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Schollaert Uz Wins Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Stephanie Schollaert Uz, a former ESSIC employee, is a recipient of the prestigious Arthur S. Flemming Award, an honor that celebrates stellar employees with three to 15 years of federal government service. Schollaert Uz is one of the three recipients recognized for performing outstanding service in the field of applied science and engineering.

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Figure. Snowfall products and report for the snowstorm on March 15, 2021 around 4:30 UTC, (a) satellite-radar merged snowfall rate (mSFR); (b) MRMS radar instantaneous snowfall rate; (c) SNODAS hourly snowfall analysis; (d) mPING crowdsourcing weather report.

Satellites Fill in Radar Gaps in Snowstorm

Some western and central states experienced a strong winter storm on March 13-15. The experimental satellite-radar merged snowfall rate product (mSFR) previously covered in ESSIC News demonstrated how satellites could fill in radar gaps in regions with limited or no radar coverage.

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Simulated daily surface (0-10 cm) soil moisture at 00Z on 25 September 2014 over the Western Land Data Assimilation System (WLDAS) domain. The inset map highlights the 1 km grid spacing of WLDAS products, and the black line encompasses the California Region basin.

A High‐Resolution Land Data Assimilation System Optimized for the Western United States

ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jessica M. Erlingis is first author on a new paper out in Journal of the American Water Resources Association titled “A High‐Resolution Land Data Assimilation System Optimized for the Western United States”. Her co-authors include ESSIC/CISESS scientists Bailing Li and Sujay Kumar as well as researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Saskatchewan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the California State Water Resources Control Board.

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