A new data product calculates snowfall rates from weather data beamed directly from several satellites, helping meteorologists provide fast, accurate weather reports and forecasts.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Citizen scientists keep a watchful eye on the world's streams, catching intermittent streams in action and filling data gaps to construct a more complete hydrologic picture.Read More »
Warmer summer temperatures in the Alaska Range are melting 60 times more snow today than melted during the summer before the start of the industrial period 150 years ago, according to new research.Read More »Biogeosciences
High-resolution radar images from Switzerland’s experimental test site show that snow temperature is a key factor in classifying avalanche behavior.Read More »Biogeosciences
A new database brings together water isotope data from many sources, providing an integrated resource for studying changes in Earth’s hydroclimate over the past 2,000 years.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Improving the representation of surface emissivity in the Community Earth System Model reduces its Arctic winter cold bias from 7 to 1 Kelvin degree.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Atmosphere and land model development has historically been segregated but coupled processes crucial to prediction and extremes can be properly represented only with a holistic approach.Read More »Climate Change
A well-developed case study in Ho-Chi Min City, Vietnam, exemplifies how other mega-cities located on deltas could face the major challenge of adapting to rising sea-level.Read More »
