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Swirling cloud formation and the aurora borealis over the northern Atlantic Ocean, looking toward the North Pole

Feature 20 March 2018

How Sudden Stratospheric Warming Affects the Whole Atmosphere

High above Earth’s surface, air temperatures occasionally increase suddenly, producing widespread effects on weather, air chemistry, and telecommunications.

Geohealth

Researchers assess the data gaps that obscure scientific understanding of how solid-fuel use can harm human health

Research Spotlight 15 March 2018

Solid-Fuel Use Puts Human Health at Risk

Data gaps obscure the full extent of deaths caused by heating homes with wood and other solid fuels.

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Editors' Highlights 12 March 2018

Continental Convection Reaches New Highs

Ten years of high-resolution gridded NEXRAD radar data provide a new data set to quantify tropopause-overshooting convection over the continental United States.

Climate Change

Editors' Vox 8 March 2018

A Landscape Shaped by Wind

High-altitude aeolian research on the Tibetan Plateau offers insights into the past, present, and future.

Atmospheric Sciences

Researchers compare two model scenarios to assess the role of a “moist shell” in storm development

Research Spotlight 6 March 2018

Modeling Storm Evolution

A “moist shell” makes all the difference in how some storms evolve.

Biogeosciences

Editors' Highlights 6 March 2018

A Powerful New Tool to Analyze and Calibrate Earth System Models

Polynomial chaos and Bayesian compressive sensing are applied to a land surface model to understand how large numbers of tunable parameters interact and may be optimized.

Atmospheric Sciences

Researchers test a new technique to measure hurricane wind speed from space.

Research Spotlight 1 March 2018

Measuring Hurricane Wind Speed from Space

A new technique based on GPS signals could provide better wind speed measurements during hurricanes and cyclones.

Atmospheric Sciences

In preparation for the Stratéole 2 project, a collaboration between France and the U.S., scientists launch a helium balloon

Project Update 1 March 2018

Around the World in 84 Days

In the Stratéole 2 program, set to launch in November 2018, instruments will ride balloons into the stratosphere and circle the world, observing properties of the air and winds in fine detail.

Climate Change

As climate models become more complex, how do we ensure that predictions remain robust? We shift our focus

Opinion 26 February 2018

Climate Models Are Uncertain, but We Can Do Something About It

Model simulations of many climate phenomena remain highly uncertain despite scientific advances and huge amounts of data. Scientists must do more to tackle model uncertainty head-on.

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