Tag: Climate

Figure: Schematic diagram showing the primary physical processes that are associated the interactions between the increased aerosol loading over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and South Asian monsoon (left part with blue arrows) and East and East Asian monsoon (right part with green arrows) in June. SCS is the abbreviation for South China Sea.

Relationship Between the Aerosol Loadings Over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea in the Early Summer and Asian Monsoon Rainfall Anomalies, and the Role of SST Anomalies in the Indian Ocean

July 6, 2023

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Yongsheng Zhang recently published a study on the year-by-year
aerosol variations over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and Arabian Sea (AS) in early spring and their
relationship to the Asian summer monsoon rainfall anomalies using satellite-observed aerosol
products.

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite has been seeing a lot of active winter weather on Feb. 21 from its fixed position over the eastern U.S. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

Oceanic Responses to the Winter Storm Outbreak of February 2021 in the Gulf of Mexico from In Situ and Satellite Observations

June 9, 2023

Korak Saha and Yongsheng Zhang are co-authors of a new paper in Remote Sensing titled “Oceanic Responses to the Winter Storm Outbreak of February 2021 in the Gulf of Mexico from In Situ and Satellite Observations”.

Correlation between coincident snowfall rate observations from CPR and from each sensor over ocean from March 2014 to July 2019. (b) As in (a), but over land.

For Ocean Snow Detection and Intensity, Conical Scanning Beat Cross-Track Radiometers

May 3, 2023

Satellite observations provide the only means for snowfall detection and snowfall intensity estimation on a global scale.

Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises

April 27, 2023

A multidisciplinary group of researchers focused on Earth system science and global change is preparing to leverage the latest scientific tools and discoveries in their fields to meet the existential threats of climate change in Maryland head-on.

English: small stream running though a small town park

A New Approach to Estimating the Benefits of Urban Streams

April 24, 2023

An interdisciplinary team of researchers including ESSIC Scientist Michael Gerst has developed a suite of tools to estimate the total economic value of improving water quality in urban streams.

Jifu Yin presents “Refinement of NOAA AMSR-2 Soil Moisture Data Product using an Optimal Machine Learning Model”

ESSIC Scientists Present at NCWCP-UMD Mini-Conference

March 27, 2023

Recently, researchers from NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) and University of Maryland gathered for a mini-conference to share presentations from recent conferences such as the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meetings.

ESSIC Scientists to Address Climate Change, Predict Future COVID Variants, and Remediate Methane with Grand Challenges Grants

February 17, 2023

The University of Maryland today awarded $30 million to 50 projects through its Grand Challenges Grants Program, an institution-wide initiative to tackle major societal issues.

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) received 16 Grand Challenges grants, five of which include ESSIC scientists.

Examining Climate Variability’s Impact on Simultaneous Breadbasket Yield Shocks

February 2, 2023

Weston Anderson, an Assistant Research Scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, is lead author on a new study that investigates the frequency and trends of simultaneous yield shocks in global breadbaskets, regions that specialize in grain crops.

ESSIC/CISESS at the AMS Annual Meeting

February 1, 2023

ESSIC/CISESS had a large presence at the AMS Annual Meeting, held in mid-January in Denver and virtually.

[VIDEO] ESSIC Scientists Interviewed On Rising Global Temperatures

January 27, 2023

ESSIC Scientists Patricia Parker and Weston Anderson recently participated in the NASA Live Shots media campaign, which resulted in a series of media interviews about the NASA/NOAA global temperature update.