June 17, 2024
Prof. Emeritus David Ballantyne Rowley passed way May 30; UChicago Physical Sciences wrote up a piece honoring his life and contributions to the field.
June 07, 2024
This project has an ambitious scope, and the team hopes to answer a number of questions over the next few years. They aim to quantify how much carbon dioxide enters and exits the ocean, whether this rate is changing over time, and if so why. They also want to characterize trends in dissolved oxygen and the processes that govern them. They have similar questions for heat transfer and ocean temperature.
June 05, 2024
And still, clouds remain one of the least understood—or least reliably predictable—factors in our climate models. “They are among the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change,” Da Yang, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Chicago, told me.