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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.

An inter-comparison of four high-top whole atmosphere data assimilation models shows generally larger differences in the mesosphere compared to in the stratosphere.

We analyzed Arctic Ocean freshwater in a subset of CMIP6 models and found that most disagree with late 20th century observations, but by the end of the 21st century, as Arctic sea ice disappears, all show a decline in solid storage and fluxes while ocean storage and export generally increase.

Please join ATOC in congratulating graduate student Mckenzie Dice for receiving the Graduate Professional Student Government Teaching Excellence Award.

Please join ATOC in congratulating Assistant Professor Jan Lenaerts for receiving the Graduate School’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. This award recognizes Dr. Lenaerts's outstanding graduate student advising and mentoring as a research advisor for several graduate students.

Colorado was the third most popular place for young adults to relocate to since 2015, gaining more than 20,000 new young adults from elsewhere each year, according to Frey's analysis of early census data.

Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the satellite era.

When the sea ice shifted beneath him, sending a crack straight between his two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic.

Future climate projections generally omit major volcanic eruptions but such events are likely to be important. In this work Dr. Man and colleagues show that projections of monsoon rainfall are importantly impacted by eruptions and could delay the time of emergence of anthropogenic influence by five years on average over about 60% of the GLM area.

Ocean heat content reached a maximum observed level in 2020, driven by the continual human-driven warming of the climate system.