Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article in the Hindu Business Line titled “How forecast of extreme rainfall events can be improved”. The article discusses quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF), a weather forecasting method that combines model forecasts of large-scale features with known past values of temperature, humidity, and winds at different pressure levels from the surface to the upper atmosphere.  QPF is very economical compared to running very …

ESSIC Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist Phil Arkin was recently interviewed for a documentary on climate change data by Cemil Alyanak, a local cinematographer. The documentary, working title “Climate Data: Fact or Fabrication”, argues that climate data is fact.  In the film, he will attempt to expose how certain media and denier advocates are the ones actually fudging or selectively presenting data.  As of now, the film has no specific release date. Arkin conducts research …