ATOC in the News

Warm season heavy rainfall in Minnesota can lead to flooding with serious impacts on life and infrastructure.

New CU Boulder research finds that the presence of clouds—or lack thereof—caused by the smoke of wildfires thousands of miles away can either help protect or endanger Arctic sea ice

An island community moved to the mainland. Now the fast-rising sea is following — a warning for the rest of the East Coast.

Climate-model simulations exhibit approximately two times more tropical troposphericwarming than satellite observations since 1979.

An oceanic cold spot breathes life into the archipelago. How long can it last?

Professor Peter Pilewskie has been named to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Earth Sciences and Applications from Space (CESAS).

While classifying El Niño and La Niña is relatively straightforward, El Niño events can be broadly classified into two types: central Pacific (CP) and eastern Pacific (EP).

Brian Toon awarded 2022 Global Peace and Health Award in recognition of his landmark research on nuclear winter and nuclear famine, from International Physicians for the prevention of Nuclear War and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Changes in ocean heat content (OHC) provide a measure of ocean warming, with impacts on the Earth system.

Low-lying island nations like Indonesia are vulnerable to sea level Height EXtremes (HEXs). When compounded by marine heatwaves, HEXs have larger ecological and societal impact.