Year: 2026

Claire Mundi and Tristan L’Ecuyer recently published their paper, “Intense Storms Increase Global Ice Area,” in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76931-4). By analyzing two decades of storms, this study finds that storm impacts on sea ice vary seasonally and are stronger in the southern hemisphere. As a result, storms increase global annual sea ice area, which is an effect …

Congratulations to group members Dr. Claire Mundi and Carolyn Bean for graduating this spring! Claire and Carolyn graduated with their PhD and MS, respectively, in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.  Carolyn’s MS thesis is titled, “A Qualitative Far-Infrared Characterization of Convective Cloud Tops” and she will continue research with the PREFIRE science team as a PhD …