Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Starting in 2020, Professor Lynn McMurdie will lead the NASA Earth Science campaign, Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms project to study the formation of snow bands in East Coast winter storms. 

Please join us in congratulating 2018 class of AGU Fellow Professor Cecilia M. Bitz: 

Desert Research Institute – DRI Confers 20th Annual Wagner Award to Isabel McCoy. 

The Meteorological Society of Japan presented the Yamamoto Award to Tsubasa Kohyama. This honor goes to young researchers who have published outstanding papers in recent atmospheric journals. 

Study shows why eastern U.S. air pollution levels are more stagnant in winter: 

Undergraduate student Jane Harrel is participating in the SOARS program this summer. 

Jamin Rader, Dave Bonan and Jane Harrell have all received AMS Named Scholarships for 2018. Bonan received the Om and Sarawati Behethi Scholarhip, Harell received the Yoram Kaufman Scholarship, and Rader received the Richard and Helen Hagemeyer Scholarship. 

Undergraduate student Peter Brechner won first place in the WxChallenge forecasting competition spring tournament. Congratulations Peter!
According to analysts, the price hike will come amid US President Joe Biden’s administration passing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will allow the government’s Medicare health programme to directly negotiate prices for certain drugs starting in 2026. 

Professor Kyle Armour is in the news—UW faculty selected as authors, editors of international report on climate change (By Hannah Hickey, UW News) 

The UWAtmosOutreach Video Group just finished a new video that uses a double pendulum to explain the difficulties of making long-range weather forecasts. You can watch the video here. Please feel free to share on twitter/social media, in the classroom, with the person sitting next to you on the bus, etc.