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On June 2, a severe storm threatened Rock the South, an outdoor music festival in Cullman, Alabama.  In an effort to avoid delaying or canceling the event, forecasters used technology enabled by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), a satellite-based lightning mapping instrument designed to aid storm predictions.  With the lightning imagery, they could tell that the storm would skirt the festival and the music proceeded as planned. The GLM, a device aboard the GOES-16 satellite, maps …

ESSIC / CICS-MD scientist James Reagan was recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. The article, titled “Water Vapor Transfer and Near-Surface Salinity Contrasts in the North Atlantic Ocean”, is a study of the subtropical-subpolar atmospheric moisture transport in the North Atlantic Ocean.  This study was an effort to examine the freshwater transport between positive and negative Evaporation-Precipitation (E-P) regions in the region. The scientists found a negative …

Ariana Sutton-Grier, an associate research professor at ESSIC, was quoted in a recent Delmarva Now piece about the erosion and flooding going on around Deal Island, Maryland.  She is quoted saying the following: “The community is quite concerned about the fact that additional erosion could lead to really increased flooding in their neighborhoods and on their roads,” said Ariana Sutton-Grier, director of science for the The Nature Conservancy Maryland chapter of the project …

ESSIC / CICS-MD scientist Michael Folmer was the author of a recent post to the Satellite Liaisons Blog that detailed the uncharacteristically far-reaching transport of African dust that reached the central United States. This information was seen by GOES-16, the first of a series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites operated by NASA and NOAA. Folmer writes that the dust was pulled up the East Coast by Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane Chris. These findings are from an ongoing …

On Friday, July 13, ESSIC / CICS-MD hosted dozens of high school students for a presentation on the science at ESSIC and how to prepare for higher education. The students were a part of the CAREERS Weather Camp, a program that aims to expose high school students to atmospheric science and the careers around it.  For two weeks, students participate in hands-on activities, field experiments, seminars, tours of research facilities, and instructional workshops that expand on weather and forecast …