Tag: Atmospheric Chemistry and Carbon

ESSIC / GEOL Professor James Farquhar will receive the 2014 Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry. The award, which in 2014 is named after Samuel Epstein, is bestowed upon scientists who have recently made a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry. The geochemical research must be highly original and contribute in a significant fashion to our understanding of the natural behavior of the Earth or planets. Such a contribution must be in …

A new journal article entitled “Spectroscopic measurements of a CO2 absorption line in an open vertical path using an airborne lidar” by ESSIC Researchers Anand Ramanathan, Jianping Mao, Clark Weaver  was accepted for publication by Applied Physics Letters (Available for free download at the following: http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/co2sounder/)…

James Farquhar was quoted in ScienceNews, September 25, on research published in Nature by Crowe et al. suggesting that that there were appreciable levels of atmospheric oxygen about 3 billion years ago, some 300-400 million years earlier than scientists thought….

ESSIC Assistant Research Scientist, Maria Tzortziou co-authored an article entitled “Bay Breeze Influence on Surface Ozone at Edgewood, MD, during July 2011”, published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ (Open Access, J Atmos Chem, DOI 10.1007/s10874-012-9241-6).  The lead Author is Ryan Stauffer from the Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University.  Co-authors include Anne Thompson and Douglas Martins from The Pennsylvania State …

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Senior Research Scientist Rong-Hua Zhang, of the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, has outlined the recent annual success of his Intermediate Coupled Model (ICM) in a newly published study.

The paper titled “A Successful Real-Time Forecast of the 2010-11 La Nina Event” was published in Nature’s on-line sub-journal, Scientific Reports.

Zhang’s ICM model has steadily developed a reputation within the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) research community

James Farquhar was mentioned in Earth & Climate, December 10 in an article on research conducted with John Jamieson (2005 M.S. Geology) and colleagues and published (advance online) in Nature, December 2. Their analysis of sulfide ore deposits from one of the world’s richest base-metal mines (Kidd Creek, Ontario, Canada) confirms that oxygen levels were extremely low on Earth 2.7 billion years ago, but also shows that microbes were actively feeding on sulfate in the ocean and influencing …

In researcher Clark Weaver's eyes, climate change information has been entirely focused on global increases, while disregarding regional and state trends.

With the help of Eugene Cordero, a meteorology professor at San Jose state, Weaver, an associate research scientist at ESSIC, created his self-funded site temperaturetrends.org, which focuses exclusively on temperature trends at local levels.   Site visitors can see the actual temperature records from each of the 1200

ESSIC's Professor Raghu Murtugudde appeared on Fox News today to discuss climate change's effect on Hurricane Sandy. According to the professor and other experts, Hurricane Sandy was much worse than it could have been due to global warming. "The question now is really not whether each weather event is caused by global warming," Said Murtugudde on Fox. "The climate has warmed, and the weather has formed anyway, but they are all now forming in a much warmer, much …

More Americans are beginning to believe temperatures are rising on earth, according to a survey released yesterday by the Pew Research Center. About 67 percent of all Americans now feel that global climate change is occurring, which indicates a slow but persistent increase in public acceptance of warming temperatures from 2009 data. The biggest Republican jump came among conservatives, whose belief in warming leapt 12 points since 2011 and now stands at 43 percent. The party began shifting …