Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science

Atmospheric Sciences graduate student Daniel Lloveras received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his talk at the fall AGU meeting “Mesoscale Predictability in Moist Mid-Latitude Cyclones Is Not Sensitive to the Slope of the Background Kinetic Energy Spectrum.” His research was recently published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences January 2022 edition with co-authors Lydia Tierney and Dale Durran. 

UW Atmospheric Sciences Assistant Professor Edward Blanchard-Wigglesworth was featured in the February 23 issue of the New York Times. The article: “Sea Ice Around Antarctica Reaches a Record Low” discusses the latest Antarctic sea ice data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO. 

Congratulations to Atmospheric Sciences graduate students Ajda Savarin and Edoardo Mazza who recently received presentation awards at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

Edoardo Mazza received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his talk “Modulation of Tropical Cyclones and Rainfall by the North Atlantic Oscillation” during the 20th Symposium on the Coastal Environment. 

A recent UW News article written by Atmospheric Sciences alumni Hannah Hickey “Planting trees in pastureland provides significant cooling in the tropics” highlights the current research of Professor David Battisti and first author graduate student Lucas Vargas Zeppetello. 

Professor Lynn McMurdie’s hopes came true this week with multiple snow storms hitting the eastern U.S., where a team from our department was ready to fly through them with the NASA P-3 aircraft. 

Becky Alexander’s group is participating in the Alaskan Pollution And Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field campaign in Fairbanks, AK in January – February 2022. The city of Fairbanks, AK regularly exceeds the EPA air quality standard for particulate matter during winter. 

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time position as Research Associate Professor. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in research that focuses on cloud modeling and cloud-climate feedbacks, and nominally includes the use of water isotopologues in the study of the global atmospheric circulation. 

Dale Durran talks about his lates work to use machine learning to make weather forecasts with a reporter on the College of the Environment’s news page. Learn how AI speeds up the forecast process and has the potential to improve forecast accuracy. 

Former postdoc Dr. Luke Parsons, now at Duke University, published a new studies with recent graduate Dr. Lucas Vargas Zeppetello and Prof. David Battisti, titled “Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours” in the journal One Earth. 

Daehyun Kim and Wei-Yi Chen’s are improving forecasts of lightning using machine learning. Their new paper and talk at AGU were highlighted by UW News. They used data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network held at UW.