Tag: Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation

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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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 …