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Month: March 2015

ESSIC to participate in Maryland Day 2015

The onset of springtime brings not only warmer weather, but yet another Maryland Day, an annual University of Maryland event allowing students and families to explore what the campus has to offer across its many academic fields. As the April 25 event approaches, the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center  is gearing up for its 15th year of participation, bringing back old favorites such as The Magic Planet and the rain gage game. The Magic Planet is essentially an …

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Dr. Jingfeng Huang

Dr. Jingfeng Huang is an Assistant Research Scientist at CMNS-Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000 with his Bachelor of Environmental Science and Engineering and a second Bachelor of Enterprise Management. He received his MPhil degree at The University of Hong Kong Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China in 2002. He continued his PhD study on Remote Sensing at The University of Manchester, Manchester, United

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Dr. Xiaolei Zou

With over 115 published papers and nearly 20 years of teaching experience under her belt, Dr. Xiaolei Zou left a tenured teaching position at Florida State University (FSU) to join ESSIC.

Zou first worked for FSU in 1989, where she helped the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) on developing a 4D-Var data assimilation system, a model that more precisely predicts forecasts.

She later joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to develop a 4D-Var system

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Lau study links Hadley Circulation to extensive droughts

A new study published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides a link to COâ‚‚ warming with broadening areas of droughts. In his paper, lead author Dr. William K. M. Lau, a University of Maryland senior research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), examined changes in the Hadley Circulation (HC), the tropical atmospheric circulation cell closest to the equator. Lau explained he was originally interested in the …

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