Month: July 2013

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair, Professor Antonio Busalacchi, was interviewed in a recent televised Fox news segment, regarding aging U.S weather satellites. In the report, FOX stated that 14 of the 22 U.S. satellites currently used to monitor weather, have already reached their designed expiration dates. Aging satellites could be particularly problematic in the near-term, given NOAA’s recent prediction of an active hurricane season. Estimates include 20 tropical weather systems this year, …

Science Direct published two articles that ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde contributed to in their June 2013, vol. 5 issue 2 edition of Current Opinion of Environmental Sustainability. The first article, A global science–policy partnership for progress toward sustainability of oceanic ecosystems and fisheries, explained the problems associated with deterioration of oceanic fisheries, and the causes, which include over-fishing and climate change among other issues. The piece proposed …

ESSIC associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu, recently provided commentary in a NASA post on wildfire smoke traveling across the Eastern Atlantic. The NASA Earth Observatory circulated a satellite image Jul-02-2013, that displays wildfire smoke aerosol concentrations originating in Quebec, which subsequently traveled across the Atlantic Ocean. In the interview, Yu explained which satellite sensors are best suited to observe this type of smoke transportation process. “Unlike MODIS and MISR, …