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Historic Academic Year Set To Begin

The launch of the 2008-2009 academic year at the Rosenstiel School marks a historic milestone. For the first time in the School’s 65 year history it will welcome a new class of both graduate and undergraduate students. The 52 graduate and 95 undergraduate students who join the Rosenstiel School this fall are among the best of the best. An unprecedented number of undergraduate students received American Meteorological Society scholarships and NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholar awards. Incoming graduate students also continued to garner prestigious fellowships from the NSF, NASA, ONR and other federal agencies. Read more…

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Study in Science says warmer climates lead to more ‘extreme’ rainstorms

Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted by Dr. Brian Soden the University of Miami and Dr. Richard P. Allan at the University of Reading (U.K.) provides the first observational evidence to confirm the link between a warmer climate and more powerful rainstorms. Researchers in this study used naturally-driven changes associated with El Niño as a laboratory for testing their hypotheses. Read more…