Tag: Jesse Bell
Jan 13, 2017
NCICS at AMS 2017 Annual Meeting
NCICS at AMS 2017 Following closely on the heels of a busy American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting, the 2017 annual meeting of the American…
Oct 9, 2016
Deploying Temporary Networks for Upscaling of Sparse Network Stations
Shown above, is the layout of the temporary network of sensors surrounding the USCRN stations at Millbrook, NY (top) and Crossville, TN (bottom). National soil-observation…
Apr 4, 2016
Assessing Climate Change and Human Health
On April 4, 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report titled The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health…
Jan 1, 2016
Multi-Profile Analysis of Soil Moisture within the US Climate Reference Network
CICS-NC’s Jesse Bell is a coauthor on a new analysis of U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) measurements of soil moisture, published in Vadose Zone Journal.…
Nov 14, 2015
Comparing AMSR-E Soil Moisture Estimates to the Extended Record of the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
Building on previous work by the same author team, a paper in Advances in Water Resources reports on the use of satellite data to validate…
Oct 9, 2015
The Mental Health Outcomes of Drought: A Systematic Review and Causal Process Diagram
Working with colleagues at Emory University, CICS-NC’s Jesse Bell contributed to a recent paper on the impacts of drought on mental health. After performing a…
Jul 16, 2015
Extending the Soil Moisture Record
Long-term data on soil moisture can be invaluable for making decisions about agricultural irrigation, understanding and predicting drought, and improving global climate models. Unfortunately, accurate…
Jun 8, 2015
Can You Forecast the Next Epidemic?
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites–North Carolina (CICS-NC) is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Centers for Disease Control and…
Apr 10, 2015
Winter Severity and Frost Depth in a Warming Climate
In many areas of the country, proper building design and construction depend on accurate expectations of how deeply the ground will freeze in the winter.…
Apr 12, 2013
17-year Cicada Arrival in the Eastern United States
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina, CICS-NC, helps predict the 17-year cicadas’ arrival in a national citizen-science project led by National…