Atmospheric Convection
⟵ Dr. Adam Houston's students participate in the field phase of an NSF National Robotics Initiative-funded project to test the use of drones to improve storm-scale numerical weather predictions.
Climate Change and Variability
⟵ Analysis by Dr. Dawn Kopacz showing the rapid decline in September Arctic sea ice extent (thick blue line) relative to the long-term average sea ice extent (thin blue line).
Mesoscale Processes
⟵ Numerical simulations of mesovortices conducted by Dr. Adam Houston in an effort to examine the sensitivity of mesovortices to the vertical wind shear.
Instrumentation
⟵ Dr. Adam Houston's research group along with Dr. Van Den Broeke and members of the Nimbus Lab during the 2017 CLOUD-MAP field campaign.
Severe Weather
⟵ Shelf cloud of an Oklahoma supercell intercepted by UNL's TORUS team (courtesy Matthew Wilson).
Climate Diagnostics
⟵ Two global climate models that produce vastly different future sea ice trends exhibit similar surface albedos prior to their transitions (vertical black lines), effectively excluding the sea ice albedo feedback as the driving force of sea ice changes within these models.
Remote Sensing
⟵ Radar reflectivity image of simultaneous tornadic and nontornadic supercell storms in Oklahoma, being analyzed by Dr. Matthew Van Den Broeke.
Climate Modeling
⟵ Climatological annual precipitation over southern Brazil downscaled from ERA-I reanalysis as part of a project led by Clint Rowe
Paleoclimatology
⟵ Results of research by Dr. Steve Hu showing growing season precipitation change for extreme paleo- and historical droughts in India and north-central China from reconstructed Eurasian precipitation.
Weather Analysis and Forecasting
Backward trajectories of air at the surface (right) for a complex low, indicating that the eastern cold front analyzed on the surface map (left) is actually a dryline.
Weather Impacts
Results of research by Dr. Liang Chen showing the climatology of blizzard occurrence (number of events per year) derived from the Storm Events (SE) dataset provided by National Weather Service.
Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Results of research by Dr. Liang Chen showing the sensitivity of summer daytime land surface temperature to global deforestation using satellite-based observations.