Year: 2019

Gassó to Teach Remote Sensing on Ocean Research Cruise

March 7, 2019

ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Santiago Gassó recently accepted an invitation to participate in the South to North Atlantic Transect (SoNoAT) cruise onboard the Polarstern, a German research vessel, as a part of a “Floating Summer School”. The cruise will depart in the summer from Pt. Stanley in the Falkland Islands and end in Bremerhaven, Germany after five weeks. On the cruise, 50 graduate students from all over the world will be taught the principles of oceanography, climate, and …

McNally and Mladenova Write on Link Between Earth Observations and Water-Food Nexus

March 7, 2019

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientists Amy McNally and Iliana E. Mladenova recently co-authored a paper titled “Hydrologic and Agricultural Earth Observations and Modeling for the Water-Food Nexus” in Frontiers: in Environmental Science. The paper highlights the inextricable link between sustainable access to water and food and basic human rights. The authors present case studies of how Earth observations are being used in applications at the nexus of water and food security: crop …

Can Planting Trees Mitigate Global Warming? Murtugudde Questions in Recent Article

March 1, 2019

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article in Tech2 titled, “The Trouble with Relying on Trees as Carbon Sink to Do Our Global Warming Bidding”. In the piece, Murtugudde tackles the commonly-held notion that forests are a net ‘sink’ of carbon and a major player in mitigating global warming. He writes that though trees certainly help capture carbon, they also emit a number of emit a number of Volatile Organic Carbon compounds (VOCs). One VOC, isoprene, can …

Vogel’s Water Quality Research Results Presented to Maryland State Legislature

February 26, 2019

Recently, satellite water quality research results from Ron Vogel, ESSIC / CICS Senior Faculty Specialist, were presented to the Maryland State Legislature’s House Subcommittee on the Environment and Transportation. The House Subcommittee has been preparing to write legislation on designating oyster sanctuaries and asked NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) to brief the Subcommittee on NOAA’s and UMD’s research and monitoring results on the benefits of oyster restoration …

Yin, Liu Develop Optimally Blended Drought Index

February 22, 2019

ESSIC/CICS Assistant Research Scientists Jifu Yin and Jicheng Liu have a recent article published in Water Resources Research titled “A Method for Objectively Integrating Soil Moisture Satellite Observations and Model Simulations Toward a Blended Drought Index”. The researchers write about the development of a method to objectively integrate widely available satellite soil moisture retrievals into a single accurate and reliable optimally blended drought index (BDI). Compared to official …

FYI – NOAA Open House 2019

February 14, 2019

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Yatheendradas, Liu’s Assimilation Efficiency article in EOS Research Spotlight

February 7, 2019

ESSIC Assistant Research Engineer Soni Yatheendradas and ESSIC/CICS-MD Assistant Research Scientist Jicheng Liu recently collaborated on a study titled “The Efficiency of Data Assimilation” published in the EOS Journal Water Resources Research. In the piece, the authors offer a framework to quantify information loss from data assimilation through measuring information in models, observations, and evaluation data. The piece was highlighted in a recent EOS Research Spotlight that details …

Link Between Extreme Rainfall Events and Floods Is Tenuous, Writes Murtugudde

February 7, 2019

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article in The Hindu Business Line titled “Understanding link between extreme rainfall events and floods”. In the piece, Murtugudde writes that contrary to popular belief, there is little connection between extreme rainfall events and rising incidence of floods in India. Instead, factors like soil moisture, thunderstorm size, warm temperatures, water storage capacity of tree canopies, and tree leaf wettability can all affect …

Decline of Arctic Sea Ice Cover Continues, Writes Farrell in NOAA Arctic Report Card

February 7, 2019

Last December, NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card, a reflection of the past year’s land, ice, and ocean observations. Sinead Farrell, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Scientist, co-authored a chapter on Sea Ice alongside international colleagues. The chapter discussed the continuing decline of Arctic sea ice cover. In 2018, the summer maximum extent was the sixth lowest and the winter minimum extent was the second lowest in satellite record. Of particular interest to the …

Farrell Quoted on Synthetic Aperture Radar in Nature

February 7, 2019

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was quoted in a recent article published in Nature titled “Arctic scientists iced out by US–India radar mission”. The story discusses NISAR, an upcoming NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) radar mission that will study changing polar ice. Recently, NISAR mission managers have made the decision to focus the satellite’s observations on Antarctica, removing the possibility of monitoring Arctic sea ice …

Year: 2019

Gassó to Teach Remote Sensing on Ocean Research Cruise

McNally and Mladenova Write on Link Between Earth Observations and Water-Food Nexus

Can Planting Trees Mitigate Global Warming? Murtugudde Questions in Recent Article

Vogel’s Water Quality Research Results Presented to Maryland State Legislature

Yin, Liu Develop Optimally Blended Drought Index

FYI – NOAA Open House 2019

Yatheendradas, Liu’s Assimilation Efficiency article in EOS Research Spotlight

Link Between Extreme Rainfall Events and Floods Is Tenuous, Writes Murtugudde

Decline of Arctic Sea Ice Cover Continues, Writes Farrell in NOAA Arctic Report Card

Farrell Quoted on Synthetic Aperture Radar in Nature

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