PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona State University researchers and scientists from across the country are studying whether extreme heat, rapid urban growth, dust and other airborne particles are changing how monsoon storms form and where rain falls across metro Phoenix.
The project, called DUSTIEAIM, Desert Urban System Integrated Atmospheric Monsoon, kicked off this month on ASU’s West Valley campus. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
“This is an ambitious project in both scale and scope,” Vernon Morris, associate dean for knowledge enterprise and strategic outcomes in ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, said in the release…