2024 NASA Summer School Group Projects

NASA Summer School on Satellite Observations and Climate Models brings together the next generation of climate scientists to engage with premier climate scientists. The summer school focuses on the topic of "Using Satellite Observations to Advance Climate Models." Students will explore how satellite observations can be used to evaluate and improve climate models by doing a group project with hands-on exercises.

Students will be engaged in group projects for hands-on exercise of using satellite observation data and climate model outputs for climate science research. In the group projects, the students will explore satellite observation and climate model data to study one of the following six topics:

  • Where is global warming?
  • Marine carbon dioxide removal
  • Sea level rise from mass gain and thermal expansion
  • Ecological forecasting of tree mortality
  • High resolution regional climate model simulations
  • Human influences on the water cycle

Project Server (CMDA)

  • All relevant datasets and analysis tools are provided in the CMDA server which runs JupyterHub.
  • https://hub.jpl-cmda.org

Project Schedule

  • August 5 Monday (Day 3) 1:30PM-3PM
      Group Project Introduction and Topic Selection Session
  • August 5 Monday (Day 3) 3:30PM-5:30PM
      Working Session
  • August 6 Tuesday (Day 4) 2PM-5:30PM
      Working Session
  • August 8 Thursday (Day 6) 2PM-3PM
      Working Session
  • August 8 Thursday (Day 6) 3:30PM-5:30PM
      Group Project Presentation Session

Contact Scientists: 

  • Seungwon Lee (seungwon.lee@jpl.nasa.gov)
  • Alex Goodman (alexander.goodman@jpl.nasa.gov)