ATOC in the News

The western United States region, an economic and agricultural powerhouse, is highly dependent on winter snowpack from the mountain west.

The world saw another year full of extreme weather events resulting from climate change in 2022, from intense storms to soaring temperatures and rising sea levels.

Ice nucleation in mixed-phase clouds influences climate projections. McGraw et al. show that total cloud feedback is independent of ice nucleation scheme when cloud phase is matched to satellite retrievals, showing the need to capture observed cloud phase to predict future change.

A deep convective cloud (DCC) detection approach for MODIS observations is developed with a CloudSat trained machine learning model. This approach provides high temporal and spatial resolution DCC distributions to support intra-seasonal to interannual climate variability studies.

The nonstationary roles of regional forcings from alongshore wind stress and sea level pressure (SLP) in driving low-frequency (interannual-to-decadal) sea level variability along the U.S. east coast for the 1959–2020 period are investigated.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Julia Moriarty in receiving the 2023 Department of Energy Early Career Award.

Following the pandemic, CIRES students venture out of the lab and classroom.

As Arctic sea ice retreats during the melt season, the upper ocean warms in response to atmospheric heat fluxes.

Since the early 1990s the Pacific Walker circulation shows a multi-decadal strengthening, which contradicts future model projections.

An ad hoc committee will provide an independent review of the potential environmental effects and socio-economic consequences that could unfold in the weeks-to-decades following nuclear wars.