Tag: Climate

ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Professor Thomas Wild recently released software to the public that has been used by river basin stakeholders in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam for infrastructure planning in the Mekong River Basin. The software, SedSim, is an open-source model for simulating water and sediment flows as well as hydropower production in networks of reservoirs and river channels. The software enables water resources systems analysts and planners to explore alternative system …

This story was published by the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. UMD geologist contributes to analysis that suggests current climate models can accurately predict climate warming several decades into the future A new reconstruction of global average surface temperature change over the past 2,000 years has identified the main causes for decade-scale climate changes. The analysis suggests that Earth’s current warming rate, caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, is …

Michael Evans, Associate Professor for ESSIC and UMD’s Department of Geology, recently gave a lecture titled “How good are global climate change projections …out to 2050?” at Science on Tap, a casual monthly lecture series that explores the latest discoveries in science and technology. At the event, Evans discussed his efforts alongside an international team to develop reconstructions of global mean surface temperatures for the last 2,000 years.  The results were surprisingly …

ESSIC Assistant Research Professor Thomas Wild recently co-authored a study titled “Pathways to 2050: Alternative Scenarios for Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy” alongside colleagues including Jae Edmonds, School of Public Policy Adjunct Professor and Leon Clarke, Research Director for UMD's Center for Global Sustainability. The study is focused on leveraging industry perspectives to improve scenarios and roadmaps for decarbonization of the US economy.  It contains three scenarios for …

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Resilinc-Hosted Webinar on May 8 Targets Supply Chain, Sourcing and Procurement

University of Maryland researchers will present findings supporting their recently completed “Climate Change Variability/Vulnerability Index” in a complimentary webinar, hosted by software firm and project partner Resilinc, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 8. Register via https://go.umd.edu/UFk.

The 90-minute program will serve to explain the index and its supporting data as a means “to provide actionable information

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently wrote an article in Tech2 titled “El Niño and La Niña Tinker with Western Disturbances and India’s Winters Too”. In the article, he discusses the unusually cold winter that India has experienced this year.  Though many point to the term “polar vortex” to explain these temperatures, Murtugudde points to El Niño, which affects India’s “Subtropical Westerly Jet” (SWJ), a jet stream that acts as a conduit to western disturbances; …