Tag: Precipitation

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 …

Rep. Sarbanes visits ESSIC

March 29, 2018

A delegation led by Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) and University of Maryland President Wallace Loh toured the new Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites Proving Grounds Training Center (PGTC) Visualization Lab on March 13. Sarbanes spoke with a small group of ESSIC scientists about the Center’s research and the ongoing threat of climate change. ESSIC interim director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm gave a brief presentation explaining the breadth and …

ESSIC scientists to publish article on snowfall detection algorithm

March 22, 2018

ESSIC associate research scientist Cezar Kongoli, visiting research scientist Huan Meng, post-doctoral associate Jun Dong and visiting associate research scientist Ralph Ferraro have a new article accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. The authors document a new satellite algorithm for snowfall detection. The scientists found that the key variables for snowfall detection were cloud thickness, relative humidity and vertical velocity….