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Farrell to return as team member for NASA IceBridge Mission

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was again selected as a science team member for the NASA Operation IceBridge mission. The selection marks Farrell’s second 3-year term as a mission team member. NASA’s Operation IceBridge images Earth’s polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system….

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Ramanathan speaks on lidar remote sensing at UMD

Anand Ramanathan gave an invited talk titled “Measuring atmospheric CO2 concentrations using lidar remote sensing” as part of the”Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Joint Seminar Series” at the University of Maryland, College Park….

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Beneath the Clouds: Super Typhoon Haiyan Observed by AMSR2

By: Patrick C. Meyers

Infrared imagery of Super Typhoon Haiyan shows stunning symmetry (link: CIMSS Satellite Blog). Haiyan is categorized as an annular tropical cyclone, given its “donut” shape. Despite the uniform appearance from infrared imagery, observations from passive microwave sensors paint a more asymmetrical picture (inset). Microwave sensors, such as the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), are able to see through the upper cloud deck and identify regions of precipitation based

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UMD Doctoral Student Wins 2nd Place in Environmental Essay Contest

Last year, atmospheric and oceanic sciences doctoral student Rebekah Esmaili attended a meeting of the International Precipitation Working Group in Brazil, where she was struck by how limited access to data affects scientists in regions outside the U.S.   When Esmaili heard through a Council on the Environment email to her department that Earthzine — an online resource for news about environmental policy and technology — was holding a student essay contest on …

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Salawitch a co-PI of TWP Air Composition Measurement Project (CONTRAST)

ESSIC / AOSC researcher and University of Maryland professor Ross Salawitch is currently preparing for his role as a Co-PI of a project that will measure the composition of air in the tropical western Pacific (TWP) region of the world.   Known as CONTRAST or “CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics,” the mission will consist of a series of airborne observations conducted from Guam during January and February of 2014.   Salawitch is among …

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ESSIC supports two-day NASA GPM Workshop

The NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) held its first Applications Workshop on November 12-13th, 2013 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland.  The goal of the two-day event was to broaden the discussion on a range of current and future applications of satellite data to science and societal applications and provide feedback to the TRMM and GPM teams. ESSIC Senior Research Scientist Bob …

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Biddle participates in NODC GINS campaign

ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Mathew Biddle worked as part of a team run by NOAA’s National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Ocean Climate Laboratory (OCL) that tracked temperature and salinity in the Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Seas (GINS).  The region is considered a gateway between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.   GINS has become an important research area for climatologists, given its importance as a source of natural resources such as fisheries and …

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Arkin – Gu present at CLIVAR Workshop in Australia

ESSIC Senior Research Scientist Phil Arkin, along with Associate Research Scientist Guojun Gu, presented talks at the 6th International CLIVAR Climate of the 20th Century Workshop in Melbourne, Australia.   The CLIVAR International Climate of the 20th Century Project uses climate models forced with observed time-varying sea surface temperatures to understand observed twentieth century climate variability, climate change and seasonal to decadal …

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