UC Santa Barbara Geography / Earth Gate / Gateways

Atmosphere

• SBDART: A practical tool for plane-parallel radiative transfer in the Earth's atmosphere
• Computing the surface solar radiation flux with shortwave
• Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center
  A multi-institutional project devoted for research and forecast of wildland fires in Southern California
• Using the data of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard the satellite "Earth Observing System (EOS)"
  This project analyzes land surface temperature, which is a key parameter in the physics of land surface processes, combining surface-atmosphere interactions and the energy fluxes between the atmosphere and the ground
• Sierra Nevada Watershed Group
  Studying weather (and also hydrology, nitrogen cycling, episodic acidification, catchment processes, acid deposition, limnology)
• The Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program
  The Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program provides the oceanographic community with a deep-water platform for developing, testing, calibrating, and intercomparing instruments which can obtain long-term data sets.
• Madden-Julian Oscillation Real Time Forecasts
  The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the most important mode of tropical intraseasonal variability with potentially important influences on extra-tropical medium-to-extended range weather forecasting, monsoon activity in the Asian-Australian and Americas regions and variability in the equatorial Pacific thermocline structure via its close association with westerly wind bursts.
• The influence of fog on ecosystem and hydrological processes
• The role of C4 photosynthesis in global carbon cycling