Month: February 2018

ESSIC hosts three science meetings in one week

February 8, 2018

ESSIC hosted three meetings at the end of January: NASA-ESA Snow On Sea Ice (NESOSI), Program on Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) and Operation IceBridge (OIB). The first Annual NESOSI meeting was held at ESSIC on Jan. 23. Both NASA and ESA collect snow on sea ice measurements and work to produce an accurate Arctic-wide snow pack for obtaining Arctic sea ice thickness and volume. The main goal of this meeting was to share progress on modeling snow on sea ice …

Global Precipitation—2017 Anomalies, La Nina, Trends

February 5, 2018

By: Robert Adler

Written by: Robert Adler, Guojun Gu, and Jian-Jian Wang

ESSIC scientists are involved in monitoring and analyzing precipitation across the entire globe, including using both satellite and conventional surface measurements to provide an integrated monthly analysis as part of an international effort called the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP). This effort is important to understand the climatology and variations of precipitation both regionally and globally

NESDIS Water Team holds workshop

February 2, 2018

The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Water Team, which supports the NOAA Water Initiative (NWI), held a planning workshop on Jan. 30 in College Park. ESSIC assistant research scientist Naiyu Wang was a participant, as were NOAA CoRP/SCSB researchers and ESSIC visiting scientists Christopher Brown, Ralph Ferraro, Huan Meng, and Thomas Smith….

Month: February 2018

ESSIC hosts three science meetings in one week

Global Precipitation—2017 Anomalies, La Nina, Trends

NESDIS Water Team holds workshop

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