She specializes in atmospheric science and studies the impact of aerosols and clouds on the climate of the Earth.
[1] After completing her PhD, she moved to Switzerland where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich from 2007 to 2009.
[2][3] Storelvmo was appointed to the faculty at Yale University in 2010, where she was an assistant and then associate professor for eight years.
She returned to Norway in 2018, when she was appointed professor of meteorology and oceanography at the University of Oslo.
[citation needed] Storelvmo contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, and is an editor-in-chief of Global and Planetary Change.