Before 1989, pre-Magellan orbiter and ground-based exploration of Venus produced significant datasets that will be useful when planning future missions to the planet.
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Robustness Through Diversity: Learning from Heterogeneous Aquifers
Learning from diverse aquifer structures, which are all over the place, leads to robust inverse methods.
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Slow Atmospheric Circulations Shape Storm Tracks and Wave-Breaking Patterns
Connections between fast and slow parts of the atmosphere are analyzed over 35 years to understand the links between storms, weather regimes, and atmospheric wave breaking events.
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Collinearity is Not Always a Problem in Machine Learning
Collinearity is not always a showstopper for statistical machine learning (at least not for self-organizing maps).
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The Fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Deep Learning from SkySat Images
Surface meltwater ponding and drainage in the Greenland Ice Sheet is analyzed at high spatial and temporal resolution through SkySat imagery and deep learning.
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Tropopause Temperature Drives Tropical Cyclone Simulation Diversity
Tropopause temperature biases create major tropical cyclone differences in models; cooler air boosts storm potential intensity, raising global cyclone frequency and hurricanes in experiments.
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The “Wet-Gets-Wetter” Response to Climate Change Does Not Always Apply
While the precipitation response to a warming climate is often stated as the “wet gets wetter,” this response does not apply to east-west overturning circulations like the Pacific Walker circulation.
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Severe 2023 Drought: Sinking Carbon Sink in the Amazon
The Amazon forest has been a reliable carbon sink, soaking up some of humanity’s carbon emissions, but a severe drought in 2023 adds to growing concern that this ecosystem service is at risk.
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Human Effects on Background Atmosphere have Affected Mercury Chemistry
Atmospheric mercury chemistry has evolved over time due to changes in atmospheric composition, especially for changing concentrations of bromine radicals, hydroxyl radicals, and ozone.
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Future Hotspots of Hazardous Rivers in the Atmosphere
Atmospheric rivers can produce heavy precipitation and associated hazards worldwide. A new study identifies regions where these hazards have already, and will further, increase with global heating.