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Biosphere/atmosphere interactions

Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Well-Balanced Ecosystem Uses Water Most Efficiently

by Elizabeth Thompson 13 May 202128 September 2021

Excess of a single nutrient, such as nitrogen, may boost plant productivity, but the imbalance leads to less efficient water use as plants scramble for the nutrients they lack.

An aerial view of a burning pasture in Brazil
Posted inAGU News

Finding Wildfire’s Fingerprint in the Atmosphere

by Heather Goss 27 January 202022 November 2021

Smoke from burning landscapes is increasingly filling the air. Eos has dedicated its February 2020 issue to the increasingly important study of wildfire emissions.

Orange and red shading on map denotes higher levels of nitrogen oxide clusters around lignite power plants in Germany.
Posted inNews

Pinpointing Emission Sources from Space

by Mary Caperton Morton 2 January 202010 January 2020

Satellite data combined with wind models bring scientists one step closer to being able to monitor air pollution from space.

Brown smoke billows from the Willow Fire in Payson, Ariz., in 2004, fueling the formation of a towering pyrocumulonimbus system above
Posted inNews

What Do You Get When You Cross a Thunderstorm with a Wildfire?

by Jenessa Duncombe 27 December 201922 November 2021

Lightning, fire vortices, and black hail are some of the frightening features of fire-fueled storms, which may become more common in the future.

A mobile home park devastated by tornado damage
Posted inNews

Tornado Warnings Don’t Adequately Prepare Mobile Home Residents

by C. Crockett 15 May 2019

A survey of the southeastern United States shows that nearly half of mobile home residents don’t know where to shelter during a tornado, and many aren’t getting the resources they need to survive one.

Sneezing person
Posted inNews

Google Trends Could Help Scientists Track Allergy Season

by Jenessa Duncombe 13 December 2018

Admit it: When your nose starts to run and your eyes itch, you search Google, too.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

A Powerful New Tool to Analyze and Calibrate Earth System Models

by P. A. Dirmeyer 6 March 2018

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.

Researchers develop a new framework to assess the mechanisms behind short-term ecological shifts
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Causes Ecological Shifts?

by Kate Wheeling 3 October 2017

A new information-processing framework helps researchers tease out the factors driving ecological shifts over short timescales.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Tiny Particles with Big Impact on Global Climate

by M. Shrivastava 24 July 20173 February 2018

A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics suggests that new understandings of secondary organic aerosol may require a rethinking of atmospheric chemistry-climate models.

Phenocam webcam image from Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, N.M.
Posted inScience Updates

Integrating Multiscale Seasonal Data for Resource Management

by A. D. Richardson, J. F. Weltzin and J. T. Morisette 23 January 20179 February 2017

Workshop on Phenology at Scales from Individual Plants to Satellite Pixels; Cambridge, Massachusetts, 21–23 June 2016

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