Matthew Sturm, the Snow Man

A veteran snow expert investigates snowmelt periods, including the complex evolution of albedo and its links to snow properties.

2020 AGU Fall Meeting

View all ASR presentations at AGU and, if presenting, share your abstracts with ASR and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.

Scientists Examine the Black Carbon Impacts of Wildfires and Biomass Burning

Colorado State University researchers recently published two PNAS papers that address the deposition of aerosols and the effects of black carbon on ice nucleation.

Graham Feingold: Modeler of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

A veteran researcher revs up an ASR project studying the influence of aerosols on the cloud radiative effect.

Two New Funding Opportunities for 2021

DOE Announces Funding for ASR Science and Early Career Research Program

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

Atmospheric measurements guide model toward improved prediction of clouds

Accurately predicting the life cycle of shallow convective clouds is a challenging task. [...] Read more

A more general paradigm for understanding marine boundary-layer decoupling

Most prior studies on the decoupling of a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer (STBL) are focused [...] Read more

Kelvin waves during GOAmazon and their relationship to deep convection

Atmospheric Kelvin waves are synoptic disturbances in winds, temperature, and moisture in the [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Simultaneous transmission/absorption photometry of particle-laden filters from wildland fires during the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) field campaign

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The diurnally-averaged aerosol direct radiative effect and the use of the daytime-mean and insolation-weighted-mean solar zenith angles

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Two‐Point Mixing, Buoyancy Sorting and Updraft Dilution in the RACORO Campaign

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Upcoming Meetings

2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

7 Dec 2020 - 11 Dec 2020

The 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be mostly virtual this year. According [...] Read more

2021 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

10 Jan 2021 - 14 Jan 2021

Sessions for the 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting are being announced. [...] Read more

The 10th International Cloud Modeling Workshop

26 Jul 2021 - 30 Jul 2021

Due to COVID-19, the International Cloud Modeling Workshop in Pune, India is rescheduled for July [...] Read more