ASRC News

The initiative, called the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load & Damage Initiative, will create a scalable outage-prediction model to forecast system failures across the United States and Canada.

A new study led by climatologists at the University at Albany has found that extreme heatwaves across the Caribbean are becoming significantly more frequent, longer and severe.

As a major winter storm brings dangerously low temperatures and heavy snow across the United States, the New York State Mesonet at UAlbany is monitoring conditions to help keep people safe.

The seven new projects are funded through the joint UAlbany-IBM Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems and will use a cluster of IBM Spyre Accelerator cards for projects ranging from the search for mutational signatures important to diagnosing cancer to the impact of methane emissions on Earth’s climate.

Sara Lombardo has focused their time high up in the clouds since joining the University at Albany.

The Erie County Winter Weather Storm Scale features a public website rich with weather information to help people make informed decisions and stay safe.

ASRC's Fangqun Yu suggests that adding a tiny amount of ice-nucleating particles into aircraft engine exhaust could make contrails far less harmful by shortening their lifespan.

Kara Sulia of UAlbany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center talks about how artificial intelligence can help us see weather differently and what she doesn't yet trust it to understand about the complex physical forces driving the atmosphere.