
Gasso Reappointed to SOLAS
ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Santiago Gassó was reappointed as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) for another 3-years term.

ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Santiago Gassó was reappointed as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) for another 3-years term.

ESSIC/CISESS Associate Research Scientist Isaac Moradi is convening and chairing three sessions at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, occurring virtually this year due to COVID-19. The sessions are “Data Assimilation, Reanalysis, and Observing System Simulation Experiments I”, “Data Assimilation, Reanalysis, and Observing System Simulation Experiments II Posters”, and “Calibration and Validation of Satellite Earth Observation Systems I Posters”.

ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Yalei You and Sante Laviola, a researcher at The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) in Bologna, Italy, are guest editors of a special issue of Remote Sensing titled “Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing for Severe Storms Detection”. Laviola has previously spent a year with ESSIC/CISESS as a visiting scientist.

ESSIC/CISESS scientists Sinéad Farrell and Kyle Duncan have a new paper out in Geophysical Research Letters titled, “Mapping Sea Ice Surface Topography in High Fidelity With ICESat‐2”.

Members of the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program, including ESSIC/CISESS Faculty Specialist, Erick Geiger collaborated with Arizona State University (ASU) and Vulcan Inc. to contribute to

Several scientists from the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) team published a paperout this week in a special issue of Remote Sensing titled “Advances in Retrieval, Operationalization, Monitoring and Application of Sea Surface Temperature”.

Lauren Zamora, ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist and a contractor in the Climate and Radiation Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has a new article out in Journal of Climate titled, “Saharan dust aerosols change deep convective cloud prevalence, possibly by inhibiting marine new particle formation”.

L. Gwen Chen, ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Engineer, is first author on a new paper in Atmosphere about flash drought prediction.

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Eunsang Cho is first author on a paper in Water Resources Research titled “Extreme Value Snow Water Equivalent and Snowmelt for Infrastructure Design Over the Contiguous United States”.

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an op-ed in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability titled “We are very far from using earth system models for managing a public health crisis”.