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	Recent Publications Coddington, O. M., P. Pilewskie, J. Redemann, S. Platnick, P. B. Russell, K. S. Schmidt, W. J. Gore, J. Livingston, G. Wind, and T. Vukicevic. 2010. Examining the impact of overlying aerosols on the retrieval of cloud optical properties from passive remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res., 115, /D10211, doi:10.1029/2009JD012829. Milesi, C., A. Samanta, H. Hashimoto, K. K. Kumar, S. Ganguly, P. S. Thenkabail, A. N. Srivastava, R. R. Nemani, and R. B. Myneni. 2010. Decadal Variations in NDVI and Food Production in India. Remote Sensing, 2: 758-776 Potter, C., J. Shupe, P. Gross, V. Genovese, and S. Klooster. 2010. Modeling river discharge rates in California watersheds. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 1: 36-54. doi:10.2166/wcc.2010.012. Russell, P. B., R. W. Bergstrom, Y. Shinozuka, A. D. Clarke, P.F. DeCarlo, J. L. Jimenez, J. M. Livingston, J. Redemann, O. Dubovik, and A. Strawa. 2010. Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10: 1155-1169. For a complete list of recent publications, see 2010 Publications.

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RESEARCH & PROJECTS


	CASIE NASA established a new science field campaign in 2009 to study sea ice roughness and break-up in the Arctic and high northern latitudes. This mission, known as CASIE-09 (Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment 2009), was conducted under the auspices of the International Polar Year (IPY), a major international scientific research effort. + Read more

	GloPac GloPac UAS mission, with the NASA Global Hawk, will be flying over the Pacific ocean, from the North Pole to the equator for its first Atmospheric Chemistry experiment. + Read more

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	WRAP The first major effort at formalizing and focusing wildfire science and applications between agencies including NASA and the US Forest Service. + Read more

	Ecological Forecasting NASA Ames is developing advanced computer technologies for converting massive streams of satellite remote sensing data into ecocasts that are easy to read and use. + Read more

	NASA-CASA Project Access geographic data from NASA Ames Research Center, Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch for carbon sequestration predictions throughout the United States. + Read more

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