ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Zhipeng Wang, Fangfang Yu, Hyelim Yoo, Haifeng Qian and Xi Shao have been honored with a SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 2020 Best Papers Award for their article, “On-orbit calibration and characterization of GOES-17 ABI IR bands under dynamic thermal conditions”.
ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Toshihisa Matsui is a co-author on a new international paper in Climate titled “Convection Parametrization and Multi-Nesting Dependence of a Heavy Rainfall Event over Namibia with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model”. In the study, Matsui and international co-authors investigate the effects of using multi-nests and a convection scheme, numerical weather prediction models, on the simulation of a heavy rainfall event over the north-western region of Kunene, Namibia.
NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW)’s operational daily global 5km satellite coral bleaching heat stress products are being used by Arizona State University (ASU) and its partners to create a new Bleaching layer (currently in beta status) in the Allen Coral Atlas. The Bleaching layer, which is updated every two weeks, detects variations in coral reef brightness using high-resolution Planet Dove satellite visible-band imagery and an advanced algorithm, to indicate whether reefs are experiencing heat stress, such as that from marine heatwaves, and bleaching.
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Erick Geiger, Gang Liu, and Jacqueline De La Cour at NOAA Coral Reef Watch have a new article on satellite ocean color data published in the 13 April 2021 issue of Frontiers in Marine Science. The goal of their study was to determine how best to fill satellite data gaps from cloud cover and quality control exclusions in shallow water. They tested a combination of six spatial (horizontal scale below) and seven temporal scales (vertical scale below) for aggregating data from the VIIRS instrument at several coral reef locations in Maui, Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico and compared these with in situ measurements of water turbidity.
ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientists Yuling Liu, Peng Yu, and Heshun Wang are co-authors on a paper titled “NOAA20 and S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Product Validation and Inter-Comparison” alongside Yunyue Yu, scientist at NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research.
Members of the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program, including ESSIC/CISESS Faculty Specialist, Erick Geiger collaborated with Arizona State University (ASU) and Vulcan Inc. to contribute to
Several scientists from the NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) team published a paperout this week in a special issue of Remote Sensing titled “Advances in Retrieval, Operationalization, Monitoring and Application of Sea Surface Temperature”.
ESSIC Research Scientist William Lau has been newly elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a lifetime distinction that recognizes important contributions to STEM disciplines, including pioneering research, leadership, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science.
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Example outputs from the Version 3.1.0 Thermal History products in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Within-Year (Annual) SST Average (left), and
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