The Giovanni News NEWSLETTER

The Giovanni News is an email newsletter sent approximately every quarter to members of the Giovanni News mailing list. The newsletter reports on events of interest, new Giovanni features, and other news relevant to the Earth science community and Giovanni users. We welcome your suggestions!

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Volume 1—2008 Newsletters

• May 2008 (PDF)

Release 3.0.6.1—Rain in Maryland; South China Sea paper; meeting presentations

• September 2008 (PDF)

Release 3.0.6.2—Aerosols over India; Olympic air quality; citizen science workshop

• December 2008 (PDF)

Release 3.0.7—Papers in IEEE journal; new Giovanni brochure; Fall AGU meeting presentations; AMS short course; recent volcanic activity

Volume 2—2009 Newsletters

•  April 2009 (PDF)

Release 3.0.8—New published papers; exploring the MERRA instance; reduced rainfall in mid-Atlantic states; CARSON Project kickoff event; MODIS Aqua Collection 5.0.1 data; using alternate palettes

•  July 2009 (PDF)

Release 3.0.8.1—Fetcher upgrade, changes to instances;  What's a fetcher?; Sarychev Peak eruption;  summer in southern Greenland; remote sensing training in Costa Rica; rain in Spain trends

•  November 2009 (PDF) 

Global Land Data Assimilation System;   Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study;  new publications;   updated GPCP data;   teacher workshop;   fires in California

•  December 2009 (PDF) 

Special issue with short summaries of 2009 AGU Fall Meeting presentations related to Giovanni and the GES DISC 

Volume 3—2010 Newsletters

•  March 2010 (PDF)

Release 3.1.0;   Facebook Giovanni group;   Most Unusual Use of Giovanni in Research 2009 awards;   New SeaWiFS ocean color radiometry parameters;   Aircraft icing event analyzed with Giovanni;    Giovanni anomaly analysis

• June 2010 (PDF)

Giovanni user images page;   Record-setting publication pace;   Giovanni brochure online;   Applied Remote Sensing Education and Training (ARSET) Web site;   Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Giovanni;    Educator presentations at GSFC;   nasa_gesdisc and nasa_giovanni on Twitter;    Back story on volcanic cloud image

• October 2010 (PDF)

GES DISC presentations at GISS; More followers (and more fun!) on Twitter;  ESSEA annual meeting enhances educational module collaboration;  In the classroom: visualizing tropical storm tracks;  Featured Giovanni interface: OMI;  2010 Giovanni publication count update;  The eruption of Kasatochi: Giovanni used to observe effects on phytoplankton, marine birds

• December 2010 (PDF)

MAIRS 8-day, 1 km MODIS land surface temperatures released in Giovanni;   Giovanni publication count goes over 100 in 2010;  GES DISC presentations at the American Geophysical Union 2010 Fall Meeting

 Volume 4—2011 Newsletters

•  May 2011 (PDF)

Preview the next-generation Giovanni in YOTC; Early returns on 2011 publications; Ocean Color Radiometry updates data products; DICCE gets rollin'; Using Giovanni to monitor the world’s coffee growing regions; Giovanni set to music;  April 2011 storms cause record flooding, tragic tornadoes; Bridging the gap between NASA hydrological data and the geospatial community

•   November 2011 (PDF)

New Giovanni home page;  Namibia coastal sulfur plumes; 8-day ocean data;  Giovanni publication count growing; Portrait of a heat wave;  Selected @nasa_giovanni tweets; Giovanni in Puerto Rico;  OMI NO₂ shows fires & pollution

•   December 2011 (PDF)

Editor's Note; Autumn rush for Giovanni articles;  summaries of GES DISC presentations at 2011 AGU Fall Meeting