George Huffman Receives 2022 William Nordberg Memorial Award
August 26, 2022
ESSIC Task Sponsor and former UMD Professor Dr. George Huffman is the newest recipient of the 2022 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science.
Author: Cazzy Medley
Congratulations to Dr. Li, Distinguished University Professor
August 26, 2022
Dr. Zhanqing Li, Professor at ESSIC and University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science is a new recipient of the Distinguished University Professor Award, the highest academic honor that the University of Maryland confers upon a faculty member. Considered a national achievement, this award given to just 7% of tenured faculty honors impact and significant contribution to the nominee’s field, knowledge, profession, and/or practice.
S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibrations over 10 Years in Reflective Solar Bands (RSB)
August 12, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Xi Shao and Wenhui Wang co-published an article in Remote Sensing on July 13, 2022 that describes more than a decade of research on S-NPP VIIRS reflective solar bands (RSBs).
Implications of Multivariate Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation for Multiscale Weather Prediction
August 5, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist and University of Maryland Professor, Dr. Jonathan Poterjoy, has a new article published in the June issue of the Monthly Weather Review on some of the specialized data assimilation he has been working on with AOML and EMC.
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Attended the 2022 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium
August 5, 2022
CISESS sponsored two early career scientists, Drs. Malar Arulraj and Daile Zhang, to attend the 2022 Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Science Symposium, which was held in person on July 25th to 27th at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) of Colorado State University located in Fort Collins, CO.
Congratulations to Julie Nicely, 2022 Robert H. Goddard Awardee!
July 19, 2022
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Julie Nicely was recently awarded the 2022 Robert H. Goddard (RHG) Award for Science. The award is named in honor of Robert Hutchings Goddard, pioneer in the field of rocketry.
ESSIC Scientist Explains the Science Behind College Park’s Severe Storm
July 19, 2022
On Tuesday, July 12, the College Park area was ravaged by three storm complexes fueled by the influx of hot and humid air and powered by strong high-altitude winds. The storms brought down countless trees and caused thousands of people to lose power. ESSIC scientist Will Miller provides some commentary on the storm’s trajectory and intensification.
ESSIC Research Associate Named Editor of Earth System Science Data
June 29, 2022
ESSIC Postdoctoral Associate Jing Wei has been appointed as a new topical Editor (Atmosphere) for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD) of the European Geophysical Union.
Distribution, Sources, and Dynamics of Particulate Matter Along Trans-Arctic Sections
June 28, 2022
Alexey Mishonov, ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist and NOAA Affiliate, has created the first trans-Arctic section of beam attenuation to estimate particle distribution.
An Adaptive Calibration Window for Noise Reduction of Satellite Microwave Radiometers
June 28, 2022
ESSIC scientists John Xun Yang, Yalei You, and Ralph Ferraro are co-authors on a new paper in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that describes a newly developed adaptive window for calibration on microwave sounders at EUMETSAT and NOAA.