DEC 6, 2022 BY LOIS YOKSOULIAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCES EDITOR
An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth’s oceans, yet remains untapped, researchers said. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first to suggest an investment in new infrastructure capable of...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Prof. Atul Jain has once again been recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientists. See the story here to learn more about the 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list.
Prof. Deanna Hence has been named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) Scholar within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. This distinguished award recognize’s Prof. Hence’s significant achievements and outstanding future potential as a faculty member at Illinois. A full description of the awards program and other awardees can be found...
(Argonne National Laboratory and College of LAS, 9/8/2022) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and a team of academic and community leaders—including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—$25 million over five years to advance urban climate science by studying climate change effects at local and regional scales. The results of this new...- During cloud processes, aerosol particles undergo physical and chemical changes. In this work by Dr. Yu Yao, and Professor Nicole Riemer, a particle-resolved model was used to quantify the changes in aerosol mixing states. They linked the particle-resolved aerosol model PartMC-MOSAIC with the cloud chemistry module CAPRAM 2.4 and designed cloud simulations that simulated several cloud cycles to...
Balloon launches are typically the stuff of birthday parties and photo opps unless you’re an atmospheric scientist trying to gather storm data in tandem with NASA research planes navigating their way through giant blizzards. Then they require a bit of creativity and determination. That was a job requirement in late January for graduate students Andrew Janiszeski (MS, ’20; ...
This March and April, University of Illinois Atmospheric Sciences faculty will lead a multi-institutional team of researchers to study tornadoes and other severe weather in the southeast US. The project is called PERiLS, which stands for Propagation Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms, and will be based in Memphis, Tennessee, near an understudied...
In a study recently published in the journal Atmosphere, ATMS graduate student Lina Rivelli-Zea leveraged disdrometer data collection in the Americas to compare the drop-size distributions and parameters across field campaigns for the first time. Prof. Steve Nesbitt and graduate student Alfonso Ladino Rincon contributed to this study. The data were collected at two sites in the...- SEP 13, 2021 10:00 AM BY LOIS YOKSOULIAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCES EDITOR A new, location-specific agricultural greenhouse gas emission study is the first to account for net carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from all subsectors related to food production and consumption. The work, led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign atmospheric...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bangladesh is on track to lose all of its forestland in the next 35-40 years, leading to a rise in CO2 emissions and subsequent climate change, researchers said. However, that is just one of the significant land-use changes that the country is experiencing. A new study uses satellite and census data to quantify and unravel how physical and economic factors drive land-use...- As students in atmospheric sciences, Troy Zaremba and Kaylee Heimes both refer to their time conducting undergraduate research at Illinois as the highlight of their time on campus. Under the guidance of atmospheric sciences professor Bob Rauber, Zaremba and Heimes are working to better understand the impact of cloud seeding, a...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Cloud seeding has become an increasingly popular practice in the western United States, where states grapple with growing demands for water. Measuring how much precipitation cloud seeding produces has been a longstanding challenge. Researchers have developed a way to use radar and other tools to more accurately measure the volume of snow produced through cloud seeding. The...
NASA’s Terra satellite is celebrating its 20th anniversary since launch … and it’s still going strong! Prof. Di Girolamo worked on developing Terra as a graduate student, was there at the launch, and still works on it today! For the full story on the Terra satellite and its history, see https://terra.nasa.gov/2019
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Global Carbon Project recently released its 2019 annual report, giving decision-makers access to data on atmospheric carbon concentrations, emissions and trends. Illinois atmospheric scientist Atul Jain is among the many scientists worldwide who contributed data to the report. News Bureau physical sciences editor Lois Yoksoulian spoke with Jain...
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as the first Category 4 storm in recorded history to reach shore in the northeast Gulf Coast. News Bureau physical sciences editor Lois Yoksoulian spoke with Illinois atmospheric sciences professor ...