ATOC in the News

The ocean has absorbed the equivalent of 39% of industrial‐age fossil carbon emissions, significantly modulating the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 and its associated impacts on climate.

The Graduate School is pleased to recognize our dedicated faculty members who received this year’s outstanding faculty mentor awards.

Radiance Calmer holds the wide wings of a drone in place on its launcher, scanning the blue Boulder sky for potential obstacles.

Remy Zimmerman (CU Major in Sociology with minors in ATOC and Communications) first learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Dr. Kris Karnauskas’ ATOC oceanography course.

CU Boulder researchers have developed a method that could enable scientists to accurately forecast ocean acidity up to five years in advance.

Hail accumulation can be a couple inches or a couple feet deep in Colorado.

Rising CO2 causes more than a climate crisis—it may directly harm our ability to think

In autumn 2019, a ship will be frozen into the Arctic sea ice for a year to study system changes. We analyze climate model data from a group of experiments and follow virtual sea ice floes throughout a year.

Describes the utility of large ensembles of Earth system models.

A polar–subtropical jet superposition represents a dynamical and thermodynamic environment conducive to the production of high-impact weather.