ESSIC research professor Hugo Berbery and doctoral student Katherine Lukens have a new publication that will be released in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Climate. The research details the role of strong storm tracks on winter weather. Lukens used the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) to examine this relationship. She found that these strong-storm track winter storms represent about 16 percent of all winter storms in North America but 30 to 40 percent of winter precipitation.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
