Tag: Satellite Calibration and Validation

Building & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Region & Beyond

July 6, 2023

In January 2022, ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang won a CISESS Seed Grant to evaluate NOAA’s Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLMs) on the GOES-16 and -17 Satellites and the upgraded Mid-Atlantic Lightning Mapping Array (MALMA) using a network of low-cost and innovative atmospheric electricity and lightning measurement tools to take lightning videos. Recently, the initial Seeds Grant period ended and Zhang reported her results.

Zhang Publishes Book on Arizona Lightning

April 6, 2023

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang has published a new book titled Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning with Springer.

Jifu Yin presents “Refinement of NOAA AMSR-2 Soil Moisture Data Product using an Optimal Machine Learning Model”

ESSIC Scientists Present at NCWCP-UMD Mini-Conference

March 27, 2023

Recently, researchers from NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) and University of Maryland gathered for a mini-conference to share presentations from recent conferences such as the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meetings.

Two animations made by Yongzhen Fan’s team using their snowfall rate product showing the evolution of the two winter storms.

Virtual Workshop on “Precipitation Estimation from LEO Satellites: Retrieval and Applications”

March 8, 2023

Last week, NOAA NESDIS held a two-day virtual workshop on “Precipitation Estimation from LEO Satellites: Retrieval and Applications”. The workshop was organized by CISESS Consortium Scientist Kuolin Hsu at University of California, Irvine through a task funded by NESDIS’ Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program Office. The primary goal of the workshop was to determine future satellite observation requirements for global precipitation. The workshop had nearly 100 participants for each of the four sessions that spanned two days.

Fig 1. The retrieved total precipitable water (TPW) and temperature (500 mb) from TROPICs are in good agreement with ECMWF analysis.

Atmospheric Sounding from the CubeSat TROPICS Mission

February 13, 2023

ESSIC/CISESS scientists John Xun Yang, Yong-Keun Lee, and Christopher Grassotti are co-authors on a new paper titled “Atmospheric humidity and temperature sounding from the CubeSat TROPICS mission: Early performance evaluation with MiRS” in Remote Sensing of Environment.

[VIDEO] Zhang helps the Lake-Effect Electrification (LEE) Field Campaign

February 1, 2023

Daile Zhang helped the NSF-funded LEE field campaign in Oswego, NY this week. The LEE project aims to study the electrification mechanism of the lake effect snowstorms in the Great Lake area. This is the first time that scientists have conducted such an experiment. Daile helped launch the balloon and electric field mill in the field, testing and preparing for the electric field mill, and making connectors in the lab.

ESSIC/CISESS at the AMS Annual Meeting

February 1, 2023

ESSIC/CISESS had a large presence at the AMS Annual Meeting, held in mid-January in Denver and virtually.

Figure: Joseph Patton presenting his poster live and in person at AMS. He presented research on the relationship between lightning observations from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the circuitous paths aircraft have to take to avoid turbulent thunderstorms. GLM observations, showing the unique spatial footprint of lightning flashes with rapid updates, play a critical role in enhancing the forecasts of operational aviation meteorologists who are in direct communication with Air Traffic Control and pilots during severe weather events.

ESSIC/CISESS Lightning Group Presented at the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting

February 1, 2023

The ESSIC/CISESS Lightning Group presented five oral talks and four posters (two at the Student Conference) at the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

Evaluation of Snowfall Retrieval Performance of GPM Constellation Radiometers Relative to Spaceborne Radars

January 4, 2023

Several current and former ESSIC/CISESS scientists are co-authors on a new paper in Journal of Hydrometeorology titled “Evaluation of Snowfall Retrieval Performance of GPM Constellation Radiometers Relative to Spaceborne Radars”. Former ESSIC scientist Yalei You was first author on the paper. Current ESSIC/CISESS scientists on the paper are Veljko Petkovic, Lisa Milani, John Yang, and Guojun Gu.

Figure: Annual lightning fatalities and injuries from 2003 to 2018 reported in the Yearbooks of Meteorological Hazards in China. Black and blue curves represent the annual fatalities and injuries, respectively.

Daile Zhang Speaks at the International Conference on Lightning Protection

December 19, 2022

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Daile Zhang is a coauthor of a presentation that was given at the 36th International Conference on Lightning Protection in Cape Town, South Africa during October 2-7, 2022. She has published a conference paper, which was presented by the co-author Ron Holle, a former meteorologist for Vaisala as well as NOAA. The paper is titled “The Epidemiology of Lightning in Mainland China – A Review of Two Datasets from the 1950s to 2018.”

Tag: Satellite Calibration and Validation

Building & Deploying Tools to Better Observe Lightning in the Washington D.C. Region & Beyond

Zhang Publishes Book on Arizona Lightning

ESSIC Scientists Present at NCWCP-UMD Mini-Conference

Virtual Workshop on “Precipitation Estimation from LEO Satellites: Retrieval and Applications”

Atmospheric Sounding from the CubeSat TROPICS Mission

[VIDEO] Zhang helps the Lake-Effect Electrification (LEE) Field Campaign

ESSIC/CISESS at the AMS Annual Meeting

ESSIC/CISESS Lightning Group Presented at the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting

Evaluation of Snowfall Retrieval Performance of GPM Constellation Radiometers Relative to Spaceborne Radars

Daile Zhang Speaks at the International Conference on Lightning Protection

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