UW Atmospheric Sciences

December 17, 2018: The Simpson Center for the Humanities has awarded doctoral candidate Judy Twedt with a research fellowship to support her work on “Arctic Climate Change through Human Narratives and Data-as-Music”: https://crosscut.com/2018/12/when-turned-music-climate-change-sounds-alarmingly-beautiful?utm_source=Crosscut+Daily+-+121718&utm_medium=email
November 29, 2018: Jefferson Donovan, BS June 2018, will be the new Meteorologist at KDRV--Medford, OR.
November 29, 2018: Nathan Santo Domingo, BS June 2018, is the new Meteorologist at NewsWest 9 in Midland Texas.
November 13, 2018: Atmospheric Sciences graduate students Claire Buysse, Michael Diamond, Yue Dong, Casey Hilgenbrink, and Lucas Zeppetello attended the 12th Annual Graduate Climate Conference, a climate science conference run and attended entirely by graduate students, on November 2-4, 2018 at the UW Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest. Michael was a co-chair of the conference organizing committee, Casey was a co-chair of the Atmospheric Sciences session, Lucas led a workshop about climate communication with the labor community, and all five students presented posters about their research. More than 100 graduate students from 24 states, 5 countries, and 4 continents also attended what was the largest GCC to date: https://drive.google.com/a/uw.edu/file/d/1Zmg5ppIX4kuFQH4OhaDf2nGQ-nNikGRc/view?usp=sharing/
October 17, 2018: Professors Angela Rowe and Lynn McMurdie will will participate in RELAMPAGO, an international campaign in Argentina to monitor storms that occur east of the Andes near the slopes of another mountain range, the Sierra de Córdoba: http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/10/17/uw-atmospheric-scientists-to-study-most-extreme-storms-on-earth-up-close/
September 26, 2018: Starting in 2020, Professor Lynn McMurdie will lead the NASA Earth Science campaign, Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms project to study the formation of snow bands in East Coast winter storms: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-airborne-campaigns-to-explore-snowstorms-river-deltas-climate
August 9, 2018: Please join us in congratulating 2018 class of AGU Fellow Professor Cecilia M. Bitz: https://eos.org/agu-news/2018-class-of-agu-fellows-announced
August 3, 2018: Desert Research Institute - DRI Confers 20th Annual Wagner Award to Isabel McCoy: https://www.dri.edu/newsroom/blog/402-dri-awards-and-honors/5681-dri-presents-20th-annual-national-award-for-women-in-atmospheric-science.
August 2, 2018: The Meteorological Society of Japan presented the Yamamoto Award to Tsubasa Kohyama.This honor goes to young researchers who have published outstanding papers in recent atmospheric journals: https://www.metsoc.jp/en/about#Awards
July 23, 2018: Study shows why eastern U.S. air pollution levels are more stagnant in winter: http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/07/23/study-shows-why-eastern-u-s-air-pollution-levels-are-more-stagnant-in-winter/.
June 25, 2018: Undergraduate student Jane Harrel is participating in the SOARS program this summer: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/at-the-uw/for-transfer-students/new-transfer-newsletter/spring-2018-transfer-newsletter/.
June 15, 2018: 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.
May 8, 2018: Undergraduate student Peter Brechner won first place in the WxChallenge forecasting competition spring tournament. Congratulations Peter!
April 27, 2018: Please join us on Tuesday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m. in Kane Hall 120 as Professor Katharine Hayhoe delivers the 2018 Robert Fleagle Endowed Lecture in Atmospheric Sciences Policy. She will speak about "Talking Climate: Why Facts are Not Enough." This lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited so please register here: http://events.uw.edu/Fleagle2018. We look forward to seeing many of you there!
April 25, 2018: Professor Kyle Armour is in the news—UW faculty selected as authors, editors of international report on climate change (By Hannah Hickey, UW News)
April 16, 2018: 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. etc. You can also see a related video with superimposed double pendulums here. Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at https://atmos.washington.edu/~outreach/videos.html and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
April 10, 2018: 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. For more information, please see the profiles for Michael and Judy, or visit https://www.washington.edu/husky100/.
March 29, 2018: Professors Lynn McMurdie & Bob Houze and graduate student Joe Zagrodnik are in the news—UW research finds rainfall over Olympic Mountains more complex than originally believed (By Scott Sistek, Komo News)
March 27, 2018: Recent graduate Eliza Dawson is in the news—UW grad rowing 2,400 miles to Hawaii in the name of climate change (By Mitch Pittman & Scott Sistek, Komo News)
March 26, 2018: Professor Rob Wood is in the news—Will the world ever be ready for solar geoengineering? (By Tien Nguyen, Chemical and Engineering News)
March 23, 2018: Affiliate Associate Professor Nick Bond is in the news—What climate change means to our crucial snowpack (By Nicholas Bond and Karin Bumbaco, The Seattle Times)
March 14, 2018: Professor Cecilia Bitz has an op-ed piece in The New York Times—Hot Times in the Arctic (By Cecilia Bitz, The New York Times)
March 7, 2018: A 1966 study from our department is referenced—What in the world is graupel? (By Noel Kirkpatrick, mother nature network)
February 21, 2018: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Winter Weather Advisory expanded for lowland areas (MyNorthwest)
February 19, 2018: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Mysterious wind may have felled more than 100 old-growth trees near Lake Quinault (By The News Tribune, Seattle Times)
February 14, 2018: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Jewish Values Inspire Cliff Mass to Work for Good — and Stir Up a Little Controversy (By Sydney Parker, Jewish in Seattle Magazine)
February 6, 2018: Professor Dennis Hartmann is in the news—Scientists hope this volcano can save us from a fiery death (By Alex Lubben, Vice News)
February 5, 2018: Professors Rob Wood and Roj Marchand and their graduate students are in the news—UW atmospheric scientists flying through clouds above Antarctica’s Southern Ocean (By Hannah Hickey, UW News)
February 1, 2018: Please join us on Thursday, February 15 as Professor Bart Geerts delivers the 2018 Peter V. Hobbs Memorial Endowed Lecture in Experimental Meteorology. He will speak about "The history of cloud seeding to enhance precipitation, and prospects for the future." This lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited so please register here: http://events.uw.edu/Hobbs2018.
January 23, 2018: Kudos to graduate student Nick Weber who won two student presentation awards at the AMS annual meeting: 1) His presentation, "Evaluating NOAA Climate Forecast System Global Subseasonal Forecasts with an Emphasis on Tropical Convection" was selected as the 1st place oral presentation among student entries in the 6th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability. (2) His presentation, “The Impacts of Convection-Permitting Resolution on Tropical Convection, Forecast Bias, and Extended Global Prediction Skill” was awarded one of three Outstanding Oral awards at the Climate Variations and Change meeting. Congratulations Nick!
January 16, 2018: In Memory of Alan Thorndike--The Department of Atmospheric Sciences recently lost an influential member of our community. Alan Thorndike was a founding member of the Polar Science Center and helped establish the University of Washington as a premier institute for the study of polar climate. Alan passed away on January 8, 2018. He was 72. In lieu of flowers, those interested are encouraged to donate to the American Parkinson's Disease Association or to do something kind for someone in need, as Alan so often did. More information about Alan can be found in this document. Full Obituary: http://www.fhnfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Alan-Thorndike/#!/Obituary.
January 16, 2018: Affiliate Associate Professor Nick Bond is in the news—Human Emissions Made Ocean Heat Wave 53 Times More Likely (By Craig Welch, National Geographic)
December 29, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Winter’s Temperature Inversions Often Cause Stagnant Air, Fog And Black Ice (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
December 28, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Mass: Sea level rise is not from climate change, so far (MyNorthwwest.com)
December 11, 2017: Professor Shuyi Chen is in the news—Q&A: UW’s Shuyi Chen on hurricane science, forecasting and the 2017 hurricane season (By Hannah Hickey, UW News)
November 30, 2017: Research Meteorologist Mark Albright is in the news—Seattle was darker this week than during the solar eclipse (By Daniel DeMay, Seattle PI)
November 24, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—A simple but seldom-used tactic to prevent wildfires: Turn off the power grid when winds pick up (By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times)
November 16, 2017: Professor Dennis Hartmann is in the news—Who's right about this radical plan to cool the planet? (By Brad Jones, NBC News)
November 15, 2017: Professor Joel Thornton is in the news—A Bolt from the Brown: Why Pollution May Increase Lightning Strikes (By Chris Baraniuk, Scientific American)
November 14, 2017: Affiliate Associate Professor Sarah Doherty is in the news—Local Author On Federal Climate Change Report Cites Urgency In Emissions Reductions (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
November 3, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—New graphics help forecast snow more accurately (By Glenn Farley, King5.com)
November 3, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Season’s First Dusting Of Snow Around Puget Sound Could Repeat This Weekend (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
November 1, 2017: Congratulations to undergraduate David Bonan for winning the NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship this year. NOAA Undergraduate Scholarship recipients are recognized for high achievement in NOAA-mission related fields, including marine and atmospheric sciences, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, math and many other majors. You can read more about the scholarship here: http://www.noaa.gov/stories/introducing-2017-noaa-undergraduate-scholars. We are so proud of you, David!
October 30, 2017: Professors Steven Warren and Cecilia Bitz were consulted and thanked on This American Life this week for a story about the Novaya Zemlya effect and climate change in the Arctic. Listen for their names in the last minute of the show at https://t.co/DywFrSA3sR.
October 27, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Morning Fog, But No Rain And Lots Of Sunshine Through Halloween (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
October 23, 2017: New graduate student Andrew Pauling's recent paper, "Time-dependent freshwater input from ice shelves: impacts on Antarctic sea ice and the Southern Ocean in an Earth System Model," received an editor's highlight at Geophysical Research Letters: http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/article/10.1002/2017GL075017/editor-highlight/. Congratulations, Andrew!
October 23, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Wine Country Fires Were Fanned by ‘Unprecedented’ Winds (By Craig Miller, KQED Science)
October 19, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz and postdoc Hannah Zanowski are in the news—What Is A Polynya? Antarctica's Massive Hole, Explained (By Jon Hecht, Bustle)
October 19, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—The rain broke records and isn’t going away. Wait until Saturday (By Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune)
October 15, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Why the U.S. is so bad at predicting hurricanes (By Sarah Okeson, Salon.com)
October 13, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Cliff Mass says ‘preemptive blackouts’ could lessen chance of wildfires (MyNorthwest.com)
October 12, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—AccuWeather’s Barry Myers nominated to lead NOAA (By Paul Voosen, Science)
October 5, 2017: Professor Joel Thornton is in the news—Pollution from ships is changing maritime weather (The Economist)
October 2, 2017: Professor Shuyi Chen is in the news—Did Climate Change Affect Our Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season? (By Abner Fletcher, Houston Public Media)
October 2, 2017: Professor Abigail Swann is in the news—Rise of Distorted News Puts Climate Scientists on Their Guard (By Gabriel Popkin, Eos: Earth & Space Science News)
September 28, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Cliff Mass: Climate change is real, but... (By Daniel DeMay, Seattle PI)
September 27, 2017: Undergraduate Kelsie Knowles tells her weather story—My Weather Story (By Kelsie Knowles, We Love Weather TV)
September 22, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Fall Begins After Driest And Warmest Summer Ever Recorded At Sea-Tac (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
September 21, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is quoted on CNN—Bill Nye on Hurricane Maria slams Puerto Rico, Aims for more islands (Almutaz Bur News Network)
September 15, 2017: The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, 9-month (100% FTE), tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position to begin Autumn 2018. We anticipate that the successful candidate’s research will focus on aspects of weather with a high impact on society. To view more and apply, please visit https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/academic-jobs/position/aa25471/. Priority will be given to applications received before October 20th, 2017.
September 13, 2017: Graduate student Michael Diamond writes about the ORACLES field research campaign—Up in Smoke (and Clouds) over the Southeast Atlantic (By Michael Diamond, NASA Earth Expeditions)
September 11, 2017: Professor Shuyi Chen is in the news—Shorelines drained in eerie effect of Hurricane Irma (By Ray Sanchez, CNN)
September 7, 2017: Professor Joel Thornton is in the news—Ship exhaust makes oceanic thunderstorms more intense (By UW News staff, UW News)
August 31, 2017: Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist Malte Stuecker, and Professors Cecilia Bitz and Kyle Armour are in the news—Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice due to ‘perfect storm’ of tropical, polar conditions (By Hannah Hickey, UW News)
August 22, 2017: Professor Dan Jaffe is in the news—UW Bothell professor leads off science pub talks at McMenamins (By Andrea Brown, HeraldNet)
August 18, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Great Weather For Monday’s Eclipse And The Northwest Is The Place To See It (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
August 17, 2017: Professor Dennis Hartmann is in the news—France’s Climate Science Grants Want To Make The Planet Great Again–And Thousands Have Applied (By Adele Peters, Fast Company)
August 11, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Seattle’s Dry Smoky Spell Ending This Weekend As Temps Drop And Rain Rolls In (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
August 10, 2017: Professor Abigail Swann is in the news—Massive El Niño sent greenhouse-gas emissions soaring (By Gabriel Popkin, Nature)
August 7, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Air pollution around Seattle could get worse, before improving (MyNorthwest.com)
August 4, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Why Death Valley and the Pacific Northwest are so hot right now (By Roni Dengler, PBS.org)
August 4, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—‘Smokezilla’ Starting To Slowly Ease As Seattle Moves Toward Record Dry Spell (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
August 4, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Historic heat roasts Pacific Northwest, but wildfire smoke lessens intensity (By Jason Samenow, The Washington Post)
July 31, 2017: Professor Dargan Frierson is in the news—Earth likely to warm more than 2 degrees this century (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
July 25, 2017: Professors Rob Wood and Thomas Ackerman are in the news—Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet? (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
July 21, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Lots Of Clouds, But Forecast Is Warm And Dry – Will Seattle Break Its Dry-Day Record? (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
July 20, 2017: Professor Dargan Frierson is in the news—New Game Release and Nature Article (EarthGames)
July 13, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Cliff Mass: Don’t pin July weather, massive iceberg on climate change (By Kipp Robertson, MyNorthwest.com)
July 4, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—This Is Why Antarctic Sea Ice Crashed This Year (By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo)
June 30, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Study says climate change could increase North vs. South economic inequality (By Chelsey Ballarte, GeekWire)
June 30, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Classic Blue Skies In Seattle For July 4th; Just A Few Clouds This Weekend (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
June 28, 2017: Professor Becky Alexander is in the news—Research finds that Earth’s atmosphere is more chemically reactive in colder climates (By Nathan Coats, The Daily)
June 21, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—The ‘June gloom’ is about to be abolished with above-normal heat, forecasters say (MyNorthwest.com)
May 31, 2017: Adjunct Professor Jessica Lundquist is in the news—For women in science, the challenges are personal (By Praphanit Doowa, Crosscut)
May 26, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Mass: Memorial Day Weekend Will Be Warm, Dry And 'Perfect' (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
May 25, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Place your bets on summer climate (KING 5 News)
May 23, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—The US Lags Behind in Meteorology. Under Trump, It May Get Worse (By Eric Niiler, Wired)
May 19, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Forecasters say 50 percent chance for a hotter than normal summer (Staff report, MyNorthwest.com)
May 17, 2017: Professors Becky Alexander and Qiang Fu are in the news—Earth’s atmosphere more chemically reactive in cold climates (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
May 16, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—The longest warm, dry spell in 8 months is almost here (By Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune)
May 15, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Climate change expert: Global warming did not kill Seattle tree (By Dori Monson Show, MyNorthwest.com)
May 9, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—Antarctica's 'Dragon Skin' Ice Is Incredible (By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo)
May 9, 2017: Professor Dan Jaffe is in the news—The evidence is thin that uncovered coal trains pose a unique health hazard to Spokane (By Daniel Walters, Inlander)
May 5, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Amazing Lightning In Seattle Powered By Extraordinary Moisture From Hawaii (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
April 25, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—A ‘mega moisture plume’ stretches all the way from southern Japan to Washington state (By Angela Fritz, The Washington Post)
April 21, 2017: Graduate student Judy Twedt is the news—Carbon Pollution Music (UW 360)
April 21, 2017: Professor Kyle Armour is the news—Once more with feeling: Climate models don’t exaggerate warming (By Scott K. Johnson, ARS Technica)
April 21, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Island County least sunny locale of lower 48 states (By Patricia Guthrie, South Whidbey Record)
April 21, 2017: Congratulations to graduate student Judy Twedt, who today received a Husky Green Award, recognizing her sustainability leadership at the University of Washington. Judy has displayed remarkable creativity and initiative in leading two sustainability efforts on campus: one that engages with labor unions about climate change issues, and one that turns environmental data into widely-heard, artistic sound pieces. These efforts have each been remarkably successful in reaching communities that are not often served by UW outreach efforts. Judy founded a Climate Change Speakers' Bureau which talks to local labor unions about climate change, which has already reached thousands of people in just a few months of existence. She has also led an "environmental infosonics" initiative, which calls attention to environmental problems by representing key datasets with sound. Judy, we are so proud of you!
April 21, 2017: Adjuct Professor LuAnne Thompson and Professor Cliff Mass are in the news—How Seattle’s March for Science came to be (By Julia-Grace Sanders, Crosscut)
April 18, 2017: Professors Tom Ackerman and David Battisti are in the news—Is It O.K. to Tinker With the Environment to Fight Climate Change? (By Jon Gertner, The New York Times Magazine)
April 18, 2017: Professor Abby Swann is the news—She had a choice: Defend climate science or keep a border agent happy (By David Hyde, KUOW)
April 17, 2017: Professor Kyle Armour is the news—Will Earth’s Climate Get More Sensitive to CO2? Only Better Satellites Can Say (By Peter Fairley, IEEE Spectrum)
April 17, 2017: Professor Kyle Armour is the news—Models, observations not so far apart on planet’s response to greenhouse gas emissions (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
April 14, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Take that, Europe. Computer modeler aims to give U.S. lead in weather predictions (By Paul Voosen, Science Magazine)
April 10, 2017: Professor Tom Ackerman is in the news—Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites (By Henry Fountain, The New York Times)
April 3, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Washington weather: UW meteorologist takes the temperature of Seattle traffic (By Dyer Oxley, MyNorthwest.com)
March 31, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—A Day Of Sunshine In Northwest Washington After A Tiny Tornado In Snohomish County (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KNKX)
March 24, 2017: Congratulations to graduate student Judy Twedt for being selected for this academic year's College of the Environment Award for Outstanding Community Impact. We are so proud of you!
March 21, 2017: Dr. Lynn McMurdie is in the news—Olympex testing reveals secrets in our weather (By Glenn Farley, King5.com)
March 20, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—The last 5.5 months have been extremely wet in the Northwest (By Kipp Robertson, MyNorthwest.com)
March 20, 2017: Please join us on Thursday, April 6, for our Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture by Professor Inez Fung, from UC, Berkeley. She will be speaking on "Trust but Verify: the Science of Climate Treaty Verification." This free lecture is open to the public and will take place in Kane 220 at 7:30 p.m. For more information and to register, please visit: http://events.uw.edu/GSDVL2017-RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!
March 15, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—March already surpassed usual monthly rain total (By Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune)
March 14, 2017: Professor David Battisti is in the news—Up to half of Arctic melting can be explained by natural changes (By Patrick Reilly, Christian Science Monitor)
March 13, 2017: Professor Dale Durran is in the news—Whose votes count the least in the Electoral College? (By Dale Durran, The Conversation)
March 13, 2017: David Battisti, Edward Blanchard Wrigglesworth, Stephen Po-Chedley, and Ryan Eastman are in the news—Rapid decline of Arctic sea ice a combination of climate change and natural variability (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
March 6, 2017: Congratulations to our graduate students who earned student prizes at the 2017 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual meeting:

Michael Diamond received honorable mention among entries in the 9aerosol section for his oral presentation on “Entrainment and Mixing of Biomass Burning Aerosol into the Namibian Stratocumulus Cloud Deck.”

Karl Lapo won among entries in the hydrology section for his oral presentation on "Testing Turbulence Schemes in Land Models During Stable Conditions."

Hans Mohrmann received honorable mention among entries in the 9aerosol section for his poster presentation on “Meteorological and Microphysical Controls on the Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition.”

Kuan-Ting (Andy) O received honorable mention among entries in the 9aerosol section for his poster presentation on “Ultra-Clean Layers (UCLs) and Low Albedo Clouds (“gray clouds”) in the Marine Boundary Layer - CSET Aircraft Data, 2-D Bin Spectral Cloud Parcel Model, Large Eddy Simulation and Satellite Observations from CALIPSO, MODIS and COSMIC.”

Stephanie Rushley won among entries in the 5mjo category for her oral presentation on “Examining Changes to the Madden-Julian Oscillation in a Warmer Climate using CMIP5 Models.”

Job well done to all!

https://ams.confex.com/ams/97Annual/webprogram/alphabetical.html

March 3, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—Antarctic Sea Ice Crashed This Year and Scientists Don't Know Why (By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo)
March 1, 2017: Congratulations to graduate student Marysa Lague, who has 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. For more information, please see https://www.washington.edu/husky100/.
March 1, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—Antarctic ice has set an unexpected record, and scientists are struggling to figure out why (By Chris Mooney, The Washington Post)
February 27, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—It’s alive! Lightning strike turns Seattle’s Space Needle into a scene from a Frankenstein movie (By Alan Boyle, GeekWire)
February 17, 2017: Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, an Atmospheric Sciences alumna and currently Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota, is being honored this year with the 2017 UND Faculty Scholar Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in all three areas of research, teaching, and service. Only one of these is given each year for the whole university. Congratulations, Gretchen! We are so proud of you.
February 15, 2017: Professor Dan Jaffe is in the news—‘The blob’ of abnormal conditions boosted Western U.S. ozone levels (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
February 9, 2017: Professor Emeritus Mike Wallace is in the news—Weak and Short La Nina Fades Away; Climate Shifts to Neutral (By Seth Borenstein, The New York Times)
February 6, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Why does Western Washington get different amounts of snowfall? (By Glenn Farley, KING 5)
January 29, 2017: Shannon O'Donnell is in the news—Video: American Meteorological Society Convention (Komo News)
January 29, 2017: Professors Dennis Hartmann and David Battisti are in the news—UW scientists unsure of federal funds in Trump era (By Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times)
January 25, 2017: Professor Bob Houze & Emeritus Professor Mike Wallace are in the news—Monsoons to mosquitoes: UW researchers attend national weather conference in Seattle (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 23, 2017: Eliza Dawson, an undergraduate Atmospheric Sciences major, has won an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU Fall Meeting in December. This is a prestigious award granted to the top 5% of student participants (graduate and undergraduate) for quality research in the geophysical sciences. Congratulations Eliza!
January 18, 2017: Professor Dargan Frierson & Judy Twedt are in the news—Listen to the Earth smash another global temperature record (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 10, 2017: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—Rapid Arctic warming has in the past shifted Southern Ocean winds (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 5, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Are the frigid nights going to last? (By Kenny Ocker, The News Tribune)
January 2, 2017: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—It’s not the heat, it’s the humanity: the weather report with Cliff Mass (By Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times)
December 29, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Washington weather: It’s about to get very cold in the Northwest (By Dyer Oxley, MyNorthwest.com)
December 14, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—It doesn’t just feel like it’s freezing — it is (By Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune)
December 6, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—No snow, but a little ice and very cold (By Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune)
December 2, 2016: Professor Abby Swann is in the news—An ‘Unprecedented’ 102 Million Trees Have Died In California’s Drought-Stricken Forests (By Dominique Mosbergen, The Huffington Post)
December 2, 2016: Atmospheric Sciences Alumni Reception at the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting—If you will be attending the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, please join us for an alumni reception on Monday, January 23 at the Daily Grill in the Sheraton Hotel. The reception will run from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. For more information, you may contact atmos@uw.edu.
November 19, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—This new weather satellite isn’t just good for the U.S. — it’s good for the world (By Angela Fritz, The Washington Post)
November 16, 2016: Professor Abby Swann and postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Garcia are in the news—Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
November 15, 2016: Professor Dargan Frierson is in the news—Can video games solve world problems? (Author unknown, Trends and Issues in Higher Ed)
November 14, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Unseasonably warm November on par with Seattle weather in 2080 (By Kipp Robertson, MyNorthwest.com)
November 10, 2016: Professors Greg Hakim and Cliff Mass are in the news—How lightning strikes can improve storm forecasts (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
October 31, 2016: The anticipation is over! The Video Outreach group is pleased to announce the exciting conclusion to their film noir series in "El Niño and the Case of the Missing Sardines—Episode 4." Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at www.atmos.washington.edu and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
October 24, 2016: Professor Joel Thornton is in the news—How An Esoteric Science And International Policy Continue To Save The World (By Joel Thornton and Cathleen Kelly, The Huffington Post)
October 17, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—Why Isn’t the U.S. Better at Predicting Extreme Weather? (By Michael Behar, The New York Times Magazine)
October 12, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—How to cope with what’s shaping up as the Northwest’s ‘most powerful storm’ (By Alan Boyle, GeekWire)
September 30, 2016: Professor Dargan Frierson & Judy Twedt are in the news—CO2 record at Mauna Loa, the music video: The sounds of climate change (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
September 12, 2016: Professor Rob Wood & Affiliate Professor Sarah Doherty are in the news—UW scientist helping direct NASA field study of clouds off Namibia (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
September 5, 2016: Professor Dargan Frierson is in the news—Can video games save the planet? Students and professors hope to inform and inspire with EarthGames. (By Lisa Stiffler, GeekWire)
August 31, 2016: Professor Abby Swann is in the news again—Landscaping for Drought Could Make Warm Nights Cooler. (By John Upton, Climate Central)
August 29, 2016: Professor Abby Swann is in the news—Plants’ future water use affects long-term drought estimates. (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
August 19, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"Why Is August Our Hottest Month – Not June?" (By Bellamy Pailthorp, KPLU)
August 12, 2016: Affiliate Professor Nick Bond is in the news—The blob that cooked the Pacific. (By Craig Welch, National Geographic)
August 9, 2016: Congratulations to Prof. Stephen Warren! Three UW Earth scientists elected as AGU fellows. (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
August 9, 2016: Affiliate Professor Nick Bond is in the news—"From mountain forests to city parks, trees are stressed and dying." (By Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times)
August 1, 2016: Congratulations to Prof. Dennis Hartmann! Twelve UW faculty elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. (UW Today)
July 29, 2016: Professor Clifford Mass is in the news—"The National Weather Service Overhauls Its Forecasts and Sets off a Nerd Fight." (By Chelsea Leu, Wired)
July 26, 2016: Congratulations to Prof. Stephen Warren! He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. This is a tremendous honor, extended to only one in a thousand AGU members every year.
July 5, 2016: Professor Cecilia Bitz is in the news—"Long-term Pacific climate cycle linked to expansion of Antarctic sea ice." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
July 1, 2016: Congratulations to Jen DeHart, winner of the award for the best student poster, and to Maximo Menchaca, winner of the award for best student presentation at the American Meteorological Society's 17th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Burlington VT!
June 30, 2016: Professor Thomas Ackerman is in the news—"Difficulty of home run hits at Safeco Field could be due to Seattle's 'marine layer'." (710 ESPN Sports)
June 30, 2016: Professor Kyle Armour is in the news—"There's one place in the world that's getting colder instead of warmer." (By Jeremy Deaton, Nexus Media News, Business Insider)
June 23, 2016: Professor Abigail Swann is in the news—"Climate Scientists' Personal Carbon Footprints Come Under Scrutiny." (By Lisa Song, insideclimatenews.org)
June 21, 2016: The anticipation is over! The Video Outreach group is pleased to announce "El Niño and the Case of the Missing Sardines—Episode 2." Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at www.atmos.washington.edu and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
June 9, 2016: The Department of Atmospheric Sciences Annual Teaching Award winner for 2016 is Prof. Dale Durran. Congratulations!
June 1, 2016: Professor Cecilia Bitz, Drs. Ed Blanchard Wrigglesworth, Yongfei Zhang and Bonnie Light (APL) are in the news—"UW researchers attend sea ice conference — above the Arctic Circle." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today Blog)
May 30, 2016: Professor Kyle Armour is in the news—"Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn't warmed." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
May 26, 2016: Dr. Lynn McMurdie is in the news—"Why Did the Mule Climb the Mountain? Because NASA Said So." (By Mark Harris, IEEE Spectrum)
May 12, 2016: The Video Outreach Group is pleased to announce their film noir, "El Niño and the Case of the Missing Sardines—Episode 1." Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at www.atmos.washington.edu and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
May 3, 2016: Congratulations to Prof. Dennis Hartmann! Dennis L. Hartmann elected to National Academy of Sciences." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
April 20, 2016: Professor Dennis Hartmann is in the news—"UW experts call Paris climate agreement 'bold,' 'encouraging'." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
April 12, 2016: Professor Dargen Frierson announces Climate Game Jam at UW (April 22-24).
April 11, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"AccuWeather extends its controversial, 45-day weather forecasts to 90 days." (By Jason Samenow, The Washington Post)
April 7, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"Panasonic says it created a weather forecast model that beats the European." (By Angela Fritz, The Washington Post)
April 7, 2016: Professor Chris Bretherton is in the news—"Another study says warming may be worse than experts think." (By Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times)
April 6, 2016: Professor Roger Marchand is in the news—"UW-led field project watching clouds from a remote island off Antarctica." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
April 4, 2016: Registration is open for the Graduate Students' Distinguished Visiting Lecture. "El Niño, and the Rise of the Pacific as Global Climate Pacemaker," Prof. Shang-Ping Xie, April 7, 2016, Kane Hall, Rm. 220, 7:30 p.m.
March 24, 2016: Bryce Harrop announces the latest UWAtmosOutreach video on the Coriolis Effect, Part 2! Keep an eye out for a local celebrity appearance. Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at www.atmos.washington.edu and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
March 18, 2016: Professor Abigail Swann is in the news—"UW Environment’s Abigail Swann and Alex Gagnon receive NSF Early Career Award." (environment.uw.edu/news)
March 9, 2016: Affiliate Associate Professor Sarah Doherty and Professor Stephen Warren are in the news—"Darkening of Greenland ice sheet due mainly to older, melting snow." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
March 6, 2016: Professor Robert Houze, Dr. Angela Rowe, Joe Zagrodnik and Shannon O'Donnell are in the news—"Local OLYMPEX rain research project picks perfect winter for study." (By Scott Sistek, KOMONEWS.com)
February 24, 2016: Max Menchaca announced the latest UWAtmosOutreach video on the Coriolis Effect. Links to other UWAtmosOutreach videos are at www.atmos.washington.edu and on the UWAtmosOutreach YouTube channel.
February 23, 2016: Professor Dale Durran and graduate student Jonathan Weyn are in the news—"For weather forecasting, precise observations matter more than butterflies." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
February 22, 2016: Reminder—Sign up for the "2016 Northwest Weather Workshop," March 4-5, 2016.
February 3, 2016: Congratulations to graduate student Karl Lapo! He was one of the Outstanding Student Paper Award winners from the December 2015 AGU Fall Meeting for his poster.
February 2, 2016: Professor Qiang Fu is in the news—"The mystery of the expanding tropics." (By Olive Hefferman, Nature)
January 29, 2016: Professor John M. Wallace and graduate student Tsubasa Kohyama are in the news—"Moon’s tidal forces affect amount of rainfall on Earth." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 26, 2016: Professor Daehyun Kim and graduate student Ángel Adames are in the news—"Mathematical model explains huge recurring rainstorms in the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 26, 2016: Sarah Doherty, Affiliate Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, is in the news—"So You Want To Eat Snow. Is It Safe? We Asked Scientists" (By Anne Bramley, NPR)
January 22, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"Why rain is more dangerous than snow." (By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post)
January 22, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Sigi Schobesberger! He has won a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the EU for his proposed work as part of a collaboration between UW and the U. of Helsinki to study trace gas fluxes and chemistry over forested ecosystems.
January 20, 2016: Professor Dargan Frierson is in the news—"UW-designed climate change games honored this week in Washington, D.C." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 11, 2016: Professor Cliff Mass and Affiliate Professor Nick Bond are in the news—"Northwest winter weather: El Niño, coastal effects, no more ‘blob’." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
January 6, 2016: Professor Cecilia Bitz and Affiliate Professor Nick Bond are in the news—"UW climate scientists to give free talks at Mt. Baker ski area." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
December 30, 2015: Registration is now open for the Peter V. Hobbs Memorial Endowed Lecture in Experimental Meteorology. "Uncertainties in Climate Prediction: The Influence of Clouds and Aerosols on Climate," Prof. Ulrike Lohmann, Jan. 19, 2016, Kane Hall, Rm. 210, 7:30 p.m.
December 30, 2015: "2016 Northwest Weather Workshop," March 4-5, 2016.
December 23, 2015: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"Jennings: Abundance of fresh powder leads to happy skiers." (By Bill Jennings, The Spokesman-Review)
December 9, 2015: Professor Dennis Hartmann and graduate student Daniel McCoy are in the news—"Iceland volcano's eruption shows how sulfur particles influence clouds." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
December 1, 2015: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"VIDEO: Cliff Mass Unlocks Weather Secrets." (By Margaret Murray, The Whole U)
November 27, 2015: Professor Cliff Mass is in the news—"Snowmaking: A dirty word turned game changer." (By Greg Hill, The News Tribune)
November 23, 2015: Congratulations to Prof. Qiang Fu—"AAAS names 4 UW researchers as fellows." (UW Today)
November 11, 2015: Professor Robert Houze, Dr. Lynn McMurdie and graduate student Joe Zagrodnik are in the news—"UW, NASA measure rain and snowfall to gauge new precipitation satellite." (By Hannah Hickey, UW Today)
November 9, 2015: Professor Dargan Frierson has some great news! Last month our educational game team (EarthGamesUW) participated in the national Climate Game Jam, sponsored by NOAA, the Smithsonian, and the White House. He found out recently that our game ClimateQuest won first place in this competition! A brief video that shows some of the game is at: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUuaCESjcQ" Preparations are underway as the game is to be shown at the Smithsonian Museums in a few weeks!