The American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held last week, January 12 to 16, in Boston. There were significant contributions by ESSIC/CISESS scientists, documented here.
Last month, an article titled “Mapping of Snow Depth by Blending Satellite and In-Situ Data Using Two-Dimensional Optimal Interpolation—Application to AMSR2” was published in the journal Remote Sensing by co-authors Cezar Kongoli, ESSIC/CISESS associate research scientist, Tom Smith, ESSIC/CISESS visiting research scientist, and Jeff Key, chief of NOAA’s Advanced Satellite Products Branch.
Over 20 ESSIC/CISESS scientists and students attended this year’s AGU conference and many more contributed to talks and poster presentations. The talks included:
Professor James Farquhar of the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Geology and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences. Farquhar joins several ESSIC scientists who have received this honor, including Drs. Zhanqing Li and Dorothy Hall. The newest of UMD’s AGU Fellows, Farquhar’s research focuses on sulfur isotope …
More than a trillion new measurements of the Earth’s surface height are now available to the public as the first results of ICESat-2, a mission devoted to measuring the changing height of Earth’s ice. Launched last September, the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 carries the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), an instrument that sends 10,000 laser pulses a second to Earth’s surface. It measures the height of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, and vegetation by …
More than a trillion new measurements of the Earth’s surface height are now available to the public as the first results of ICESat-2, a mission devoted to measuring the changing height of Earth’s ice.
For the first two weeks of April, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Scientist Cezar Kongoli hosted Dr. Sante Laviola from the National Research Council (NRC), part of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (IASC) in Bologna, Italy. The visit’s primary research topics were the satellite detection of atmospheric rivers that contribute to flash floods and major snowstorms as well as the evaluation and inter-comparison of satellite snowfall detection algorithms and products developed at …
Last December, NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card, a reflection of the past year’s land, ice, and ocean observations. Sinead Farrell, ESSIC/CICS Associate Research Scientist, co-authored a chapter on Sea Ice alongside international colleagues. The chapter discussed the continuing decline of Arctic sea ice cover. In 2018, the summer maximum extent was the sixth lowest and the winter minimum extent was the second lowest in satellite record. Of particular interest to the …
ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists actively participated in two recently convened annual societal meetings. The week-long American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting (AGU) held during early December 2018 in Washington, D.C., boasted 1,900 oral and poster sessions, 26,000 abstracts, and 24,000 attendees. A number of ESSIC/CICS scientists presented talks, including Melissa Kenney, Ross Salawitch, and Dorothy Hall. (A listing of some of the ESSIC / CICS affiliated participants can be found …
The American Meteorological Society just released their annual State of the Climate report as a supplement to the August issue of the Bulletin of AMS. Five ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists wrote sections of the report: ● Jim Reagan (NCEI) provided an annual summary of the subsurface seawater salinity as well as the introductory section on Salinity in the Global Oceans chapter. ● Robert Adler (NCEI) co-authored the precipitation subsection for the Hydrological Cycle section in the Global …
