258 – The impacts of aerosol on convective system with WRF
Principal Investigator(s): Tzuchin Tsai
To evaluate the impacts of aerosol on convective system with WRF double-moment microphysical scheme
227 – Microphysical Processes of Atmospheric Convective Systems
Principal Investigator(s): C.-J. Shiu
We validate the hydrometeors simulated by Goddard Multi-scale Modeling Framework (MMF) through comprehensive comparisons with satellite and reanalysis data sets. Major parameters include total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, and cloud ice water as well as precipitation.
203 – Diurnal Variation of Tropospheric Trace Gas Amounts and Aerosol Optical Characteristics
Principal Investigator(s): M. Tzortziou
The project involves the development of a new ground-based network of highly accurate spectrometer systems (Pandora and Cleo instruments, Fig 1) and the development, optimization and validation of remote-sensing retrieval algorithms for obtaining new measurements of aerosol optical characteristics and tropospheric trace gas amounts and vertical distribution (NO2, O3, SO2, H2O, HCHO). The resulting data provide a unique dataset for bounding tropospheric photochemical models, and studying the evolution of tropospheric ozone, NO2, other trace gases, and aerosols and their impacts on climate and air quality. Measurements are applied to improve interpretation of current satellite observations and assess more effective design and observing strategies for future NASA satellite missions.
Despite less than desirable weather, many people still turned out for Maryland Day, a campus wide open house event to promote the departments, organizations and activities around campus.
ESSIC’s display this year was situated on “Science and Tech Way,” with other science and math displays.
Andrew Negri, co-organizer of the event, said ESSIC had 25 volunteers helping out throughout the day, and the weather didn’t stop what he described as “very high traffic” to ESSIC’s …
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Since late 2011, ESSIC scientists have grown accustomed to seeing periodic updates always carrying a similar subject: DYNAMO news. Sent by CICS’s own Augustin Vintzileos, the e-mails signify the success of the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) campaign, which started on October 1st, 2011 and came to a close March 31, 2012. In the 1970s, NCAR scientists Roland Madden and Paul Julian discovered what would later be called the Madden-Julian Oscillation …
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center researcher Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang, also a professor in the CMNS-Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Department, released a regional climate model Fe. 17 called the Climate-Weather Research Forecasting Model (CWRF), a significant extension of the original Weather Research Forecasting Model (WRF). The model has been ten years in the making by Dr. Liang’s team in collaboration with NOAA and NCAR, and …
Volume 1 / Issue 1
CMNS researchers explore impact of climate change on the environment. Highlights include research overviews and comments from ESSIC Faculty members Antonio Busacchi, Sujay Kaushal, Xin-Zhong Liang, & Raghu Murtugudde.
Don’t be surprised if you see a group of people walking in to a third floor wing at ESSIC with rolled up mats and donning exercise clothes. They’re the ESSIC Tuesday yoga group, led by Hui Xu and a tape recording that talks them through their poses. Employees at the NOAA World Weather Building in Camp Springs, MD have been running a similar class for nine years, and will move in to a new M Square building later this summer. Even though the move means classes in a neighboring building …
At the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Conference, Denver, CO, October 24-28, Robert Adler (ESSIC) was the session convener for “Inter-annual and Inter-decadal Variations and Trends in Global and Regional Precipitation and Their Relation to Temperature and Water Vapor Changes.” Omar Muller (ESSIC, advisor Hugo Berbery) won the Best Scientific Presentation award for students and early career scientists with the poster “Using ecosystem functional types as lower boundary conditions in …
Kayo Ide has been selected by the CMPS Board of Visitors to receive the Board’s Junior Faculty Award. Ide studies the dynamics of atmosphere and oceans. The Award, established by the College’s Board of Visitors, recognizes particularly fine accomplishments in research and education by an assistant professor….
