ASCENT scholarships fund graduate students’ international research
Four atmospheric science graduate students received scholarships this year from a department fund established to enrich the graduate experience.
Tag: "Department of Atmospheric Science"
Emeritus Professor William Cotton authors memoir
Emeritus Professor William Cotton has written a memoir, "The Setting Sun: A Life's Adventure."
This year's Atlantic hurricane season was worse than normal, but it wasn't nearly as destructive as much of the last 10 years
“If you were to poll 50 scientists to see how climate change has affected hurricanes, you would get so many different answers,” said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University (NBC News).
Atmospheric researchers take excellence to new heights
Five researchers in one of the top Atmospheric Science programs in the nation are being honored in December and January by peers in their field.
Record-setting Tropical Cyclone Ambali intensifies from tropical storm to borderline Category 5 monster in 24 hours
According to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Philip Klotzbach, that’s the greatest 24-hour intensification of any Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone on record (Washington Post).
Getting rain right
A Colorado State University investigator of precipitation physics merges cloud models and observations to understand precipitation rates and storm dynamics (ASR/U.S. Department of Energy).
Atmospheric science, meet data science
Now more than ever, climate researchers are turning to trainable, data-nimble computer programs as tools for improving climate models, weather forecasting and more.
Ferocious hurricane season that saw 18 named storms comes to an end
The powerful 2019 Atlantic hurricane season comes to its official end this weekend, a period that saw 18 named storms, six of which were hurricanes (USA Today).
Stuck in Arctic Ice, Dodging Polar Bears. All for Science.
Jessie Creamean, a researcher from Colorado State University, has been setting up portable equipment, nicknamed C-3PO, on the ice to sample particles and droplets in the air as part of her studies of how Arctic clouds form (New York Times).
There could be a hurricane in the Atlantic ‘by tonight’
According to CSU hurricane researcher Philip Klotzbach, seven other Atlantic systems have developed into hurricanes after Nov. 20 since the satellite era began in 1966 (Washington Post).