National Newsletter for the
Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science
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IN THIS ISSUE
- Hello from Hanne
- Scientists in the Eye of the Hurricane
- NOAA Bill Lapenta Internship Program
- NOAA Fellowship Application Announcement
- U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program
- NOAA Ocean Exploration's Explorer-in-Training Program
- Student Research: NOAA Bill Lapenta Interns Research
- US CLIVAR
- NOAA C&GC Networking Meeting
- PUNCH Science Meeting
- Welcome to CPAESS
- Open Sky and Your Publications
- Who Is CPAESS?
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September 2021
This is our newsletter so if you have a cool picture, a suggestion, or a question, please send it!
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Hello Everyone,
First of all, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new staff members. We have been fortunate to have gained 15 new employees since our last newsletter. You are most welcome to CPAESS. As you will see, our program is filled with many diverse and brilliant minds. We are delighted to have you as part of the team.
We have just wrapped up the Performance Evaluation process for the year, and it has been wonderful meeting with so many of you. Please know that after studying many of your evaluations, I am incredibly impressed with the tremendous work that you do. Thank you so much for your many varied contributions to Earth system science, including the protection and education of our communities.
Your merit raises will go into effect on October 3, 2021. You need to have renewed your annual employee certifications on Workday regarding the UCAR Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Statement for your increase to go through. Your merit increase will be commensurate to your performance evaluation rating, as discussed with your supervisor. This coming month please look out for first quarter meeting invitations from your supervisor to go over your SMART goals.
I would like to extend a special thank you to our staff and the National Hurricane Center’s Surge Center, and the many other scientists in other offices (like Zorana noted below) for their critical work forecasting hurricanes. I know we are in the height of hurricane season and you are all very busy. Thank you so much for your critical work.
Finally, I would like to let you know that CPAESS has been awarded two NOAA Cooperative agreement renewals. They are the NOAA Science Collaboration Program (SCP) Cooperative Agreement, and the NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP) Cooperative Agreement both agreements will be for the next five years. We are absolutely delighted to have secured this continued partnership with NOAA again.
I hope you all have the opportunity to enjoy this beautiful fall weather. As always please reach out if there is anything I can do for you, or if you have any questions.
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Scientists in the Eye of the Hurricane
Special thank you to Julie Philipsen of UCP for authoring this article
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The eye of Hurricane Ida, photographed by Zorana Jelenak aboard a NOAA P-3 aircraft
Last week, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana and the gulf coast of the U.S with devastating force. In the days leading up to Hurricane Ida’s arrival, UCP scientists played a critical role in plotting the storm’s course and intensity.
CPAESS scientist Zorana Jelenak, who works at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Informational Service (NESDIS) was on the front line aboard NOAA’s P-3 aircraft as a member of Ocean Winds Team from the Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP).
“We flew into Ida for three days in a row, Aug. 26-28. Our last mission on Sunday, Aug. 28, during which Ida’s intensity peaked, was an NESDIS-tasked research mission. We worked closely with our colleagues from the Hurricane Research Division and extensively sampled the ocean and atmosphere in areas of highest rain and wind regimes just before the landfall. We provided data to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in real-time and adjusted our flight pattern to accommodate requests from NHC forecasters. It was a hugely successful flight for both research and operations,” she said.
The Ocean Winds Team utilizes advanced radar systems on the NOAA P-3 aircraft to support product development and calibration/validation of satellite remote sensing products in the extreme environmental conditions found in tropical and extratropical cyclones. These radar systems include a dual-frequency (C- and Ku-band) profiling scatterometer system also known as IWRAP (Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler) and a Ka- and Ku-band altimeter also know as KaIA (Ka-band Interferometric Altimeter). IWRAP is capable of measuring the volume reflectivity and Doppler velocity in these storms in the presence of rain at finer spatial resolutions than have ever been measured before, Zorana explained. IWRAP also measures the surface backscatter, and combined with KaIA is able to characterize what is happening at the air-sea interface in these extreme conditions at a level of detail that hasn’t been possible before.
“This year, with support of the NOAA OAR AWARD (NA19OAR4590328) to UCAR CPAESS, the team has configured IWRAP to provide next-generation observations of the three-dimensional (3D) hurricane boundary layer (HBL) and ocean surface vector winds in near real time. Due to its intimate connection to the dynamics of intensity change, HBL is a critical region of a tropical cyclone; and therefore, frequent high resolution sampling of this region is of critical significance for both research and operations,” Zorana said.
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This figure represents a flight pattern flown during NESDIS research landfalling mission into Hurricane Ida.
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Turbulence within the HBL plays an important role in air-sea exchange, drives anomalous storm surge, and causes direct wind damage, producing significant human impacts.
“For the first time during our last Ida flight we were able to see these high resolution turbulent structures in near real time,” she said. (See Figure below).
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This figure represents Doppler reflectivity, horizontal, tangential, radial and vertical wind speeds during one eyewal penetration. High resolution measurements reveal coherent turbulent structures responsible for wind damage on the ground even 80km from the storm center. |
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As NOAA is looking for the heavy aircraft and instrumentation replacements for the P3’s, the datasets collected by IWRAP and KaIA will also provide the scientific support of the business case for next generation remote sensing equipment. The Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR) being designed by NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) is one such example. The remote sensing capabilities possible today from IWRAP and KaIA allow us to demonstrate in real-time the value of the very fine spatial resolution measurements to the human forecasters and to the modeling systems of the Earth’s ocean and atmosphere.
This week, Jelenak is aboard another NOAA P-3 aircraft tracking Hurricane Larry. Click here to view a video that was taken as the crew flew over the eye of Hurricane Larry on Sept. 7. You can learn more about SPS | CPAESS and the Ocean Surface Winds team.
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Zorana Jelenak monitoring Hurricane Idea
aboard a NOAA P-3 Aircraft
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NOAA’s P-3 Aircraft use to measure hurricane forces |
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NOAA Bill Lapenta Internship Program |
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The NOAA Bill Lapenta Internship Program is a unique 10-week long opportunity open to U.S. citizens who are sophomore or junior undergraduates, or in a graduate program. Students are matched with NOAA mentors and study a breadth of work from modelling and programming, to new data analysis techniques, and the incorporation of social science to communicate science. |
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Dr. William “Bill” Lapenta served as director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) from 2013-2019, and was a champion for atmospheric science within NOAA. After his passing in 2019, the NOAA community created an internship in his honor to reflect his passion for mentoring the next generation of meteorologists. The Bill Lapenta internship is an expansion of a National Weather Service internship that has been evolving under the guidance of Genene Fisher, OER; Jackie Alexander, NWS; Monica Bozeman, NWS; and Todd Christenson, NOAA CPO, who graciously spoke with us about the internship.
CPAESS helps manage this program by hiring the interns as visitors and taking care of all of their logistics. NOAA matches them with mentors, and the students learn and get a “hands on” education during the summer. This internship has traditionally focused on modeling and programming but can cover a wide range of skills depending on the mentors available. They include: how to improve understanding of forecasting problems, operational model development, new data analysis techniques, improving forecast tools (including use of GIS), coding and testing of data visualization systems, the development of datasets for the Science on a Sphere, the incorporation of social science to communicate science, improving air quality and dispersion models, and contributing to the development of the National Climate Assessment and other reports (NOAA).
These summer internships are ten weeks long and are open to U.S. citizens who are sophomore or junior undergraduates, or in a graduate program. They are matched with mentors and may be placed at the “NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) facilities: Climate Program Office (Silver Spring, MD), Office of Weather and Air Quality (Silver Spring, MD), Air Resources Laboratory (College Park, MD), and the Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) (College Park, MD) (NOAA).”
Among the students in this internship, a certain portion of them is designated to NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) program. The areas of study are expanded and delve more into earth system science with climate as a cross disciplinary area. In particular the space where ocean and atmosphere converge. Depending on mentor availability the internships could address the breadth of OAR’s mission.
This addition of OAR-mentored students created a record-breaking number of interns to 34 this summer. A special thanks to Whitney Robinson, Heather Koch, and Katy Lackey for their support of this summer’s internship program. Find out more about this opportunity.
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NOAA Fellowship Application Announcement |
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CPAESS is pleased to announce that we are seeking applicants for the 2022 NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This fellowship program has an outstanding reputation for attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. |
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This prestigious NOAA-sponsored program appoints fellows that are hosted by a mentoring scientist at a U.S. university or research institution to work in an area of mutual interest. The objective of the program is to help create the next generation of leaders in climate research. It endeavors to attract recent PhDs in sciences that address studies with relevance to the NOAA climate research goals.
Desired research areas focus on observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability and change on seasonal and longer time scales. This includes the documentation and analysis of past, current, or possible future climate variability and change as well as the study of the underlying physical, chemical, and biological processes.
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U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program |
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One of the programs that CPAESS hosts is the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program which works with fourteen federal agencies and departments on carbon cycle science and climate and global change. At its helm is Dr. Gyami Shrestha who works with Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) to support peer-reviewed research of carbon cycle science across the federal government. The CCIWG is responsible for defining program goals, setting research priorities, and reviewing the progress of the research programs that contribute to carbon cycle science.
Recently the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program has been supporting and advancing coordination in federal and interagency carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research across terrestrial, oceanic, atmospheric and societal dimensions. Check out this recent brochure getting into much more detail about these efforts. CPAESS’ own Alex Meyer had the pleasure of helping design this important science layout.
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The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science also organized a special session at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America on the Decadal Strategic Planning and Implementation: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and the North American Carbon Program which occurred on August 4, 2021.
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The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program (US CCSP) is a federal multi-agency research program established under US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) auspices in 1999. It incorporates broad coordinated community input such as from the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plans (1999, 2011). Researchers and program managers have been using the 2011 Plan to expand and enhance our understanding of the carbon and pertinent biogeochemical cycles across land, water, air and society from local to regional to global scales. One such program, the North American Carbon Program (NACP) is a multi-agency, multidisciplinary community of practice focused on understanding carbon sources and sinks in North American and adjacent oceans. As a core program of the US CCSP, NACP has recently developed a Science Implementation Plan to inform research, scientific collaboration, and syntheses across 5 program elements: sustained and expanded observations; assessment and integration; processes and attribution; prediction; and communication, coordination, and decision support.
In this open forum, they discussed and sought community input on research progress since 2011, the new NACP Science Implementation Plan, and the broader decadal strategic planning vision of the US CCSP. Pertinent U.S. research funding programs, observation networks and coordination capabilities and opportunities across agencies and internationally will also be discussed. Find out more here and subscribe to their newsletter here.
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NOAA Ocean Exploration's Explorer-in-Training Program
Special thanks to Trish Albano of NOAA for her written updates on students in this article
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CPAESS is proud to work with NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Explorer-in-Training Program. This competitive program enables undergraduate and graduate students to learn skills that meet the current and future demands of the ocean exploration workforce; providing meaningful experiential learning opportunities that support NOAA Ocean Exploration’s mission; and inspire ocean literacy for the next generation. NOAA Ocean Exploration is dedicated to exploring our deep ocean, closing the prominent gap in our basic understanding of U.S. deep waters and seafloor, and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of our nation.
Using the latest tools and technology, NOAA Ocean Exploration explores previously unknown areas of our deep ocean, making discoveries of scientific, economic, and cultural value. Through live video streams, online coverage, training opportunities, and real-time events, they allow scientists, resource managers, students, members of the general public, and others to actively experience ocean exploration, expanding available expertise, cultivating the next generation of ocean explorers, and engaging the public in exploration activities. From this exploration, NOAA Ocean Exploration makes the collected data needed to understand our ocean publicly available, so we can maintain the health of our ocean, sustainably manage our marine resources, accelerate our national economy, and build a better appreciation of the value and importance of the ocean in our everyday lives.
The data collected informs policies and actions leading to the conservation, management and the balanced use of the ocean. The office strives to provide resources and develop technological solutions along with innovative applications to address questions in undersea exploration. A fundamental part of their mission is the engagement of the marine science community, general public and training of the next generation of explorers.
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NOAA’s Ship Okeanos Explorer is the only federally funded vessel used exclusively for discovery and exploration.
(Photo courtesy of NOAA)
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NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer is the nation’s only federal vessel dedicated to ocean exploration. The ship is equipped with advanced tools that support systematic exploration of unknown ocean regions. High-resolution sonars, deep-water remotely operated vehicles, and telepresence technology are used to collect baseline information in unexplored areas.
Due to safety considerations in regard to the COVID pandemic, adjustments had to be made for this summer’s Explorer-in-Training program. In response, NOAA both adapted and expanded the program's scope. This summer’s interns included Noelle Helder, Hannah Miller, Marcel Peliks, Anna Takagi-Berry, Treyson Gillespie, and Paola Santiago.
NOAA Ocean Exploration’s operations include exploring previously unvisited areas of the ocean through expeditions. “To accomplish this, the office develops mission plans that provide a suite of services needed to virtually take scientists and managers to high-priority, yet otherwise inaccessible, areas aided by tools such as remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Noelle worked with the ROV Expedition Coordinator team to gain tangible skills in operational project management, software tools to support planning and execution, and knowledge of ocean exploration data resources. Some of her main objectives include creating interactive maps for expedition planning, compiling and analyzing data to make ROV dive plan recommendations for upcoming expeditions, and synthesizing materials from previous exploration efforts to inform future expedition plans (Trish Albano, NOAA).” Check out some of the technology demonstration in this video.
As we have seen before with CPAESS communications personnel at NOAA Ocean Exploration, Christa Rabenold and Rachel Gulbraa, that the office strives to help the public learn and become involved in this cutting edge exploration work. “NOAA Ocean Exploration employs a suite of communication strategies and media tools that bring discoveries to a wide range of audiences.” Explorer-in-Training Hannah worked on an “interdisciplinary project with the Communications Team and Science & Technology Division to gain experience in scientific communication by creating content for the web, interviewing scientists to gather information about ocean exploration tools, and supporting engagement efforts via telepresence during the 2021 NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer field season. Some of her main objectives included revitalizing the Exploration Tools section of the website and various writing tasks such as a short article covering one of NOAA Ocean Exploration’s federally-funded projects and expedition feature articles for the current Okeanos Explorer field season (Trish Albano, NOAA).”
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An example of seafloor mapping education that Explorers-in-Training traditionally learn.
(Photo courtesy of NOAA)
Pivotal to NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Explorer-in-Training program is seafloor and deepwater mapping. “The NOAA Ocean Exploration mapping team has capitalized on the capabilities of cloud-based workspaces to allow for shore-based, remote mapping operations that would typically be conducted at-sea. This emerging technology allowed for an innovative way to train students in deepwater mapping while complying with the pandemic limitations for at-sea personnel. The NOAA Ocean Exploration mapping team is working with four Explorers-in-Training to pilot this technology as the students conduct mapping efforts from their home bases (Trish Albano, NOAA).” The cloud mapping interns were Marcel Peliks, Anna Takagi-Berry, Treyson Gillespie, and Paola Santiago.
CPAESS is very proud to support and be a part of NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Explorer-in-Training program. If you are interested in learning more please go here or here. If you’d like to check out NOAA’s videos of their work and new discoveries on these voyages please go here.
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Student Research: NOAA Bill Lapenta Interns Research |
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As mentioned in an article above, this year we had a recording breaking 34 interns participate in the NOAA Bill Lapenta Internship Program. Here are highlights from a couple of these students to give you an idea of their excellent work.
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Michael Michaud, who received his doctorate from the University of Delaware in Disaster Science and Management, was a participant in this year’s cohort of NOAA’s Bill Lapenta internship. His mentor was Leah Dubots of WPO. During his time with the program he worked on policy and communication support for the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Program and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) including their current work and future plans. As a social scientist he worked with them on the development of a community model. “Through interviews with key stakeholders in EPIC and the UFS community, I identified common elements that constitute the building blocks for the social components of community modeling. With these interviews, I also captured perceptions of the community from members, as well as their different goals and values. It is very clear values and motivations are different between the private, public, and academic sectors, and between researchers and those in operations.”
“To assist the EPIC team with ongoing community development, I am completing a report that outlines how the community defined community modeling, and recommendations for future development. It seems EPIC best aligns with a Community of Practice (CoP) framework that has been well researched as a successful initiative. Using CoP frameworks, EPIC can use the recommendations to cultivate a thriving modeling community around the UFS (Michael Michaud).” Connecting the behavior of people with this climate modelling work is a critical niche, and we are delighted you were able to work with NOAA scientists to delve into this project.
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One of our own Program Managers, working at NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) office, Kathy Tedesco was able to mentor another of the Lapenta interns. Sylvie Alexander is working on her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College in Environmental Analysis and worked with Kathy and Jessica Snowden on creating educational materials regarding ocean carbon capture. NOAA has an initiative specifically around Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Sylvie worked at length with CPAESS graphic designer, Alex Meyer to create illustrations that simply conveyed the complex and numerous ways that carbon behaves in and near the ocean. She did this for the NOAA CDR Science Strategy white paper and the development of a summary document for senior leadership. Sylvie also engaged with other federal agencies through the USGCRP Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (our own Dr. Gyami Shrestha is the director of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Program) as part of their interagency CDR efforts.
With the goal of meeting White House directives and IPCC projections in terms of climate change, Sylvie set about showing how the ocean could be utilized in stabilizing the climate by removing CO2. The approaches outlined included marine technologies such as macroalgal cultivation, ocean alkalinity enhancement, direct ocean capture, nutrient enrichment, and artificial upwelling and downwelling. From the coastal perspective, she highlighted blue carbon or sequestration via photosynthesis in the soils and biomass of the coast. Check out her brochure here.
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US CLIVAR recently hosted virtual summer meetings for the program's three Panels to formulate new recommendations and community activities for the upcoming year. Currently in the works are seven workshops and meetings for March-June 2022. Most, if not all, are planned as hybrid events and open to the community. In addition to the larger workshops and meetings, US CLIVAR has multiple town halls and sessions proposed at the upcoming AGU, AMS, and Ocean Sciences Meetings.
On the literature front, the program released the Climate at the Coasts White Paper, an addendum to the US CLIVAR Science Plan which outlines the motivation, scope, research directions, and collaborative partnerships for this newly established ten-year Research Challenge and the Water Isotopes and Climate Workshop Report, a report resulting from the 2019 workshop which summarizes successful applications of water isotopes to addressing pressing climate and water cycle questions, identifies barriers hindering integration of water isotopes into climate research, and recommends specific measurement, modeling, and data stewardship efforts to make progress within the community.
Additionally, US CLIVAR will be releasing a series of calls in the upcoming months including the Fall 2021 call for US CLIVAR-supported workshop, call for new US CLIVAR Working Groups, call for new US CLIVAR Panel members, and call for nominations for the US CLIVAR Early Career Scientist Leadership Awards. All calls are open to the public and will be announced on the US CLIVAR website and mailing list.
Lastly, the US CLIVAR website was migrated to a new version of the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). The technical migration and redesign was performed by CPAESS' web developer Tania Sizer, and the content redesign was performed by Jennie Zhu and Mike Patterson of the US CLIVAR Program Office. The new site went live this July and is mobile friendly. There is a plethora of information on the site and numerous opportunities for the scientific community to get involved in their important work. Please check it out.
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NOAA C&GC Networking Meeting |
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In the midst of the pandemic, CPAESS has worked hard to ensure that we stay connected and that information sharing and networking remained intact. To facilitate this with our NOAA Climate and Global Change fellows and alumni we have been hosting monthly talks. August 25, 2021 was our most recent virtual seminar. |
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This discussion featured two fellows from Class 30, Rebecca “Becky” Beadling and Nina Whitney, along with a special speaker from NOAA, Dr. John Krasting, to help orient the fellows to another aspect of the breadth of NOAA’s work. Rebecca “Becky” Beadling is working with Dr. John Krastling at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on the Mean State Representation and the Reorganization of Subtropical Gyre Systems under Continued Warming with implications for Regional and Global Climate for her postdoctoral research. During this seminar she presented on the “Importance of the Antarctic Slope Current on the transient response of the Southern Ocean to Antarctic ice sheet melt and projected wind stress change.”
After her, Nina Whitney whose research is under Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution spoke. Nina’s postdoctoral work is on Assessing Long-Term Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability over the Late Holocene using High-Resolution Water Mass Proxies from the Western North Atlantic and Numerical Model Simulations. At this seminar she presented research on “Combining shell-based isotope records with numerical model simulations to investigate the time of emergence of widespread warming of the western North Atlantic shelf.”
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Both talks were very informative and there were quick question and answer sessions following each. Then our guest Dr. John Krasting of NOAA’s GFDL joined to share his presentation "Seamless modeling of the Earth system from weather to climate timescales: an overview of NOAA-GFDL's research activities.” Dr. Krasting is a climate scientist and numerical modeler in the Ocean and Cryosphere Division at NOAA's Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory. His work focuses on understanding the ocean's role in the climate system by focusing on heat and carbon uptake and their associated impacts. John has been involved with the development of two generations of coupled Earth System Models at NOAA-GFDL and is a strong advocate for using process-based diagnostics and analyses to understand and improve model performance.
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From August 9-11, 2021 CPAESS managed the second PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) Science Meeting. This was an in-development NASA mission that will image the outer corona and solar wind throughout the inner heliosphere. Major science topics include origin and evolution of the ambient solar wind and turbulence within it, and the physics and predictability of transient events including coronal mass ejections (CME), corotating interaction regions (CIR), and shocks. CPAESS worked on this meeting in partnership with NCAR’s High Altitude Observatory (HAO) led by meeting planner Michelle McCambridge.
The meeting was virtual and consisted of formal invited presentations, short contributions with discussion, and free plenary discussion. PUNCH took place over the course of three days, and after the first day held an icebreaker social event which served to connect people and insert a little fun into the meeting.
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During the PUNCH icebreaker participants played games and had to turn off their camera
and then find a hat. The first to come back won a prize.
Topics the first day included The Global Evolving Solar Wind; Solar Wind Microstructures and Turbulence; and The Global Evolving Solar Wind; Microstructures and Turbulence as well as discussions on PUNCH Science Operations Center (SOC) Design and Data Products. The following day’s presentations included issues such as Alfven Zone – Boundary of the Heliosphere; CIR Formation and 3D Dynamics; as well as Heliospheric Boundaries and CIRs. On the final day of the meeting CME Trajectory, 3D Structure and Evolution; Shock 3D Dynamics and Morphology; and CMEs and Shocks were addressed among other topics.
There were 171 participants at the PUNCH Science Meeting who represented 19 countries. It was a robust and fruitful meeting for all in attendance.
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CPAESS is pleased to welcome these new employees. We are delighted to have you on board.
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Leticia Williams, Program Specialist, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS)
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Gloria Recalde Coronel, Associate Scientist, NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
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Henri Drake, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC)
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Barbara Wortham, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC)
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Brittany Hupp, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC)
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Amanda Speciale, Program Specialist, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
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Karen Holcomb, Postdoctoral Researcher, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
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Lindsay McCulloch, Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate and Global Change (C&GC)
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Kelley Uhlig, Program Specialist, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO)
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William Agyakwah, Associate Scientist, NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
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Joshua Alland, Associate Scientist, National Hurricane Center (NHC)
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Lixion Avila, Program Specialist (Casual), National Hurricane Center (NHC)
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Morgan Zabow, Program Specialist, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
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Genie Bey, Program Specialist, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
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Jose Algarin, Program Specialist, NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)
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Open Sky and Your Publications |
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Part of your employment expectations is listing your publications in OpenSky on the UCAR/NCAR website. Please make sure you list all your publications there. If you haven't yet, you can list them now and catch up.
The purpose of this digital archive is to provide free and open access to the scientific output and other intellectual resources created at NCAR/UCAR for the advancement of the atmospheric and related sciences.
In the Acknowledgements section scientists note the agency and grant number that supported their research. Please go to our CPAESS "For Staff" Information page and click on the Citing Language and Information tab. Your CIT login is the same as your WorkDay login info. If you have any questions please let us know. Thanks very much!
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Recent Publications
CORONAL HOLE DETECTION AND OPEN MAGNETIC FLUX Linker, J. A., Heinemann, S. G., Temmer, M., Owens, M. J., Caplan, R. M., Arge, C. N., … Vršnak, B. (2021). Coronal hole detection and open magnetic flux. The Astrophysical Journal, 918, 21. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac090a Open Sky
KHARIF RICE YIELD PREDICTION OVER GANGETIC WEST BENGAL USING IITM-IMD EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST PRODUCTS Akhter, J., Mandal, R., Chattopadhyay, R., Joseph, S., Dey, A., Nageswara Rao, M. M., … Sahai, A. K. (2021). Kharif rice yield prediction over Gangetic West Bengal using IITM-IMD extended range forecast products. Theoretical And Applied Climatology, 145, 1089-1100. doi:10.1007/s00704-021-03679-w Open Sky
MODELLING A MULTI-SPACECRAFT CORONAL MASS EJECTION ENCOUNTER WITH EUHFORIA Asvestari, E., Pomoell, J., Kilpua, E., Good, S., Chatzistergos, T., Temmer, M., … Magdalenic, J. (2021). Modelling a multi-spacecraft coronal mass ejection encounter with EUHFORIA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 652, A27. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140315 Open Sky
EVOLUTION OF INTERPLANETARY CORONAL MASS EJECTION COMPLEXITY: A NUMERICAL STUDY THROUGH A SWARM OF SIMULATED SPACECRAFT Scolini, C., Winslow, R. M., Lugaz, N., & Poedts, S. (2021). Evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejection complexity: A numerical study through a swarm of simulated spacecraft. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 916, L15. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac0d58 Open Sky
SEASONAL PREDICTION AND PREDICTABILITY OF REGIONAL ANTARCTIC SEA ICE Bushuk, M., Winton, M., Haumann, F. A., Delworth, T., Lu, F., Zhang, Y., … Zeng, F. (2021). Seasonal prediction and predictability of regional Antarctic sea ice. Journal Of Climate, 34, 1-68. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0965.1 Open Sky
FIRST SIMULTANEOUS IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF A CORONAL MASS EJECTION BY PARKER SOLAR PROBE AND STEREO-A Winslow, R. M., Lugaz, N., Scolini, C., & Galvin, A. B. (2021). First simultaneous in situ measurements of a coronal mass ejection by Parker Solar Probe and STEREO-A. The Astrophysical Journal, 916, 94. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac0821 Open Sky
ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS AT THE PLASMA FREQUENCY AROUND COMET 67P BY RPC-MIP ON BOARD ROSETTA Myllys, M., Henri, P., Vallières, X., Gilet, N., Nilsson, H., Palmerio, E., … Witasse, O. (2021). Electric field measurements at the plasma frequency around comet 67P by RPC-MIP on board Rosetta. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 652, A73. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936633 Open Sky
ENVIRONMENTAL AND INTERNAL CONTROLS ON LAGRANGIAN TRANSITIONS FROM CLOSED CELL MESOSCALE CELLULAR CONVECTION OVER SUBTROPICAL OCEANS Eastman, R., McCoy, I. L., & Wood, R. (2021). Environmental and internal controls on Lagrangian transitions from closed cell mesoscale cellular convection over subtropical oceans. Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, 78. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0277.1 Open Sky
DRIVERS OF UNCERTAINTY IN FUTURE PROJECTIONS OF MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION TELECONNECTIONS Jenney, A. M., Randall, D. A., & Barnes, E. A. (2021). Drivers of uncertainty in future projections of Madden-Julian Oscillation teleconnections. Weather And Climate Dynamics, 2, 653-673. doi:10.5194/wcd-2-653-2021 Open Sky
INVESTIGATING REMOTE-SENSING TECHNIQUES TO REVEAL STEALTH CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS Palmerio, E., Nitta, N. V., Mulligan, T., Mierla, M., O’Kane, J., Richardson, I. G., … Zhukov, A. N. (2021). Investigating remote-sensing techniques to reveal stealth coronal mass ejections. Frontiers In Astronomy And Space Sciences, 8, 695966. doi:10.3389/fspas.2021.695966 Open Sky
REPRESENTATION OF TROPICAL MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS IN A GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL: CLIMATOLOGY AND RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING Dong, W., Zhao, M., Ming, Y., & Ramaswamy, V. (2021). Representation of tropical mesoscale convective systems in a general circulation model: Climatology and response to global warming. Journal Of Climate, 34, 1-40. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0535.1 Open Sky
THE EFFECT OF STREAM INTERACTION REGIONS ON ICME STRUCTURES OBSERVED IN LONGITUDINAL CONJUNCTION Winslow, R. M., Scolini, C., Lugaz, N., & Galvin, A. B. (2021). The effect of stream interaction regions on ICME structures observed in longitudinal conjunction. The Astrophysical Journal, 916, 40. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac0439 Open Sky
POTENTIAL LOW BIAS IN HIGH-WIND DRAG COEFFICIENT INFERRED FROM DROPSONDE DATA IN HURRICANES Richter, D. H., Wainwright, C., Stern, D. P., Bryan, G. H., & Chavas, D. (2021). Potential low bias in high-wind drag coefficient inferred from dropsonde data in hurricanes. Journal Of The Atmospheric Sciences, 78. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0390.1 Open Sky
SOLAR ENERGETIC PROTON ACCESS TO THE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE DURING THE SEPTEMBER 7–8, 2017 EVENT Li, Z., Engel, M., Hudson, M., Kress, B., Patel, M., Qin, M., & Selesnick, R. (2021). Solar Energetic Proton Access to the Inner Magnetosphere During the September 7–8, 2017 Event. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029107. doi:10.1029/2021JA029107 Open Sky
TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL RADAR Weber, M., Hondl, K., Yussouf, N., Jung, Y., Stratman, D., Putnam, B., … Vincent, M. (2021). Towards the next generation operational meteorological radar. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 102, E1357-E1383. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0067.1 Open Sky
EAST ANTARCTIC COOLING INDUCED BY DECADAL CHANGES IN MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION DURING AUSTRAL SUMMER. Hsu, P. -C., Fu, Z., Murakami, H., Lee, J. -Y., Yoo, C., Johnson, N. C., … Liu, Y. (2021). East Antarctic cooling induced by decadal changes in Madden-Julian oscillation during austral summer. Science Advances, 7, eabf9903.atom. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abf9903 Open Sky
IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION AND DATA REDUCTION FOR THE WISPR INSTRUMENT ON BOARD THE PSP MISSION. Hess, P., Howard, R. A., Stenborg, G., Linton, M., Vourlidas, A., Thernisien, A., … Kuroda, N. (2021). In-flight calibration and data reduction for the WISPR instrument on board the PSP mission. Solar Physics, 296, 94. doi:10.1007/s11207-021-01847-9 Open Sky
MODELING A CORONAL MASS EJECTION FROM AN EXTENDED FILAMENT CHANNEL. I. ERUPTION AND EARLY EVOLUTION Lynch, B. J., Palmerio, E., DeVore, C. R., Kazachenko, M. D., Dahlin, J. T., Pomoell, J., & Kilpua, E. K. J. (2021). Modeling a coronal mass ejection from an extended filament channel. I. Eruption and early evolution. The Astrophysical Journal, 914, 39. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abf9a9 Open Sky
OCEANIC PATHWAYS OF AN ACTIVE PACIFIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (PMOC) Thomas, M. D., Fedorov, A. V., Burls, N. J., & Liu, W. (2021). Oceanic pathways of an Active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC). Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091935. doi:10.1029/2020GL091935 Open Sky
ENERGY MODULATIONS OF MAGNETOSPHERIC IONS INDUCED BY FORESHOCK TRANSIENT‐DRIVEN ULTRALOW‐FREQUENCY WAVES Wang, B., Zhang, H., Liu, Z., Liu, T., Li, X., & Angelopoulos, V. (2021). Energy modulations of magnetospheric ions induced by foreshock transient‐driven ultralow‐frequency waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL093913. doi:10.1029/2021GL093913 Open Sky
EXPLORING THE RADIAL EVOLUTION OF INTERPLANETARY CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS USING EUHFORIA Scolini, C., Dasso, S., Rodriguez, L., Zhukov, A. N., & Poedts, S. (2021). Exploring the radial evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections using EUHFORIA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 649, A69. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202040226 Open Sky
DEPENDENCE OF RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON PRECIPITATION IN THE IONOSPHERE ON EMIC WAVE MINIMUM RESONANT ENERGY AT THE CONJUGATE EQUATOR Zhang, X. ‐J., Mourenas, D., Shen, X. ‐C., Qin, M., Artemyev, A. V., Ma, Q., … Angelopoulos, V. (2021). Dependence of relativistic electron precipitation in the ionosphere on EMIC wave minimum resonant energy at the conjugate equator. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029193. doi:10.1029/2021JA029193 Open Sky
STATISTICAL STUDY OF FORESHOCK TRANSIENTS IN THE MIDTAIL FORESHOCK Liu, T. Z., Zhang, H., Wang, C. ‐P., Angelopoulos, V., Vu, A., Wang, X., & Lin, Y. (2021). Statistical study of foreshock transients in the midtail foreshock. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029156. doi:10.1029/2021JA029156 Open Sky
CME MAGNETIC STRUCTURE AND IMF PRECONDITIONING AFFECTING SEP TRANSPORT Palmerio, E., Kilpua, E. K. J., Witasse, O., Barnes, D., Sánchez‐Cano, B., Weiss, A. J., … Holmström, M. (2021). CME magnetic structure and IMF preconditioning affecting SEP transport. Space Weather, 19, e2020SW002654. doi:10.1029/2020SW002654 Open Sky
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Even people employed by CPAESS ask about the breadth and depth of the programs and opportunities we provide. Here is a super brief primer. CPAESS is a part of the UCAR/NCAR family. Specifically, we are within UCAR’s Community Programs (UCP). CPAESS is the largest of UCAR's Community Programs.
CPAESS’ provides early career opportunities including employment at federal labs across the nation. We also host multi-agency programs and have partnerships with federal agencies –take a peek to get an idea of some of them listed here. CPAESS provides postdoctoral and educational programs. Lastly, we convene scientific communities to help promulgate scientific information and foster collaboration across the earth system science community. Here is a list of our upcoming events.
CPAESS has approximately 125 employees, over 100 of which are spread across the United States as seen on the map below. If you go here you can click on a location and you'll see staff grouped by program work. If you go here you can see our latest map of locations where our staff work. Many of our co-workers are in federal labs. Our staff's skill sets are impressively diverse. We appreciate you and your talents being a part of the CPAESS family.
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