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Getting Water Right in the Rockies

Daniel Feldman leads a campaign to establish benchmark datasets measuring the dominant physical mechanisms that impact hydrology in mountain terrain.

Three Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Awards

Early-career research projects to be funded through ASR.

Smoke Studies: The BBOP Beat Quickens

A plume of peer-reviewed papers emerge from a 2013 campaign on wildfires and controlled burns.

DOE Selects 26 Research Projects for 2021 ASR Funding Awards

$15.6 million awarded for atmospheric research to improve climate modeling.

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

Revisiting the deepening-warming decoupling theory

An important but poorly understood phenomenon about the stratocumulus (low-lying blanket-like [...] Read more

Detecting the unseen forces controlling thunderstorm formation

The mountains of central Argentina generate some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world. [...] Read more

Prediction for cloud spacing confirmed using stereo cameras

What sets the sizes of clouds and the spacing between them? For shallow cumulus, we can at least [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Quantifying physical parameterization uncertainties associated with land-atmosphere interactions in the WRF model over Amazon

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Multi-channel Imager Algorithm (MIA): A novel cloud-top phase classification algorithm

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Prediction for cloud spacing confirmed using stereo cameras

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Upcoming Meetings

AAAR 39th Annual Conference

18 Oct 2021 - 22 Oct 2021

The annual meeting of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) will be held from [...] Read more

2021 AGU Fall Meeting

13 Dec 2021 - 17 Dec 2021

This year, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is scheduled from December 13 to 17, [...] Read more

2022 AMS Annual Meeting

23 Jan 2022 - 27 Jan 2022

AMS will take place in Houston from January 23 to 27, 2022. Read more