ESSIC seeks to understand the relationships between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land masses and biosphere, with an eye to the influence of human activities on Earth's coupled systems.

ESSIC in the News

UMD Scientists Develops Open-Source Tool to Measure Glacial Mass

February 22, 2025

With global temperatures climbing, it’s more important than ever to precisely measure ice loss. Cryospheric scientists use satellite measurements, like those from ICESat-2, to accurately

Figure 2. Correlations between anomaly patterns of individual months (40oN-40oS) and El Nino and La Nina composites during March 2024 -February 2025.

Global Precipitation Summary for February 2025

March 10, 2025

Download Headlines The global La Nina precipitation anomaly pattern stays strong, lagging the weakening SST evolution during February Tropical cyclones and their rainfall patterns

Figure 3: NWS OPC Atlantic Surface Analysis at 1200 UTC 21 February 2025, overlaid on GOES-East Air Mass RGB imagery. This image was exported from AWIPS.

Atlantic Cranks Out Another Hurricane-Force Low

February 24, 2025

The calendar still reads Meteorological Winter, and the Atlantic Basin remains as busy as expected. Early last week, the threat for a hurricane-force low in