Tag: Hydrology and Land Surface Processes

Simulated daily surface (0-10 cm) soil moisture at 00Z on 25 September 2014 over the Western Land Data Assimilation System (WLDAS) domain. The inset map highlights the 1 km grid spacing of WLDAS products, and the black line encompasses the California Region basin.

A High‐Resolution Land Data Assimilation System Optimized for the Western United States

March 25, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jessica M. Erlingis is first author on a new paper out in Journal of the American Water Resources Association titled “A High‐Resolution Land Data Assimilation System Optimized for the Western United States”. Her co-authors include ESSIC/CISESS scientists Bailing Li and Sujay Kumar as well as researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Saskatchewan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the California State Water Resources Control Board.

NOAA20 and S-NPP VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Product Validation and Inter-Comparison

February 26, 2021

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.

Fog over mountain tops, courtesy of NOAA

Using Satellite Microwave Data for Water Vapor Over Land

February 26, 2021

CISESS scientists Chris Grassotti and Yong-Keun Lee were coauthors of a paper published last week in the open access journal Remote Sensing.

A snowy McKeldin Library with a sign that looks like a face mask that says "Terrapin Strong"

ESSIC Recognizes Distinguished Faculty and Staff

December 21, 2020

As a now traditional part of the ESSIC end-of-year Holiday Party, two annual peer awards were presented to honor the year’s Best Paper and the Employee of the Year. This year, Director Ellen Williams presented these awards to Toshi Matsui, Associate Research Scientist, as well as Donna Gray, Coordinator, and Luther Clark, IT Coordinator.

A scenic view of the ocean and the beach

Farrell and Thomas Discuss the Hidden Talents of ICESat-2

December 14, 2020

A new NASA Goddard feature highlights how the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2), originally intended to precisely measure the height of the ice sheets at Earth’s poles, of sea ice floes above the ocean waters, and of forest canopies, has gone beyond its original purposes to map the Earth’s surface. In the article, ESSIC/CISESS scientists Sinéad Farrell and Nathan Thomas are quoted discussing these unintended benefits.

A snowy Yosemite mountain behind a lake, also surrounded by snow

Cho Develops Tool to Predict Areas Affected by Snowmelt-Driven Floods

December 4, 2020

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Eunsang Cho is first author on a paper in Water Resources Research titled “Extreme Value Snow Water Equivalent and Snowmelt for Infrastructure Design Over the Contiguous United States”.

Yin Develops Near Real Time 1KM SMAP Soil Moisture Data Product

October 23, 2020

A paper titled “Near‐real‐time one‐kilometre Soil Moisture Active Passive soil moisture data product” co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jifu Yin was recently published by

Lau, Li, Tao Find Link Between Western Wildfires and Global Warming

October 22, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljE6iZr_kjY For the last few years, life on the West Coast of the United States has been marked by wildfires. Most recently, August lightning storms

Yin Published on Soil Moisture Operation Product System

October 5, 2020

A paper co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jifu Yin titled “NOAA Satellite Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Version 3.0 Generates Higher Accuracy Blended Satellite Soil Moisture” was recently published in Remote Sensing.

Climate Change Worsening US Wildfires, Finds ESSIC Scientists

September 8, 2020

A paper co-authored by ESSIC Research Scientist William Lau, Professor Zhanqing Li, scientist Weichen Tao, and AOSC Graduate Student Lei Zhang was recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.