Author: Cazzy Medley

Jing Wei pictured with his advisor, Zhanqing Li.

Jing Wei is 2022 AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section James R. Holton Award Recipient

September 7, 2022

Jing Wei was announced as American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2022 Atmospheric Sciences Section James R. Holton Award recipient. The James R. Holton Award is awarded usually to one young scientist across all disciplines of atmospheric sciences to acknowledge their outstanding scientific research and accomplishments at an early stage of career within three years of receiving Ph.D. Wei is the youngest winner of this award since its establishment in 2004 with a little over one year after Ph.D.

The Role of Satellite Information in Forecasting, Modeling, and Mapping the 2019 Mozambique Flood

August 26, 2022

ESSIC/CISESS scientists Robert Adler, Guojun Gu, and Huan Wu have a new article in Journal of Flood Risk Management that examines results from the UMD/ESSIC Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) and various remote-sensing-based flood products in the context of the major 2019 flood in Mozambique.

Ernesto Hugo Berbery Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

August 26, 2022

ESSIC Research Professor & CISESS Deputy Director Ernesto Hugo Berbery has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award, a prestigious honor bestowed by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

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.

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.

Author: Cazzy Medley

Jing Wei is 2022 AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section James R. Holton Award Recipient

The Role of Satellite Information in Forecasting, Modeling, and Mapping the 2019 Mozambique Flood

Ernesto Hugo Berbery Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

George Huffman Receives 2022 William Nordberg Memorial Award

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

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