Tag: Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation

Yatheendradas Published in Computational Geosciences

January 18, 2019

ESSIC Assistant Research Engineer Soni Yatheendradas recently published a paper titled “Bayesian analysis of the impact of rainfall data product on simulated slope failure for North Carolina locations” in Computational Geosciences. The study simulated slope failures using a physically-base model with three different precipitation data products as input. All three products performed well, though at the highest elevations the TMPA and NLDAS-2 based results degraded, while the quality of …

ESSIC Presents at Annual Symposium for Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics

November 15, 2018

November 14th marked The Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, an event intended to enhance the quality and international visibility of UMD’s fluid dynamics research and educational programs. ESSIC Research Professor and CICS-MD Director Hugo Berbery was a co-presenter of two presentations with his advised AOSC Graduate Assistants Eli Dennis and Katherine Lukens. Lukens-Berbery presented, “Winter Storm Tracks and Related Weather in the NCEP Climate Forecast …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientists Present at Satellite Soil Moisture Workshop

November 8, 2018

On October 25th, four scientists presented at the 5th Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Li Fang (STAR/SMCD/EMB) gave a talk on “Validation of Downscaled SMAP Soil Moisture Data Products” co-authored by CICS-MD Scientists Jifu Yin, Jicheng Liu, and Mitch Schull as well as CICS Consortium Scientist Tarendra Lakhankar (CREST).

Nai-Yu Wang (NESDIS/OSGS/SED/SEB) gave a presentation on “Evaluating Precipitation

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Liu Published in Advances in Meteorology

September 26, 2018

ESSIC / CICS-MD assistant research scientist Jicheng Liu has a new article published by Advances in Meteorology titled “A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of Assimilating Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products on NCEP Global Forecast System”. The piece documents tests in data assimilation of satellite soil moisture into the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS). The soil moisture products used are from the operational Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS), the subject of one of …

Yang, Zhou published in IEEE Journal

September 14, 2018

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist Hu Yang is the lead author of a new publication in press at IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. ESSIC / CICS-MD post-doctoral associate Jun Zhou (STAR/SMCD) is a co-author. This article describes a new methodology to simulate lunar emission at microwave frequencies as a means of monitoring the calibration and stability of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) onboard the Suomi NPP satellite. The new model offers …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientists Present at STAR JPSS Annual Science Conference

September 11, 2018

On Monday, August 27, CICS-MD hosted the Poster Session and Reception for this year’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Annual Science Conference. A total of 67 posters were on display. Congratulations to the six ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists who presented: – Cezar Kongoli, et al., “Calibration and Validation of the S-NPP Snowfall Detection Algorithm;” – Yuling Liu et al., “Preliminary Quality Assessment of NOAA 20 LST EDR …

ESSIC contributes to NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program Symposium

June 12, 2018

A group of ESSIC scientists attended the NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program Annual Science Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin on June 6 and 7. CICS deputy director Hugo Berbery attended along with six ESSIC/CICS scientists who contributed oral presentations and posters: CICS graduate assistant Katherine Lukens, CICS scientist Veljko Petkovic, ESSIC associate research scientist Likun Wang, ESSIC post-doctoral associate Jingjing Peng, ESSIC post-doctoral associate Jun Zhou and ESSIC …

Monsoons funnel aerosols high into the atmosphere, ESSIC scientist discovers

March 27, 2018

About three years ago, ESSIC research scientist William Lau sketched a diagram in his office for doctorate student Cheng Yuan. The whiteboard drawing depicted his hypothesis about how monsoon forces could pump aerosols — tiny particles in the air — higher into the atmosphere than where airplanes fly. With the diagram’s original arrows and squiggles still intact on the whiteboard, Lau and Yuan now have a published piece that both confirms the hypothesis and transforms knowledge …

Berbery and Lukens to publish in Journal of Climate

February 28, 2018

ESSIC research professor Hugo Berbery and doctoral student Katherine Lukens have a new publication that will be released in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Climate. The research details the role of strong storm tracks on winter weather. Lukens used the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) to examine this relationship. She found that these strong-storm track winter storms represent about 16 percent of all winter storms in North …

ESSIC researchers present at American Meteorological Society conference

January 24, 2018

ESSIC was a visible participant at the 98^th annual American Meteorological Society’s conference in early January in Austin, Texas. Center researchers and visiting ESSIC scientists participated in the following activities at the meeting: Talks:

Melissa Kenney – Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks
Ralph Ferraro – In-Orbit

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