ATOC in the News

A striking feature of the Earth system is that the Northern and Southern Hemispheres reflect identical amounts of sunlight.

Smoke from southern Africa blankets the southeastern Atlantic Ocean from June to October, producing strong and competing aerosol radiative effects.

Undergrad students from minority-serving institutions get hands-on research experience and mentoring from faculty and grad students

Please join us in congratulating Professor Weiqing Han in being named an AMS Fellow.

More than 5 billion people would die of hunger following a full-scale nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, according to a global study that estimates post-conflict crop production led by Rutgers University and CU Boulder climate scientists.

Climate researchers are gravely concerned about the state of the Greenland ice sheet and the West Antarctic ice sheet, which have collectively lost billions of tons of ice over the last three decades because of atmospheric warming and warm ocean currents.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Brian Toon on receiving the 2022 Future of Life Award

CU Boulder's earth sciences and atmospheric science disciplines ranked No. 1 and No. 2 globally in the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s 2022 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).

In a rapidly changing world, humans are facing a growing number of environmental challenges, including rising temperatures, dwindling water resources and more extreme weather events.

Sea ice and wildfires may be more interconnected than previously thought, according to new research out today in Science Advances.