Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Department scientists co-authored a paper in Nature that shows our current warming surpasses the magnitude and rate from any time over the last 24,000 years. The research used the Last Millennium Reanalysis that originates from our department. 

On the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Professors Dale Durran and Joel Thornton published “An imperative to act: Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere takes ages to draw down” where they explain why CO2 is rising in our atmosphere today and why it will take centuries for natural processes to reverse the course.