Tag: Atmospheric Chemistry and Carbon

Salawitch, Busalacchi quoted in C&EN News

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 …

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Ramanathan presents at IWGGMS-2014

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), …

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Farquhar to receive EAG 2014 Science Innovation Award

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 …

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Farquhar quoted in ScienceNews

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….

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Newly Funded Research: July 2013

Researcher: Bob Adler and Mathew Sapiano Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $184,903 Grant Study: “Next Generation Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Data Products.”
Researcher: Phil Arkin and Tony Busalacchi Grant Sponsor: NOAA Amount: $101,000 Grant Study: “Enhancements of GeoSST Projects.”
Researcher: Tony Busalacchi Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $150,077 in additional funding bringing the total award to $1,405,979 Grant …

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Tzortziou published in Atmospheric Chemistry, Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ

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 …

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Scientific Reports Publishes Zhang’s Successful Forecast of 2010–11 La Niña Event

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

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Farquhar Mentioned in Earth & Climate

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 …

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Weaver’s Temperature Trends Site Brings Climate Change to the Local Level

In researcher Clark Weaver's eyes, climate change information has been entirely focused on global increases, while disregarding regional and state trends.

With the help of Eugene Cordero, a meteorology professor at San Jose state, Weaver, an associate research scientist at ESSIC, created his self-funded site temperaturetrends.org, which focuses exclusively on temperature trends at local levels.   Site visitors can see the actual temperature records from each of the 1200

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