DOE Issues FOA for Climate Resilience Centers

FOA will provide $5 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, non-R1 Minority Serving Institutions, and emerging research institutions.

Jian Wang: Ambitious Expert on Cloud-Forming Particles

A researcher studies aerosols in the atmosphere over remote ocean tracts, cities, and rural land.

Researchers Characterize Sea Spray Particles that Form Ice Crystals in High-Altitude Clouds

NSF- and ASR-funded research allows for particle and freezing analyses that enhance the understanding of cloud formation and effects on climate.

TRACER Campaign Moves From Observations to Analysis

After a year of fieldwork, the ASR-Supported TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) moves on to data analysis.

Back in Person

ARM users, ASR principal investigators review progress and discuss scientific priorities at 2022 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting.

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

Mixing state of black-carbon particles from wildfires remains dynamic throughout their lifetime

The evolution of the mixing state of black carbon-containing particles formed by wildfires is [...] Read more

Identification of the ice-nucleating agents in sea spray aerosol by microspectroscopic analysis

Over the oceans, breaking waves and wind over the sea surface can loft sea spray aerosols (SSA) [...] Read more

Assessing raindrop breakup parameterizations using disdrometer observations

This study compares the size and number concentration of raindrop [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Changes in Aerosols, Meteorology, and Radiation in the Southeastern U.S. Warming Hole Region during 2000 to 2019

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Warm-phase spectral-bin microphysics in ICON: reasons of sensitivity to aerosols

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Shallow Cumulus Entrainment Dynamics in a Sheared Environment

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Upcoming Meetings

2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

12 December 2022 - 16 December 2022

The AGU Fall Meeting is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of [...] Read more

2023 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting

8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023

The 2023 AMS Annual Meeting will be held 8–12 January 2023 in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado [...] Read more