Tag: Climate

Milestone Report on Coral Reef Health Released Worldwide

November 3, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Jacqueline De La Cour was a contributor and reviewer of The Sixth Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020 Report, released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) on October 5th. This sixth edition is the first since 2008 and the first based on the quantitative analysis of a global dataset, compiled from more than 300 contributors and comprising almost 2 million observations from more than 12,000 sites in 73 countries.

A farmer carries forage for his mule in southwestern Ethiopia. Farther north in the country, starvation spread this year in the face of civil war. Credit: Jacquelyn Turner, International Research Institute for Climate and Society

To Understand Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, Consider Both Climate and Conflict

October 18, 2021

ESSIC scientist Weston Anderson is lead-author on a new paper that suggests that African food insecurity is being driven by an uptick in violent conflict. In the study published in Nature Food, Anderson worked with researchers from Columbia University, New York University, and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

A colorful coral reef, surrounded by fish

Coral Reef Watch Enhances Four-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook and Develops New Methodology for Prototype Coral Reef Resilience Product

October 1, 2021

This month, NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) completed two product development milestones, to implement an improved Four-Month Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Outlook and develop the methodology for a new, prototype Coral Reef Resilience product.

Official U.S. government maps for long-range weather and climate predictions get a facelift with the help of data visualization experts.

UMD Scientists Help Put a New Face on National Weather Service Forecast Maps

September 28, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) launched a new look and feel to some of their long-range U.S. temperature and precipitation forecast maps on September 15, 2021. As part of the National Weather Service’s suite of official forecast products, these maps are widely used by weather forecasters, media outlets and decision-makers whose industries rely on accurate weather information.

State of the Climate in 2020: The Arctic

September 7, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS scientist Sinéad Farrell is one of the contributors to the new “State of the Climate in 2020: The Arctic”, released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in the August 2021 issue of the monthly bulletin (BAMS). She co-authored the section on sea ice extent.

Figure: Collocated and globally averaged SST biases against Argo observations. A 15-day filter is applied to all curves for readability.

NOAA Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1

August 24, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Research Scientist Tom Smith is coauthor of an article on DOISST v.2.1 coming out in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of Climate. The paper, titled “Assessment and Intercomparison of NOAA Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1”, shows how the improved NOAA operational analysis compares to several other available analyses.

The projection of water scarcity in Argentina moving forward

How Global Change Can Affect Argentina’s Integrated Energy-Water-Land Systems

July 28, 2021

Several ESSIC scientists including Thomas Wild, Mengqi Zhao, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, and Brinda Yarlagadda are credited on a new paper titled, “The Implications of Global Change for the Co-Evolution of Argentina’s Integrated Energy-Water-Land Systems”.

Dr. Jamie Caldwell (University of Hawaii-Manoa), a major NOAA Coral Reef Watch project partner, presents new forecasting tools under development by the University of Hawaii and NOAA Coral Reef Watch, as part of ‘Coral disease forecasting for the Pacific Ocean – demonstrating a new tool for scientists and managers’, a workshop at the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium, held virtually this year.

Coral Reef Watch Contributes to Coral Disease Forecasting Workshop at the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium

July 28, 2021

NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) staff contributed to the development and promotion of a workshop associated with the 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), held virtually on July 21, 2021.

Two flat images of the Earth, underneath it says "Abstracts: Requested by August 1, 2021

Announcing ESSIC’s 1st AI/ML Workshop: On the Pathway to a Digital Earth

July 12, 2021

To embrace the rapidly evolving field of AI/ML, ESSIC launches the ESSIC AI Forum and a one-day workshop: “On the Pathway to a Digital Earth”.

Acid Rain Scenes from Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Clingmans Dome

A Study of Two Impactful Heavy Rainfall Events

July 9, 2021

Several ESSIC/CISESS scientists including Malarvizhi Arulraj, Jifu Yin, Christopher Grassotti, Veljko Petkovic collaborated on a multi-author, two-part study led by Douglas Miller, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Asheville.