Month: August 2013

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair Professor Antonio Busalacchi presented on the correlation between wine production and climate change during a special late-July seminar at the UMD Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). In his presentation, entitled “Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture,” Busalacchi described the implications of climate change on the major wine-producing areas of the world.     Busalacchi presented the talk to another …

Daniel Smith, a SESYNC summer student interning with ESSIC/AOSC Professor, Raghu Murtugudde, will conclude his summer-long research project in early August with a presentation entitled, “Climate Change Communication: Understanding how Environmental/Climate Researchers Think About and Communicate Climate Change.” Smith will discuss the results of a survey he conducted on how researchers communicate information to the general public. Smith, a rising University of Maryland Sophomore and an …

By: Jingfeng Huang

Atmospheric particles, also called aerosols, are strongly related to air pollution, human health, weather forecast, climate change, and even military deployment. Continuing the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) heritage, the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) provides both the operational and scientific data user communities new enhanced capability in monitoring global aerosol activities.

The Suomi National