More than a trillion new measurements of the Earth’s surface height are now available to the public as the first results of ICESat-2, a mission devoted to measuring the changing height of Earth’s ice.
ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Professor Thomas Wild recently released software to the public that has been used by river basin stakeholders in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam for infrastructure planning in the Mekong River Basin. The software, SedSim, is an open-source model for simulating water and sediment flows as well as hydropower production in networks of reservoirs and river channels. The software enables water resources systems analysts and planners to explore alternative system …
This story was published by the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. UMD geologist contributes to analysis that suggests current climate models can accurately predict climate warming several decades into the future A new reconstruction of global average surface temperature change over the past 2,000 years has identified the main causes for decade-scale climate changes. The analysis suggests that Earth’s current warming rate, caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, is …
Earlier this month, Geophysical Research Letters published an article co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Yalei You and Faculty Specialist Jun Dong as well as Visiting Research Scientist Huan Meng and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky. Titled “Time‐Lag Correlation Between Passive Microwave Measurements and Surface Precipitation and Its Impact on Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation”, the study showed a time lag between satellite radiometer-retrieved …
Last week, ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferraro gave a talk titled “Satellite Hydrological Products and their Utility in the Alaska Region”. Over 50 participants listened in on the remote presentations. Passive microwave sensors on low earth orbiting satellites have the ability to monitor several parameters associated with the Earth’s hydrological cycle–falling precipitation, snow and ice parameters, soil moisture, etc. These observations are …
UMD geologist contributes to analysis that suggests current climate models can accurately predict climate warming several decades into the future
ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Professor Thomas Wild recently earned an award with the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a proposal titled “INFEWS/T1: Decision-Driven Advances in Integrated Assessment Modeling of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus”. The award will provide $2.5M of funding for five years. This research project will develop a new, integrated analytical approach that considers the interconnections among food, energy, and water systems to improve regional food-energy-water …
ESSIC / CISESS Scientists Xiaolei Zou and Xiaxu Tian have put their expertise on striping noise and applied it to one of the key JPSS instruments, Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS). Their new technique using symmetric filters is described in their new article in the July 2019 issue of the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. During each ATMS scanning cycle, the antenna first scans the Earth scene, then cold space, and finally the blackbody warm target to record the …
There is no doubt that Earth is getting warmer. At the same time, many locations experience dramatic weather and climate variations every year. Heat waves, intense
There is no doubt that Earth is getting warmer. At the same time, many locations experience dramatic weather and climate variations every year. Heat waves, intense cold outbreaks, threatening droughts, floods, and destructive tropical storms are common in the daily news. These climate variations are taking place against the background of overall climate change, but the distinction between the two can be challenging to explain. What factors are responsible for these variations and how do we …
