ATOC in the News

Today, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Dr. Syukuro “Suki” Manabe. I cannot think of a more deserving physicist. I am not alone.

CU Boulder joins interdisciplinary team of researchers aiming to understand the future of these imperiled regions of the world.

Recent changes to how clouds are represented in global models, especially over the Southern Ocean, resulted in increased climate warming.

After Hurricane Maria, multiple U.S. Department of Energy laboratories studied the state of the electric grid in Puerto Rico and analyzed grid resilience and grid integration of renewable energy.

The climate effects of COVID-19 restrictions and the 2019/20 Australian bushfire season are simulated in 50-member CESM2 ensembles. Australian bushfires are found to have had a bigger impact on global climate than pandemic lockdowns and may have influenced ENSO.

Over 80 international participants, representing weather, climate, and energy systems research, joined two 4-h remote sessions to highlight and prioritize ongoing and future challenges in energy–climate modeling.

Please join us in congratulating ATOC faculty recently recognized by AMS: Andrew Winters, AMS Monthly Weather Review Editor's Award, and Julie Lundquist, elected Fellow of the AMS.

This episode features Dr. Cora Randall, professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and a faculty member in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, or LASP. We’ll follow her journey from earning her PhD in chemistry to working on the Hubble Space Telescope and, now, to leading a new NASA DRIVE center working at the leading edge of next-generation space weather prediction.

In this study, we applied a cyclone tracking algorithm to multiple reanalyses and categorized the detected cyclones based on season, intensity, and sea ice state to provide an Arctic cyclone climatology with emphasis on cyclone-sea ice interactions over the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters.

The Arctic open-water season is projected to lengthen by 2100, with a strong impact of future emission scenarios. For each 1 °C of warming, the open-water period increases by 1 months. That means that under the strong CMIP6 warming scenario, the projected open-water period exceeds 6 months for most of the Arctic by 2100.