Machine learning technology that can recognize human faces may also help to improve weather forecasts, according to a team of scientists.
Melissa Gervais receives a five-year NSF CAREER Award from NSF.
Penn State has established a publicly available, environmental monitoring network to provide enhanced surveillance of atmospheric and soil conditions across Pennsylvania.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society
“The challenges we are facing are really immense,” a keynote speaker on Monday warned.
Weak electrical discharges, called corona, can form on tree leaves during thunderstorms
Sea–surface salinity levels in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans can presage heavy rains in the Midwestern United States.
The researchers are participating in the Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific (PRECIP), a $6 million field campaign in Taiwan and Japan funded by the National Science Foundation to improve our understanding of the processes that produce extreme precipitation.
A recent study by an international team of scientists including Raymond Najjar, professor of oceanography at Penn State, found that the flows of carbon through the complex network of water bodies that connect land and ocean has often been overlooked and that ignoring these flows overestimates the carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and underestimates sedimentary and oceanic carbon storage.
Even from the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Penn State professor Jose Fuentes is inspiring his students to learn and grow
Penn State Meteorology and Atmospheric Science faculty including Yunji Zhang, Eugene Clothiaux, Steven Greybush, Xingchao Chen and others lead research initiated by the late Fuqing Zhang for more accurate storm rainfall and intensity forecasts.
While climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers report that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may be contributing to this “cold blob.”
The vast majority of plastic pollution that makes its way into the rivers of the Chesapeake Bay stays in and along local waters and is not, as researchers put it, “exported” to the ocean.
“We found a huge band of carbon dioxide trapped around the frontal system,” said Arkayan Samaddar, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Penn State.
Measuring ethane in the atmosphere shows that the amounts of methane going into the atmosphere from oil and gas wells and contributing to greenhouse warming is higher than suggested by the U.S. EPA.
Penn State will be one of the partners in the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s new Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CISHIWRO).
Early on, Dr. Paul Markowski was drawn to STEM fields such as astronomy and meteorology.
A biweekly virtual coffee chat, has spawned dozens of interactions between students and GEMS board members.
Congratulations to the faculty and students in The Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science for their achievements and award recognition!
Lightning bolts break apart nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere and create reactive chemicals that affect greenhouse gases.
Carl Chelius had a pretty exciting job as assistant professor and senior research pilot for the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.
Penn State alumnus Joe Gofus remembers precisely when he knew that he wasn’t going to become a weather forecaster.
For as long as he can remember, Christopher Tate, the senior majoring in meteorology and atmospheric science was fascinated with the weather.
Volcanic eruptions, not natural variability, were the cause of an apparent "Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation,"
