The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research program advances process-level understanding of the key interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics, with the ultimate goal of reducing the uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations and projections.

Research Highlights

Increasing model spatial resolution fails to reduce simulated storm biases

Accurately predicting impacts from storms depends [...] Read more

New methods for extracting more detail from existing data sets

Detailed data of what is in the atmosphere is often very complex, containing thousands of [...] Read more

Bridging the data gap in Southern Hemisphere aerosol research

Aerosols are known to affect cloud properties, including their formation, growth, and [...] Read more

Recent Publications

The influence of cloud cover on the reliability of satellite-based solar resource data

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Orbital-Radar v1.0.0: a tool to transform suborbital radar observations to synthetic EarthCARE cloud radar data

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Upcoming Meetings

2025 Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting

3 March 2025 - 6 March 2025

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Joint User [...] Read more

10th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference

5 March 2025 - 9 March 2025

The tenth annual HBCU Climate Change Conference will take place March 5 to 9, 2025 in New Orleans, [...] Read more

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025

27 April 2025 - 2 May 2025

The EGU General Assembly 2025 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting [...] Read more