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Without Human-Caused Climate Change Temperatures of 40°C in the UK Would Have Been Extremely Unlikely
July 29, 2022

Scientists from South Africa, Germany, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Denmark, the United States, and the United Kingdom, collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the recent heatwave in the UK. AOS Faculty Member Gabe Vecchi and Wenchang Yang

UK Forecasters Issue First-Ever 'Red' Warning for Exceptional Heat with All-Time Records Poised to Topple
July 18, 2022

AOS Faculty Member Gabriel Vecchi, deputy director of CIMES, told CNN that this is a signal of the climate crisis, and hot extremes outpacing cool extremes has been a notable trend in recent years.

"This is what you would expect from a planetary warming that's been driven in large part from greenhouse gases; this is…

Sarah Kapnick Named NOAA Chief Scientist
July 8, 2022

Former AOS Postdoc and CIMES Researcher Sarah Kapnick was named NOAA’s chief scientist on July 7, 2022. Kapnick will serve as the senior scientist for the agency, advancing policy and program direction for NOAA’s science and technology priorities. She is the third woman in NOAA’s history to be appointed to this role.

Suki Manabe Named ‘Great Immigrant’ for Contributions to America
July 6, 2022

AOS Senior Meteorologist Suki Manabe has been honored as one of America’s “Great Immigrants” by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in the philanthropical organization’s annual July 4 awards.

The Carnegie Corporation cited Manabe’s “groundbreaking work using mathematical models to predict climate change,” for…

Without Deep Emissions Cuts, Marine Species Face Mass Extinction
June 28, 2022

Recent research has found that under a business-as-usual emissions scenario, marine ecosystems are likely to experience “mass extinctions on par with past great extinctions.” The reason? Ocean warming and depleted levels of dissolved oxygen.

The work of AOS Faculty Member Curtis Deutsch, professor of…

Yujin Zeng Receives CMI Best Paper Award
May 16, 2022

The Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) recognized Yujin Zeng, an AOS associate research scholar, at the CMI Annual Meeting for outstanding published research.

Zeng was awarded the

Unchecked Global Emissions on Track to Initiate Mass Extinction of Marine life
April 29, 2022

Princeton University researchers report in the journal Science that unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs.

AOS Faculty Member Curtis Deutsch, professor of geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental…

Regional Sensitivity Patterns of Arctic Ocean Acidification Revealed with Machine Learning
April 20, 2022

Ocean acidification (OA) is a consequence of the absorption of anthropogenic carbon emissions and it profoundly impacts marine life. Arctic regions are particularly vulnerable to rapid pH changes due to low ocean buffering capacities and high stratification. New research, led by John Krasting (GFDL) with AOS/CIMES and GFDL co-authors, applied…

Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations - Ching-Yao Lai
April 13, 2022

For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensical answers. A new approach to machine learning has researchers betting that “blowup” is near.

New work on the blowup of the Euler equations began in an unlikely place — with geophysicists, including AOS Faculty Member Ching-Yao…

2022 Paul F. Boulos Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Awarded to Noemi Vergopolan
April 12, 2022

AOS Postdoc Noemi Vergopolan won the 2022 Paul F. Boulos Excellence in Computational Hydraulics/Hydrology Award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists for her work on hyper-resolution land surface modeling. 

Noemi's current research aims to…