The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research program advances process-level understanding of the key interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics, with the ultimate goal of reducing the uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations and projections.

Research Highlights

Increasing model spatial resolution fails to reduce simulated storm biases

Accurately predicting impacts from storms depends [...] Read more

New methods for extracting more detail from existing data sets

Detailed data of what is in the atmosphere is often very complex, containing thousands of [...] Read more

Bridging the data gap in Southern Hemisphere aerosol research

Aerosols are known to affect cloud properties, including their formation, growth, and [...] Read more

Recent Publications

The influence of cloud cover on the reliability of satellite-based solar resource data

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Orbital-Radar v1.0.0: a tool to transform suborbital radar observations to synthetic EarthCARE cloud radar data

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Upcoming Meetings

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025

27 April 2025 - 2 May 2025

The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting [...] Read more

ARM 2025 Summer School

19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will host an open science-focused summer [...] Read more

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 22nd Annual Meeting

27 July 2025 - 1 August 2025

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) was established in 2003 to promote geosciences and its [...] Read more