CISESS Interns Participate in MIT Reality Hack
January 29, 2025
Figure. CISESS students Damian Figueroa (left) and Samuel Wiggins (right) at the MIT Reality Hack. On 23 January 2025, CISESS students Damian Figueroa and Samuel
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Welcome to the Spring 2025 ESSIC Seminar Series!
January 24, 2025
Welcome to the Spring 2024 semester! We are pleased to announce the return of ESSIC’s Seminar Series. We have a wonderful lineup of senior and junior scientists who are prepared to deliver some compelling presentations about their work and research both in-person and remotely.
Some of our speaker highlights include Dalia Kirschbaum, Director of the Earth Science Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Neil M. Donahue, Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Steinbrenner Institute as well as professor and AGU Fellow; Claudia Tebaldi, scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute and AGU Fellow; Ines Azevedo, associate professor at Stanford; Tracey Holloway, professor at UW–Madison and member of National Academy of Medicine; and Juan Lora, assistant professor at Yale.
Please click “Read more” for our full lineup and to add these events to your calendar now!
Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024
January 21, 2025
Figure. Regionally observed upper-2000-m change from 1958 through 2024 relative to a 1981–2010 baseline using Institute of Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences data. Of the
Fan Tracks the 2025 New Year Blizzard
January 13, 2025
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Yongzhen Fan used the NOAA/NESDIS Snowfall Rate (SFR) product to give a timely update on Winter Storm Blair, the new year’s significant and
ESSIC at AGU 2024
January 3, 2025
Many ESSIC scientists participated in AGU 2025, the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union held from December 9-13 in Washington D.C. Since the
New Earth System Modeling Textbook by UMD Authors Released
January 2, 2025
The second edition of the textbook Earth System Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The book was led
Evaluating Rainfall and Graupel Retrieval Performance of the NASA TROPICS Pathfinder Through the NOAA MiRS System
January 2, 2025
ESSIC scientists involved with the NASA TROPICS CubeSat mission recently built an algorithm for hydrometers retrieval. In a paper in Remote Sensing of Environment, John
Trends in Temperature, Water Vapor and Surface Pressure: Signals of Climate Change and Atmospheric CO2 Increases
December 10, 2024
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Yan Zhou, Chris Grassotti, Yong-Keun Lee, and John Xun Yang are co-authors on a new paper in Scientific Reports titled “Trends of temperature
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou.png)
Evaluation of Total Precipitable Water Trends From Reprocessed MiRS SNPP ATMS Observations
November 15, 2024
Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression
CISESS Lightning and Virtual Reality Research Group Attend Annual Spooky Mad Science Expo
November 15, 2024
Figure 1: Dr. Guangyang Fang, Samuel Wiggins, Damian Figueroa, Yijin Guo (Dr. Wenjuan Zhang’s daughter), and Dr. Wenjuan Zhang. Credit: Guangyang Fang On October 19,
ESSIC Faculty Honored at CMNS Promotion & Tenure Toast
November 15, 2024
ESSIC Director Ralph Ferraro, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Lisa Milani, and CMNS Dean Amitabh Varshney at the event. Credit: Mark Sherwood Early this month, the
Ron Vogel Presents at the Restore America’s Estuaries Coastal and Estuarine Summit
November 15, 2024
Figure: Satellite-based temperature indicators for 84 estuaries across the United States are available from the NOAA CoastWatch Data Portal. Displayed is monthly mean sea surface
