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ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently authored a piece in The Hindu Business Line titled “Balancing Food Demand and Climate Goals”. The piece is in response to a recent Oxford study suggesting that reducing meat consumption could curb carbon emissions, as animal products demand disproportionately high natural resources. Murtugudde insists that cultural practices be kept in mind when considering this shift in diet, and that agricultural research should aim at sustainable and …

A recent study in Science Advances led by The Nature Conservancy and 21 institutional partners, determined that restoring lands and coastal wetlands could have a much bigger role in reducing global climate change than previously thought.  ESSIC associate research professor Ariana Sutton-Grier is a co-author. The report noted that by adjusting 21 natural management practices to increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse emissions, nature’s contribution could equal 21% of the nation’s …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist Hu Wang and ESSIC / CICS-MD post-doctoral associate John Yang recently published an article in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing titled “Radiometry Calibration With High-Resolution Profiles of GPM: Application to ATMS 183-GHz Water Vapor Channels and Comparison Against Reanalysis Profiles”. The study compares atmospheric water vapor profiles between satellite and reanalysis using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Research Professor Xiaolei Zou was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing for her article “Striping Noise Mitigation for Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager Observations”. The paper concerns the conical-scanning Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), a passive microwave sensor that monitors global precipitation from the TRMM satellite.  The TMI has nine channels, all of which include a clear …

A recent AP News press release featured ESSIC Professor Ross Salawitch for his recent United Nations report, “Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018”. The report states that Earth’s ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants.  AP News details the history of the infamous “ozone hole”, asking Salawitch how this healing will affect climate change. Salawitch reports that the ozone hole has actually shielded Antarctica from some of the …