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Friday, January 23, 2026

CISESS Land Product Scientists Honored by NESDIS

STAR held award celebrations on January 20 at which members of the STAR Land Product Development Science Team won the NESDIS Vision and Creativity “Future is Here Today” Award. Six of the seven-member team are CISESS Scientists: Corinne Carter, Jingjing Peng, Peng Yu, Yuling Liu, Yuan Zhou, and Zhen Song.

Friday, May 2, 2025

CISESS Shines at Maryland Day

On 26 April, the University of Maryland in College Park welcomed the public to its springtime open house. CISESS succeeded in introducing some of the cool research conducted by its scientists, delighting the public along the way.

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Joseph Patton

Apr 26, 2021 08:50 AM

Using Satellite Lightning Data for Forecasting

CISESS Scientist Joseph Patton was a speaker at the “Satellite Book Club,” a program run by the NWS Forecast Decision Training Division. His talk was about how to use the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) as a tool in forecasting. He received a commendation letter this week from GOES-R Data Operations Manager Matthew Seybold for his “outstanding” presentation.

MiRS Water Vapor

Feb 26, 2021 07:56 AM

Satellite Microwave Data for Water Vapor Retrievals

CISESS scientists Chris Grassotti and Yong-Keun Lee coauthored a paper published on January 30th that showed that satellite microwave observations at 23.8 GHz improve the accuracy of total precipitable water (TPW) products over land as well as oceans. This study was motivated by concerns of channel overlap from new 5G communication frequencies.

SFR Analysis

Feb 26, 2021 07:13 AM

ATMS SFR Performance in Recent Snowfall Event

A case study of the East Coast snowstorm from January 31 to February 2 examined the NOAA snowfall rate (SFR) product, which is worked on by CISESS scientists Huan Meng, Jun Dong, Yalei You, Yongzhen Fan, Cesar Kongoli, and Ralph Ferraro. Preliminary results show experimental Snowfall Detection algorithms performed well.

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