May 25, 2019
Assistant Professor Malte Jansen and Associate Professor Dorian Abbot represented the department at the 90th anniversary celebration of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Peking University (PKU). Our department has a strong connection with atmospheric sciences at PKU. For example, Yongyun Hu, who earned his PhD in our department in 2000 is the chair of atmospheric sciences at PKU, which is one of the most important positions in atmospheric sciences in China.
May 20, 2019
A recent publication by Postdoc Zhihong Tan, Prof. Tiffany Shaw and Dr. Orli Lachmy of the Open University of Israel was featured in an AGU Research spotlight! The authors proposed a new longwave radiation heirarchy for use in GCMs that better predict the response of midlatitude jets to climate change. Congratulations to all!
May 01, 2019
Prof. Graham Slater was recently quoted in a National Geographic piece about the evolution of gigantism in blue whales! He was featured for a recent publication of his in Proc. R. Soc. Biology, tracing the evolution of baleen whale gigantism through the Pleistocene. Congratulations, Prof. Slater!