Year: 2013

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu and colleagues at UMBC (Lorraine Remer) and NASA (Ralph Kahn, Mian Chin, Yan Zhang) published a review paper in the Atmospheric Research journal entitled “Satellite perspective of aerosol intercontinental transport: From qualitative tracking to quantitative characterization.” Yu was invited by the editorial board to contribute this piece following his invited presentation at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, Czech Republic….

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu and Zhibo Zhang (UMBC) recently made an invited contribution to the New Directions column of the Atmospheric Environment journal, entitled “Emerging satellite observations of above-cloud aerosols and direct radiative forcing“….

Associate research scientist, Hongbin Yu recently co-authored a paper on “Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers” (Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 2471-2485, 2013). The paper is highlighted in the April issue of Nature Climate Change entitled “Short-term Impacts.”…

Dr. Bo-Wen Shen, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist and Principal Investigator of the NASA AIST CAMVis Project, was published in the March-April 2013 issue of Computing in Science and Engineering (vol. 15, no. 2).   The paper titled “Advanced Visualizations of Scale Interactions of Tropical Cyclone Formation and Tropical Waves,” discusses Shen’s hurricane prediction research, which bundles multi-scale modeling, supercomputing and visualization. Formally known as the Coupled NASA Advanced …

Researcher: Antonio Busalacchi Grant Sponsor: NASA Amount: $173,234 in additional funding, bringing the total to $5,657,934 Grant Study: “Collaborative Earth System Science Research between NASA/GSFC and UMCP.”…

Thursday, 28 March 2013

The University of Maryland’s Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) has received an “outstanding” qualification from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board (SAB), in a review that assessed the Institute’s current research progress.

The review took place three and a half years into a five year cooperative agreement, between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maryland.

The SAB panel

There has been an increase in heavy rainfalls in the Upper Midwest, US in the past 60 years according to a study from the University of Iowa.

Researchers say that the rise in temperatures in the region have had an effect on the number of heavy rainfalls the Upper Midwest has been experiencing.  As the surface temperature of the Earth becomes warmer, more water can be absorbed into the atmosphere, and this buildup of water allows for a greater chance of heavy precipitation.

“We found that

By: Sinead L. Farrell

Introduction:

The NASA Operation IceBridge mission began the Arctic 2013 research campaign on Monday 20th March. The mission will survey the Greenland Ice Sheet and sea ice pack of the Arctic Ocean. The NASA IceBridge mission is now in its fifth year and continues to measure Arctic sea ice thickness and snow depth. These data continue the time series of ice thickness measurements begun with NASA’s ICESat in 2003, and will provide a link to the NASA ICESat-2 mission, due for launch in