Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC/CISESS Research Professor Xiaolei Zou and Post-doctoral Associate Xiaoxu Tian recently published an article in Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography titled, “A comprehensive 4D-Var vortex initialization using a nonhydrostatic axisymmetric TC model with convection accounted for”. The article discusses the development of a four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) vortex initialization system meant to measure different variables of severe weather events, including temperature, …

Last week, ESSIC hosted retired NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) scientist Dr. Norman Grody for the Seminar Series, ESSIC’s weekly event celebrating the center’s vast research.  Dr. Grody’s seminar drew over 60 in-person attendees and 30 online attendees, making it the most well-attended seminar of the year so far. Dr. Grody brought in a homemade microwave radiometer, which he constructed using information and components available on the Internet.  He was able …

Last week, ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier attended a Coastal Resilience Briefing located at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.  The briefing, titled “Using Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce the Risk of Flooding, Save Tax Dollars, and Provide Important Habitat”, featured a panel of experts alongside the premiere of their new promotional video.  Sutton-Grier, an expert on coastal resilience, represented the University of Maryland alongside the event hosts …

Staff from NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW), an initiative supported by the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)-administered Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), just co-authored a new publication on high-latitude coral bleaching in Australia in Global Change Biology. The piece, “Refugia under threat: Mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high-latitude eastern Australia”, examined the effect of the 2016 mass coral bleaching event on high latitude …