The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently honored Penn State's weather data center — now housed next to the Walker Building, which is home to the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science — as a 100-year weather/climate monitoring site.
MEMS was founded in 2019 to promote diversity within the College of Earth and Mineral Science by Bryttani Wooten, then an undergraduate student in meteorology and atmospheric science.
The annual weeklong camp is held by the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science in partnership with Penn State Conferences and Institutes. This year 37 students from 16 different states attended the program, which launched in 2001.
Kenneth Davis will spearhead the DOE-funded project to investigate influence of surface-atmosphere interactions
Four Penn State students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — Bridget Reheard, left, Mallory Wickline, Jackie Kiska and Asha Spencer — were recently awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to advance their research ambitions.
Five high school students in the Penn State chapter of the EnvironMentors received awards at the 2023 EnvironMentors National Science Fair and Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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).
