Climate

Chilly models

Flying over Greenland and looking down on land previously covered by the island’s massive ice sheet, Stephen Price got a… Read More

November 12, 2014

Sphere of influence

People want to know how climate will change in their back yards. But current climate predictions are based on global… Read More

September 18, 2012

Storm tracking

By graphing points in Earth’s roiling atmosphere with the aid of the latest petascale-power technology, scientists collaborating on Department of… Read More

June 20, 2012

Corralling carbon dioxide

Producing electricity to power our homes and businesses while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions remains difficult. Fossil fuels provide most… Read More

January 25, 2012

Honoring a climate model pioneer

For Warren Washington, climate and computers have gone together for more than 50 years. In 1958, as a master’s degree… Read More

November 17, 2010

Virtual ice-breaker

The ice sheets are unraveling. At the edges of Antarctica and Greenland and across the arctic, great swaths are breaking… Read More

October 26, 2010

Past blasts

As the Great Long Island Hurricane of 1938 ripped apart houses and turned towns into islands, meteorologists recorded crucial data… Read More

September 29, 2009

Clearing up clouds

Despite decades of analyzing satellite and simulation data, scientists have barely begun to predict clouds. behavior or to understand their… Read More

June 12, 2009

Small scale, big deal

Susan Kurien believes small things can make a big difference. Kurien, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos… Read More

August 13, 2007

Computing climate

It’s impossible, of course, to bring the outdoors into a laboratory for experiments. That’s why scientists rely on computer models… Read More

June 18, 2007