On April 30, 2020, NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) and NESDIS’ Office of Satellite and Product Operations retired CRW’s heritage twice-weekly global 50km satellite coral bleaching heat stress monitoring product suite, replacing it with CRW’s next-generation daily global 5km coral bleaching heat stress monitoring products.
A study led by ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Bailing Li was one of the most downloaded papers in the recent publication history of Wiley. The paper, titled “Global GRACE Data Assimilation for Groundwater and Drought Monitoring: Advances and Challenges” and published in Water Resources Research, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers between January 2018 and December 2019.
Santiago Gassó, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist, was recently interviewed by the local NPR station (KTEP) at the University of Texas, El Paso for the broadcast “Science Studio”.
Several ESSIC/CISESS scientists have contributed to a new e-book published by Springer titled “Satellite Precipitation Measurement”.
ESSIC Director / AOSC Chair Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm is a co-author in a new book now available titled “The Food-Energy-Water Nexus”.
In a new article out in The Wire, ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde argues for a dedicated Infectious Disease Forecasting (IDF) center to bring centralized public health decision-making to India.
ESSIC scientists Thomas Wild and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm have a new paper out in the Journal of Open Research Software about Metis, a new tool that could empower policymakers to make more informed choices concerning infrastructure planning.
Ralph Ferraro was a co-author on an article published in Advances in Meteorology titled “Intercomparison and Validation of MIRS, MSPPS, and IMS Snow Cover Products”.
ESSIC Assistant Research Professor Thomas Wild has a new article in the Journal of Hydrology titled “100 years of data is not enough to establish reliable drought thresholds”. Wild’s co-authors include Robert Link, Abigail Snyder, Mohamad Hejazi, and Chris Vernon from the Joint Global Change Research Institute.
A large ozone hole has opened up above the Arctic, its size rivaling the famous Antarctic ozone hole that forms in the southern hemisphere each year.