NASA ballooning team solicits input

NASA Team Sea Ice Algorithm

In 1985 the NASA Sea Ice Algorithm Working Group (NSAWG) reviewed the state of passive microwave sea ice algorithm development for the purpose of recommending an algorithm for deriving sea ice products from the new DMSP SSM/I. The NSAWG chose three candidate algorithms that had been developed and tested, and selected one of these for processing the SSM/I data. A description of each of the three...

NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team Meeting

Professor Mark Bourassa Florida State University 200 R.M. Johnson Building, 2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive, PO Box 3062840 Tallahassee, FL 323062840 USA [email protected] Barry Vanhoff (Oregon State University) David E. Weissman (Hofstra University) Contributed Talk Calibration/Validation and definitions Scatterometers have long been considered to respond to surface turbulent stress. They have b...

Moth caterpillar solicits for homopteran honeydew

A life-history in which an organism depends on ants is called myrmecophily. Among Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), many species of lycaenid butterflies are known to show myrmecophily at the larval stage. Descriptions of myrmecophily among moth species, however, are very few and fragmentary. Here, we report the ant-associated behaviour of the tiny Japanese arctiid moth, Nudina artaxidia. Fie...

ransient Midventricular Ballooning Syndrome

We describe a new variant of transient left ventricular (LV) ballooning in North American Caucasian patients in which only the midventricle is affected. The patients described in this case series initially presented with emotional or physical stress and had similarities to transient apical ballooning syndrome; however, this variant is unique in that the transient ballooning involves the midvent...

Status Report to NASA Headquarters Science Team Evaluation of the OMPS Limb Profiler