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Arctic Lightning Strikes Will More than Double as Climate Warms

More lightning strikes will result in more wildfires—a trend already observed over the past half decade.

Dust, Smoke, and Long-Distance Aerosols

Yan Feng employs wide arrays of data to model the aerosols that steer clouds and climate.

The Aerosol World's Busy Bee

Allison C. Aiken will lead a five-scientist aerosol team for the SAIL field campaign in Colorado's mountainous terrain.

ASR-Funded Analysis Helps Scientists Rethink Origins of Snow

Definitive, real-world evidence for ‘freezing fragmentation of drizzle as a major source of ice in slightly supercooled clouds has important implications for forecasting weather and climate.

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

Accurate and analytic expressions for the dew point and frost points

The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure for dew to [...] Read more

Sub-cloud turbulence explains cloud-base updrafts

We provide the first observational evidence that the more energetic the airs are below the [...] Read more

Thermals, thermal chains, and plumes: what controls the basic structure of cumulus convection?

Two basic conceptual models have traditionally served as a basis for understanding moist [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Atmospheric ice nucleating particle measurements and parameterization representative for Indian region

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Accurate expressions for the dew point and frost point derived from the Rankine-Kirchhoff approximations

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An Adaptive Tracking Algorithm for Convection in Simulated and Remote Sensing Data

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Upcoming Meetings

Workshop on Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering

20 Apr 2021 - 22 Apr 2021

The application of artificial intelligence/machine learning methods to experimental and [...] Read more

AmeriFlux Land-Atmosphere Interactions Workshop

10 Jun 2021 - 11 Jun 2021

From June 10 to 11, 2021, join colleagues for an interactive, virtual workshop with leaders in the [...] Read more

ARM/ASR 2021 Virtual Joint Meeting

21 Jun 2021 - 24 Jun 2021

The Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) [...] Read more