Sudden jump in a storm's lightning might warn a supercell is forming
Jan 07, 2015
A sudden jump in the number of lightning strikes inside a garden-variety thunderstorm might soon give forecasters a new tool for predicting severe weather and issuing timely warnings, according to research at UAH. The sudden increase in lightning ...
Dr. Lingze Duan chosen as senior member of IEEE
Dec 22, 2014
Dr. Lingze Duan, associate professor of physics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been named a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Duan's current research focuses on ultrafast o...
The dust devil and the details: Spinning up a storm on Mars
Dec 18, 2014
Spinning up a dust devil in the thin air of Mars requires a stronger updraft than is needed to create a similar vortex on Earth, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Early results from this research in UAH's ...
Professor’s weather nowcasting company advances in Launchpad competition
Dec 17, 2014
A UAH professor’s startup weather nowcasting company has advanced to the second round of Alabama Launchpad competition. Launchpad is a program of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Foundation and its seven Alabama research universit...
Gamma-ray flashes from lightning are both more complex, common
Dec 16, 2014
Early evidence shows there is nothing at all special about thunderstorms whose cloud-to-cloud lightning bolts produce flashes of gamma rays, according to research led by scientists at UAH. "These TGFs (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) can come from ...
UAH physicist presents new observational solar weather model
Dec 08, 2014
Scientists now have an observational framework to help predict solar weather and how it will affect Earth. "Now it's possible that we can have a space weather model that's like Earth's meteorology," says physicist Dr. S.T. Wu, distinguished profes...
ESS thesis chosen for grad school contest
Nov 25, 2014
The first graduate from UAH Earth system science graduate program continues to earn accolades. Eric Anderson's Master's of Science thesis has been chosen to be UAH's entry in a thesis competition sponsored by the Conference of Southern Graduate Sc...
ESS students win von Braun prizes
Nov 20, 2014
Research can take a person to unexpected places. For instance, neither UAH students Jeanné le Roux nor Chris Phillips expected their summer undergraduate research projects to take them to the top of the recent von Braun Symposium undergraduate stu...
UAH student posters place at GEO-Huntsville Forum contest
Nov 14, 2014
Five projects were presented by students at UAH during a poster competition at the GEO-Energy Summit and Educational Forum 2014 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Nov. 12-13. Three UAH students brought home prizes from the poster session, which...
UAH Earth system science student named EPA fellow
Nov 11, 2014
As a child growing up in central Alabama, Montana Etten-Bohm knew when she was 7 years old that she wanted to study the weather. "When there were tornado warnings, I'd be sitting outside trying to watch a tornado," said Etten-Bohm, who is from Pel...
