Fan Tracks the 2025 New Year Blizzard
January 13, 2025
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Yongzhen Fan used the NOAA/NESDIS Snowfall Rate (SFR) product to give a timely update on Winter Storm Blair, the new year’s significant and
Tag: Precipitation
Satellite Liaison Captures Hurricane Activity
October 23, 2024
Chris Smith, ESSIC/CISESS Faculty Assistant, has been posting updates on hurricane activity on the Satellite Liaison Blog, a blog for scientists to demonstrate how satellite
Global Precipitation Summary for September 2024
October 21, 2024
Download Headlines La Nina pattern of tropical anomalies not obvious, although the Nino 3.4 index was -0.4 at the end of September Dry conditions
ESSIC Scientists Attend the 2024 NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions Science Team Meeting
October 14, 2024
Figure 1- Chris Kidd, Toshi Matsui, Veljko Petkovic, Lisa Milani, Kwo-Sen Kuo, Ralph Ferraro ESSIC scientists participated at the annual meeting of the PMM Science
Petković Presents at UMD’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Seminar Series
September 30, 2024
On September 5, ESSIC/CISESS scientist Veljko Petković presented the second seminar of the season at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, a talk entitled
Global Precipitation Summary for August 2024
September 10, 2024
Download Headlines After a hot Northern Hemisphere summer, global precipitation for August remains just above average The tropical rainfall anomaly pattern for August shifts
ESSIC on State of the Climate in 2023
August 26, 2024
This week, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) released its annual State of the Climate report in 2023. Compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information,
Precipitation Vertical Structure Characterization: A Feature-Based Approach
February 5, 2024
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Malarvizhi Arulraj, Veljko Petkovic, Ralph R. Ferraro, and Huan Meng have a new study out in Journal of Hydrometeorology titled, “Precipitation Vertical Structure Characterization: A Feature-Based Approach”.
Optimal Summertime Precipitation Data from GEO and LEO Observations
November 17, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Veljko Petković, Malarvizhi Arulraj, and CISESS Summer Intern Vesta Gorooh (UCI PhD student) have a new article in the November issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology. The article describes the use of machine learning techniques to improve the retrieval of surface precipitation from passive meteorological sensors aboard geosynchronous Earth-orbiting (GEO) and low Earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites.
Can We Estimate the Uncertainty Level of Satellite Long-Term Precipitation Records?
September 27, 2023
Veljko Petković is first author on a new paper in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology titled, “Can We Estimate the Uncertainty Level of Satellite Long-Term Precipitation Records?”.
