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News 5 March 2021

Auroral “Dunes” Light Up Earth’s Atmosphere

The auroral feature, first spotted by amateur astronomers in 2015, likely traces high-altitude atmospheric waves.
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Opinion 5 March 2021

An Observational Gap at the Edge of Space

Ongoing climate change in Earth’s middle and upper atmosphere will affect the rapidly expanding space and telecommunications sectors. Maintaining observations of this region is more crucial than ever.
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Research Spotlight 4 March 2021

Widespread Wildfire as a Proxy for Resource Strain

Researchers have found a strong correlation between the number of days with widespread, synchronous fire danger and resource allocation across the western United States.
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Editors' Vox 4 March 2021

Advances in Scaling and Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Interactions

Papers are invited for a new cross-journal special collection on insights in scaling land-atmosphere interactions from field experiments, data analyses, and modeling.
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Research Spotlight 2 March 2021

Ice Age Testing Reveals Challenges in Climate Model Sensitivity

Increased reflection of incoming sunlight by clouds led one current-generation climate model to predict unrealistically cold temperatures during the last ice age.
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Research Spotlight 1 March 2021

Uncovering Patterns in California’s Blazing Wildfires

A study of trends in wildfire occurrence over the past 30 years shows that environmental, climatic, and human-related factors can point out regions with high fire probabilities.
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Research Spotlight 26 February 2021

Seeding Ice Clouds with Wildfire Emissions

Wildfires create airborne plumes of organic and inorganic matter as they burn. These particles can nucleate cloud-forming ice crystals and affect cloud dynamics, precipitation, and climate.
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Science Update 26 February 2021

Advances in Satellite Data for Wildfire Smoke Forecasting

Observations from the newest geostationary Earth-observing satellites are offering valuable views of fire progression and smoke plume development and helping simulate impacts from large wildfires.
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Climate Change
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Editors' Highlights 26 February 2021

Rainfall Change with Warming More Consistent than Anticipated

Dew point temperature better explains precipitation change with warming than temperature itself, and the relation is more spatially coherent than previously thought.
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Atmospheric Sciences
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Editors' Highlights 24 February 2021

Global Warming Intensifies Turbulence Over Northern Eurasia

A significant increasing trend of turbulence in upper atmosphere over northern Eurasia is attributed to intense anthropogenic activities.
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