Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans
January 13, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Alexey Mishonov is co-author on a new paper in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences titled “Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans”.
Author: Cazzy Medley
Evaluation of Snowfall Retrieval Performance of GPM Constellation Radiometers Relative to Spaceborne Radars
January 4, 2023
Several current and former ESSIC/CISESS scientists are co-authors on a new paper in Journal of Hydrometeorology titled “Evaluation of Snowfall Retrieval Performance of GPM Constellation Radiometers Relative to Spaceborne Radars”. Former ESSIC scientist Yalei You was first author on the paper. Current ESSIC/CISESS scientists on the paper are Veljko Petkovic, Lisa Milani, John Yang, and Guojun Gu.
Effects of the Pandemic on Observing the Global Ocean
January 4, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Li-Qing Jiang, Alexander Kozyr, and Alexey Mishonov are co-authors on a new paper in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society titled “Effects of the Pandemic on Observing the Global Ocean”.
ESSIC Hosts Daniel Rosenfeld at Affinity Group Meeting
December 19, 2022
The annual meeting of the ESSIC Aerosol/Cloud Physics/Radiation Affinity Group was held on November 16. It was led by Dr. Zhanqing Li, the group chair.
Enhancing the CRTM to Improve the Assimilation of Microwave Observations
December 19, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Isaac Moradi has a new article from his JPSS PGRR project coming out in the December 27th issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Progress on the Snowfall Rate Product and its New Website
December 19, 2022
The Snowfall Rate (SFR) team at STAR and ESSIC/CISESS, including Huan Meng, Yongzhen Fan, and Jun Dong, has made some notable progress recently that significantly enhances the product and its accessibility to users.
NCEI Employee Awards for CISESS Scientists
December 19, 2022
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Employee Awards Ceremony was held on December 6th.
Daile Zhang Speaks at the International Conference on Lightning Protection
December 19, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang is a coauthor of a presentation that was given at the 36th International Conference on Lightning Protection in Cape Town, South Africa during October 2-7, 2022. She has published a conference paper, which was presented by the co-author Ron Holle, a former meteorologist for Vaisala as well as NOAA. The paper is titled “The Epidemiology of Lightning in Mainland China – A Review of Two Datasets from the 1950s to 2018.”
“Unseen Heroes” Awards for the S-NPP CDP Reset Recovery Team
December 19, 2022
On December 6, the NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program Office announced that the “Unseen Heroes” award would go to the Central Data Processor (CDP) Reset Recovery Team. It was given “in recognition of efforts to restore the Suomi-National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite instruments after a central data processor reset.” This was a major effort in collaboration between the JPSS SDR teams and OSPO to recover the SNPP satellite after the instrument entered “Sun-pointing mode,” leading all of the onboard JPSS instruments to go offline and require restarting and revalidation. The CISESS and Consortium Scientist awardees were:
Mishonov Studies Nepheloid Layers in the Gulf of Mexico
November 30, 2022
Alexey Mishonov, ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist and NOAA Affiliate, has a new article in Marine Geology about the nepheloid layers in the deep Gulf of Mexico.