Over 20 ESSIC/CISESS scientists and students attended this year’s AGU conference and many more contributed to talks and poster presentations. The talks included:
Last month, NOAA/AMS/EUMETSAT held their annual Joint Satellite Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. ESSIC/CISESS had a large contingent of scientists at the meeting presenting posters and giving talks, listed below. ESSIC scientists’ talks included:
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Earlier this month, Geophysical Research Letters published an article co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Yalei You and Faculty Specialist Jun Dong as well as Visiting Research Scientist Huan Meng and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky. Titled “Time‐Lag Correlation Between Passive Microwave Measurements and Surface Precipitation and Its Impact on Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation”, the study showed a time lag between satellite radiometer-retrieved …
Last week was the annual meeting of the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS), an international collaborative effort to monitor, improve, and harmonize observations from the Global Observing System weather and environmental satellites. The meeting, held in Frascati, Italy, included a “Mini-Conference” on calibration activities outside of GSICS as well as reports, briefs, and discussions on the GSICS Research Working Group, GSICS Data management Working Group, and GSICS …
This week, ESSIC / CICS-MD Senior Faculty Specialist Patrick Meyers was awarded the GOES-R Series Program Award for Outstanding Communication. Recognized for his visualizations of Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery, Meyers created the animations to support the NESDIS and GOES-R program as well as to draw new viewers to NESDIS social media. In September, one of Meyers’ animations of Hurricane Florence made it to President Trump’s Twitter feed, garnering 2.05 million views, 12k …
The American Meteorological Society just released their annual State of the Climate report as a supplement to the August issue of the Bulletin of AMS. Five ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists wrote sections of the report: ● Jim Reagan (NCEI) provided an annual summary of the subsurface seawater salinity as well as the introductory section on Salinity in the Global Oceans chapter. ● Robert Adler (NCEI) co-authored the precipitation subsection for the Hydrological Cycle section in the Global …
In support of the recent public and scientific interest surrounding coverage of Hurricane Florence, ESSIC/CICS-MD senior faculty specialist Patrick Meyers prepared a small video of associated storm lightning as recorded by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). The animation, subsequently disseminated via NOAA social media channels was later included in a tweet by President Donald Trump, announcing support for those who might be affected by Hurricane Florence. In just a few hours, the tweet …
On Monday, August 27, CICS-MD hosted the Poster Session and Reception for this year’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Annual Science Conference. A total of 67 posters were on display. Congratulations to the six ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists who presented: – Cezar Kongoli, et al., “Calibration and Validation of the S-NPP Snowfall Detection Algorithm;” – Yuling Liu et al., “Preliminary Quality Assessment of NOAA 20 LST EDR …
The record-breaking rain and flooding that barraged Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic this past week (July 21-25) was observed twice daily by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite. ESSIC / CICS-MD scientist Patrick Meyers (supporting STAR/CoRP*) compared the rainfall estimates from the current operational AMSR2 precipitation algorithm (GPROF2010V2) and its potential replacement (GPROF2017) to radar rain rate estimates. Comparative analyses show that …
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 …
