Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Roger Marchand, a MARCUS co-investigator from the University of Washington, is Mace’s co-principal investigator for CAPE-k.
From 2016 to 2018, Marchand led ARM’s land-based Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE). 

 
University of Washington atmospheric scientist Lynn McMurdie has led campaigns to measure rain and snowfall in places ranging from Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to Argentina to the Eastern U.S. Now she’s among the leaders of a field campaign in Colorado to better understand and forecast snowfall in the mountains of the Western U.S. 

A project led by Professor Lyatt Jaegle and Professors Qiang Fu, Alex Turner, and Daehyun Kim to better understand our atmosphere’s complexity is a finalist for NASA’s next generation of Earth-observing satellites. 

The National Academy of Sciences announced this week that a University of Washington atmospheric scientist and biologist have been elected as new members, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. 

Schmidt Science Fellows was established in 2018 to help researchers expand their work across areas of study and build a community of interdisciplinary thinkers dedicated to solving the world’s biggest challenges. 

 
New research led by the University of Washington analyzes the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, to better understand the relationship between CO2 and global temperature. 

Emeritus Professor Marcia Baker’s paper “The influence of entrainment on the evolution of cloud droplet spectra: I. A model of inhomogeneous mixing” and Chris Bretherton’s paper “On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres” are selected by Chief Editors from the Royal Meteorological Society to be featured in their 150th Anniversary Quarterly Journal. 

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The new records of climate change, record temperatures, and heat waves every year are prompting scientists to alleviate the situation. Read more about it in The New York Times. 

AI analysis of historical satellite images show USSR collapse in 1990s increased methane emissions, despite lower oil and gas production. But new University of Washington research uses early satellite records to dispute that assumption.