Science is nuanced. This basic truth certainly holds for the field of atmospheric science, where the complexities of the airy environment are investigated. The climate science subdiscipline explores ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Months of severe flooding blanketed the U.S. in 2025, which climate experts dubbed “The Summer of Flooding.” The harsh ...

Monsoon constitutes a critical component of the global weather and climate system, sustaining billions of people worldwide. It is shaped by a complex interplay of Earth system processes, encompassing ...

William J. Randel (Chair), is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. His research interests include dynamic variability and climatology of the stratosphere and the ...

Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth’s atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a year — posing a climate-warming impact previously estimated at almost one-third ...

Climate change is perhaps the defining global environmental, social and political issue of our time. This new interdisciplinary minor, available in Fall 2026, capitalizes on the University of Colorado ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa was an eye-popping storm, smashing historical records — and the western end of Jamaica — last week. A rapid fire series of new scientific studies also suggest that climate ...

On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump ...

Climate is the average state of the atmosphere and the underlying land or water, on time scales of seasons and longer. Climate is typically described by the statistics of a set of atmospheric and ...

Mesa Laboratory at The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), long considered the crown jewel ...