Student of Southern Ocean Clouds

University of Utah atmospheric scientist Jay Mace (left) is co-PI of the ASR-supported CAPE-k campaign.  Learn about CAPE-k and Mace’s career-long focus on climate drivers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Challenging Perceptions of the Link Between Clouds and Land

Recent research questions conventional understanding of how clouds form and engage with the Earth’s surface.

Ice-Cloud Puzzle Master

Columbia University Associate Research Scientist and ASR researcher Kara Lamb's career path has taken fascinating turns, from literature and theoretical physics to atmospheric science.

A Master of Particles in Earth's Lower Boundary Layer

Markus Petters investigates the fate, flux, size, chemistry, and number of cloud-critical bits of matter.

Zhien Wang: Helping the Next Generation of Scientists to Innovate and Discover

An ASR scientist brings a life’s passion for research, innovation, and mentoring.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research program advances process-level understanding of the key interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics, with the ultimate goal of reducing the uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations and projections.

Research Highlights

Above-cloud concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei help to sustain some arctic low-level clouds

We investigated the importance of aerosol particles above cloud top for maintaining low-level [...] Read more

Are atmospheric models too cold in the mountains? The state of science and insights from SAIL

We reviewed the peer-reviewed literature, and found that many types of high-resolution [...] Read more

Relationships between cloud and land surface fluxes across cumulus and stratiform coupling

In our study, we systematically explored the multifaceted relationships between land surface [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sheds light on global evapotranspiration

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Chemical properties and single-particle mixing state of soot aerosol in Houston during the TRACER campaign

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Ultra-High-Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (UHSAS) Instrument Handbook

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Upcoming Meetings

American Meteorological Society’s 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

6 May 2024 - 10 May 2024

The AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones serves as an authority on [...] Read more

ARM Open Science Summer School

19 May 2024 - 24 May 2024

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will host an open science-focused summer [...] Read more

Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate Workshop

20 May 2024 - 22 May 2024

The 2024 Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Climate (ACPC) Workshop workshop will be held on May 20 [...] Read more