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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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.

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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”

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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

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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).

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CICS-MD Circular (January 2012)

January 9, 2012

Volume 1 / Issue 1

Semiannual circular presented to interested scientists, managers and decision makers about significant Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites events, while also providing a glimpse into current research projects.

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