Tag: Oceanography

Alexey Mishonov, ESSIC/CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist, and James Reagan, ESSIC/CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist, recently published an article titled “Eddy-Resolving In Situ Ocean Climatologies of Temperature and Salinity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean” in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. The article discusses the development of a new decadally averaged high-resolution (1/10°) ocean climatology for the Northwest Atlantic.  This high-resolution climatology is capable …

ESSIC / CICS Senior Faculty Specialist Ron Vogel presented a wintertime boating safety webinar on the use of satellite radar measurements to detect ice in coastal waters.  The class benefited state, federal, and academic field crews and monitoring personnel who conduct wintertime surveys of coastal conditions. Also benefiting were National Weather Service forecasters for improving marine forecasts. Satellite data from spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instruments can provide high …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist Ron Vogel recently co-authored a paper in Remote Sensing Letters titled “Approximation of diffuse attenuation, Kd, for MODIS high-resolution bands”. The paper discusses Kd-hires, a high resolution depth attenuation product used as a measure of water clarity.  The authors compare the product with Wang’s operational Kd, another method of measurement, and found that the two algorithms had good agreement, ensuring improved retrievals.  The …

Ron Vogel, ESSIC / CICS Senior Faculty Specialist, recently presented results of an innovative application of satellite data to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program, the agency responsible for coordinating the pollution cleanup of Chesapeake Bay. Working alongside partners from NOAA’s Fisheries Service, the group applied satellite estimates of improving water clarity to changes in overall oyster biomass. Since oysters efficiently filter the water where they live, …

ESSIC / CICS-MD faculty specialist at NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Erick Geiger co-authored a UNESCO update report assessing the historical, recent, and projected heat stress and bleaching at natural World Heritage properties with coral reefs.  CRW team member Dr. Scott Heron, an ESSIC / CICS-MD sub awardee, led the effort and the publication. The report considered the implications of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, reflecting the goals of the Paris …