Figure 1 | Flooding in July 2021 caused mass evacuation in Weihui, Henan province, in China. Xin-Zhong Liang was recently published in Nature’s “News and…
As a part of American Geophysical Union’s 2021 Annual Meeting, AGU hosted a contest in which scientists submitted photos and videos depicting their science without…
Last month, researchers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Maryland (UMD) Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) gathered to…
The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has brought tremendous opportunities to advance knowledge in earth science, most prominently by enabling…
Stratospheric clouds above the Arctic, like those seen here over Kiruna, Sweden, provide ideal conditions for chemical reactions that transform chlorine to a form that…
ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde is featured in a new interview in OneIndia about the frequency and intensity of cyclones, particularly over the Indian Ocean.
Increasing Cl− trends in freshwaters globally. Data collected from GEMstat for most rivers. Pienaars River data is from Huizenga et al. (2013). Des Plaines River…
Simulated daily surface (0-10 cm) soil moisture at 00Z on 25 September 2014 over the Western Land Data Assimilation System (WLDAS) domain. The inset map…
An ozonesonde launches at Hohenpeissenberg Meteorological Observatory, Germany. The ozone sensor is in the white styrofoam cylinder dangling from the balloon, which will carry the…
By: Media Relations Contact: Kimbra Cutlip, kcutlip@umd.eduPublisher: University of Maryland Department of PhysicsPublished: February 7, 2021 Ellen Williams is an optimist. And she believes in the…