This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Atmospheric Sciences. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=75&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ UW scientists say Seattle area bracing for triple-digit temperatures this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:51:55 GMT There has been recent disagreement about the snowpack decline in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, but new research leaves little doubt that a warmer climate has a significant effect on the snowpack, even if other factors keep year-to-year measurements close to normal for a period of years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49664 Science Environment Stephanie Kenitzer (kenitzer@dc.ametsoc.org) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49664 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:55:37 GMT A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated. New research says the Artic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as few as 30 years instead of the end of the century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48419 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48419 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:00:45 GMT New research shows that rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46272 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46272 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT UW atmospheric sciences professor's book explains many phenomena of Northwest weather. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45154 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45154 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:22:47 GMT UW scientists say satellite data could help to save herds of musk oxen and reindeer cut off from their food supply. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40505 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40505 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, combined with other effects of global climate change, are likely to raise sea levels in parts of Western Washington by the end of this century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39136 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39136 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:15:49 GMT Dust from the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in China and Mongolia is routinely present in the air over the western United States during spring months, a University of Washington researcher has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38562 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38562 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:37:00 GMT Despite decades of more-exacting science projecting Earth's warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37558 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37558 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:28:10 GMT University of Washington experts from the Applied Physics Laboratory and atmospheric sciences give their perspectives on this week's announcement that the ice extent minimum for 2007 in the Arctic Ocean was reached last weekend at a record-breaking low of 1.59 million square miles. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:43:55 GMT Two researchers writing in American Scientist say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is inaccurate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34106 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34106 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:30:36 GMT Data collected in 2005 from Hurricane Rita is providing the first documented evidence that rapid intensity changes can be caused by clouds outside the wall of a hurricane's eye coming together to form a new eyewall. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31083 Science Ivy Kupec (ikupec@rsmas.miami.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31083 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:41:20 GMT Northwest climate scientists played key roles in a major new international study that shows climate change will have serious effects in the coming decades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30140 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30140 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:53:51 GMT It's time for the United States to have a national climate service -- an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts -- say six members of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group. Their views appear online this week in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28457 Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28457 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:00:00 GMT By the end of this century winter storms in the Northwest are likely to be much more pronounced, particularly west of the Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27491 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27491 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT Western Washington's reputation as a soggy bastion for the web-footed is taking a beating this year, thanks to an unrelenting dry spell. And typically arid Eastern Washington is even more parched than usual. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26557 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26557 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT A new satellite that last week began gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the planet's changing climate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24978 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24978 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT Researchers examining more than 25 years of satellite data find that each hemisphere's jet stream has moved toward the pole, a development that could widen the tropics and expand some of the world's driest regions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24603 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24603 Thu, 25 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT New UW research suggests mercury can be carried long distances in the atmosphere, combining with other chemicals to form compounds that are much more water-soluble and so more easily removed from the air in rainfall. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13977 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13977 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:00:00 GMT A research team that includes a UW atmospheric scientist next week is to begin one of the largest hurricane research projects ever undertaken to better understand dramatic, rapid changes in tropical storm intensity that have baffled forecasters for years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11548 Science Ivy Kupec (ikupec@rsmas.miami.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11548 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT UW expert says a bill in the U.S. Senate to privatize most weather forecasting would seriously damage the quality of the nation's weather information. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10211 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10211 Mon, 16 May 2005 07:00:00 GMT Earth's climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10043 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10043 Thu, 05 May 2005 07:00:00 GMT Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7873 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7873 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:53:00 GMT A new interpretation for satellite data published earlier this year raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that the lower atmosphere is warming as fast as the Earth's surface. Now, another study, using data from other scientists, has validated the original finding. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6657 Science Stephanie Kenitzer (kenitzer@dc.ametsoc.org) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6657 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:00:00 GMT Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle's air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5311 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5311 Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:00:00 GMT University of Washington climate scientists say a much-publicized new action thriller on the perils of climate change misses the scientific mark. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4469 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4469 Fri, 28 May 2004 07:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers using satellite data in a new and more accurate way show that for more than two decades the troposphere has been warming faster than the Earth's surface. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4253 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4253 Wed, 05 May 2004 07:00:00 GMT Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun's heat away from Earth and into space, are in air pollution, in plumes of smoke from forest fires and in ash clouds from erupting volcanoes. A new study says the cooling effect of man-made aerosols could throw a monkey wrench into the current understanding of climate change. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5395 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5395 Thu, 15 May 2003 07:00:00 GMT Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don't provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a University of Washington scientist says. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2627 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2627 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT