Year: 2013

Chris Kidd presented two papers at the joint 2013 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference/19th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology Conference in Vienna, Austria, September 16-20. At the 1st Megha-Tropiques Workshop on Rainfall Products Validation and Hydrological Applications in the Tropics, Toulouse, France, September 25-27 he presented a talk entitled, “Elucidating errors and uncertainties through deconstruction of precipitation …

Antonio Busalacchi with Admiral Frank Bowman (USN ret) co-chaired “The National Security Implications of Climate Change for US Naval Forces,” NRC Keck Building, on September 17. Busalacchi and Bowman also co-chaired a one day workshop for the Naval Studies Board and RADM White, Oceanographer of the Navy, on the Technical, Military, and Geopolitical Considerations for Future U.S. Navy Operations in the Arctic….

Matthew Biddle was part of a team that released the first quality-controlled NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) regional ocean climatology with 1/10°x1/10° spatial resolution and monthly temporal resolution for both temperature and salinity. A NOAA issued press release is available here: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/regional_climate/gin-seas-climate/…

Robert Adler gave two talks at the recent, September 16-20, EUMETSAT/AMS Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Conference in Vienna Austria: ” A Global Flood Estimation System Using Satellite Rainfall Information and a Hydrological Model” and “A Combined IR and Lightning Rainfall Algorithm for Application to GOES-R.” The following week he visited Poland’s Meteorology and Hydrology Institute in Krakow, Poland to give a seminar on “Global Flood Estimation System Using Satellite Rainfall …

The Mae Jemison U.S Science Reading Room in Mamelodi, South Africa, hosted ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Dr. Mathew Sapiano on August 21. During his presentation, Sapiano discussed the importance of weather forecasting and predicting. Sixty-five students attended the seminar to learn more about crucial weather patterns and their various effects. The Reading Room was created through a partnership between the University of Pretoria and the United States Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. It …

BALTIMORE – Although Maryland is making strides in reducing its carbon footprint, air pollution from power plants is still creating environmental and health concerns, according to a recent report from Environment Maryland. And some states bordering the Chesapeake Bay have power plants that rank among the dirtiest, according to the advocacy group. Power plants create nitrogen oxide during combustion. This gas can be a significant source of air pollution when emitted in large quantities, and …

The 6th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Change was held in Hong Kong from August 19-21, 2013. The conference brought together over 150 scientists from around the world – including 45 leading researchers – to share their latest scientific findings and technological breakthroughs in the broad disciplines of atmospheric, oceanographic, climate change and earth system sciences. The conference was organized by the Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association …