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If You Can Make Climate Resilience Here, You Can Make It Anywhere!
The 10th International Conference on Urban Climate and 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, co-hosted by AMS at City College...
Oh Say Can You Breathe? The Impact of Fireworks on Air Quality in the United States
by Perry Samson, Climate and Space Science and Engineering, University of Michigan On July 4th last year, in an attempt...
Kids in Hot Cars: Tragic Misconceptions
Two tragedies last week were reminders of a continuing and underrated weather hazard: people continue to leave children in their...
Across AMS
Small Numbers, Big Impacts
Thanks to Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals and Climate Nexus for posting about her video on Twitter for Juneteenth yesterday. Her interview is...
Future Hurricanes a Bit Stronger and Slower, but Much Wetter in a Warmer Climate
It’s been more than 8 months. Since Maria. Irma before. And Harvey before that. For many who endured them, it...
Lubchenco: Let's "Embed" Science in Society
In a “post-truth” world of contemporary politics and culture, “it’s easy to assume that science is really in trouble and everything...
Your AMS Community Online
by Jordan Stillman, AMS Community Coordinator After a successful soft launch to AMS board and committee members this past winter,...
From AMS Journals
Small-scale Vortices Enhanced Winds and Damage in Hurricane Harvey
Severe but highly variable wind damage to homes & infrastructure is a hallmark of intense tropical cyclones. Until recently there...
Mentoring365 and You!
by Tanja Fransen, AMS Councilor and Mentoring Program Ad-Hoc Committee Chair AMS has a wealth of talent and we’d love to...
Satellites Capture Weather History in the Making
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16, now GOES-East, became operational in December and this eye in the sky is capturing stunning...
