CICS-MD Scientist Sinéad Farrell has a new article, published in Advances in Space Research on improving the results of coupled ice-ocean models. In this study, ice thickness products from CryoSat-2 were used to initialize the model.
The American Meteorological Society just released their annual State of the Climate report as a supplement to the latest issue of the Bulletin of AMS. Seven CICS-MD scientists wrote sections of the report.
CICS-MD Scientist Michael Folmer has designed a dropsonde mission to study the Saharan Air Layer. The first deployment of the sondes by a NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft occurred on September 20. The results are compared with NOAA-20 profiles.