Scientists assess how historical temperature biases could impact the detection of ocean heat transport changes in a key area of the South Atlantic Ocean where data are scarce.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Increasing ice temperatures and decreasing ice viscosities could lead to "thermal-viscous collapse" of the Greenland ice sheet, raising sea levels as much as 51 centimeters over the next 500 years.Read More »Biogeosciences
Imagers aboard a scientific balloon in the stratosphere serendipitously captured images of thin ice clouds that reveal instability and turbulence flows in remarkable detail.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
New map identifies varying water usage in hydraulic drilling operations across the United States and what this means for potential environmental impacts.Read More »
Better calculations of bolt length could help quantify how much climate-changing nitrogen oxide gas is made when lightning strikes.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Data-driven modeling helps explain how convection currents in Earth's mantle influence the rise and fall of surface features, but these models are in an early stage.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
A study says the point of origin for cyclones in the western North Pacific is moving closer to land because of warming of the tropical troposphere.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
When solar storms pounded Earth during Halloween in 2003, scientists were eager to measure their effects. But new research shows one satellite was seeing "ghost" particles that probably weren't real.Read More »
