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Students and faculty are one step closer to being able to observe climate change negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, after the U.N. Framework approved this university to become an observer organization this month. The convention started in 1992 as a way for countries to discuss global temperature increases and the effects of climate change. As an observing member, the university will be able to send researchers to watch environmental policy changes …

Chris Kidd gave an invited presentation “Status of Satellite-based Global Precipitation” at the 11th International Precipitation Conference, July 1-3, in Ede-Wageningen in The Netherlands….

Li-Chuan Chen was selected as the vice chair, Probabilistic Approaches Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE)/Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) during the 2013 EWRI Congress in Cincinnati, OH. The Committee is a standing technical committee of ASCE EWRI aimed at promoting probabilistic approaches for water resources research and applications….

ESSIC Director and ConE Chair Professor Antonio Busalacchi presented on the correlation between wine production and climate change during a special late-July seminar at the UMD Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). In his presentation, entitled “Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture,” Busalacchi described the implications of climate change on the major wine-producing areas of the world.     Busalacchi presented the talk to another …

Daniel Smith, a SESYNC summer student interning with ESSIC/AOSC Professor, Raghu Murtugudde, will conclude his summer-long research project in early August with a presentation entitled, “Climate Change Communication: Understanding how Environmental/Climate Researchers Think About and Communicate Climate Change.” Smith will discuss the results of a survey he conducted on how researchers communicate information to the general public. Smith, a rising University of Maryland Sophomore and an …

By: Jingfeng Huang

Atmospheric particles, also called aerosols, are strongly related to air pollution, human health, weather forecast, climate change, and even military deployment. Continuing the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) heritage, the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) provides both the operational and scientific data user communities new enhanced capability in monitoring global aerosol activities.

The Suomi National

By: Antonio Busalacchi

In the not too distant future, your favorite style of French wine may not come from its namesake region, or even from France at all. Climate change is altering growing conditions in wine-producing regions, and in coming decades it will change the wines produced in these regions — in some cases shifting northward the growth of grape varieties long associated with regions further south.

Climate change will produce winners and losers among wine-growing regions, and for every region it will

A recent study in the Institute of Physics’ publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters estimated that outdoor pollution caused by human activity attributes to over 2 million deaths each year. According to ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Dr. Hongbin Yu, fine particle matter (PM2.5) in pollution can damage the body because of its ability to deeply penetrate the human respiratory system. When these particles invade the lungs, they can eventually cause cancer and respiratory diseases …