ASR - Atmospheric System Research

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 ASR presentations at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting.

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.