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Every year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces funding opportunities for fundamental research that helps to transform understanding of nature and advances the energy, economic, and national security of the United States.
The Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, within DOE’s Office of Science, recently recommended 24 proposals submitted to Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002034. The [...]
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To understand how nucleated particles develop, one scientist will take to the field with an aerosol growth chamber
Officially, atmospheric scientist Donald R. “Don” Collins is a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of California, Riverside.
Such a broad title, however, does not reveal that he grew up near Washington, D.C., drinks his coffee [...]
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Scattered across the prairies of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas, a collection of 50-plus scientific instruments points to the heavens. This is the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, and those instruments are collecting data on radiation, clouds, aerosols, and other atmospheric processes.
Here, and at ARM observatories and field campaigns [...]
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Sessions for the 2020 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting are being announced. If you will be leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program or Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ASR and ARM websites as they are provided.
Abstracts can now be [...]
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Sessions for the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting are being announced. If you will be leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program or Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ASR and ARM websites as they are provided.
The following sessions are being convened [...]
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A young scientist presses for improvements in radar retrievals of snowfall properties, cloud microphysics, and more.
In early January 2009, German meteorology undergraduate Maximilian Maahn began a six-month semester abroad at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway. During the winter months, this mountainous archipelago in the Arctic Ocean—just 650 miles from the North Pole—is pitch-dark 24 [...]
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A onetime string theorist now improves the way models represent spectral radiances throughout the atmosphere
Physicist Eli Mlawer (rhymes with “flower”) is a principal scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), a for-profit research company in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he develops algorithms that help modelers represent radiative transfer.
Several times since 2008, Mlawer’s work has been funded [...]
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting new applicants for supplemental funds to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist.
These research opportunities are designed to advance graduate students’ doctoral theses/dissertations while providing access [...]
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A highly cited scientist is unraveling the puzzle of mixed-phase clouds and improving how aerosols are represented in earth system models
For good reasons, aerosols are difficult to understand. Unlike other trace gases, which can persist in the atmosphere for years or even centuries, the lifespans of aerosols are measured in days.
To complicate things even more, [...]
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Well known for her unique retrievals of cloud properties, a veteran scientist investigates the mystery of secondary ice production
Christine Chiu of Colorado State University investigates clouds. She calls them “complicated 3D objects that evolve fast.”
She studies clouds from below and on all sides with scanning cloud radars and from above with satellite data. Her research [...]
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Every year the American Meteorological Society (AMS) presents awards to members of the weather, water, and climate community during its annual meeting. Several scientists recently or currently funded by the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program received honors during the January 2019 meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
Christopher Bretherton, a professor of atmospheric sciences and applied mathematics at [...]
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