CICS-MD Scientists Xi Shao (Astronomy), Bin Zhang (ESSIC), and Yan Bai (Astronomy) were named NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Employees of the Year for STAR’s Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division (SMCD). They shared the award with CICS-MD NOAA Sponsors Changyong Cao, Wenhui Wang, and Shihyan Lee for their work on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band….
With Thanksgiving a now distant memory and the current El Niño event being referred to as the strongest ever recorded, what does Old Man Winter have in-store for the DC-area for the winter of 2015-16, particularly with respect to snowfall? ESSIC’s resident “storm watcher,” Phil Arkin, reports that El Niño winters tend to be feast or famine for area snow lovers. “El Niño winters have been some of the least snowy in the DC area, like 1997-98 …
When writing about Zhanqing Li, the phrase “head in the clouds” becomes high praise. Li, a University of Maryland atmospheric and oceanic science professor and researcher at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), has been delivering insights into the roles of clouds and tiny aerosol particles in the atmosphere for three decades. His recent election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recognized his “seminal …
ESSIC’s Ross J. Salawitch, a professor in the UMD Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, co-authored a study on climate change and atmospheric chemistry that received a mention in the Dec. 3 issue of Nature. “The changing ozone depletion potential of N2O in a future climate” by Laura Revell (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) finds that atmospheric changes could make nitrous oxide twice as destructive to ozone at the end of the 21st century as it was …
Zhanqing Li, a University of Maryland atmospheric and oceanic science professor and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) researcher, was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Nov. 23.
Li and 346 other fellows in the 2015 cohort were chosen “in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership,” according to AAAS. Li, who has been a UMD professor since 2001, has made his mark as
