Jing Wei Wins Remote Sensing’s 2023 Young Investigator Award
July 14, 2023
ESSIC scientist Jing Wei is the winner of the Remote Sensing 2023 Young Investigator Award.
Author: Cazzy Medley
Improving Soil Moisture Retrieval with AMSR2
July 14, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Jifu Yin is the first author on a two-part series published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on refining the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture retrieval algorithm. The paper’s co-authors include ESSIC scientists Jicheng Liu, Huan Meng and Ralph Ferraro.
Relationship Between the Aerosol Loadings Over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea in the Early Summer and Asian Monsoon Rainfall Anomalies, and the Role of SST Anomalies in the Indian Ocean
July 6, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Yongsheng Zhang recently published a study on the year-by-year
aerosol variations over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and Arabian Sea (AS) in early spring and their
relationship to the Asian summer monsoon rainfall anomalies using satellite-observed aerosol
products.
Expert Strikes Down Myths on Avoiding Lightning Strikes
July 6, 2023
Summer brings to mind sunny days and relaxing vacations, but the season’s dark side makes it one of the busiest times of the year for a University of Maryland “fulminologist”—a scientist specializing in lightning research.
Building & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Region & Beyond
July 6, 2023
In January 2022, ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang won a CISESS Seed Grant to evaluate NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLMs) on the GOES-16 and -17 Satellites and the upgraded Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA) using a network of low-cost and innovative atmospheric electricity and lightning measurement tools to take lightning videos. Recently, the initial Seeds Grant period ended and Zhang reported her results.
Dorothy Hall Awarded Life Member of Eastern Snow Conference
June 15, 2023
Dorothy Hall was awarded Life Member of the Eastern Snow Conference at the 79th meeting in Easton, PA, on June 7th. She also gave the banquet speech entitled “A Brief History of Advances in Satellite Snow-Cover Mapping”.
Providing Observations When Radars Aren’t Available
June 9, 2023
AMSR2 Precipitation Product During Mawar’s Landfall in Guam
Oceanic Responses to the Winter Storm Outbreak of February 2021 in the Gulf of Mexico from In Situ and Satellite Observations
June 9, 2023
Korak Saha and Yongsheng Zhang are co-authors of a new paper in Remote Sensing titled “Oceanic Responses to the Winter Storm Outbreak of February 2021 in the Gulf of Mexico from In Situ and Satellite Observations”.
The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM): Community-Focused Collaborative Model Development Accelerating Research to Operations
June 8, 2023
Isaac Moradi is the co-author of a paper entitled “The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM): Community-Focused Collaborative Model Development Accelerating Research to Operations” published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
ESSIC Hosts Python Workshop
May 23, 2023
Earlier this month, Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) held a virtual workshop on Python hosted by Rebekah Esmaili from Science and Technology Corp (STC).
