Program News

DOE Program Creates Opportunities for Graduate Students; applications are due November 12, 2020.

Jerome Fast studies the coupling of the Earth’s surface with the lowest layer of the atmosphere, where storms and precipitation are made.

In 2020, scientists are grappling with a high-quality, comprehensive dataset on cold-air outbreaks in northern Norway.

A new PNAS paper out of Michigan Technological University will sharpen how the effect of turbulence is represented in predictive cloud microphysics models.

A winding road led Sarah Murphy from Maine to Vermont, the Great Plains, Greenland, Washington State University, and to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

It has been an eventful past couple of months. Despite working from home, for us all, life seems busier than ever. We partnered with the ARM for a very successful virtual Joint Meeting, and we welcomed 31 new ASR projects.

While the 2020 Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting was virtual, online attendees were able to share research and get important programmatic updates.

The MOSAiC floe’s days are numbered, but Polarstern will continue the expedition farther north.

DOE recently announced funding of $19 million for 31 projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research program.

Severe-weather researcher Aaron Kennedy is making a rare deep study of blowing snow―its place in models and how to describe and measure it.