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Decadal Survey RFI 2 Documents

Submitting Author

Title

Dale Quattrochi

High Spatial, Temporal, and Spectral Resolution Instrument for Modeling/Monitoring Land Cover, Biophysical, and Societal Changes in Urban Environments

Wendy Calvin

Earth Surface Geochemistry and Mineralogy: Processes, Hazards, Soils, and Resources

Philip Dennison

Global Measurement of Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation

Heidi Dierssen

Assessing Transient Threats and Disasters in the Coastal Zone with Airborne Portable Sensors

Riley Duren

Understanding anthropogenic methane and carbon dioxide point source emissions

Joshua Fisher

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources

Steve Greb

Inland Waters

Robert Green

Science and Application Targets Addressed with the 2007 Decadal Survey HyspIRI Mission Current Baseline

Eric Hochberg

Coral Reefs: Living on the Edge

Simon Hook

Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning

Jeffrey Luvall

A Thermodynamic Paradigm For Using Satellite Based Geophysical Measurements For Public Health Applications

Natalie Mahowald

Measuring the Earth’s Surface Mineral Dust Source Composition for Radiative Forcing and Related Earth System Impacts

Frank Muller-Karger

Monitoring Coastal and Wetland Biodiversity from Space

Thomas Painter

Understanding the controls on cryospheric albedo, energy balance, and melting in a changing world

Tamlin Pavelsky

From the Mountains to the Sea: Interdisciplinary Science and Applications Driven by the Flow of Water, Sediment, and Carbon II

Ryan Pavlick

Biodiversity

David Pieri

Enabling a global perspective for deterministic modeling of volcanic unrest

E. Natasha Stavros

The role of fire in the Earth System

Philip Townsend

Global Terrestrial Ecosystem Functioning and Biogeochemical Processes

Kevin Turpie

Global Observations of Coastal and Inland Aquatic Habitats

Robert Wright

Predicting Changes in the Behavior of Erupting Volcanoes, and Reducing the Uncertainties Associated with their Impact on Society and the Environment

 

Additional information about the 2nd RFI is available here .

 

Original White Papers Submitted November 2015 (see below)

Lead author

Title and Link

Fisher

Evapotranspiration:  A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources

Luvall

Human Health / Water Quality

Melton

Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security:   Recommendations and Requirements

Waliser

Advancing the Science and Societal Benefits of Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Environmental Prediction

Mahowald

Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling

Dennison

Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems

Thorpe

Mapping atmospheric constituents at high spatial resolution to understand their influence on Earth's climate

Clark

Local to Global Remote Sensing of Surface and Atmospheric Chemistry

Fisher

Evapotranspiration:  A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources

Luvall

Human Health / Water Quality

Mahowald

Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling

Calvin

Key Questions and Challenges in Dynamic Earth Processes, Natural Resources, and Hazards linked to Geologic and Soil Surface Composition

Pavlik

Biodiversity

Dennison

Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems

Turpie

New Need to Understand Changing Coastal and Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Services

Melton

Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security:   Recommendations and Requirements

Fisher

Evapotranspiration:  A Critical Variable Linking Ecosystem Functioning, Carbon and Climate Feedbacks, Agricultural Management, and Water Resources

Luvall

Human Health / Water Quality

Mahowald

Closing the Earth Surface Dust Source Composition Gap for Earth System Understanding and Modeling

Painter

Monitoring Cryospheric Albedo in a Changing World: Filling the knowledge void on a key climate parameter

Thorpe

Mapping atmospheric constituents at high spatial resolution to understand their influence on Earth's climate

Waliser

Advancing the Science and Societal Benefits of Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Environmental Prediction

Dennison

Burning Questions: Critical Needs for Remote Sensing of Fire Impacts on Ecosystems

Calvin

Key Questions and Challenges in Dynamic Earth Processes, Natural Resources, and Hazards linked to Geologic and Soil Surface Composition

Wright

Predicting Changes in the Behavior of Erupting Volcanoes to Reduce the Uncertainties Associated with their Impact on Society and the Environment