Search Results for: "remote sensing"
Otis Brown
Dr. Otis Brown is the founding Director of NCICS, where he also serves as the Director of the North Carolina location of NOAA’s Cooperative Institute…→
Oct 1, 2015
MODIS: A Decade of Sea Surface Temperatures
Satellite-based instruments are the best tools we have for measuring sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on a global scale, but turning infrared sensor data into accurate…→
Anand Inamdar
Dr. Anand Inamdar is a Research Scholar with NCICS. Since joining NCICS in 2010, Dr. Inamdar has worked on several projects, including calibration of the…→
Oct 13, 2016
Alternative Climate Normals Workshop
Alternative Climate Normals and Impacts to the Energy Industry April 24 and 25, 2012 8:30am to 4:30pm Renaissance Hotel (Top of the Plaza Room) 31…→
Feb 5, 2019
Seasonal and Regional Changes in Arctic Sea Ice
Two recent papers by a team of authors, including CICS-NC’s Ge Peng, explore the changing seasonality and regional variability of Arctic sea ice cover. This…→
Feb 21, 2018
Arctic Sea Ice Trends and Projections
Researchers from CICS-NC and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill used satellite data and various statistical models to analyze trends in Arctic sea ice…→
Oct 12, 2016
CICS-NC at AMS 2015
CICS-NC at AMS 2015 The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC) will have a strong presence at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting,…→
Feb 27, 2015
PERSIANN: Climate Data Record and Smartphone App
The Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California, Irvine, a partner of CICS-NC, has developed a smartphone/tablet application called “RainMapper”…→
Jared Rennie
Jared Rennie is a research meteorologist at NCICS, which is co-located with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Asheville, NC. He joined NCICS…→
Apr 16, 2013
Calibration and Validation of Geostationary Satellite Visible Imagery
Meteorological satellites operating in geostationary orbits around the Earth (Fig. 1) provide us with observations of the Earth’s surface and clouds since the early 1970’s.…→