George Huffman Receives 2022 William Nordberg Memorial Award
August 26, 2022
ESSIC Task Sponsor and former UMD Professor Dr. George Huffman is the newest recipient of the 2022 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science.
Category: Highlights
S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibrations over 10 Years in Reflective Solar Bands (RSB)
August 12, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Xi Shao and Wenhui Wang co-published an article in Remote Sensing on July 13, 2022 that describes more than a decade of research on S-NPP VIIRS reflective solar bands (RSBs).
Implications of Multivariate Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation for Multiscale Weather Prediction
August 5, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist and University of Maryland Professor, Dr. Jonathan Poterjoy, has a new article published in the June issue of the Monthly Weather Review on some of the specialized data assimilation he has been working on with AOML and EMC.
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Attended the 2022 NOAA CoRP Science Symposium
August 5, 2022
CISESS sponsored two early career scientists, Drs. Malar Arulraj and Daile Zhang, to attend the 2022 Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Science Symposium, which was held in person on July 25th to 27th at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) of Colorado State University located in Fort Collins, CO.
Congratulations to Julie Nicely, 2022 Robert H. Goddard Awardee!
July 19, 2022
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Julie Nicely was recently awarded the 2022 Robert H. Goddard (RHG) Award for Science. The award is named in honor of Robert Hutchings Goddard, pioneer in the field of rocketry.
ESSIC Research Associate Named Editor of Earth System Science Data
June 29, 2022
ESSIC Postdoctoral Associate Jing Wei has been appointed as a new topical Editor (Atmosphere) for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD) of the European Geophysical Union.
Distribution, Sources, and Dynamics of Particulate Matter Along Trans-Arctic Sections
June 28, 2022
Alexey Mishonov, ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist and NOAA Affiliate, has created the first trans-Arctic section of beam attenuation to estimate particle distribution.
An Adaptive Calibration Window for Noise Reduction of Satellite Microwave Radiometers
June 28, 2022
ESSIC scientists John Xun Yang, Yalei You, and Ralph Ferraro are co-authors on a new paper in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that describes a newly developed adaptive window for calibration on microwave sounders at EUMETSAT and NOAA.
Dutch Delegation Visits ESSIC
June 28, 2022
On June 21, ESSIC hosted a delegation from the Dutch Space Innovation Mission, a consortium of government, academic, and industry sectors organized by the Netherlands Space Office. The meeting was coordinated by the University of Maryland Office of International Affairs and the Netherlands Embassy. The delegation consists of directors, lead engineers and business developers of the Dutch space sector focusing on new space and upstream high-tech components and equipment, knowledge institutes and representatives of the Netherlands Space Office including the director. For this visit, they sought to meet with technology specialists and high-level representatives in the US space ecosystem.
Lightning as an Indicator of Climate
June 17, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Daile Zhang attended and presented at the National Climate Assessment (NCA) “Lightning as an Indicator of Climate” Annual Science Meeting that was held on June 6-7 at the UMD Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC) Atlantic Building. The meeting is an annual working group get-together for people from NASA, University of Arizona, City College of New York, University of Alabama in Huntsville, and University of Maryland on various lightning tasks/projects, including lightning climatology, lightning NOx observations, dry lightning, wildfires, and this year’s NASA Marshall Space Flight Center CubeSpark project.
