Month: September 2017

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Michael Peterson created an animation loop of Hurricane Harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on August 25-26, 2017.  Peterson combined infrared imagery from GOES-16’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) as well as imagery from the satellite's Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), which observes total lightning (both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground) day and night across the Western Hemisphere.  The loop received considerable …

AOSC professor and former ESSIC Director Antonio Busalacchi was the featured speaker at the most recent NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Maniac lecture series. The talks provide insight into what motivates successful people and the obstacles they've overcome to realize their career goals. Busalacchi's tongue-and-cheek talk title of "From Here to Boulder: With Apologies to Burt Lancaster," discusses his early science interests and education, as well as a career path which …

A new article in a five-part op-ed series authored by ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was recently published by online media outlet thethirdpole.net.  Titled “Protecting mangroves and fish stocks from dams and deforestation," the latest installment discusses better management of fish stocks and coastal vulnerabilities to ensure that nature's checks and balances are maintained….

ESSIC Deputy Director Phillip Arkin is mentioned in a recent Scientific American story titled, “Stronger Storms Could Flood Fish with Pollution.” The study suggests that if global greenhouse gas emissions remain steady, more frequent and heavier rains will wash about one-fifth more nitrogen into waterways by the end of the century.  Arkin noted that although precipitation remains one of the most difficult aspects of climate change to predict, the researchers seem to have …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Ross Salawitch is a review editor for the upcoming Climate Science Special Report that is part of the National Climate Assessment. As a review editor, Salawitch was responsible for assuring the scientific accuracy and clarity of the report drafted by scientists from 13 federal agencies. (Salawitch is credited for his role on the front page of the report.) The final "leaked" draft of the report was recently published in the New York Times.  …

ESSIC / AOSC professor and Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) Suman Nigam was an invited speaker at the JSF Distinguished Lecture Series held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.  The talk titled "Seasonality over North America and Africa: "Insights and Impacts,"  addressed the significance of 20th century surface air temperature (SAT) trends and how these signals differ both seasonally and continentally.   Nigam's talk was introduced by …