ESSIC Research Associate Bin Zhang received a letter of commendation from Richard Ewing, NOAA's Director of the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services(CO-OPS), for his “exceptional collegiality by working with members of NOS' National Operational Coastal Modeling Program (NOCMP) and STAR to generate the new initial condition fields for the Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CBOFS) in a timely manner.”
![Figure 3. Monthly TPW anomaly time series shown in red for ERA5 and blue for MiRS SNPP, 2012-2021. The straight lines are the linear regression fits. [a] is for global, [b] for Tropics, and [c] for mid-latitude regions, respectively.](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/grassotti-zhou-150x150.png)
