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ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Ping Zhang was an invited keynote presenter at a recent collaborative workshop hosted by the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) and the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). The event entitled, "2015 Tree Summit: Greening the District through Collaboration," was held in late December at the American University. Peng's talk focused on her recently published work, "Impact of Urbanization on US Surface Climate." The …

ESSIC researcher Anand K. Ramanathan attended the American Geophysical Union 2015 Fall Meeting and presented the latest results from the NASA Goddard CO2 Sounder lidar instrument flown in the NASA ASCENDS 2014 field campaign.  The results included the first comparisons of airborne lidar CO2 measurements with global CO2 models. Lidar measured spatial gradients of carbon dioxide and water vapor (an additional capability of the instrument) were found to agree well with model predictions. …

The ESSIC Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at UMD (CICS-MD) held its 4th Annual Science Meeting last Monday and Tuesday, November 23 & 24 in College Park, MD. Over 100 people participated in this year's event with over 40 talks on NOAA Research Priorities, JPSS and GOES-R satellites, Data Assimilation,        Calibration/Validation, Data Fusion and Algorithm Development, and Earth System Monitoring from Satellites. There was also a Poster …

ESSIC researcher Yudong Tian is the lead author of two recently accepted papers for publication.  The first entitled, “Performance Metrics, Error Modeling, and Uncertainty Quantification” was an early online publication in the AMS journal Monthly Weather Review.   The second paper entitled, “An examination of methods for estimating land surface microwave emissivity,” was published in the November 16 issue of AGU’s Journal of Geophysical…

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Melissa Kenney, a University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center assistant research professor, was named a 2016-17 Public Engagement Fellow of the Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science, part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kenney studies climate decision support systems and indicators to increase the use of scientific information in adaptation decisions and mitigation policies. She will attend a