ESSIC assistant research scientist Sheekela Baker-Yeboah has won a NOAA Bronze Medal. The Bronze Medal is the highest honor award granted by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. It recognizes federal employees for superior performance. Baker-Yeboah is part of a team at NESDIS being honored for the early deployment of the NOAA Jason-3 Ground System, avoiding additional cost and reducing risks to operations and forecasting.
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
