Charon Birkett gave two live webinars this month as part of the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program. The audiences were primarily from Asia and South America and included local agency officials, water resources managers, and students. The topic of interest was remote sensing of surface waters. The webinars were given with the aim of outreach, education and capacity building….
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was co-author of a paper on current Arctic sea ice thickness conditions, published in Geophysical Research Letters, November 19. The study examines the conditions of sea ice in the western Arctic in March 2009-2013, using new data collected by NASA's IceBridge airborne mission. Richter-Menge, J. A., and S. L. Farrell (2013), Arctic sea ice conditions in spring 2009–2013 prior to melt, Geophys. Res. …
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was again selected as a science team member for the NASA Operation IceBridge mission. The selection marks Farrell’s second 3-year term as a mission team member. NASA’s Operation IceBridge images Earth’s polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system….
A new journal article entitled “Spectroscopic measurements of a CO2 absorption line in an open vertical path using an airborne lidar” by ESSIC Researchers Anand Ramanathan, Jianping Mao, Clark Weaver was accepted for publication by Applied Physics Letters (Available for free download at the following: http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/co2sounder/)…
Anand Ramanathan gave an invited talk titled “Measuring atmospheric CO2 concentrations using lidar remote sensing” as part of the”Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics Joint Seminar Series” at the University of Maryland, College Park….
UMD CICS Executive Director, Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm was featured in a LiveScience Op-ed blog post entitled, "How People and Climate Interact is Still a Mystery." The Op-ed was adapted from an earlier post on Miralles-Wilhelm's own "Climtate Today" blog-page entitled, "Population and Climate Change: Thanks to my friend Agustín!" The reoccuring "Climate Today" blog page, which features …
By: Patrick C. Meyers
Infrared imagery of Super Typhoon Haiyan shows stunning symmetry (link: CIMSS Satellite Blog). Haiyan is categorized as an annular tropical cyclone, given its “donut” shape. Despite the uniform appearance from infrared imagery, observations from passive microwave sensors paint a more asymmetrical picture (inset). Microwave sensors, such as the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), are able to see through the upper cloud deck and identify regions of precipitation based
Last year, atmospheric and oceanic sciences doctoral student Rebekah Esmaili attended a meeting of the International Precipitation Working Group in Brazil, where she was struck by how limited access to data affects scientists in regions outside the U.S. When Esmaili heard through a Council on the Environment email to her department that Earthzine — an online resource for news about environmental policy and technology — was holding a student essay contest on …
ESSIC / AOSC researcher and University of Maryland professor Ross Salawitch is currently preparing for his role as a Co-PI of a project that will measure the composition of air in the tropical western Pacific (TWP) region of the world. Known as CONTRAST or “CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics,” the mission will consist of a series of airborne observations conducted from Guam during January and February of 2014. Salawitch is among …
The NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) held its first Applications Workshop on November 12-13th, 2013 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland. The goal of the two-day event was to broaden the discussion on a range of current and future applications of satellite data to science and societal applications and provide feedback to the TRMM and GPM teams. ESSIC Senior Research Scientist Bob …
