Tag: Climate

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, …

Vintzileos presents at IRI S2S Extremes Workshop

December 13, 2016

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Augustin Vintzileos presented research at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S) S2S Extremes Workshop. Held December 6-7 at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Campus of Columbia University, Vintzileous’ talk was entitled, "Enhancing Resilience to Heat Extremes: Multi-model Forecasting of Excessive Heat Events at Subseasonal Lead Times."…

CICS readies for data from new GOES-R satellite

December 7, 2016

In late November 2016, a new satellite–that many are calling the most significant step forward in modern weather forecasting history—achieved a geostationary orbit. Launched on November 19 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series (GOES-R) is destined to revamp NASA’s current line-up of geostationary satellites. ESSIC Post-Doctoral associate Michael Peterson was at the launch. He described the scene to be …