News
2024
July 2024: Graduate student Remya Menon will join as a Research Assistant in Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin. Congrats, Remya!
July 2024: Graduate student Zach Medley has just accepted a job offer from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Congrats, Zach!
June/July 2024: Congratulations Tyler, Zach, Remya and Adrian for successfully defending/finishing their degrees. Link for graduation celebration.
June 2024: Dr. Pal presented the work of Tyler Danzig on "Urban Heat Experiment Around Lubbock, Texas (U-HEAT): An Exploration of Urban Heat Island and Associated Advection" during the First Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) Science Team Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 2024.
June 2024: TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter (May 2024) featuring our group members’ contributions in research and service, Graduate Students Shine. Link here
June 2024: Dr. Pal received 2024 Central American Research Symposium (CARS) Seed Grant funded by the TTU Office of International Affairs to collaborate with colleagues in CATIE in Cost Rica.
May/June 2024: Graduate Student Diya Das received an invitation from the American Geophysical Union to give an invited talk within the AGU Early-Career Science Seminar Series. Link here.
May/June 2024: Two new research scholars (Nanditha Subhash and Danielle Harr) will be joining the Boundary Layer Meteorology Group in Fall 2024.
May 2024: Graduate student Tyler Danzig presenting our NOAA-funded work within the Citizen Climate Education Series on Thursday May 30, 2024 (7:00 pm) at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, 4600 48th Street. Invited by Citizens' Climate Lobby of Lubbock (Prof. Edward George) Presentation title: The Urban Heat Experiment Around Lubbock, Texas (U-HEAT) An Exploration of Urban Heat Islands. Flyer here.
Apr/May 2024: Congratulations, Tyler, Hassan. Diya and Remya for presenting the poster during the Geosciences Excellence Day (April 12, 2024 at Texas Tech University).
Apr 2024: Graduate Student Diya Das received a Travel Grant Award to attend the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024) in Athens, Greece from 7 - 12 July, 2024.
Apr 2024: Graduate student Tyler Danzig secured the First Place Winner in the Poster Presentation Category of the Joint Conference [14R2O-20OESS-26SATMET] Student Competition at the 2024 104th AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Mar 2024: A co-authored (Dr. Pal) article got accepted in the AMS journal Weather and Forecasting. Title of the paper: On the Importance of Regime-Specific Evaluations for Numerical Weather Prediction Models as Demonstrated using the High-resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model. Link here
Mar 2024: Graduate student Diya Das presenting at the 23rd Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition. Picture here.
Feb 2024: Dr. Pal was invited at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA for EVSC Colloquium. Invited by Drs. Fangfang Yao and Antonios Mamalakis. Title of presentation: ABL-ROAD (Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Over Arid Domains): Challenges and Opportunities.
Feb 2024: Dr. Pal's research project funded by NASA was cited in TTU Strategic Research Themes. Link
Feb 2024: Dr. Pal was invited at the Department of Physics, University of Kalyani, India for a presentation during the Annual Physics Day. Invited by Dr. Sudipta Pal
Feb 2024: AGU Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Sensors to Science to Society (13-16 February 2024, Honolulu, HI). Graduate student Ms. Diya Das will be presenting our work on "Multi-platform observations of diverse precipitation events over a semi-arid region of the Southwest US". Link here
Jan 2024: TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter featured our group’s contributions in research and service, Storm of Success. Link here
Jan 2024: 104th AMS Annual Meeting (28 Jan - 2 Feb, Baltimore, MD): Our research work will be discussed within 8 contributions (posters + talks). List of papers here. Link of pictures here.
Jan 2024: Dr. Pal's application has been selected to receive the Faculty Travel Grant (FTG for MSI), supported by the National Science Foundation to attend the 104th AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Jan 2024: Graduate Student Diya Das has received a Travel Grant Award to attend the Chapman Conference on Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle: Sensors to Science to Society to be held from 13-16 February 2024 in Honolulu, HI.
Jan 2024: Graduate student Molly Sorensen received 2024 AMS Travel Grant award to attend AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Jan 2024: Dr. Pal received NSF/NCAR CORE [The Collaborative Opportunities for Research Engagement (CORE - 2023-24) for the project entitled "EXploring Land-Atmosphere Interaction over Dryland during Morning and Evening Transitions (XLAID-MET)
2023
Dec 2023: Our research was recognized within the Texas Tech Today news article 2023 Year in Review, Issue December 22, 2023. Header: When we engaged in world-changing research. Link here
Dec 2023: Our group's work (3 papers) are being presented in 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Graduate student Ms. Hassan Dhaliwal presented multiple work. List of contributions here
Dec 2023: Social gathering of the "Eddies" to celebrate end of semester. Link here.
Nov 2023: TTU-WISE Research Scholar Matthew Hamel made the Texas Tech Scanning Doppler lidar (T2-SDL) operational at Reese Field Site after several case studies from the same site. Link here.
Oct 2023: Four Graduate Students from our group (Hassanpreet Dhaliwal, Zach Medley, Remya Menon and Tyler Danzig) presented their research work at the Texas Tech's University's Graduate School Three-Minute Thesis Competition. Great job, everyone! Pictures here.
Oct 2023: Dr. Pal visited NASA GSFC for IPMSI PI meeting from 28-29 Sept 2023
Sept 2023: A co-authored (Dr. Pal) article got accepted in the AMS Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Title of the paper: The applicability of new surface-atmosphere parameterizations exchanges for arid regions. Link here
Sept 2023: Dr. Pal achieved tenure and promotion to Associate Professor level at Texas Tech University.
Sept 2023: Our work was presented at the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate in Sydney, Australia. Talk title: Exploring Urban Heat Advection around Smaller-sized Cities in the US using High Resolution Observations and Simulations.
Aug/Sept 2023: Texas Tech Today – Mailbag article on Aug 18 featuring our group’s research on urban heat and precipitations distributions. Link here.
Aug 2023: Dr. Pal's proposal has been selected as an awardee for Research Assistance Program, FY24 by the TTU Office of Research and Innovation.
July/Aug 2023: High-School students visiting TTU-facilities. Our group members presented the instruments and data collection efforts during their visit. The program was organized by the STEM Center for Outreach, Research & Education (STEM CORE). Link here.
June/July 2023: Congratulations Nicholas Clark (Nick) for successfully defending his MS Thesis and accepting a job offer (Research Assistant) from Penn State. Link for graduation celebration.
June 2023: TTU-AERONET Site: Within the NASA-funded research project work, research scholar Hassan Dhaliwal with the help of other group members deployed Cimel Sun photometer at Reese site for continuous monitoring of aerosol optical depths at multiple wavelengths.
June 2023: Urban Heat Experiment Around Lubbock, Texas (U-HEAT): Within the NOAA-funded research project work, research scholar Tyler Danzig with the help of other group members deployed more than 22 sensors across Lubbock.
July 2023: A new UG research scholar (Mr. Adrian Olano) joined the Boundary Layer Meteorology Group in Summer 2023. Link here.
June 2023: Welcome Ms. Remya Menon (Research Assistant) to our group. She is a is a TTU Graduate Student pursuing MS in Interdisciplinary Studies –Atmospheric Science, Wind Energy and English since Fall 2022 (Link here)
May/June 2023: Texas Tech Today – News article on May 23, 2023, featuring our group’s research on the impact of storms on greenhouse gas distributions. Link here
May 2023: Graduate Student Zach Medley received 2023 Travel Grant Award by the UCAR for attending Uni Data workshop in Boulder, CO. Congrats!
May 2023: Research Commercialization at Texas Tech featured Dr. Pal's research contributions in their LinkedIn profile. Creator: Jennifer Souter, Business Development Professional at TTU. Link here
May 2023: Bring to TTU YOU - Dr. Pal was invited within the TTU College Connect event promoting higher education to our students and speak about the different the opportunities college offers. McCool Academy Presentation: Title: Beyond the Horizon: Academic life and opportunities in Geosciences at Tech. May 11, 2023
May 2023: Social gathering of the "Eddies" to celebrate end of semester. Link here.
May 2023: Graduate Student Hassanpreet Dhaliwal has recently been nominated as a Student Member on the AMS Committee for Measurements. She will serve in the committee for a 3-year period. Her term begins in May 2023. Link here
Apr/May 2023: Dr. Pal was Invited as a Guest Speaker at Ralls Elementary (Ralls, TX 79357, April 21st, 2023) within their Family ACE Night Program. Topic: We and the Storms. Invited by: Anna Stasia Torres (ACE Site Supervisor). Link here
Apr/May 2023: Dr. Pal and graduate student Tyler Danzig were Invited as a Guest Speaker at Frenship High School, Lubbock. Topic: Exploring Urban Heat Island of Smaller-Sized Cities: The Lubbock Testbed. Invited by Mr. Robert Gentry, Frenship High School (April 17, 2023). Link here.
Apr 2023: Dr. Pal was an Invited Panelist: The Heat is On: Understanding the Effect of Heat Islands on Small Cities, Rural Communities and Agriculture. In partnership with PocketLab, HMH and the Science Teachers Association of Texas, ScIC11 (Science is Cool) was broadcasted live from The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. Link here
Apr 2023: Two new research scholars (Ms. Diya Das and Ms. Molly Sorensen) will be joining the Boundary Layer Meteorology Group in Fall 2023. Link here.
Mar/Apr 2023: Congratulations! Hassan and Zach for presenting our research work at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition at the TTU Student Union Building. Link here
Mar 2023: Dr. Elena Lind from NASA-GSFC visited our division/department and Reese Technology Center to complete a task related to a recently funded NASA project, S3-MAAP: Synergetic Surface-based and Satellite-borne Measurements of Arid-region Aerosol and Precipitation.
Mar 2023: A co-authored (Dr. Pal) article got accepted in the AGU journal Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. Title of the paper: Atmospheric variations in column integrated CO2 on synoptic and seasonal time scale over the U.S . Link here
Feb/Mar 2023: Dr. Pal's co-authored paper was recognized as a top-cited paper in the AGU Journal Earth and Space Sciences. Link here
Feb 2023: Recently funded NASA grant (PI: Pal) was featured within an article in Texas Tech Today. Link here
Feb 2023: Local Newspaper covered a story of our recently funded grant. Link here
Feb 2023: A co-authored (Dr. Pal) article got accepted in the AMS journal Bulletin of American Meteorology Society. Title of the paper: Engaging Undergraduate Students in Collaborative Field Research with the National Weather Service: The SCORCHER Study. Link here
Jan 2023: 103rd AMS Annual Meeting (8-12 Jan, Denver, CO): Our research work will be discussed within 5 contributions (posters + talks). Graduate Students Matthew Hamel, Tyler Danzig and Zach Medley presenting there. List of contributions here.
Jan 2023: Dr. Pal presenting within an invited seminar in St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, University of Calcutta (Invited by Prof. Pintu Mondol) on Jan 6, 2023. Topic: Beyond the Horizon: Atmospheric Science Research Opportunities
Jan 2023: Graduate Student Matthew Hamel has been recently appointed to the AMS board of student affairs and will be a Co-chair for a future AMS Student Conference. Congratulations, Matt.
2022
Dec 2022: Dr. Pal was invited to give a seminar on Weather Unit in Commander William C. McCool Academy for Middle School Students. Title: We and the Weather
Nov/Dec 2022: Welcome Ms. Hassanpreet Dhaliwal (Hassan) to our group. She will start her Ph.D. in Jan 2023. Hassan just defended her MS Thesis in Atmospheric Sciences at Texas Tech University. More on Hassan (To be added here)
Nov 2022: Dr. Pal received the Open Access Publication Initiative Award (OAPI-2022) funded by the TTU Office of Research and Innovation.
Oct/Nov 2022: Graduate student Nicholas Clark (Nick) became an invited member of TTU’s chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, most selective, and most prestigious all-discipline honor society. Awarded for continuing extremely high academic standards at Texas Tech.
Oct 2022: Graduate students Zach Medley and Tyler Danzig presenting at the TTU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) research presentations, celebrating the exciting research students are doing as a graduate student in TTU
Sept/Oct 2022: Congratulations! Michael Anand (Mike, past group member) for his recent success as his First FIRST-Authored journal article moves to in press status (Journal: Boundary Layer Meteorology)
Sept 2022: Dr. Pal presented some recent findings from NOAA-funded project within an invited talk at Weather Forecast Office, Lubbock on Sept 16, 2022. Title: Lubbock’s Changing Urban Heat Regimes: Quantifying Heat Island and Heat Advection. Invited by his project partner Dr. Mark Conder.
Aug 2022: Congratulations! Samantha Walley (Sam, past group member) for her recent success as her First FIRST-Authored journal article got accepted in the American Geophysical Union Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Link here.
Aug 2022: Welcome Tyler Danzig and Zach Medley to our group. Tyler had his UG life in Penn State while Zach had his in University of Tennessee- Knoxville. More details here.
July/Aug 2022: Graduate student Nicholas Clark (Nick) visiting the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division (ATDD) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee for his ongoing research work in the Boundary Layer Meteorology research group at Tech.
July/Aug 2022: Dr. Pal as lead Principal Investigator received a grant within the 2022 NASA-ROSES Program.
July 2022: Congratulations! Matthew Hamel (Graduate Student in the team) for successfully defending his thesis work! He already accepted a Graduate School Scholarship from the Texas Tech University to continue his Ph.D. in our group. Graduation Celebration Link here
July 2022: Congratulations! Michael Anand (Graduate Student in the team) for successfully defending his thesis work! He also accepted a job offer from the National Weather Service, Albuquerque. Graduation Celebration Link here.
June/July 2022: North American Carbon Program (NACP, A Core Element of the US Global Change Research Program) Newsletter featured Dr. Pal in Member Spotlight (June 2022); Compiled/edited by Dr. Elisabeth K. Larson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD. Link here or click here for archive.
June/July 2022: 30th International Laser Radar Conference, (ILRC-30, Virtual, June 26th – July 1st, 2022) : Our research work will be discussed within four contributions. List of contributions here.
June 2022: Our group work centered around Graduate Student’s research papers got recognized within the TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter- Summer 2022. Link here
May-June 2022: Two new research scholars will be joining the Boundary Layer Meteorology Group on July 15.
May 2022: Congratulations! Derek Curtis (Senior UG researcher in the team) for graduating with Minor in Atmospheric Sciences. Farewell celebration here.
May 2022: Dr. Pal presenting in the Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate, ACPC Workshop Virtual meeting, 9-13 May, 2022, 13:00-16:00 UTC. Low-Cloud Sessions. Title of the talk: Connecting dots among synoptic controls, aerosol transport and local meteorological conditions favoring cloud formation. Link
May 2022: Congratulations! Nicholas Clark (Nick, a graduate student in the team) for his recent success: First FIRST-Authored journal article got accepted in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Open Access Article Link here
Apr-May 2022: Congratulations! Derek Curtis (Senior UG researcher in the team) for securing multiple graduate school researcher positions and finally planning to move to University of Wisconsin-Madison (Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences).
Apr 2022: TTU College of Arts and Sciences News article featuring work and contributions of two graduate students of the team. Link for Michael Anand and Link for Nicholas Clark.
Apr 2022: Graduate Student Michael Anand received the Best Poster Award (certificate + plaque) in Texas Weather Conference, Lubbock, Texas. Title of his presentation reads: Understanding Atmospheric Boundary Layer Depth Variability in Frontal Environments over an Arid Region in West Texas. Link here
Mar 2022: Graduate Student Nicholas Clark NOMINATED TO AMS COMMITTEE. Nick has recently been nominated as a Student Member on the AMS Committee for Measurements. Nick will serve in the committee for a 3-year period. His term begins in Apr 2022. Link here
Mar 2022: Dr. Pal presenting his NOAA-funded work with city of Lubbock invited by Citizens' Climate Lobby of Lubbock (Prof. Edward George) at Covenant Presbyterian Church on Mar 24, 2022.. Presentation title: "Lubbock's Urban Heat Island under a rapidly changing climate: What we know, what we don’t know": Link here
Mar 2022: Dr. Pal has received the 2022 International Research and Development Seed Grant awarded by the TTU Office of International Affairs. His project is: Impact of land-atmosphere feedback processes on the atmospheric boundary layer dynamics over an arid region under synoptically active and benign weather conditions. See March 2022 News here
Feb 2022: Dr. Pal's interview with MentorTech in recognition and celebration of mentorship throughout Texas Tech highlighting mentors in a video campaign “Mentor Monday with Sandip Pal”. Link.
Jan 2022: A manuscript has been accepted in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Title: Opportunistic Experiments to Constrain Aerosol Effective Radiative Forcing. Link
Jan 2022: A manuscript has been accepted in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (in press). Title: Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO2 Weather in OCO‐2 MIP Models. Link here
Jan 2022: 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Virtual) : Dr. Pal chairing two sessions [Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere: Lidar and Ceilometer Observations and Measurements and Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation - Integrating Unmanned Aerial Systems ]
Jan 2022: 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Houston, TX, 23-27 Jan 2022: Virtual) : Our research work will be discussed within eight contributions (posters + talks). List of contributions here.
2021
Dec 2021: 2021 Dec Edition of We Are Arts & Sciences: Pal's work highlighted regarding a science article in a daily newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Dec 2021: Dr. Pal received the Spring Faculty Conference Travel Grant awarded by the Office of Research & Innovation of Texas Tech University to attend an International Conference (102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting).
Nov 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (in press). Title: Seasonal Variability in Local Carbon Dioxide Combustion Sources over the Central and Eastern US using Airborne In-Situ Enhancement Ratios.
Oct/Nov 2021: Dr. Pal as the Faculty Mentor of Texas Tech Indian Students Association was invited to inaugurate the Diwali Celebration of the Indian Students Association at Satsang Mandal of West Texas in Lubbock, Texas.
Oct 2021: Nicholas Clark (Nick) earned the Third Place Award in TTU 3-Minute Thesis Competition, organized by TTU Graduate School, where many MS and doctoral students from all disciplines of Texas Tech University participated/competed. Click here for Texas Tech Today News Article
Sept/Oct 2021: Graduate students Matthew Hamel and Nicholas Clark presenting in the TTU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) research presentations, celebrating the exciting research students are doing as a graduate student in TTU
Sept 2021: Dr. Pal was working as a Forecaster, Weather Forecasting and Advising during Football Game (TTU vs SFA and TTU vs FIU) at Jones AT&T Stadium invited by Mr. Justin Weaver, NWS-Lubbock.
Sept 2021: A science article in a daily newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer by Anthony R. Wood entitled “The heat from Center City’s buildings and streets might be giving the rains a little extra juice” News article on Aug 22, 2021, featuring Dr. Pal’s research on urban heat and precipitation. Link
Sept 2021: Dr. Pal’s editorial role for the journal Frontiers in Remote Sensing was featured in 2021 August Edition of We Are Arts & Sciences, the official faculty & staff newsletter of the College of Arts & Sciences. TTU College of Arts & Sciences Communications. Link here.
Aug/Sept 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the Elsevier Journal Atmospheric Research (in press). Title: When and where horizontal advection is critical to alter the atmospheric boundary layer features over land: Need for a conceptual framework. Link
Aug 2021: A co-authored article by Dr. Pal was featured in Penn State News. News article: Horizontal winds become major movers of CO2 during cold fronts. Link here
Jul 2021: News article on July 6, 2021 featuring Dr. Pal’s NOAA Grant. Special to Lubbock Avalanche-Journal USA TODAY NETWORK. Texas Tech researcher studying urban heat’s effects on weather in smaller cities. Link to the News Article or Click here
Jun/Jul 2021: Congratulations to Samantha Walley (Sam) for successfully defending her MS Thesis and accepting a job offer (Atmospheric Scientist) from PEMDAS. Link to the graduation celebration.
Jun/Jul 2021: Dr. Pal’s NASA and NOAA funding news was featured in 2021 June Edition of We Are Arts & Sciences, the official faculty & staff newsletter of the College of Arts & Sciences. TTU College of Arts & Sciences Communications. Link here.
June 2021: Welcome back Nicholas (Nick) Clark to the group. Nick will continue working in our group for his MS in Atmospheric Sciences
June 2021: Group member Nicholas Clark received the 2020-21 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (OUR) award from the Center for Transformative Undergraduate Experiences for his excellent research work at TTU. Link here.
May/June 2021: Our work was presented in Global Monitoring Laboratory Virtual Global Monitoring Annual Conference (eGMAC), May 24-28, 2021, Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gases. Virtual meeting, 24–28 May. Link here.
May/June 2021: Our work was presented in Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate (ACPC) Workshop, Low-Cloud Sessions; Virtual meeting, 24–27 May. Link here.
May/June 2021: Dr. Pal received a grant within the 2021 NOAA-OAR Program. Link here
May 2021: Group member Nicholas Clark graduated (Math Major) with HONS and Minor in Atmospheric Science. he will be joining graduate school in TTU (MS in Atmospheric Science) in summer 2021. Link to graduation celebration.
May 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Earth and Space Science, Title: The ACT-America Datasets: Description, Management and Delivery
May 2021: Dr. Pal was invited as the Chief Guest (Faculty Mentor) at the Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony of TTU Indian Student Association, Lubbock, Texas.
May 2021: A manuscript has been published in a very high-impact American Meteorological Society (AMS) journal Bulletin of American Meteorological Society (Accepted/ in press), Title: The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT) - America Mission. Impact Factor 9.384 [2019 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category]
Apr/May 2021: Group member Nicholas Clark successfully completed HONS Thesis entitled "Exploring the Complexities in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics over Mountainous Regions and their Impact on Tracer Distribution". He submitted this work to graduate from the Honors College with the distinction of “with Highest Honors from the Honors College."
Apr/May 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Journal Geoscientific Model Development (Accepted/ in press). Title: Development and evaluation of CO2 transport in MPAS-A v6.3. Link
Apr 2021: Group member Nicholas Clark (Nick) is an winner at the Texas Tech University 2021 Undergraduate Research Conference. Session: Energy & Environment Impact, Impact Talks: YouTube Presentations. Link here.
Mar 2021: Dr. Pal (TTU-Project PI) received a grant within the NASA-SBIR program (Phase-I). Project: Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Airborne Science Planning and Real-Time Column Mole Fraction Estimates from Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar.
Feb 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Title: Regional‐Scale, Sector‐Specific Evaluation of Global CO2 Inversion Models Using Aircraft Data From the ACT‐America Project
Feb 2021: Dr. Pal was invited as a guest speaker in the Department of Geography Virtual MAP-A-THON Event on the topic "Assisting USAID with a Humanitarian Mission to improve education for girls in India", invited by Prof. Jeff Lee and Ms. Linda Jones, Texas Tech University.
Feb 2021: A manuscript has been accepted in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Title: Carbon dioxide distribution, origins, and transport along a frontal boundary during summer in mid-latitudes
Jan 2021: Dr Pal will be serving as a Session Chair in the 21st Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, American Meteorological Society 101st Annual Meeting, 21st Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation, Session: Results from Recent Field Projects, 10-15 January 2021. Link
Jan 2021: Dr. Pal's proposal was awarded the TTU Office of Research and Innovation Spring 2021 Proposal Assistance Program Award. Principal Investigator.
Jan 2021: Our work will be presented within four potential contributions during the American Meteorological Society's 101st Annual Meeting, 10-15 January 2021.
Dec 20/Jan 21: Dr. Pal's research work was highlighted in TTU Climate Science Center Spotlight for SBTG event. Link
Dec 20/Jan 21: Dr. Pal kicked off a joint-venture and collaborative initiative within the ABL-ROAD (Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Over Arid Domains), a collaborative research platform (TTU, WTAMU, NWS-Lubbock and Amarillo, NOAA-ATDD) to brainstorm research ideas and work related to kinematics and thermodynamics of arid region boundary layer. Link here
2020
Dec 2020: Research Assistant Samantha Walley presenting in American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Dec 2020. Paper title: Exploring XCO2 spatial variability across frontal boundaries using airborne lidar observations
Dec 2020: Dr. Pal was invited to present at 2020 Steering Committee Meeting (Chacaltaya-La Paz Science Meeting), invited by Dr. Marcos F. Andrade: Talk: On the complexities of atmospheric boundary layer dynamics over mountainous regions: Implications for better understanding of tracer mixing processes. , La Paz, Bolivia, 3-4 Dec 2020 (Remote Participation)
Dec 2020: Dr. Pal was invited to present at December Science by the Glass (SBTG) organized by Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Co-Director of the Texas Tech University Climate Center. Title of the talk: Greenhouse gas transport ahead and behind storms: Two sides of the same coin. Details here.
Nov/Dec 2020: Dr. Pal's service component has been recognized (reviewer for 50 academic journals) and was promoted in the TTU College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter. Story here
Nov 2020: Dr. Pal was nominated as the member of the AMS (American Meteorological Society) Committee on Measurements
Oct/Nov 2020: Group member Samantha Walley presenting at the TTU 2020 Virtual Three Minute Thesis Competition organized by the TTU Graduate School (3M). Link
Oct/Nov 2020: Dr. Pal's group research was highlighted during Nuclear Sciences Week in TTU Social Media page. Link
Oct 2020: A manuscript has been accepted in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Title: The Impact of Height-independent Errors in State Variables on the Determination of the Daytime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Depth using the Bulk Richardson Approach. Link
Oct/Nov 2020: Dr. Pal's research paper has been selected as an awardee for TTU Open Access Publication Initiative - Fall 2020/Spring 2021 (OAPI-Award) by the TTU Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) and Office of the Vice President of Research (VPR).
Oct 2020: A manuscript has been accepted in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal Earth and Space Sciences. Title: Field Evaluation of Column CO2 Retrievals from Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements during ACT-America. Link
Oct 2020: Dr. Pal’s research paper was highlighted in TTU Climate Center Monthly Newsletter, Section: Climate Center News READ! where they showcase a recently published article. Link
Sept 2020: Dr. Pal and group member Samantha Walley are presenting their work in 2020 Texas Weather Conference. More details
Sept 2020: Two new research scholars joined the TTU- Boundary Layer Meteorology Group. Click here
Aug/Sept 2020: Dr. Pal is leading a Special Collection within AGU journals including JGR: Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, JGR: Biogeosciences, Earth and Space Sciences, and Global Biogeochemical Cycle. More details
Aug 2020: Dr. Pal named Associate Editor of Frontiers in Remote Sensing (Board of Lidar Sensing) via an invitation from the Frontiers Editorial Office. Link
July/Aug 2020: With an invitation from the editorial office of Nature Publishing Group, Dr. Pal became the reviewer of more than 50 reputed International Journals: Served as a reviewer for numerous manuscripts submitted to the journals of American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, Optical Society of America, American Chemical Society, Royal Meteorological Society, European Geophysical Union, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, and other scientific societies and publishers. Click here
July/Aug 2020: Dr. Pal became a Mentor for the The Lauro Cavazos & Ophelia Powell-Malone Mentoring Program (Mentor Tech) at TTU, one of the most exciting and beneficial programs on the TTU campus.
June 2020: Dr. Pal’s research paper was highlighted in North American Carbon Program (NACP) Newsletter; Section: What We Are Reading, a special section of the NACP Newsletter where they showcase a recently published paper. Click here
May 2020: Dr. Pal has been invited to join TTU Climate Center. Click here
April 2020: Dr. Pal has received the 2020 International Research and Development Seed Grant awarded by the TTU Office of International Affairs. His project is: Exploring the complexities in atmospheric boundary layer dynamics over mountainous regions using lidar and in-situ observations. Will be collaborating with researchers at GAW (Global Atmospheric Watch Station in Chacaltaya located in the Bolivian Andes). Click here
April 2020: Dr. Pal and his team participating and presenting in ACT-America Community Workshop (Virtually, 27-30 April 2020). Title: Frontal Contrasts in Four Seasons over the Eastern US: A path toward the mechanistic understanding of GHG transport in the lower troposphere.
April 2020: Dr. Pal attended and presented in the TRACER PI Meeting and Aerosol, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate Workshop (ACPC, 20-23 April, 2020 ) (Virtually on Zoom): Title: Impact of boundary layer kinematics and aerosol physicochemical properties on convection initiation downwind of an urban hotspot (Houston) within the TRACER project. Click here
Mar 2020: A manuscript has been published in a high-impact Wiley/AGU journal (Impact Factor 4.6) Geophysical Research Letters. Title: 2019 Mississippi and Missouri River Flooding and Its Impact on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics Click here
Feb 2020: A manuscript has been published in a high-impact journal: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Title: Evaluation of OCO-2 XCO2 Variability at Local and Synoptic Scales using Lidar and In Situ Observations from the ACT-America Campaigns. Click here
Feb 2020: Dr. Pal was awarded the Faculty Conference Travel Grant for Spring-2020 by the Office of Research & Innovation of Texas Tech University to attend an International Conference.
Feb 2020: A manuscript has been accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (a high-impact Wiley/AGU journal). Title: Observations of Greenhouse Gas Changes across Summer Frontal Boundaries in the Eastern United States) Click here
Feb 2020: Dr. Pal presented (invited) an update on the Urban Boundary Layer Research at the 2020 NWS SOOConWest Meeting, 10-11 Feb 2020, El Paso, New Mexico, USA.
Feb 2020: Dr. Pal and Dr. Salazar-Bravo at Tech initiated international collaboration with the members of GAW/CHC (Global Atmospheric Watch/Chacaltaya, Bolivia) Science Team and Steering Committee.
Jan 2020: 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (AMS, 11-16 Jan, 2020; Boston, MA): Our research work will be discussed within 5 contributions (posters + talks). List of contributions here.
Jan 2020: Dr. Pal became the Academic Advisor of Atmospheric Science Minor Program (ATMO Minor) at Texas Tech University. Details here.
2019
Dec 2019: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA: AGU, 8-12 Dec, 2019) : Our research work will be discussed within 4 contributions (posters + talks). List of contributions here.
Nov 2019: Dr. Pal was invited as a guest speaker at the USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX. 2019 Seminar Series on AgSciences Cropping Systems Research Laboratory (CSRL). Title: Impact of Land Atmosphere Interactions on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics under Diverse Meteorological Conditions, Nov 1, 2019.
Oct 2019: Dr. Pal was awarded 2019 Open Access Award for Publications through the Faculty Research Committee at the Texas Tech University Libraries for showing commitment to open access via publishing in high-impact open access journals, serving as a reviewer for various reputed journals and an associate editor of two open access journals endorsed by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).
Oct 2019: Dr. Pal's work was mentioned in TTU College of Arts and Science Newsletter of October. Link
Oct 2019: Cesar Negri (Ph.D. candidate National Wind Institute) and Alina Warraich (TTU-Pi2 scholar) joined the group. Welcome!
Sept 2019: Group member Nicholas Clark won (again!) the TrUE Undergraduate Scholar Travel Funding Award 2019. He will be traveling to the AMS Annual Meeting in Boston in Jan 2020. Congrats!
Aug/Sept 2019: Two Graduate Students (Adam Batz and Samantha Walley) joined the Tech's Boundary Layer Meteorology Research Group. Welcome!
Aug 2019: Dr. Pal attended SOOConWest Amarillo NWS Meeting from 21-22 August 2019, Amarillo, TX. Presentation title: On the Impact of Horizontal Advection on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Dynamics.
Aug 2019: A manuscript has been published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters [MS title: Advected Airmass Reservoirs in the Downwind of Mountains and their Roles in Overrunning Boundary Layer Depths over the Plains]
Aug 2019: Dr. Pal became Faculty Mentor of Indian Students Association of TTU
July/Aug 2019: Dr. Pal presenting at the 18th Conference on Mesoscale Processes of AMS, 29 July – 1 August 2019, Savannah, GA. Title: Advected Airmass Reservoirs in the Downwind of Mountains and their Roles in Overrunning Boundary Layer Depths over the Plains and Valleys (Pal and Lee, 2019).
June/July 2019: Dr. Pal participating in the NASA sponsored project ACT-America field campaign. Worked as the Mission Scientist aboard a NASA C130 measuring atmospheric state variables and greenhouse gases inside and above the atmospheric boundary layer to study frontal modifications of boundary layer dynamics and greenhouse gas distributions during a research flight from Lincoln Nebraska to Winnipeg (Manitoba), July 4.
May 2019: A manuscript has been accepted in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. Title: Evaluation of regional CO2 mole fractions in the ECMWF CAMS real-time atmospheric analysis and NOAA CarbonTracker Near-Real Time reanalysis with airborne observations from ACT-America field campaigns.
Apr 2019: Nicholas Clark (Group member) has been awarded a Travel Grant ($500) by the Texas Tech University | Honors College. Congratulations Nick!
Apr 2019: Nicholas Clark and Orin Gotchey (Group Members) presented their research work at the The 11th annual TTU Undergraduate Research Conference (URC, 2-5 April, 2019 at TTU Campus). Congrats Nick and Orin for your talk and poster, respectively.
Mar 2019: Dr. Pal received a grant from NASA: "Multi-instrument observations of greenhouse gases across frontal boundary and comparison with WRF-Chem simulations", PI: S. Pal, NASA ACT-America (Earth Venture Suborbital-2 Mission), $159,077, 2019-2021.
Mar 2019: Dr. Pal's research proposal for the International Research and Development Seed Grant 2019 at Texas Tech University has been awarded ( Project: Impact of Advected Urban Boundary Layer on the Atmospheric Dynamics and Convection Initiations over the Adjacent Sub-urban and Rural areas). Link
Feb 2019: A manuscript has been published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters (MS title: Contrasting air mass advection explains significant differences in boundary layer depth seasonal cycles under onshore versus offshore flows)
Feb 2019: Nicholas Clark (Group member) has been awarded a Travel Grant ($700 towards travel expenses to present our research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Kennesaw, GA ). The Travel Grant was awarded by the TTU Center for Transformative Learning Experiences (TTU-TRuE). Congratulations, Nick!
Jan 2019: AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ: Dr. Pal presented results from four field deployments of ACT-America Project. Title of the talk: Observations of Synoptic and Meso Scale Variability in Greenhouse Gases across Fronts in Four Seasons.
2018
Dec 2018: Research paper submitted by Nicholas Clark (Group member) has been accepted for an oral presentation in the 2019 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia. April 11-13, 2019. Title of the talk: Investigation of mixing and stratifications of boundary layer passive tracer after evening transition period.
Dec 2018: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Washington DC (AGU100, 10-14 Dec 2018): Dr. Pal's work (first-authored and co-authored) will be discussed in 10 contributions (posters + talks). List of contributions here.
Nov 1, 2018: Dr. Pal has been invited to be an Associate Editor for the journal Atmospheric Science Letters (Wiley/Royal Meteorological Society-UK)
Oct 8, 2018: Dr. Pal was invited to attend the UCAR Annual Meeting in Boulder, CO
Oct 5, 2018: Two research scholars (Orin Gotchey and NIcholas Clark) joined the group
Sept 2018: Dr. Pal formed Boundary Layer Meteorology Research Group @ Tech
Aug 2018: Dr. Pal moved from Pennsylvania State University to Texas Tech University