ATOC in the News

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.

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.