UW News
Roger Marchand
February 5, 2018
UW atmospheric scientists flying through clouds above Antarctica’s Southern Ocean
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UW atmospheric sciences faculty and graduate students are in Tasmania studying how clouds form over Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.
April 6, 2016
UW-led field project watching clouds from a remote island off Antarctica
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From a tiny island halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, scientists hope to learn more about the physics of clouds above the stormy, inhospitable Southern Ocean.