Category: Highlights

Milestone Report on Coral Reef Health Released Worldwide

November 3, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Jacqueline De La Cour was a contributor and reviewer of The Sixth Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020 Report, released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) on October 5th. This sixth edition is the first since 2008 and the first based on the quantitative analysis of a global dataset, compiled from more than 300 contributors and comprising almost 2 million observations from more than 12,000 sites in 73 countries.

Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product to Map US CO2 Emissions

October 29, 2021

ESSIC scientist Zhuosen Wang is a co-author of a chapter in Urban Remote Sensing titled, “US Cities in the Dark: Mapping Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over the Contiguous US Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product”.

Isaac Moradi smiles for the camera, wearing a red gridded button-up and a red tie.

Moradi Speaks to Howard County Interns

October 27, 2021

ESSIC Research Scientist Isaac Moradi presented a talk on October 19, 2021 as part of the Howard County High Schools G/T Intern/Mentor program on the Earth and Space Science fundamentals.

Infrastructure Investment Must Incorporate Nature’s Lessons in a Rapidly Changing World

October 27, 2021

ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier has a new paper out in OneEarth about the importance of nature in climate resilient infrastructure. On this paper, Sutton-Grier worked with researchers from Texas A&M University, US Army Corps of Engineers, University of Georgia, Duke University, and more.

A farmer carries forage for his mule in southwestern Ethiopia. Farther north in the country, starvation spread this year in the face of civil war. Credit: Jacquelyn Turner, International Research Institute for Climate and Society

To Understand Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, Consider Both Climate and Conflict

October 18, 2021

ESSIC scientist Weston Anderson is lead-author on a new paper that suggests that African food insecurity is being driven by an uptick in violent conflict. In the study published in Nature Food, Anderson worked with researchers from Columbia University, New York University, and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Moradi Speaks on Tropical Cyclones at International Conference

October 18, 2021

Isaac Moradi (ESSIC/GMAO) presented a talk entitled “Assimilation of microwave radiances over the rainbands of tropical cyclones” in the WCRP-WWRP Joint Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis.

The Arctic “ozone hole” in March 2020. (NASA)

Salawitch Talks Ozone Hole in the Washington Post

October 18, 2021

Research conducted by ESSIC/AOSC scientist Ross J. Salawitch is featured in a new Washington Post article on the North Pole ozone hole that formed last year.

Figure 1. Global and regional validation of the logistic regression (blue), deep neural network (orange), random forest(green) and XGboost (red) snowfall detection (SD) model for S-NPP.

Fan and Meng Develop New Machine Learning Snowfall Detection Algorithm

October 18, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS scientists Huan Meng and Yongzhen Fan have recently developed a new machine learning snowfall detection (SD) algorithm, based on eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB). The algorithm was developed for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) onboard NPP and NOAA-20 as well as the MHS/AMSU-A onboard Metop-A, Metop-B, Metop-C and NOAA-19.

Retired Satellites: A Chance to Shed Light

October 18, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Zhuosen Wang is a co-author on a letter in Science titled “Retired Satellites: A Chance to Shed Light” alongside researchers from the Universities Space Research Association, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Earth Observation Center, and Northern Arizona University.

A dry desert, with severely cracked ground surrounding a dry tree stump.

Using Seasonal Terrestrial Water Storage Forecasts to Predict African Vegetation Activity

October 1, 2021

ESSIC scientists Kimberly Slinski, Christa Peters-Lidard, and Abheera Hazra are co-authors on a new study that discusses terrestrial water storage (TWS), a metric that provides important information on terrestrial hydroclimate and may have value for seasonal forecasting because of its strong persistence.

Category: Highlights

Milestone Report on Coral Reef Health Released Worldwide

Using NASA’s Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product to Map US CO2 Emissions

Moradi Speaks to Howard County Interns

Infrastructure Investment Must Incorporate Nature’s Lessons in a Rapidly Changing World

To Understand Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, Consider Both Climate and Conflict

Moradi Speaks on Tropical Cyclones at International Conference

Salawitch Talks Ozone Hole in the Washington Post

Fan and Meng Develop New Machine Learning Snowfall Detection Algorithm

Retired Satellites: A Chance to Shed Light

Using Seasonal Terrestrial Water Storage Forecasts to Predict African Vegetation Activity

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