Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Research on ship emissions by Professor Rob Wood, doctoral student Michael Diamond, and research scientist Ryan Eastman has been featured recently in WIRED, Mongabay, and NASA Earth Observatory! Michael Diamond is quoted in all three articles! 

Congratulations to Professor Lynn McMurdie and our student and staff forecasting team that once again did an excellent job in the National Weather Challenge contest.  Lynn has done a tremendous service catalyzing this effort and serving as the faculty leader.   

Congratulations to Joshua Driscol, a 2019 Atmospheric Sciences grad, who has been selected as a Fulbright finalist! Joshua has been selected for a research grant in Norway for 2020-21. 

Congratulations to professor/chair Cecilia Bitz, professor Joel Thornton, and research assistant professor Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth for being selected as UW Earthlab 2020 Innovation Grant recipients! 

Grad student Adam Sokol wrote a piece for The Conversation to teach kids about the wind! Check it out! 

Check out this work collaborated on by Professor Joel Thornton, research scientist Ben Lee, postdoc Brett Palm, grad student Qiaoyun Peng, and undergrad Kira Melander! This new study highlights the role of HONO emissions with over 200 wildfire plumes sampled with the NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory C-130 aircraft. 

Check out this blog post by graduate student Lily Hahn about her work on a feasibility study with AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange and her work with peers to create UW PCC‘s community program! 

Congratulations to Vince Cooper, currently department research staff, for winning a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Vince will be a first-year student in our department in fall 2020 

Congratulations to Jonathan Weyn for winning the best paper award at the ICLR 2020 Workshop for a paper he co-authored, WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting. 

New research by Professor David Battisti and former postdoc Michelle Tigchelaar shows the number of unsafe days in crop-growing counties will jump to 39 days per season under 2 degrees Celsius warming, which is expected by 2050, and to 62 unsafe days under 4 degrees Celsius warming, which is expected by 2100.