Month: December 2015

The ESSIC Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at UMD (CICS-MD) held its 4th Annual Science Meeting last Monday and Tuesday, November 23 & 24 in College Park, MD. Over 100 people participated in this year's event with over 40 talks on NOAA Research Priorities, JPSS and GOES-R satellites, Data Assimilation,        Calibration/Validation, Data Fusion and Algorithm Development, and Earth System Monitoring from Satellites. There was also a Poster …

ESSIC researcher Yudong Tian is the lead author of two recently accepted papers for publication.  The first entitled, “Performance Metrics, Error Modeling, and Uncertainty Quantification” was an early online publication in the AMS journal Monthly Weather Review.   The second paper entitled, “An examination of methods for estimating land surface microwave emissivity,” was published in the November 16 issue of AGU’s Journal of Geophysical…

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Melissa Kenney, a University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center assistant research professor, was named a 2016-17 Public Engagement Fellow of the Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science, part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kenney studies climate decision support systems and indicators to increase the use of scientific information in adaptation decisions and mitigation policies. She will attend a

University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) Director, Professor Antonio Busalacchi, was invited to Capitol Hill last month to educate congressional and National Governors Association staffers about El Niño, the recurring Pacific Ocean temperature anomaly whose intensity this winter is on course to set new records. An El Niño occurs when Pacific trade winds slacken, allowing warm water from the Western Pacific to shift east toward South …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtuddue had a recent Op-ed article published in India's Fundamatics entitled, "Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink."  The post discussed India's on-going difficulties with water usage, management, and conservation and the country's need to begin managing it as an interconnected resource with food, energy, and health.  Fundmatics is a quarterly (Jan, April, July and Oct) print (Magazine) and online (E-zine) publication …