2016 News

Weathering market trends

— posted on Apr 08, 2016 08:20 AM

Meteorology students Brian Kennedy and Kerry Mindiak discuss predictions for the future price of soybeans as part of a semester-long project in a meteorology course.

Storms, ozone may play pivotal role in rainforest cloud creation

— posted on Apr 04, 2016 01:47 PM

"The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the southern hemisphere by transpiring moisture that is transported by clouds to many places that need precipitation," said Jose D. Fuentes, professor of meteorology, Penn State.

Odds are overwhelming that record heat due to climate change

— posted on Feb 15, 2016 09:59 AM

Record-setting temperatures over the past century and a half are extremely unlikely to have occurred without human-caused climate change, but the odds of that happening are not quite as low as previously reported, according to an international team of meteorologists

Storms, ozone may play pivotal role in rainforest cloud creation

— posted on Feb 12, 2016 12:12 AM

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Some storms transport ozone molecules to the canopy of the rainforest, influencing chemical processes that ultimately affect cloud formation, according to an international research team led by Penn State.

Chinese Yellow Dust Or Korean Factory Fumes? NASA Teams Cruise For Clues

— posted on May 27, 2016 09:06 AM

Teams of scientists sponsored by NASA and Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research are in the midst of a six-week project trying to get the answers as they scour the skies from the vantage of a vintage DC8 piloted by retired U.S. Air Force officers