Tag: Precipitation

The University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Resources’ biannual magazine, Odyssey, recently featured several ESSIC faculty members in its Spring 2016 issue. In an article titled “Environmental Security in a Time of Scarce Resources and Conflicting Priorities,” ESSIC Director, Professor Antonio Busalacchi, Assistant Research Professor Melissa Kenney and CICS Executive Director, Professor Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm discussed the need for an interdisciplinary …

Robert Adler (ESSIC / CICS) was featured in a recent NASA web publication on Satellite-Based Flood Monitoring.  Adler’s team is responsible for the development of the UMD flood monitoring and prediction tool, the Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS).  The GFMS provides key data for Relief Agencies by indicating how an excess rainfall event will impact river flows.  The system also indicates whether there is a potential for flooding downstream away from heavy rain events. …

Patrick Meyers (ESSIC/CICS) recently created a local post-storm animation of lightning flash density, as measured by the DC Lightning Array Mapper (DCLMA).  The animation was requested by the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang—following severe weather on July 1–and was presented in both an online article and via the Post’s social media …

ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Patrick Meyers recently created a local post-storm animation of lightning flash density, as measured by the DC Lightning Array Mapper (DCLMA).  The animation was picked-up and posted across several social media outlets, including the Facebook pages of the Washington/Baltimore National Weather Service Forecast Office and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES-R) project office.  The Washington Post's Capital …

Several ESSIC researchers participated at the 7th annual International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) workshop on Precipitation Measurements in Tsukuba, Japan.  Among those in attendance included, Senior Research Scientists Robert Adler, Associate Research Scientists Yudong Tian and Christopher Kidd, Research Associate Patrick Meyers, and Visiting Associate Research Scientist Ralph Ferarro.  …

ESSIC Research Associate Patrick Meyers was among a group of researchers who shared climate expertise and information with congressional committees and staffers this past May, as part of the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Weather, Water, and Climate Day (WWCD). The event, which was one of many Congressional Visit Days or CVDs held by AMS throughout the year, aims to foster relationships between researchers and policy makers, where information and understandings can be openly …

ESSIC Faculty Research Assistant Patrick Meyers was selected as a recipient of a UMD Division of Information Technology (DIT) grant for visualization hardware. The DIT call for proposals was designed to help UMCP achieve national leadership status in the use of visualization for data exploration and results presentation. Meyer’s award totaled $6K and will be used in part to fund two workstations that will replicate visualization and display technologies employed by the National Weather Service …