The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research is an observation-based research program created in October 2009 to advance process-level understanding of the key interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics, with the ultimate goal of reducing the uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations and projections.

ATTEND: 2013 Science Team Meeting

The 2013 Science Team Meeting will be March 18-21 at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland. For important deadlines, see the meeting website.

Welcome Dr. McFarlane!

Sally McFarlane joined the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy as a Program Manager for our program in December 2012. Read more

AMS Annual Meeting

ASR highlights from 93rd Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting are now available.

AGU Fall Meeting

ASR principal investigators and researchers presented dozens of oral and poster sessions describing their research funded by ASR at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Funded Projects

For a list of current projects, please see the Research Projects web page.