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Recently, Professor Lynn McMurdie, graduate student Valeria Garcia, and postdoc Troy Zaremba joined the NASA research mission, North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE), based out of Labrador, Canada. The research team is flying directly into developing storms to gather data from largely unmeasured parts of the Arctic atmosphere. Using specialized aircraft and instruments, the team studies clouds, moisture, and energy exchanges in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions to improve weather forecasting models, particularly for rapidly changing and hard-to-predict systems. Researchers say the data collected could lead to more accurate forecasts days in advance, benefiting everything from daily weather predictions to aviation safety and climate research, especially in northern regions where current data gaps make forecasting more difficult.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nasa-mission-labrador-forecast-weather-9.7136435

Congratulations to the ATMOS Class of 2025, you did it!! ☁️☔️🌀
And a big thank you to the friends and family who joined us to celebrate this special milestone!☀️🌈

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The 2024 GSDVL is in TWO WEEKS! This year we have Professor Paul O’Gorman from MIT speaking about “Response of Extreme Precipitation to Climate Change: Physical Understanding and Machine Learning.”

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is TOMORROW! Join in the fun, support our department's mission to generate new knowledge, and educate and train the next generation of weather, climate, and air quality experts!
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Fall Social was a wonderful way to kick off the new quarter and academic year. Special shout-out to the newest members of our department, the incoming first year cohort, as well as Prof. Alex Turner for winning his second teaching award!

First BBQ of the year was a huge success! Big shout-out to our amazing Second Friday coordinators and volunteers ☀️