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Thursday, 16 August 2018

A team of University of Maryland (UMD) researchers co-led by Melissa Kenney and Mike Gerst from UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland, has received a $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to explore and improve how infrastructure operators make recovery decisions in the wake of disasters.

The three-year award is part of NSF’s Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes

Ralph Ferraro* and ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientist Nai-Yu Wang are co-authors of a recent in press article at the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.  The piece highlights the recent work of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG), an international forum used to address the issues and challenges of satellite-based quantitative precipitation retrievals and products. *Ralph R. Ferraro is the Chief of the NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Climate Studies Branch (collocated with …

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 …