Tag: Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation

Liang Releases CWFR Source Code

February 13, 2012

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center researcher Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang, also a professor in the CMNS-Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Department, released a regional climate model Fe. 17 called the Climate-Weather Research Forecasting Model (CWRF), a significant extension of the original Weather Research Forecasting Model (WRF). The model has been ten years in the making by Dr. Liang’s team in collaboration with NOAA and NCAR, and …

CMNS Odyssey: Our Ever-Changing Environment (July 2011)

January 14, 2012

Volume 1 / Issue 1

CMNS researchers explore impact of climate change on the environment. Highlights include research overviews and comments from ESSIC Faculty members Antonio Busacchi, Sujay Kaushal, Xin-Zhong Liang, & Raghu Murtugudde.

New yoga group meets at ESSIC

December 20, 2011

Don’t be surprised if you see a group of people walking in to a third floor wing at ESSIC with rolled up mats and donning exercise clothes. They’re the ESSIC Tuesday yoga group, led by Hui Xu and a tape recording that talks them through their poses. Employees at the NOAA World Weather Building in Camp Springs, MD have been running a similar class for nine years, and will move in to a new M Square building later this summer. Even though the move means classes in a neighboring building …

ESSIC scientists participate in WCRP Conference

October 24, 2011

At the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Conference, Denver, CO, October 24-28, Robert Adler (ESSIC) was the session convener for “Inter-annual and Inter-decadal Variations and Trends in Global and Regional Precipitation and Their Relation to Temperature and Water Vapor Changes.” Omar Muller (ESSIC, advisor Hugo Berbery) won the Best Scientific Presentation award for students and early career scientists with the poster “Using ecosystem functional types as lower boundary conditions in …

Ide Selected for Board’s Junior Faculty Award by CMPS Board of Visitors

October 4, 2011

Kayo Ide has been selected by the CMPS Board of Visitors to receive the Board’s Junior Faculty Award. Ide studies the dynamics of atmosphere and oceans. The Award, established by the College’s Board of Visitors, recognizes particularly fine accomplishments in research and education by an assistant professor….

Our Ever-Changing Environment – ESSIC in Odyssey Vol. 1 No. 1

September 8, 2011

Newly Funded Research: September 2011

September 1, 2011

Researcher: Sujay Kaushal
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $105,000
Grant Study: “Understanding and Forecasting Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes in Coa”

Researcher: Xin-Zhong Liang
Grant Sponsor: NOAA
Amount: $160,500
Grant Study: “CWRF Downscaling Prediction of USA Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variations”

Researcher: Xin-Zhong Liang
Grant Sponsor: DOE
Amount: $490,190
Grant-Study: “Optimizing the Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation …

Busalacchi chairs session at American Meteorological Society Meeting

January 23, 2011

At the 91st American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, Tony Busalacchi chaired a Special Session on World Climate Research Program (WCRP); Kayo Ide (AOSC, ESSIC, IPST and CSCAMM) chaired a session on Assimilation of Observations into Models: Hybrid Methods; and Ken Pickering (AOSC) chaired a session on Understanding Lightning’s Role in Atmospheric Chemistry. The meeting was held in Seattle, WA from January 23 to January 27….