The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the Sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere.
aerosols & particles
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Machine Learning Accelerates the Simulation of Dynamical Fields
Fourier neural operator solvers accurately emulate particle-resolved direct numerical simulations and significantly reduce the computational time by two orders of magnitude.
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The Open Ocean, Aerosols, and Every Other Breath You Take
Phytoplankton and other marine plants produce half of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen and have big effects on food webs and climate. To do so, they rely on nutrients from the sky that are hard to quantify.
Posted inEditors' Vox
Challenges in Measuring Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing
Satellites are required for the global measurement of aerosol cloud-mediated radiative forcing, but satellite retrievals of aerosols and cloud properties still have challenges to overcome.
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Accounting for Small-Scale Processes in Large-Scale Models
A new book explores how fast processes can be better represented in atmospheric models to improve weather and climate prediction.
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Cold Fog Is Capricious, but Not for Long
New observations of cold fog formation could eventually improve forecasting.
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Using Machine Learning to Reconstruct Cloud-Obscured Dust Plumes
Satellite-observed dust plumes from North Africa are frequently obscured by clouds, but a new study uses machine learning to reconstruct dust patterns, demonstrating a new way to validate dust forecasts.
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Measuring Link Between the Chemistry and Physics of the Atmosphere
A new study sheds light on the coupling between the chemical composition and the physical properties of the atmosphere.
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Ocean Vessels May Trigger Lightning Strikes
Previous research indicated aerosols in ship exhaust could enhance lightning. New research indicates the ships themselves may be to blame as well.
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Spacecraft Are Sprinkling the Stratosphere with Metal
Metals from spacecraft reentry don’t simply vaporize and vanish. Scientists found them in the stratosphere.