Over the past decade, NASA missions such as TERRA, AQUA and AURA, which were primarily launched to produce research measurements, have demonstrated their value for use in support of operational users and decision making. Data and products from instruments such as MODIS, TRMM and OMI...

Exposure to fine particulate dust and adhered endotoxins is an increasing Public Health concern, particularly in the exacerbation of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. This concern is demonstrated by the deployment (funded by NASA?s REASoN program) of a moderate resolution dust forecasting system (the DREAM ETA...

This proposal relates to two of the eight application areas: water quality and public health. In the Northeastern United States, climate change scenarios typically indicate an increase in overall precipitation, which would lead to larger river discharge. Increased discharge would then lead to greater pathogen...

This project supports the Air Quality application area of the NASA Applied Sciences Program. A robust NASA lightning model will be applied to obtain a realistic representation of lightning NOx (= NO + NO2) emissions for the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Currently, emissions...

Proposal Summary We propose to conduct a feasibility study on the potential to develop a new automated flood monitoring tool, and to link it to existing experimental flood detection techniques to provide a highly reliable global capability for integrated flood detection, measurement, and monitoring for...

We propose to apply a new statistical model of North-Atlantic tropical cyclones (TC), based on historical storm track data and developed at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), to estimate the risk of U.S. hurricane landfall and its sensitivity to climate state. The...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed a Decision Support System (DSS) under the Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program to forecast environmental stress in coral reef ecosystems around the world. This DSS uses models and 50 km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)...

Flooding can destroy crop and cropland on a large scale. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS) has the mandate to report crop loss after all flood events in the U.S. and the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) manages crop insurance policy and the after-flood...

Agricultural productivity is strongly dependent on the availability of water. As the world's food supply continues to be taxed by population growth, increasing demand, and rapidly developing economies, a greater percentage of arable land will need to be utilized and land currently producing food must...