On January 21, ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Guangming Zheng gave a presentation on retrieving chlorophyll concentrations from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) using Deep Learning techniques as part of the 2nd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
Since the industrial revolution, the emission of greenhouse gasses by human activities has been mainly responsible for global warming. This increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused an energy imbalance in the Earth’s climate system, with the world’s oceans absorbing 90% of this excess heat. This has led to an increase in ocean heat content (OHC) and sea level rise. In 2000, Levitus et al. developed the first global OHC time series, identifying a robust long-term ocean warming from 1948-98. Since then, many other analyses of global and regional OHC data have been performed.
Youtong Zheng, ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, and Zhanqing Li, Professor at ESSIC and University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, were recently spotlighted in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) annual report for their paper, “Episodes of Warm‐Air Advection Causing Cloud‐Surface Decoupling During the MARCUS”.
Youtong Zheng, ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, has recently been selected to join the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive Committee (UEC). Zheng is one of the seven new candidates joining the UEC this year and the only candidate from a University of Maryland institution.
ESSIC/CISESS Professors Ross Salawitch and Russell R.Dickerson as well as ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Professor Hao He have a new paper in Atmospheric Environment titled “Using near-road observations of CO, NOy, and CO2 to investigate emissions from vehicles: Evidence for an impact of ambient temperature and specific humidity”. The paper’s co-authors also include Dolly Hall, Xinrong Ren, and Timothy Canty from the University of Maryland’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Jennifer C. Hains, Daniel C. Anderson, and Cory R. Martin.
ESSIC scientist Ross Salawitch was recently interviewed in “Envirocast”, a weekly environmental podcast hosted by Dylan Westheimer, a 14-year-old based in California. In the podcast, Salawitch is interviewed on the Paris Climate Accord, the international agreement meant to limit global warming, in anticipation of President-Elect Joe Biden’s promise to rejoin this agreement.
ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Huan Wu is first author on a new paper in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences titled “From China’s Heavy Precipitation in 2020 to a “Glocal” Hydrometeorological Solution for Flood Risk Prediction”.
ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Professor Ariana Sutton-Grier recently gave a lecture for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science seminar series on how science can better inform climate mitigation and adaptation as well as ecosystem restoration and protection.
As a now traditional part of the ESSIC end-of-year Holiday Party, two annual peer awards were presented to honor the year’s Best Paper and the Employee of the Year. This year, Director Ellen Williams presented these awards to Toshi Matsui, Associate Research Scientist, as well as Donna Gray, Coordinator, and Luther Clark, IT Coordinator.
ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Santiago Gassó was reappointed as a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) for another 3-years term.
