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Last week, it was announced that ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Research Scientist Tom Smith and ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph R. Ferraro will be receiving The Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, the highest honor that can be bestowed by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere that marks outstanding contributions to the efficiency and effectiveness of their operating unit. Smith, who is also a physical scientist in Satellite Applications and …

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently wrote a piece in Tech2 detailing how sea surface temperatures can determine the strength of a monsoon. He wrote this in the eve of Cyclone Fani, a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall on the coast of Odisha, India on Friday, May 3. Fani originated from the Bay of Bengal, a part of the Indian Ocean with sea surface temperatures above 28°C, the threshold for atmospheric deep convection.  These warm temperatures serve as an energy source for …

Sinead Farrell, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Scientist, has recently published an assessment of sea ice thickness products from satellites alongside co-authors from the Finnish Meteorological Institute and University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. The researchers looked at eight years of sea ice thickness observations derived from measurements of CryoSat-2 (CS2), Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) …