New observations show that bottom-up tracking of CFC-12 emissions from China are underestimated, illustrating the need for better accounting for reductions from the Montreal Protocol.
Editors’ Highlights
Publishing is Stressful: What Can We Do About It?
AGU’s editors address how rapidly evolving expectations, the culture of metrics, and the expansion of for-profit journals stress authors, reviewers and editors – and how to change this dynamic.
Ocean Impacts on European Winter Weather
State-of-the-art high-resolution models are needed to reveal the ocean’s role in driving extra-tropical weather systems.
Physics + Machine Learning Provide a Better Map of Ocean Measurements
A new study offers a compelling example where the merger of dynamical modeling, machine learning, and ocean measurements enhances oceanographic understanding, monitoring, and mapping.
The Invisible Hand of Carbon Dioxide on Forest Productivity
A statistically robust approach applied to long-term flux measurements quantifies forest ecosystem response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, providing a valuable benchmark for climate models.
Machine Learning Masters Weather Prediction
Community datasets and evaluation standards are needed to further advance machine learning for weather prediction.
Unlocking Earth’s Terrestrial Sedimentary Record with Paleosols
Harnessing the micro-stratigraphy of pedogenic carbonates, scientists have demonstrated that age determination of fossil soils is possible via uranium-lead dating.
New Observations Provide Insight into Soil Desiccation Cracking
A new application of distributed fiber optic sensing provides early detection of soil desiccation cracking behavior and illustrates, for the first time, the phenomenon of soil crack breathing.
Open-Source MAGPRIME Supports Space Magnetism in the Heliosphere
MAGPRIME is a library of magnetic interference removal algorithms, including benchmarks, that can aid in the design of spacecraft by providing simulations to determine optimal magnetometer placement.
A Seismogenic Shear Zone Diagonal to the Main Himalayan Thrusts
Scientists document active seismic shear along a major lineament of Sikkim Himalaya diagonal to the Main Himalayan Thrusts.