Tag: ralph ferraro

A NOAA visualization of Tropical Storm Fred's path up the East Coast, which spreads from Alabama and Mississippi to northern New York and western Massachussets

Performance of NOAA Satellite-based Precipitation Products During Tropical Storm Fred

September 7, 2021

On August 18, 2021, the western part of North Carolina suffered a catastrophic flash flood caused by Tropical Storm Fred. As part of a NOAA/STAR precipitation validation project, CISESS science team Malar Arulraj, Veljko Petković, Ralph Ferraro, and Huan Meng evaluated the performance of different satellite-based precipitation products during this event using Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) observations.

Ralph Ferraro wears a light blue plaid button-up, smiling in front of a blurred campus background

Ralph Ferraro Named ESSIC Associate Director

August 4, 2021

Ralph Ferraro, previously the Chief of the NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Satellite Climate Studies Branch (SCSB) and ESSIC Visiting Associate Research Scientist, has been named the Associate Director of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) starting August 1, 2021.

The intro slide to the AMS 101 presentation

AMS One-Slide Summaries Now Available

March 3, 2021

Thank you to Deb Baker, CISESS Coordinator, and Ralph Ferraro, Chief of the NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Climate Studies Branch, for compiling the summary slides for STAR and Cooperative Institute presentations from the American Meteorological Society’s 2021 Annual Meeting!

Laviola, Ferraro, Beauchamp Find a New Method for Hail Detection

November 11, 2020

A paper titled “A New Method for Hail Detection from the GPM Constellation: A Prospect for a Global Hailstorm Climatology” has been published in a

A hailstorm obscures the vision of a house

Laviola, Ferraro, Beauchamp Detect Hailstorms Using Satellite Microwave Radiometers

November 11, 2020

A new paper by a team that includes ESSIC/CISESS Faculty Specialist James Beauchamp, ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph R. Ferraro, and co-authors from The

Ferraro Awarded NOAA Bronze Medal

May 26, 2020

A NOAA group including ESSIC/CISESS Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferraro was recently awarded a NOAA Bronze Medal, the highest honor that can be granted by NOAA administrators. The group also included NESDIS recipients Al Wissman, Karen St. Germain, Mitch Goldberg, and Harry Cikanek, the Director of the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research.

ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Contribute to New Book on Satellite Precipitation Measurement

May 6, 2020

Several ESSIC/CISESS scientists have contributed to a new e-book published by Springer titled “Satellite Precipitation Measurement”.