Applications

Hurricane Ian formed in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 26, 2022. Ian intensified to Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale by the time it made landfall in western Cuba early the next day. NASA's near real-time IMERG algorithm was used to estimate the precipitation from Ian during its formation and intensification. IMERG shows that Ian's largest rainfall accumulation so far, over 12 inches, occurred while it was only a tropical storm and not yet a hurricane. The National Hurricane Center provided an estimate of the distance that tropical storm-force winds extended from Ian's low-pressure

After leaving the Caribbean, Hurricane Fiona became both the strongest and the first major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season as it made its way northward through the western Atlantic. Fiona began as an African easterly wave that moved across the tropical Atlantic in the direction of the Caribbean. While still about 800 miles east of the Leeward Isles, this wave organized into a tropical depression on Sept.14th. Later that same day, the depression strengthened and became Tropical Storm Fiona. Fiona remained a moderate tropical storm as it passed through the Leeward Isles on the

Affiliation: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Project Mentees: Odinaka Echeta

Affiliation: ADNET Systems, Inc. & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA Project Mentees: Simon Ageet

Affiliation: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Project Mentees: Armand Kablan, Ayuna Santika

Affiliation: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Project Mentees: Odinaka Echeta

In September 2022, Hurricane Fiona had impacts in the Caribbean, on Bermuda, and in Canada. NASA's satellites and science algorithms helped to monitor this hurricane in near real time.

Overview: Understanding the relationship between aerosols and the fuel that govern deep convective storm events can significantly improve meteorologists’ and scientific researchers’ capacity to predict and monitor these severe weather events. For this project, I am analyzing shallow, deep convective and stratiform events over Central Kalimantan using GPM DPR data and comparing it to the amount of atmospheric aerosols using AOD retrievals from ground based measurements provided by AERONET. Mentors: Aaron Funk, Courtney Schumacher

Overview: Numerous isolated precipitation features (PFs) can have similar rain intensities as organized ones and thus have potential to cause catastrophic flooding, landslides, and infrastructure damage. Understanding more about the properties of these storm systems can help improve forecast analysis, and improve mitigation and disaster response. For this project, I am doing a global analysis to sort out when and where high intensity isolated PFs were formed using GPM DPR data and indirect measurements of latent heating from GPM. Mentor: Chuntao Liu

Overview: The Canadian Shield Region (CSR) is the Precambrian rock-dominated, deglaciated region of Northern America. There are more lakes than anywhere else in the world. As projected climate change intensifies the water and energy cycles, understanding fundamental hydrologic changes in these environments will be critical for predicting and managing water resources. In this study, I am using IMERG to find the potential sensitivity of Canadian shield depressions to inundation depth. Mentor: Chuntao Liu