Author: Cazzy Medley

Figure: Schematic diagram showing the primary physical processes that are associated the interactions between the increased aerosol loading over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and South Asian monsoon (left part with blue arrows) and East and East Asian monsoon (right part with green arrows) in June. SCS is the abbreviation for South China Sea.

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.

No, rubber doesn't stop lightning, and your cell phones doesn't attract bolts from the blue. These are just some of the correctives a UMD expert applies to lightning safety myths. Illustrations by Valerie Morgan

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”.

Figure: GPROF AMSR2 Rainfall estimates during hurricane Mawar landfall in Guam on May 24th 2023. (Top) rainfall rate; (bottom) probability of precipitation.

Providing Observations When Radars Aren’t Available

June 9, 2023

AMSR2 Precipitation Product During Mawar’s Landfall in Guam

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite has been seeing a lot of active winter weather on Feb. 21 from its fixed position over the eastern U.S. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

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”.

Figure 3. Collaborative development, testing, review, and release workflow, highlighting the role of the community, the JCSDA CRTM team, and operational partners in the development and evaluation of contributions to the CRTM.

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).

Caption: Season-averaged soil moisture (m3/m3) for GLDAS, CCI and SMOPS over the 2015- 2018 period with left and right columns for cold (January-April) and warm season (May- September), respectively.

Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-MP Model Skills

May 8, 2023

Jifu Yin, Ralph Ferraro, and Jicheng Liu are authors on a new paper in Journal of Hydrology
titled “Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-
MP Model Skills”.

Zhanqing Li. Image credit: John T. Consoli/Faye Levine/University of Maryland. Effects by Nuwan Paditha (Click image to download hi-res version)

Zhanqing Li Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

May 5, 2023

Distinguished University Professor (DUP) Zhanqing Li has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award, a prestigious honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to support Dr. Li’s month-long visit of the Universite de Lille in Lille, France, where he will be collaborating on studies concerning air pollution and interactions with global climate changes by means of remote sensing and AI techniques.

Author: Cazzy Medley

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

Expert Strikes Down Myths on Avoiding Lightning Strikes

Building & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Region & Beyond

Dorothy Hall Awarded Life Member of Eastern Snow Conference

Providing Observations When Radars Aren’t Available

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

ESSIC Hosts Python Workshop

Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-MP Model Skills

Zhanqing Li Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

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