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.

Figure: S-NPP VIIRS normalized SD F-factors from M1 to M4. These short-wavelength bands showed stable responses over ten years.

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).

Figure: The dotted line indicates model domain boundaries used for this study, which are plotted alongside (solid black lines) land boundaries. For reference, (red lines) contours of modeled surface pressure are plotted every 5 hPa along with locations of measurements at a single time (00 UTC8 September 2017). The red hatched region indicates the domain over which verifications were performed.

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.

Figure: Snapshot of (Left panel) Dr. Zhang’s lightning observation video; (Right panel) Dr. Arulraj’s research results presented at the 2022 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium.

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.

Stormy skies spell trouble afoot for the citizens of College Park.

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.

Sections of beam attenuation (cp) from the Bering Strait via North Pole to Norway with contours of (a) salinity, (b) seawater temperature, °C, and (c) fluorescence-based Chl-a, μg 1 −1. Blue lines above the sections schematically represent the sea surface ice condition: dashed line indicates the area along which ice cover increased from 20% to 80%, bold blue line represents area covered by >80% ice, light-blue line indicates ice-covered area, no line represents relatively ice-free areas. The cruise map in the top panel indicates the stations along orange lines used in this section.

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.

Time series of the noise of 183±1 and ±3 GHz with the fixed and adaptive window. There is a significant noise reduction with the adaptive window as much as over 50%

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.

The Dutch delegation meet in the ESSIC conference room.

Dutch Delegation Visits ESSIC

June 28, 2022

On June 21, ESSIC hosted a delegation from the Dutch Space Innovation Mission, a consortium of government, academic, and industry sectors organized by the Netherlands Space Office. The meeting was coordinated by the University of Maryland Office of International Affairs and the Netherlands Embassy. The delegation consists of directors, lead engineers and business developers of the Dutch space sector focusing on new space and upstream high-tech components and equipment, knowledge institutes and representatives of the Netherlands Space Office including the director. For this visit, they sought to meet with technology specialists and high-level representatives in the US space ecosystem.

Author: Cazzy Medley

Congratulations to Dr. Li, Distinguished University Professor

S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibrations over 10 Years in Reflective Solar Bands (RSB)

Implications of Multivariate Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation for Multiscale Weather Prediction

ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Attended the 2022 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium

Congratulations to Julie Nicely, 2022 Robert H. Goddard Awardee!

ESSIC Scientist Explains the Science Behind College Park’s Severe Storm

ESSIC Research Associate Named Editor of Earth System Science Data

Distribution, Sources, and Dynamics of Particulate Matter Along Trans-Arctic Sections

An Adaptive Calibration Window for Noise Reduction of Satellite Microwave Radiometers

Dutch Delegation Visits ESSIC

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