Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

The 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. 

UW 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. 

Congratulations 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.
You can read more here
 
  

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! 

Research 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. 

A recent New York Times piece titled “Extreme Heat Will Change Us,” features work from Prof. David Battisti. Read the story here. 

Graduate Student Lily Hahn recently won the 24th annual Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences from the Desert Research Institute (DRI)! This annual competition recognizes the published works of women pursuing a master’s or Ph.D. 

Professor Dale Durran’s research on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve weather forecasts was highlighted in a recent blog by the NVIDIA Corporation. Read more about Prof. Durran’s research here.
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