Tag: Atmospheric Chemistry and Carbon

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Ross J. Salawitch was quoted in Chemical and Engineering News’ recent cover story that discusses the longevity of new satellites launched to observe air chemistry and climate.  In the article entitled, “Observing Earth,” Salawitch explains the need for satellites in the observation of pollution, as it spreads onto a global scale. The article also presents NASA’s new cost estimates for SMAP and ICESat-II.  ESSIC Director, Professor Antonio Busalacchi was also quoted in …

ESSIC Research Associate  Anand K. Ramanathan presented two talks on May 8th 2014 at the 10th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-2014) at Noordwijk, Netherlands. Oral Talk 1: (on behalf of James B. Abshire, NASA, who could not attend) – ³Atmospheric CO2 Column Concentrations Measured by Pulsed Lidar with High Accuracy in the ASCENDS 2011 and 2013 Airborne Campaigns² by James B. Abshire, Anand K. Ramanathan (ESSIC/NASA), Jianping Mao (ESSIC/NASA), …

ESSIC / GEOL Professor James Farquhar will receive the 2014 Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry. The award, which in 2014 is named after Samuel Epstein, is bestowed upon scientists who have recently made a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry. The geochemical research must be highly original and contribute in a significant fashion to our understanding of the natural behavior of the Earth or planets. Such a contribution must be in …

A new journal article entitled “Spectroscopic measurements of a CO2 absorption line in an open vertical path using an airborne lidar” by ESSIC Researchers Anand Ramanathan, Jianping Mao, Clark Weaver  was accepted for publication by Applied Physics Letters (Available for free download at the following: http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/co2sounder/)…

James Farquhar was quoted in ScienceNews, September 25, on research published in Nature by Crowe et al. suggesting that that there were appreciable levels of atmospheric oxygen about 3 billion years ago, some 300-400 million years earlier than scientists thought….

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Maria Tzortziou co-authored an article entitled “Bay Breeze Influence on Surface Ozone at Edgewood, MD, during July 2011”, published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ (Open Access, J Atmos Chem, DOI 10.1007/s10874-012-9241-6).  The lead Author is Ryan Stauffer from the Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University.  Co-authors include Anne Thompson and Douglas Martins from The Pennsylvania State …

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Senior Research Scientist Rong-Hua Zhang, of the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, has outlined the recent annual success of his Intermediate Coupled Model (ICM) in a newly published study.

The paper titled “A Successful Real-Time Forecast of the 2010-11 La Nina Event” was published in Nature’s on-line sub-journal, Scientific Reports.

Zhang’s ICM model has steadily developed a reputation within the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) research community

James Farquhar was mentioned in Earth & Climate, December 10 in an article on research conducted with John Jamieson (2005 M.S. Geology) and colleagues and published (advance online) in Nature, December 2. Their analysis of sulfide ore deposits from one of the world’s richest base-metal mines (Kidd Creek, Ontario, Canada) confirms that oxygen levels were extremely low on Earth 2.7 billion years ago, but also shows that microbes were actively feeding on sulfate in the ocean and influencing …