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Thursday, 16 May 2013
ESSIC Research Associate Michael Folmer and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky, recently presented at the NOAA Science Days Briefing in Silver Spring, Maryland.
NOAA Science Days was created as a vehicle to highlight recent NOAA work and to inform senior NOAA leadership of happenings in the agency.
The pair presented talks on two exciting new instruments that will be housed on the future GOES-R satellite.
Folmer's presentation described the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI),
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013
Following a chilly start for early morning “set-up crews,” the University of Maryland College Park campus experienced near-perfect weather conditions for its annual community outreach event, Maryland Day.
According to Center event Co-coordinator Maureen Cribb, ESSIC welcomed both new visitors and return “followers” alike to the Center's storefront-like display at the entry to the Earth Science Tent.
Accentuated by the Center’s familiar color-logo emblazoned on a new tradeshow
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Friday, 26 April 2013
The Baltimore Sun published a health-related feature in April 2013, which highlighted the results of a recently published study led by ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, Hongbin Yu.
The paper, authored by Yu and a team of NASA, UMBC, and UMCP scientists was published by Science Magazine in August 2012. The study presented data derived from NASA satellite observations, that estimates the amount of airborne particles reaching North America from oversees is comparable to the total mass of
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Thursday, 11 April 2013
The University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center served as the host institute for the third annual NOAA User Workshop on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. The 3-day workshop was held from April 2 to April 4, 2013, with roughly 50 participants from federal government, private sector, and academia in attendance.
As a follow-on to last year's highly successful event, the workshop co-sponsored by NOAA's NESDIS/STAR and NWS/OHD, focused on user application
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Thursday, 04 April 2013
As the University of Maryland preps for its annual "Maryland Day" celebration, ESSIC is putting the final touches on an exhibit that is sure to be an entertaining and interactive experience for the campus and community.
This will be the thirteenth year the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center will participate at the annual event and according to ESSIC's Maryland Day coordinator Maureen Cribb, the Center has much in store for its visitors.
"We like to make it hands on for everyone,
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was enlisted in support of climate bill HB1134, that reached the State of Maryland House of Delegates Environmental Matters Committee on March 6, 2013.
Sponsored by Delegate Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher (D), HB1134 proposes the creation of a task force to both analyze and create solutions for reducing the impact of the heat island effect on the State.
The EPA's web-site provides the following basic definition of heat island effect: "As
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013
ESSIC/AOSC Professor Zhanqing Li has been appointed to a 4-year term as an editor of the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (AGU JGR-Atmospheres).
It's a prestigious honor for Li, given JGR-Atmospheres standing as one of the most-highly cited research publications on climate change over the past decade. Li is certainly no stranger to JGR-Atmospheres itself, given his ranking as its currently most published author.
According to the AGU web-site, AGU
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Monday, 25 February 2013
The University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), will serve as the host institute for the Third International Workshop of the Global Flood Working Group.
The three-day event organized jointly by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, and the University of Maryland will be held at the University of Maryland Research Park from 4-6 March, 2013.
The workshop itself is as an effort to bridge the gap between
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013
ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Scott Rudlosky, a Physical Scientist for NOAA's Satellite Climate Studies Branch (co-located at the UMD Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites - CICS-MD), held a seminar on on Lightning Observations and Applications at Various Scales at the Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (CREST), a multidisciplinary center led by the City College of the City University of New York.
In his discussion, Rudlosky reassured students
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