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Upcoming Events

Friday, May 03, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
ES Industry Assessment Seminar
Purpose: To increase our awareness of existing and emerging Industry capabilities, and to identify and pursue partnership opportunities.

Weather Stream offers a weather data as a service platform, delivering unparalleled weather and climate intelligence through state of the art remote sensing and data science technologies. Analysis ready data provides global, actionable insights, especially for regions that are remote or underserved.

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), a subsidiary of Weather Stream, focuses on the development and manufacturing of the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) family of microwave radiometer instruments.
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Monday, May 06, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
ESSIC Seminar Series
Impacts and Variability of Atmospheric Rivers in Changing Climates
Prof. Juan Lora, Yale University
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Tuesday, May 07, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
GMAO Seminar Series on Earth System Science
Kait Loftus - Columbia University
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SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concludes their final year in Alaska. Project Scientist Carrie Vuyovich previews the campaign ahead.

Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials

This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites.

Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

According to a July 2022 report from the International Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought conditions in 70 years across the Horn of Africa have more than 16 million people coping with a shortage of drinking water.

 

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