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UAH AES students tie off a weather balloon in preparation to launch ahead of Hurricane Ida's outer spiral rain bands.

UAH students collect crucial data in Hurricane Ida

Aug 29, 2021

A group of students with the University of Alabama in Huntsville's Atmospheric & Earth Science Department deployed on Saturday to collect data in Louisiana as Hurricane Ida came ashore. ...


AES students deploy into Hurricane Ida

AES students deploy into Hurricane Ida

Aug 28, 2021

As of Friday, August 27, Hurricane Ida continues to steadily strengthen in the northwest Caribbean, south of Cuba. This system will continue northwest entering the southeastern Gulf late Friday and into early Saturday, with continued strengthening ex...


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Paper on climate model’s warming bias co-authored by Dr. Christy is top download

Jul 26, 2021

A research paper that found a significant warming bias globally in the newest climate models and was co-authored by the interim vice president for research and economic development at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been cited by ...


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AES Student Achievements

Mar 01, 2021

Sebastian Harkema, Todd McKinney, Corey Amiot, and Holley Kenward are featured for recent achievements in Atmospheric and Earth Science. Holley Kenward Received the Best Student Poster Award at the Fourth Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and T...


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NASA awards Exceptional Public Service Medal to ESSC’s Sue Estes

Oct 15, 2020

NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Service Medal to Sue Estes, a research scientist at the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, who also has a role at ...


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Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?

Jul 11, 2018

When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California – Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial – where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...


Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

May 11, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — From the choked air of Mumbai, India, to the mostly untracked rain forests of Ecuador and the Amazon River basin, UAH’s Ankur Shah is trying to find a sustainable balance between living a modern, high technology lifestyle and...


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Large hailstone is now official state record, and 1st entry in Alabama’s new hail dataset

Apr 13, 2018

A large hailstone that fell in Cullman County on March 19 is now officially the largest recorded hailstone to fall in Alabama. ...


Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project

Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project

Mar 15, 2018

What does a hurricane look like from 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface? What do images taken of the ice caps over the past few years tell us about how they’ve changed? These are the types of questions that middle school students in dozen...


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Lightning mapping sensor will provide UAH scientists with unique stereo view

Feb 27, 2018

With the scheduled March 1 launch of a new weather satellite, scientists at UAH are looking forward to getting a unique stereo view of lightning in storms over the United States. ...


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