Year: 2018

ESSIC professor Ross Salawitch served on a committee for the newly released Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space. The report is spearheaded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and provides recommendations to government agencies that work in the Earth system sciences such as NASA and NOAA. Five panels of experts produced the survey. Salawitch served on the "Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial" panel. …

ESSIC faculty specialist Michael Folmer coauthored a new article in Results in Physics called “Utility of CrIS/ATMS profiles to diagnose extratropical transition.”  It looks at the potential for using technology aboard the JPSS-1/NOAA-20 satellite to “anticipate changes in hurricane intensity.” The researchers looked at data from as early as Hurricane Sandy in 2012.  …