Tag: Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation

Ides, Shahroudi and Zhou publish second collaborative article

October 13, 2017

ESSIC researchers Kayo Ides, Narges Shahroudi and Yan Zhou have published a new article concerning NOAA’s Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) process called the Community Global OSSE Package (CGOP). Part one, describing and explaining how to use the CGOP, was published last year in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. The new article focuses on validation of CGOP simulated “perfect” observations. The authors conclude that the simulations are …

ESSIC staff present at EUMETSAT conference in Rome

October 13, 2017

ESSIC staff presented at the annual Meteorological Satellite Conference hosted by EUMETSAT in Rome in early October. Research Professor & CICS-MD Director Hugo Berbery gave a presentation titled “Consistency Analysis of the Water Cycle from Recently-Derived Satellite Products.” Other ESSIC scientists presented on NOAA scientific results, including Xiaolei Zou, Narges Shahroudi, Lin Lin, Andrew Harris, Bin Zhang, Manik Bali and Likun Wang….

Liang leads recently published PNAS study

March 8, 2017

ESSIC / AOSC Professor Xin-Zhong Liang was the lead author a paper recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The paper is titled “Determining the climate effects on US total agricultural productivity.” The study directly links climate-variables within specific regionalized areas of United States agriculture to determine their effects and influence on the national total factor productivity or TFP. ESSIC …

From College Park to Earth Orbit, UMD Scientists Improve Quality of Global Weather Satellite Data

January 17, 2017

“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes such constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R that launched in 2016, …

ESSIC Researchers Recognized at Annual Luncheon

October 21, 2016

On Tuesday October 18, the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Division of Research honored UMD researchers at its 18^th Annual Research Leaders Luncheon. The event celebrates faculty research achievement with the presentation of various awards and recognitions, including its annual Research Communicator Impact Award. This year, seven ESSIC faculty members were recognized as “Research Leaders” for their efforts in securing research funding during the current …

NCAS Weather Camp Comes To ESSIC For Fourth Annual Visit

August 8, 2016

Students participating in Howard University’s NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) CAREERS Weather Camp came to ESSIC on July 20 as part of their fourth annual visit to the center. The NCAS CAREERS Weather Camp is a two week program that gives high school students with interests in atmospheric, environmental or applied physical sciences the ability to gain knowledge about the fields and hear from working scientists. Students came from all over the U.S., some traveling from …

CICS-MD researchers contribute to new publication in BAMS

May 17, 2016

Several scientists at the ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland (Steve Lord, Isaac Moradi, Christopher Hain, Eugenia Kalnay, Sean P.F. Casey, Jianjun Xu, Jicheng Liu, Li Fang, and Tse-Chun Chen) have coauthored an article accepted for publication in the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. The article explores how the the establishment of an efficient supercomputer-based Operations-To-Research (O2R) environment–for Satellite …

Researchers hope Japanese data assimilation team’s visit inspires collaboration

November 3, 2015

Researchers from Japan’s RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science visited the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) in October to compare notes on data assimilation methods and capabilities. The process of incorporating data into predictive models requires a multitalented team and plenty of processing power, said UMD Associate Professor Kayo Ide, who worked with ESSIC Director Antonio Busalacchi and RIKEN’s Takemasa …

Wind Bursts Strongly Affect El Niño Severity

April 21, 2015

The long-forecasted El Niño event of 2014/15 did not meet expectations. On March 5, 2015, the National Weather Service finally declared a “weak” event arriving several months later than expected, formally dashing predictions that we would see a major event on par with the monster El Niño of 1997/98 that would bring much-needed rain to California and other western states. Now, a team of researchers believes that they know why this year’s event—and others like it—didn’t live up to the …

UMD World Bank Workshop Builds International Relationships at ESSIC

October 29, 2014

The development of innovative applications derived from scientific findings are hopefully in route to becoming a reality, after experts interacted at the University of Maryland’s World Bank Workshop, hosted by the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC). Acting as matchmaker for the day, UMD ESSIC / AOSC Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm introduced representatives from the World Bank to ESSIC and partner researchers, in the hopes of creating future opportunities for …