Month: June 2018

An article by ESSIC / CICS-MD scientist Jieshun Zhu and CICS-MD consortium scientist James Kinter III was accepted on June 13 for publication in the journal Climate Dynamics. It describes the effects of the El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Asian Summer Monsoon predictions. Zhu and Kinter are both at the National Weather Service, where Zhu is working to improve seasonal forecasts and Kinter is striving to extend weather predictions to reliable Week-3 and Week-4 forecasts. …

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde is featured in a recent video interview with Tech2, an India-based science and technology news outlet. The nearly 16-minute segment conducted by editor in chief Ankit Vengurlekar is titled “How are the Monsoons predicted in India?”…

ESSIC / CICS-MD associate research scientist Sinéad Farrell is the co-author of a new study in Nature evaluating Antarctica’s changing ice structure. Farrell, in a collaboration with scientists from the University of Leeds and the University of California, San Diego, looked at satellite data to determine how changes in the ice sheet are raising the sea level. The article was published in a special Antarctica issue of Nature. View the article here and a university press …

ESSIC research professor Xiaolei Zou has a new article published with IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. It focuses on the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the GOES-R/GOES-16 satellite launched in November 2016 and how its technology improves aspects of 24-hour forecasts, such as for low rain amounts….