Tag: Satellite Calibration and Validation

ESSIC contributes to NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program Symposium

June 12, 2018

A group of ESSIC scientists attended the NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program Annual Science Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin on June 6 and 7. CICS deputy director Hugo Berbery attended along with six ESSIC/CICS scientists who contributed oral presentations and posters: CICS graduate assistant Katherine Lukens, CICS scientist Veljko Petkovic, ESSIC associate research scientist Likun Wang, ESSIC post-doctoral associate Jingjing Peng, ESSIC post-doctoral associate Jun Zhou and ESSIC …

ESSIC researchers present at American Meteorological Society conference

January 24, 2018

ESSIC was a visible participant at the 98^th annual American Meteorological Society’s conference in early January in Austin, Texas. Center researchers and visiting ESSIC scientists participated in the following activities at the meeting: Talks:

Melissa Kenney – Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks
Ralph Ferraro – In-Orbit

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Wang and Zhang published in Journal of Geophysical Research

December 13, 2017

ESSIC researchers Likun Wang and Bin Zhang are authors of a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres regarding improvements in geolocation assessment for Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) scan angles. The new method reduces geolocation errors in the data. Data quality of the CrIS is essential for atmospheric and temperature profiles, trace gas measurements and model assimilation….

Ferraro, Liu and Yu contribute to new book series

December 13, 2017

Several ESSIC scientists contributed to the newly released multi-volume series “Comprehensive Remote Sensing.” Ralph Ferraro, a visiting associate research scientist, served as both an author and editor for volume four on the water cycle. In addition, assistant research scientists Yuling Liu and Peng Yu contributed to the fifth volume on the earth’s energy budget….

ESSIC staff present at EUMETSAT conference in Rome

October 13, 2017

ESSIC staff presented at the annual Meteorological Satellite Conference hosted by EUMETSAT in Rome in early October. Research Professor & CICS-MD Director Hugo Berbery gave a presentation titled “Consistency Analysis of the Water Cycle from Recently-Derived Satellite Products.” Other ESSIC scientists presented on NOAA scientific results, including Xiaolei Zou, Narges Shahroudi, Lin Lin, Andrew Harris, Bin Zhang, Manik Bali and Likun Wang….

From College Park to Earth Orbit, UMD Scientists Improve Quality of Global Weather Satellite Data

January 17, 2017

“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of satellites whizzing around Earth collecting mountains of data makes such constant and wide-ranging access to accurate weather forecasts possible. Just one satellite, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R that launched in 2016, …

ESSIC End of Year Awards to Huang and Maddox

December 13, 2016

As a now traditional part of the ESSIC end-of-year Holiday Party itinerary, two annual peer awards are presented for the year's best published research paper, as well as the staff employee of the year. At this year's December 8th event, ESSIC Interim Director Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm recognized two Center employees. ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist Jingfeng Huang was recognized as the "best paper" award recipient for his first author article …

Recent STAR/NESDIS Awards include CICS-MD

June 27, 2016

Four individuals from the ESSIC-administered Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland (CICS-MD) were recognized in June 2016 by the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), the science arm of the NOAA Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS). The annually presented “STAR Awards” are provided in recognition of both individuals and teams who have demonstrated novel approaches in the development and application of problem solving techniques, …

Miralles-Wilhelm named ESSIC Interim Director

May 6, 2016

Friday, 6 May 2016

Dean Jayanth Banavar of the University of Maryland’s (UMD) College of Computer, Mathematics and Natural Sciences (CMNS) announced yesterday that Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm has been named Interim Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC).

Miralles-Wilhelm, a hydrologist and Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at UMD has served as ESSIC Acting Director since January 2016, when former director Antonio Busalacchi began sabbatical leave.

ESSIC Director Busalacchi named new President of UCAR

May 5, 2016

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Dean Jayanth Banavar of the University of Maryland’s (UMD) College of Computer, Mathematics and Natural Sciences (CMNS) announced today that Professor Antonio Busalacchi has accepted the role of President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), effective August 1, 2016.

Busalacchi, who has served as Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) since his arrival from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in