ATOC in the News

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.

The 2019 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave was amplified by natural, multi-decadal shoaling of the ocean mixed layer; anthropogenic mixed layer shoaling will amplify marine heatwaves in the future.

High ice water conditions (HIWC) can cause jet engine failure or damage. This study provides an analysis of the frequency and location of HIWC over most of the globe using space-borne radar and lidar observations.