Author: Travis Swaim

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article in The Hindu Business Line titled “Understanding link between extreme rainfall events and floods”. In the piece, Murtugudde writes that contrary to popular belief, there is little connection between extreme rainfall events and rising incidence of floods in India. Instead, factors like soil moisture, thunderstorm size, warm temperatures, water storage capacity of tree canopies, and tree leaf wettability can all affect …

ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist Sinead Farrell was quoted in a recent article published in Nature titled “Arctic scientists iced out by US–India radar mission”. The story discusses NISAR, an upcoming NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) radar mission that will study changing polar ice.  Recently, NISAR mission managers have made the decision to focus the satellite’s observations on Antarctica, removing the possibility of monitoring Arctic sea ice …

ESSIC/AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde recently published an article titled “Natural Climate Loads The Dice That Turns California’s Droughts, Wildfires Ugly” in Tech2. The article discusses the role of natural variability in climate change vulnerability.  Murtugudde argues that the natural conditions of a location— such as climate, precipitation rates, and distance from the equator— can exacerbate the effects of climate change. “Despite these human factors that exacerbate drought …