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Anjuli Bamzai
AMS President

It is a great honor and privilege to be the AMS President. With its goal to serve society through science and policy, AMS is poised to make major headway on the grand challenge of our times: the future ability of life on our planet to thrive. As your President, I will work with the AMS executive leadership, Council, and Committee members to prioritize and tackle the challenges facing our members as we all work to improve understanding of weather and climate and use that understanding to solve real-world problems.

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Glossary Term of the Week

Pyrocumulonimbus

An extreme manifestation of a pyrocumulus (pyroCu) cloud, generated by the heat of a wildfire, that often rises to the upper troposphere or lower stratosphere. Often abbreviated “pyroCb.” The pyroCb is distinctive owing to the presence of smoke, giving the cloud an off-white color and peculiar signatures at certain infrared wavelengths.

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