As weather and climate models grow larger and more data intensive, the amount of energy needed to run them continues to increase. Are researchers doing enough to minimize the carbon footprint of their computing?
Climate Change
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Weathering Environmental Change Through Advances in AI
Developing trustworthy artificial intelligence for weather and ocean forecasting, as well as for long-term environmental sustainability, requires integrating collaborative efforts from many sources.
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Soil Carbon May Not Remain Bogged Down in a Warmer World
Carbon was lost from an experimentally warmed boreal peatland much faster than it took to accumulate. Elevated CO2 had little effect on stored carbon, requiring re-evaluation of model assumptions.
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Effects of Particles on Climate Remain Unsettled
Major advances have been made in the understanding of the physics and chemistry of particles, but major uncertainties remain in determining their radiative forcing effects on climate.
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A Future of Retreating Glaciers in the Himalayas
India’s first regional climate change assessment warns of accelerated glacier melt.
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In Vegetation Growth Studies, What You Measure Matters
Different satellite-based metrics for global vegetation coverage tell complementary, but not identical, stories.
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Experiments Reveal How Permafrost Carbon Becomes Carbon Dioxide
Field samples from Alaska show how sunlight and iron convert permafrost carbon to carbon dioxide. Climate models ignore this process.
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Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations
A new tool that reconciles modeling and paleoclimate data builds confidence that tropical Pacific corals reliably archive natural variability in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.
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Worsening Water Crisis in the Eastern Caribbean
Scientists, policy makers, and residents are concerned that ongoing water shortages and longer periods of drought may worsen as the climate changes and that the Paris Agreement has fallen short.
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Cómo la Ciencia del Clima Está Expandiendo la Escala de la Investigación Ecológica
Las herramientas desarrolladas para la ciencia del clima pueden ayudar a los investigadores a predecir los dipolos ecológicos: los efectos contrastados del clima en poblaciones separadas por miles de kilómetros.