Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

The multidisciplinary study of the transmission of light through the ocean, including the development and use of novel imaging technologies. Research interests are broadly concerned with the use of ...

Climate change. Air pollution. Emissions. Wild fires. The Atmospheric Science—PhD program provides opportunities to study cloud formation in our cloud chamber facility or to learn the impacts of air ...

Sometimes, circumzenithal arcs can be seen above sundogs, colored spots of light that appear on either side of the Sun due to ...

The main research interest of the Environmental Optics Laboratory is the study of the effects that anthropogenic and natural particulates suspended and transported in the atmosphere (aerosols) have on ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...

Many of these coastal deluges are caused by atmospheric rivers—regions of concentrated water vapor carried along on strong winds, sometimes called “rivers in the sky.” Meteorologists monitor them, but ...

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) covers the interdisciplinary study of the earth and its atmosphere. Our students and faculty are passionate about understanding ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Earth System Science, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and ...

Atmospheric rivers—those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions—are shifting toward higher latitudes, and ...

If California's atmospheric river forecast proves true this winter, the state could have enough water to get through another dry summer. Last winter, the West Coast faced a slew of atmospheric ...

Meteorologists are warning that the first atmospheric river of the fall and winter season will bring heavy rain to the western half of Washington and snow to higher elevation areas in the state ...