Topic: Atmospheric Sciences
Honoring faculty accomplishments
The 2026 Provost’s Awards offered a chance to elevate the work of some top instructors and researchers from across the University’s three campuses.
Massive Atlantic Sargassum blooms traced to West Africa
Massive blooms of Sargassum seaweed that have inundated coastlines across the Atlantic since 2011 likely originate off the coast of West Africa—forming years before they are visible and overturning long-standing assumptions about where these events begin.
El Niño is coming
University of Miami experts look at how the climate phenomenon, which is characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, could impact the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season.
New AI model can assist with early warning for coral bleaching risk
A combined team of atmospheric, coral, and data scientists design and build a six-week heat-stress prediction system for Florida reefs
Earth’s growing heat imbalance driven more by clouds than air pollution, study finds
Satellite and reanalysis data show aerosol changes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres largely cancel out, shifting attention to cloud changes due to surface warming and natural climate variability.
How Hurricane Melissa exploded into a monster
The Category 5 storm, which left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, stunned forecasters and meteorologists, achieving extreme rapid intensification as well as a never-before-recorded wind speed near the ocean surface. University of Miami tropical cyclone experts explain how it happened.
A waltz over water, but no landfall dance
With a rare meteorological phenomenon and the absence of a U.S. landfalling cyclone, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has so far proved atypical. But that could change, University of Miami experts say.
Harnessing new technology tools for research
The IDSC Fellows Program helps train students in advanced computing techniques to accelerate their research. Students must apply by Oct. 14 for this academic year.
How’s the air up there?
Part of a NASA global network of remote-sensing instruments, a newly upgraded device at the University of Miami measures aerosols in the atmosphere to assist research on both local and large-scale weather patterns.
