ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Zhuosen Wang is a co-author on a new paper, “Evaluation of satellite remote sensing albedo retrievals over the ablation area of the southwestern Greenland ice sheet”.
University of Maryland researchers will lead a five-year, $10 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to help farmers in the Corn Belt navigate efficient water and nutrient use in order to increase crop production.
A study led by ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Bailing Li was one of the most downloaded papers in the recent publication history of Wiley. The paper, titled “Global GRACE Data Assimilation for Groundwater and Drought Monitoring: Advances and Challenges” and published in Water Resources Research, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers between January 2018 and December 2019.
The American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held last week, January 12 to 16, in Boston. There were significant contributions by ESSIC/CISESS scientists, documented here.
Over 20 ESSIC/CISESS scientists and students attended this year’s AGU conference and many more contributed to talks and poster presentations. The talks included:
ESSIC’s weekly seminars are now available for viewing on YouTube! The ESSICUMD YouTube channel houses nearly all of the seminars of the past year, and is constantly uploading new seminar recordings as they occur. The ESSIC Seminar Series is a biweekly event meant to bring new science to the researchers of ESSIC and CISESS. In the past, it has boasted such speakers as Dr. Norman Grody, one of the chief NESDIS scientists who helped design sensors such as the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, …
Last month, NOAA/AMS/EUMETSAT held their annual Joint Satellite Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. ESSIC/CISESS had a large contingent of scientists at the meeting presenting posters and giving talks, listed below. ESSIC scientists’ talks included:
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ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Kimberly Slinski is CO-I on a recently awarded SERVIR Applied Sciences Team grant titled, “In-Situ Data Collection with Remote Sensing for Machine Learning Parameter Estimates and Improved Hydrologic Models for Flood, Drought and Agricultural Yield Forecasting”. Slinski’s team is partnering with the SERVIR – Eastern and Southern Africa Hub (ESA), hosted by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development. Together, they will link …
ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Engineer L. Gwen Chen was lead author on a recent paper published in a special issue of Atmosphere titled “Flash Drought Characteristics Based on U.S. Drought Monitor”. The study discusses the characteristics of flash droughts, i.e. drought events with greater than or equal to two categories degradation in a four-week period based on the U.S. Drought Monitor. In contrast with conventional droughts, which are mainly driven by precipitation deficits, flash …
ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Bailing Li is the lead author on two recent publications in Scientific Reports and Water Resources Research, titled “Long-term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by three global-scale hydrological models” and “Global GRACE Data Assimilation for Groundwater and Drought Monitoring: Advances and Challenges”, respectively. The first paper studies the long term trend of global groundwater. Groundwater storage was estimated by three …
