dr. R. Bradley Pierce (NOAA/NESDIS) on the Aura Science Team as an Applied Science representative to engage International, Federal, State and Local Air Quality Agencies in the use of NASA satellite trace gas and aerosol measurements in air quality assessment...

Skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the U.S., represents a significant and growing public health burden. Annually, skincancer costs an estimated $1.7 billion to treat and results in $3.8 billion in lost productivity. The most severe type of skin cancer,melanoma, causes over...

Fire managers will soon have ready access to weather and fire models to predict the behavior of fires whose locations are known. The models result from many years of research and development, but they require substantial computing support, which has become feasible for fire applications...