Science Spotlights

Be There: The Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium

Be There: The Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium

December 14, 2023

Highlighting Key Sessions at AMS 2024 The Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting will celebrate Dr. Kuo-Nan...

Snowflakes are Six-Sided (not Four- or Eight-sided), and other Ice Crystal Shape Considerations

Snowflakes are Six-Sided (not Four- or Eight-sided), and other Ice Crystal Shape Considerations

December 8, 2023

By Lourdes B. Avilés, Ph.D. For many years I have been paying attention (one might say, too much attention) to...

Be There: The Daniel Keyser Symposium

Be There: The Daniel Keyser Symposium

November 28, 2023

Highlighting Key Sessions at AMS 2024 The Daniel Keyser Symposium at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting will advance the science...

Irrigation and Storms in the Inner Mongolian Desert
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Irrigation and Storms in the Inner Mongolian Desert

November 15, 2023

A Research Spotlight from 32WAF/20Meso/28NWP An irrigation oasis in Inner Mongolia, China, is providing unusual, real-world evidence about the effects...

Building Community to Solve the Big Challenges in Weather, Water, and Climate
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Building Community to Solve the Big Challenges in Weather, Water, and Climate

October 27, 2023

Some thoughts following the AMS Summer Community Meeting By Isabella Herrera, AMS Policy Program How can the weather, water, and...

“Once in a Generation”: The 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
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“Once in a Generation”: The 2022 Buffalo Blizzard

October 12, 2023

A Research Spotlight from 32WAF/28NWP/20Meso On 23 December, 2022, David Zaff of the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office walked out...

A Few Takeaways from the “State of the Climate in 2022”
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A Few Takeaways from the “State of the Climate in 2022”

September 6, 2023

Record-high greenhouse gases, sea levels, monsoons, and droughts—and a volcanic vapor injection By Michael Alexander, Lead, Atmosphere Ocean Processes and...

CalFiDE: Observing Large-Scale Fires from the Air and the Road

CalFiDE: Observing Large-Scale Fires from the Air and the Road

August 22, 2023

A Research Spotlight from the 14th Annual Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium, 2–4 May, 2023 Through the smoke of record-setting...

Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclone Fatalities in the United States

Recent Trends in Tropical Cyclone Fatalities in the United States

August 8, 2023

New data from the past ten years reveal increased prominence of freshwater floods and indirect fatalities in hurricane deaths Guest...

“People in My Community Rely on Me.”

“People in My Community Rely on Me.”

July 25, 2023

Lessons from Longtime Broadcast Meteorologists In the third of three posts celebrating the 50th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology, we asked...

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