Year: 2016
Toxic Algae on Lake Erie Less Prevalent This Year But Still A Problem
Last year the most profound bloom of toxic algae in 100 years took over Lake Erie, which is bounded by both Canada and the U.S. This year, the blooms proved less prevalent, but the overbearing green organisms still worry those who rely on this important water supply. According to EcoWatch, Lake Erie is a water source for about 11 million people. During a scare in 2014, algae closed the drinking water treatment plant in Toledo, Ohio for a period of time due to a high level of algal …
Storms, High Temperatures Lead to Unprecedented Decline in Arctic Sea Ice
The first six months of 2016 brought record-setting declines in Arctic sea ice, leaving polar scientists with the task of investigating the causes of this substantial drop-off. This year’s maximum annual ice extent, measured on March 24, was 431,000 square miles below average and 5,000 square miles below the previous record-low, set in 2015. Globally, the past 14 months have each been the hottest ever recorded. In the Arctic, however, temperatures have been increasing at more than …
Wang Co-Authors Paper Accepted By Journal of Geophysical Research
ESSIC Visiting Research Scientist and CICS-MD researcher Zhankun Wang co-authored a paper that has been accepted by the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR). The paper is titled “Asymmetric oceanic response to a hurricane: Deepwater observations during hurricane Isaac.” Through an analysis of sub-inertial bands, the paper reveals that “spatial and temporal scales are shorter and less persistent than the near-inertial variance.” According to the research, these scales …
Murtugudde Quoted in Article on Rainfall and Global Warming
In an article for The Hindu, ESSIC/AOSC professor Raghu Murtugudde is quoted in reference to a study conducted by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay. The study found that rainfall in India is not necessarily associated with increased summer temperatures due to global warming. Murtugudde attests that scientists are not attempting to suggest that climate change is not important, but that “the novel results [of the studies] indicate that the local warming is …
Kenney Participates in AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting
ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights, which took place on July 25 and 26. Kenney moderated the first plenary session on actionable climate science for human rights. According to the AAAS website, this session was a way for scientists and policy makers to discuss their current work as well as a means for them to talk …
NCAS Weather Camp Comes To ESSIC For Fourth Annual Visit
Students participating in Howard University’s NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) CAREERS Weather Camp came to ESSIC on July 20 as part of their fourth annual visit to the center. The NCAS CAREERS Weather Camp is a two week program that gives high school students with interests in atmospheric, environmental or applied physical sciences the ability to gain knowledge about the fields and hear from working scientists. Students came from all over the U.S., some traveling from …
connect to FTPserver with windows
How To Connect To An FTP Server Open Windows Explorer or File Explorer and, in the address bar, type ftp:// followed by the IP Address of the FTP server. Here’s one dummy example of how it should look like: ftp://192.168.2.1. Of course, you can use its domain name as well, if you know it. That looks something like this: ftp.example.com You are then asked to fill in details such as the username and password that will be used to connect to the FTP server. Type the …
Jiang Helps Publish New Ocean Acidification e-Lecture
A team of researchers including Dr. Liqing Jiang, an assistant research engineer at the University of Maryland (UMD) Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), recently published an e-Lecture entitled “How to Document – Ocean Acidification Data.” The e-Lecture, which can be found on the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ALSO) website, deals with the intricacies of documenting data for the new field of ocean …
NCEI Climatology Team Releases Updated Northwest Atlantic Regional Climatology
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) climatology team, which includes ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Alexey Mishonov, recently released an updated version of the Northwest Atlantic Regional Climatology (NARC). The climatology is a detailed reference which, according to the NCEI website, “provide[s] an improved oceanographic foundation and reference for multi-disciplinary studies of The Northwest Atlantic.” The update enabled the climatology to have …
