Tag: Climate

ESSIC researchers to develop Maryland climate indicators with new Sea Grant funding

February 14, 2018

For Immediate Release
February 14, 2018
Contact: Teri West, twest@essic.umd.edu COLLEGE PARK, MD — Maryland Sea Grant awarded funding to two ESSIC researchers to work with Maryland communities to develop adaptation and community resilience indicators. ESSIC associate research professor Melissa Kenney and assistant research professor Michael Gerst will lead the two-year project aimed at helping local coastal communities to assess, plan and evaluate climate adaptation …

Global Precipitation—2017 Anomalies, La Nina, Trends

February 5, 2018

By: Robert Adler

Written by: Robert Adler, Guojun Gu, and Jian-Jian Wang

ESSIC scientists are involved in monitoring and analyzing precipitation across the entire globe, including using both satellite and conventional surface measurements to provide an integrated monthly analysis as part of an international effort called the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP). This effort is important to understand the climatology and variations of precipitation both regionally and globally

ESSIC researchers present at American Meteorological Society conference

January 24, 2018

ESSIC was a visible participant at the 98^th annual American Meteorological Society’s conference in early January in Austin, Texas. Center researchers and visiting ESSIC scientists participated in the following activities at the meeting: Talks:

Melissa Kenney – Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks
Ralph Ferraro – In-Orbit

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Ferraro, Liu and Yu contribute to new book series

December 13, 2017

Several ESSIC scientists contributed to the newly released multi-volume series “Comprehensive Remote Sensing.” Ralph Ferraro, a visiting associate research scientist, served as both an author and editor for volume four on the water cycle. In addition, assistant research scientists Yuling Liu and Peng Yu contributed to the fifth volume on the earth’s energy budget….

Lau speaks at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society annual meeting

September 27, 2017

ESSIC research scientist William K. M. Lau spoke at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society’s (AOGS) 14th annual meeting in Singapore in August. His talk, titled “Competing Influences of Greenhouse Warming and Aerosols on Asian Monsoon Climate Change,” evaluated how an increase in rainfall caused by greenhouse gas emissions is often negated by the effects of aerosol forcing in monsoon regions….

Kenny Student Recognized

June 7, 2017

University of Maryland rising senior Jason Winik, an Environmental Science and Policy major, was recently recognized as an outstanding student in the department. Winik has worked for the past year with ESSIC researcher’s Melissa Kenney and Michael Gerst in support of the Environmental Decision Support Science Lab. He will continue to support the lab over the current summer. Read more about Winik’s award here. …

ESSIC’s Lau makes comic book character debut

March 9, 2017

Former NASA and current UMD ESSIC climate scientist William “Bill” Lau recently made his cartoon debut, as a featured character in the "manga style" Japanese comic book series, “Learning Earth Science with Mirubo.” The series follows grade schooler Mol and her robotic dog Mirubo, as they explore earth science. In this installment on monsoons, Mol and Mirubo follow Lau as he explains the origins of the word, how the seasonal phenomena develops and which …

Liang leads recently published PNAS study

March 8, 2017

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Xin-Zhong Liang was the lead author a paper recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The paper is titled “Determining the climate effects on US total agricultural productivity.” The study directly links climate-variables within specific regionalized areas of United States agriculture to determine their effects and influence on the national total factor productivity or TFP. ESSIC …

Vintzileos presents at AMS

February 8, 2017

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Augustin Vintzileos was a presenter at the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. Vintzileos's talk was entitled “Enhancing Resilience to Heat Extremes: Forecasting Excessive Heat Events at Subseasonal Lead Times (Week-2 to 4).”…

From College Park to Earth Orbit, UMD Scientists Improve Quality of Global Weather Satellite Data

January 17, 2017

“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes such constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R that launched in 2016, …