Topic: Atmospheric Sciences
Below-average hurricane season expected, but uncertainty lingers
The weather phenomenon known as El Niño is expected to suppress storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean this season. University of Miami researchers say other factors such as warming ocean temperatures will factor into how quiet—or busy—the season will be.
Sharks may help improve climate forecasts, study finds
Research demonstrates how animal-borne sensors can work in tandem with traditional tools to improve ocean predictions.
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.
