Tag: Precipitation

Satellite Retrieved Precipitate Rates Lag Ground Precipitation Measurements, Find ESSIC/CISESS Scientists

July 25, 2019

Earlier this month, Geophysical Research Letters published an article co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Yalei You and Faculty Specialist Jun Dong as well as Visiting Research Scientist Huan Meng and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky. Titled “Time‐Lag Correlation Between Passive Microwave Measurements and Surface Precipitation and Its Impact on Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation”, the study showed a time lag between satellite radiometer-retrieved …

ESSIC/CICS Scientists Travel to Italy for Satellite Observation Meeting

March 15, 2019

Last week was the annual meeting of the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS), an international collaborative effort to monitor, improve, and harmonize observations from the Global Observing System weather and environmental satellites. The meeting, held in Frascati, Italy, included a “Mini-Conference” on calibration activities outside of GSICS as well as reports, briefs, and discussions on the GSICS Research Working Group, GSICS Data management Working Group, and GSICS …

Patrick Meyers Wins GOES-R Outstanding Communications Award

November 9, 2018

This week, ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist Patrick Meyers was awarded the GOES-R Series Program Award for Outstanding Communication. Recognized for his visualizations of Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery, Meyers created the animations to support the NESDIS and GOES-R program as well as to draw new viewers to NESDIS social media. In September, one of Meyers’ animations of Hurricane Florence made it to President Trump’s Twitter feed, garnering 2.05 million views, 12k …

ESSIC / CICS Contributions in the new AMS “State of the Climate in 2017”

October 10, 2018

The American Meteorological Society just released their annual State of the Climate report as a supplement to the August issue of the Bulletin of AMS. Five ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists wrote sections of the report: ● Jim Reagan (NCEI) provided an annual summary of the subsurface seawater salinity as well as the introductory section on Salinity in the Global Oceans chapter. ● Robert Adler (NCEI) co-authored the precipitation subsection for the Hydrological Cycle section in the Global …

Trump Includes CICS-MD Hurricane Animation in Social Media Post

September 14, 2018

In support of the recent public and scientific interest surrounding coverage of Hurricane Florence, ESSIC/CICS-MD senior faculty specialist Patrick Meyers prepared a small video of associated storm lightning as recorded by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). The animation, subsequently disseminated via NOAA social media channels was later included in a tweet by President Donald Trump, announcing support for those who might be affected by Hurricane Florence. In just a few hours, the tweet …

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 …

Maryland Rainfall and Flooding Seen From GCOM-W Satellite

July 30, 2018

The record-breaking rain and flooding that barraged Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic this past week (July 21-25) was observed twice daily by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite. ESSIC / CICS-MD scientist Patrick Meyers (supporting STAR/CoRP*) compared the rainfall estimates from the current operational AMSR2 precipitation algorithm (GPROF2010V2) and its potential replacement (GPROF2017) to radar rain rate estimates. Comparative analyses show that …

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 …

ESSIC scientists publish article on snowfall rates

May 1, 2018

ESSIC visiting research scientists Ralph Ferraro and Huan Meng, post-doctoral associate Jun Dong, faculty specialist Michael Folmer, associate research scientist Cezar Kongoli, and assistant research scientist Nai-Yu Wang have an article in Eos, which is published by the American Geophysical Union. The article, “Snowfall Rates from Satellite Data Help Weather Forecasters,” describes how NOAA satellite data is used to generate maps that provide information on snowfall rates …

Adler, Ferraro, Gu and Wang to publish in Atmospheres

April 20, 2018

ESSIC scientists Robert Adler, Guojun Gu, Jian-Jian Wang and visiting associate research scientist Ralph Ferraro are co-authors of a new article in press at the journal Atmospheres. It describes the upgraded monthly precipitation analysis provided by the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) and highlights some of the changes seen in 2017 global precipitation based on the new version. Comparing seasonal precipitation from 2016 to 2017, the GPCP data shows that there was …