In a new journal article, CISESS Consortium Institute members Phu Nguyen, Kuo-Lin Hsu, and Soroosh Sorooshian from the University of California Irvine (UCI), along with colleagues from UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, present the new version of the original Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks-Cloud Classification System-Climate Data Record (PERSIANN-CCS-CDR) near-global precipitation dataset covering almost four decades.

CISESS Scientist Annika Jersild gave a talks and Hyelim Yoo presented a poster at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, held 22–27 February 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. CISESS Consortium Scientist Adam Martiny from University of California Irvine and the international Bio GO-SHIP team were the recipients of the TOS Ocean Observing Team Award.