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Improving Soil Moisture Retrieval with AMSR2

ESSIC/CISESS scientist Jifu Yin is the first author on a two-part series published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on refining the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture retrieval algorithm. The paper’s co-authors include ESSIC scientists Jicheng Liu, Huan Meng and Ralph Ferraro.

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Figure: Schematic diagram showing the primary physical processes that are associated the interactions between the increased aerosol loading over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and South Asian monsoon (left part with blue arrows) and East and East Asian monsoon (right part with green arrows) in June. SCS is the abbreviation for South China Sea.

Relationship Between the Aerosol Loadings Over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea in the Early Summer and Asian Monsoon Rainfall Anomalies, and the Role of SST Anomalies in the Indian Ocean

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Yongsheng Zhang recently published a study on the year-by-year
aerosol variations over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and Arabian Sea (AS) in early spring and their
relationship to the Asian summer monsoon rainfall anomalies using satellite-observed aerosol
products.

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Building & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Region & Beyond

In January 2022, ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang won a CISESS Seed Grant to evaluate NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLMs) on the GOES-16 and -17 Satellites and the upgraded Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA) using a network of low-cost and innovative atmospheric electricity and lightning measurement tools to take lightning videos. Recently, the initial Seeds Grant period ended and Zhang reported her results.

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A screenshot of Rebekah's lesson

ESSIC Hosts Python Workshop

Earlier this month, Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) held a virtual workshop on Python hosted by Rebekah Esmaili from Science and Technology Corp (STC).

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