Pace of EPCAPE Campaign Accelerates

The pace of data observations is increasing with two intensive operational periods at the EPCAPE campaign in La Jolla, California.

Andrew Dzambo: Man of the Clouds

An Oklahoma researcher steers a project that will model elusive cloud processes in the Arctic’s atmospheric boundary layer.

ASR FY2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $12 million in new research grants for ASR program science.

DOE Announces Funding for Climate Resilience Centers

CRCs will strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure.

Helping Build a Diverse STEM Workforce

To help diversify scientific leadership, DOE recently announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups.

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

Arctic warming by abundant fine sea salt aerosols from blowing snow

We found that the sublimation of blowing snow produces high concentrations of fine-mode sea salt [...] Read more

Unraveling the continuous ice formation in arctic mixed-phase clouds with a novel column model

Arctic mixed-phase clouds, wherein supercooled droplets and ice crystals coexist, play a crucial [...] Read more

Entrainment is locally inhomogeneous, but can appear globally homogeneous

We show, through laboratory experiments, that when dry air mixes with cloudy air, some cloud [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Cloud condensation nuclei activity of internally mixed particle populations at a remote marine free troposphere site in the North Atlantic Ocean

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Aggregation-induced enhancements in aerosol absorption and scattering across the black-brown continuum

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pH dependence of brown-carbon optical properties in cloud water

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Upcoming Meetings

2023 AGU Fall Meeting

11 December 2023 - 15 December 2023

For more than 100 years AGU has been opening science—opening pathways to discovery, opening [...] Read more

Polar Amplification of Climate Change Across Hemisphere and Seasons: Causes and Constraints Workshop

17 January 2024 - 19 January 2024

Bringing together Arctic and Antarctic scientific communities to elucidate the asymmetries in the [...] Read more

American Meteorological Society Short Course: Open Science in ARM

27 January 2024 - 27 January 2024

Open Science in the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User [...] Read more