Impact of Sea Surface Salinity Assimilation on Coupled Forecasts in the Tropical Pacific
January 14, 2012
Researchers: E.C. Hackert, J. Ballabrera-Poy, A.J. Busalacchi, R.H. Zhang, and R. Murtugudde
Category: Archive
Murtugudde sustains work with Leopold Leadership Program and student program in India
January 11, 2012
Raghu Murtugudde is already accomplished in the field of sustainable water management and agriculture, but this past year, he added a few more achievements to his record after he was selected as a 2011 Leopold Leadership Fellow and lead a student program in India that sought to teach the basics of sustainability while looking at life and climate in the country. Murtugudde explained part of the reason he was chosen for the fellowship in the first place had to do with the work that he has done …
ESSIC Information Technology Quarterly, September 2011
January 11, 2012
Volume 1 / Issue 2
Issue II of the newsletter containing helpful tips regarding the information technology infrastructure at ESSIC.
– Verizon Port Blocking
– Matlab Training
– New Dell Tablet PC
– Complex Pagination in MS Word
– New ESSIC Multi-Function Color Copier
ESSIC’s Busalacchi appointed Chair of Council on the Environment
January 10, 2012
On November 14, the University of Maryland announced the creation of the Council on the Environment, and named Director of ESSIC, Antonio Busalacchi, as the council chair. In a memo sent by Provost Ann Wylie and Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea to Deans, Directors and Department Chairs at the University of Maryland, they noted that, “The Council on the Environment will serve as an advisory group on research, education, outreach, and economic development related to the …
Land Surface Characterization for GPM-Era Algorithms
January 10, 2012
Researchers: Ralph Ferraro, Cecilia Hernandez, Nai-Yu Wang (with significant contributions from the 20+ members of the PMM LSWG)
One of our focus areas during the past year was to complete an emissivity intercomparison study under the auspices of the Land Surface Characterization Working Group (LSWG) which supports the activities of several algorithm teams. Accurate emissivity estimates are needed to advance the current state of precipitation retrievals over land.
Severe Storm Identification with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)
January 10, 2012
Researchers: Ralph Ferraro, Chi Quinn, and Daniel Cecil
Previous work by Cecil (2009) and Cecil and Blankenship (2011) found a strong correlation between passive microwave measurements at 37 and 85 GHz and hail events over land; these studies used measurements from the TMI and AMSR-E sensors. They established climatologies of hail that appeared to agree well with round based data.
The physical basis is that microwave energy is scattered by ice particles, thus greatly reducing the measurement brightness temperature (TB); “Mie”
The PAGES Ocean2k project
January 10, 2012
By: Michael Evans
Last summer, following the International Quaternary Association quadrennial meeting in Bern, Switzerland, I found myself a guest at a meeting of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) 2000-year (2K) Network. This group is charged with evaluating patterns and mechanisms of climate change, with foci on 8 terrestrial regions. Why, I asked, wasn’t the global ocean represented in the 2K network? Well, as it turned out, the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) had asked the exact same question, and the
ESSIC Brochure
January 9, 2012
An Overview of the University of Maryland Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, including the Center’s main research themes and briefs on the Chesapeake Bay Forecasting System (CBFS) and Climate Information: Responding to User Needs (CIRUN).
