The Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University is world-renowned for its expertise in weather and weather forecasting as well as in the full spectrum of research areas in the atmospheric sciences. Study and research in the department include topics such as atmospheric boundary layer and turbulence, atmospheric chemistry and physics, atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, oceanography, clouds and cloud physics, mesoscale and synoptic meteorology, climate science, numerical weather prediction, earth-atmosphere interactions, tropical meteorology, and more.