Narrow atmospheric streams of water vapor that deliver heavy rains are more commonly associated with floods and debris flows in northern California than with flash floods in southern California.Read More »
A field study in the Swiss Alps showed considerable spatial and temporal variability in forest air and surface temperatures, with implications for snowmelt models.Read More »Climate Change
Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.Read More »Climate Change
Earth system models are resource intensive and complex. To cut through this complexity, the Community Earth System Model project will now be embracing a hierarchy of simpler climate models.Read More »
Scientists have long interpreted shocked quartz as definitive evidence of a past meteorite impact, but the shock wave caused by lightning striking granite also produces this distinctive feature.Read More »
Because burning natural gas produces about half as much carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of energy as coal, many consider it an important transition fuel to carbon-neutral, climate-friendly sources of.Read More »
