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July 12, 2021
Announcing ESSIC’s 1st AI/ML Workshop: On the Pathway to a Digital Earth
To embrace the rapidly evolving field of AI/ML, ESSIC launches the ESSIC AI Forum and a one-day workshop: “On the Read more
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Ralph Ferraro Named ESSIC Associate Director
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Major Step for UMD’s DAWN Project as Agricultural Decision-Support Website Launches
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Remote Sensing of Night-time Light
The figure above shows the percentage of months under moderate to extreme drought conditions during the crops’ critical growing months from January 1979 to December 2018. The
Drought Characteristics in Argentina

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Figure: Photo of Terrence (left) and Guangyang (right) working on the GPS cable. The lightning detector is on the left-hand side of the picture. The triangle-shaped antenna detects the VHF radiation produced by lightning strikes.
August 24, 2021
DCLMA Lightning Detection Antenna Repairs
Figure: Collocated and globally averaged SST biases against Argo observations. A 15-day filter is applied to all curves for readability.
August 24, 2021
NOAA Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1
Figure: This is a precipitation event on 29 August 2020 over the Pacific Ocean near the lower California peninsula. (a) the cross-track radiometer precipitation data, (b) the conical scanning radiometer precipitation data, (c) the reference data for the event, and (d) the “morphed” radiometer precipitation data. The box shows the area of improvement due to morphing.
August 24, 2021
Improving Satellite Precipitation Retrieval
Figure. Comparing different algorithms for estimating NEDT against TVAC measurement. The new algorithm out-performs traditional algorithms of EUMETSAT, UK MetOffice and NOAA. While the 183 GHz is prone to 1/f noise, the new algorithm produces an accurate estimate of NEDT and is superior to traditional algorithms.
August 24, 2021
A New Algorithm to Estimate Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature

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Ralph Ferraro wears a light blue plaid button-up, smiling in front of a blurred campus background
August 4, 2021
Ralph Ferraro Named ESSIC Associate Director
A sun peaks over the horizon of a flat, grassy field
July 27, 2021
Major Step for UMD’s DAWN Project as Agricultural Decision-Support Website Launches
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July 12, 2021
Announcing ESSIC's 1st AI/ML Workshop: On the Pathway to a Digital Earth
Stratospheric clouds above the Arctic, like those seen here over Kiruna, Sweden, provide ideal conditions for chemical reactions that transform chlorine to a form that depletes the Earth’s protective ozone layer. New research shows that unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, climate patterns that favor the formation of such clouds will continue to accelerate ozone loss. (Photo Credit: Ross Salawitch/UMD).
June 23, 2021
Rising Greenhouse Gases Pose Continued Threat to Arctic Ozone Layer

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