Raghu Murtugudde (ESSIC / AOSC) was featured in a July Livescience post entitled, “Dust Clouds the Future of the South Asian Monsoon.” The post discusses a recent Murtugudde Nature Communications publication regarding how pollution and dust particles blanketing that region are responsible for a 20-percent decline in South Asian monsoon rainfall over the past century. Murtugudde was also quoted in a recent article in WIRED regarding the history of inaccuracies in recently predicted El Nino events.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
