A researcher will bring new ways of measuring aerosol water uptake to a coming ARM campaign Pre-pandemic, Chris Cappa poses near the Cappa Group laboratory. Photo is courtesy of the University of California, Davis. When the sun radiates waves of electromagnetic energy to Earth, about one-fifth is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere. That fraction…

In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding of $19 million for 31 projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR). These university-based projects are designed to expand the fundamental understanding of earth systems and improve earth system models. They include a range of atmospheric science topics, including interactions between clouds and aerosols,…