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…
Fig. 1. Global upper 2000 m OHC estimates from 1958 through 2020 from IAP. The histogram presents annual anomalies relative to a 1981−2010 baseline, with…
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…
The University of Maryland, College Park was rated #9 in the world for Geosciences by the most recent U.S News and World Reports ranking, released…
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite captured Hurricane Laura, the deadly Category 4 hurricane that hit Louisiana in late August.…