Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

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. 

Congratulations to graduate student Michael Diamond and alumna Judy Twedt, who have both been selected as one of the Husky 100 this year! Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW. 

rofessors Lynn McMurdie & Bob Houze and graduate student Joe Zagrodnik are in the news<80><94>UW research finds rainfall over Olympic Mountains more complex than originally believed (By Scott Sistek,KOMO News) 

Professor Cliff Mass is in the news:

Residents of the greater Puget Sound region have already been feeling the transition to fall with a shift down to lower temps and more clouds last week. But Friday marks the official end of summer, with the autumnal equinox on the calendar.

Professor Cliff Mass is quoted on CNN

Graduate student Michael Diamond writes about the ORACLES field research campaign:

In August, dozens of scientists from across the United States descended on the small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Nestled on the equator off the coast of western central Africa, São Tomé was an ideal location to study the phenomenon we had all gathered to observe: a seasonal plume of smoke from agricultural and forest fires that gets lofted by the prevailing winds from the African continent to over the southeast Atlantic Ocean. As part of the NASA field campaign Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions, or ORACLES, our aim was to better understand how all that smoke over the ocean affects the amount of sunlight that gets absorbed in the atmosphere and at Earth’s surface.