AOS Faculty Member Tom Delworth, a GFDL senior scientist, has been selected as the 2021 Bert Bolin awardee and lecturer of the AGU Global Environmental Change section. He will receive the award and present this lecture at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2021…

Climate scientist Curtis Deutsch, an AOS alum, whose work focuses on understanding interactions between climate and ecosystems, has joined the Princeton faculty as a Professor of Geosciences and the

AOS Faculty Member Gabriel Vecchi, professor of geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), was named director of HMEI effective July 1. Vecchi succeeds

Honoring a distinguished career in atmospheric sciences, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will present V. “Ram” Ramaswamy with the 2022 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal for his “original and highly influential leadership providing fundamental insight into radiative-climate…

Water “blisters” trapped beneath the thick interior of Greenland’s ice sheet could provide critical insight into the hydrological network coursing deep below Earth’s second largest body of ice — and how it might be destabilized by climate change, according to a recent study led by AOS Faculty Member …

Congratulations to Shiv Priyam Raghuraman who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis, "Changes in the Satellite-Observed Radiation Budget: Manifestations of Radiative Forcing, Feedbacks, and Internal Variability,” on August 17. Priyam accepted an NCAR Advanced Study Program…

Congratulations to Michelle Frazer who successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis, "Using an Idealized Climate Model to Elucidate Physical Mechanisms and Improve Model Representation of Extratropical Cloud Feedbacks,” on August 10.  Michelle accepted a postdoctoral research…

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Congratulations to Jane Smyth who successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis, "Investigating the Physical Controls of Monsoon Seasonality in a Hierarchy of Climate Models,” on August 3.  Jane accepted an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at MIT, working with Paul O'Gorman . …

In a new paper, led by AOS Graduate Student Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, a CIMES researcher, with co-authors David Paynter (GFDL) and AOS Faculty Member V. Ramaswamy, director of GFDL, the authors used satellite observations from 2001 to 2020 and found that Earth’s “energy imbalance” is growing. The