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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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News 12 October 2020

Hydrology Helps Identify Future Malaria Hot Spots

Complex hydrological processes—not just the amount of rainfall—help determine where malaria-transmitting mosquitoes can thrive.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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Editors' Highlights 12 October 2020

The Ocean-Land Connection of Droughts

Around 16 percent of large-scale droughts over land originate above the ocean and these types of droughts are more extensive and severe than droughts that originate over land.
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Biogeosciences
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Science Update 5 August 2020

Measuring, Monitoring, and Modeling Ecosystem Cycling

Scientists leverage long-term environmental measurements, emerging satellite observations, and recent modeling advances to examine changes in ecosystem carbon and water cycling.
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Editors' Highlights 13 December 2019

Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Heavy Snowmelt in Western USA

A rare atmospheric phenomenon that transports large quantities of water vapor into the coastal watersheds of the western USA is responsible for up to 10–20% of intense snowmelt events in the region.
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Research Spotlight 4 December 2019

Sea Level Science Grapples with Uncertainty and Usability

Improved transdisciplinary approaches are needed to ensure that research on rising seas is useful for planning in coastal communities.
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Editors' Highlights 10 September 2019

Hydrological Footprint of Atmospheric Rivers on Land

Atmospheric rivers that make landfall in the western United States have significant impacts on the surface water balance, sharpening the seasonality of water resources in coastal watersheds.
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News 21 August 2019

The Dawning of the Age of Old Aquifers

A new technique using 81Kr can measure the age of old groundwater in arid regions. The method can be used as a proxy for past climates and weather patterns.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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Research Spotlight 17 April 2019

If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?

Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in precipitation and flooding due to rising temperature is a new grand challenge for the scientific community, argue the authors of a recent commentary.
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Atmospheric Sciences
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Research Spotlight 10 April 2019

Precipitation in the Tropics: A New View

The first study to simultaneously investigate precipitation and cloud structures in tropical weather systems concludes observation systems significantly overestimate the height of raining clouds.
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AGU News 5 April 2019

Mapping Heat Vulnerability to Protect Community Health

Community leaders and scientists from two U.S. cities are combining public health data and heat maps to prepare residents for climate change–related health risks.
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