SAIL, One Year Later

Scientific investigations, data analysis, and model improvements unfold a year after the end of a Colorado field campaign on mountain hydrology.

2025 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting

Save the Date for the 2025 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting: March 3–6, 2025, in the Washington, D.C., area.

Champion of Science for the Underrepresented

Daniel Vrinceanu leads an effort to develop an atmospheric science program at Texas Southern University.

Common Reflective Clouds are not Spatially Homogenous 

ASR researchers report that marine stratocumulus clouds seem to consist of neighborhoods of relatively uniform properties.

Looking to the Origins of New Particle Formation

A University of Utah team is using an uncrewed aerial system to understand the relationship between turbulence and new particle formation.

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

Cloud properties vary between the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean even in similar environments

Cold-air outbreaks (CAOs) occur when cold air moves from the poles over warmer oceans. Extensive [...] Read more

Locally narrow droplet size distributions are ubiquitous in stratocumulus clouds

Cloud process rates such as drizzle formation depend on the assumed cloud droplet size [...] Read more

Climate change-resilient snowpack estimation

Climate change will create years where our mountains’ snowpack will be unlike anything we have [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Low-Level Liquid-Bearing Clouds Contribute to Seasonal Lower Atmosphere Stability and Surface Energy Forcing over a High-Mountain Watershed Environment

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Deep-learning-derived planetary boundary layer height from conventional meteorological measurements

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Broadband and filter radiometers at Ross Island, Antarctica: detection of cloud ice phase versus liquid water influences on shortwave and longwave radiation

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Upcoming Meetings

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 21st Annual Meeting

23 June 2024 - 28 June 2024

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

9TH GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER EXCHANGES OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE

7 July 2024 - 12 July 2024

The 9th Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Open Science Conference, Water ● Climate, is [...] Read more

19th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP)

14 July 2024 - 19 July 2024

The 19th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) will be held from July 14 to [...] Read more