Shuyi Chen was recently quoted in an LA Times article about the recent extreme weather events in California, and the rise of “noise” as amateur weather forecasters on social media increasingly enter the weather prediction arena.
Read moreThursday, April 6, is Husky Giving Day, the University Washington’s annual one-day giving campaign. Become a “Friend of Atmospheric Sciences” by helping to support our faculty, students, and staff to engage in world-leading research and education about severe weather, air pollution, and climate change.
Read moreKUOW’s Soundside podcast has recently featured the research of our own Ursula Jongebloed and Prof. Becky Alexander! More can be read about their work at UW News, and you can listen to the full Soundside podcast here.
Read moreThe Northwest Weather Workshop covers recent developments in understanding Northwest weather, major weather events of the past year, and topics dealing with western U.S. climate and meteorology.
It is open to anyone interested in Northwest weather and climate.
Prof. Lynn McMurdie recently discussed the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission on All Things Considered. Lynn discusses the importance of IMPACTS and some of the mission’s goals.
Read moreUW Atmospheric Sciences is proud to announce that Prof. Ed Blanchard recently gave a talk “The Influence of Multi-decadal Sea-ice Loss on Climate Forecasting” at the UN Committee on Space Research Symposium.
Read moreCongratulations to all our Atmospheric Sciences graduate students who recently received presentation awards at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society!
Ben Barr received 2nd place for student oral presentations for his talk “Multiscale Air-Sea Interactions in Hurricanes: From Sea-State Dependent Sea Spray to Surface and Boundary Layers in Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Model Simulations”, during the 23rd Air-Sea Conference.
UW News recently featured Ursula Jongebloed and Prof. Becky Alexander’s research, which shows that volcanoes can emit high amounts of their atmosphere- and climate-changing gases in their quieter phases.
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Our very own broadcast meteorology club, The UW Dawgcast, was profiled on KUOW Soundside this past week! You can read the story here or listen to Soundside on Spotify and iTunes!
Read moreResearch Assistant Professor Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth was recently featured in a UW News piece about record sea ice loss due to a strong Arctic cyclone that occurred in January 2022. Read the story here.
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