Get ready for another above-average hurricane season, but it likely won’t be as busy as last year.
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An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
A scientific drilling project in China has retrieved a continuous history of conditions from Earth’s most recent “greenhouse” period that may offer insights about future climate scenarios.
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Rising Sea Levels Bring a Tidal Change to Tourism
A series of industry posters reimagines iconic locales in light of sea level rise and issues a call for action against climate change.
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Using Satellite Data to Map Air Pollution and Improve Health
NASA scientists will be teaming up with epidemiologists in the agency’s first health-focused mission. With satellite data, they’ll find out how air pollution affects health in cities around the world.
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Past Climate Change Affected Mountain Building in the Andes
Increased glaciation in the North Patagonian Andes may have influenced tectonic dynamics over the past 7 million years, suggesting a connection between climate change and mountain-building processes.
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Improving Models for Solar Climate Intervention Research
Modern climate models were designed to simulate natural systems and changes mainly due to atmospheric carbon dioxide, rather than to predict effects of deliberate climate interventions.
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New Land Surface Air Temperature Global Dataset
The fifth major update of land surface air temperature data from the Climatic Research Unit and the Met Office has extended the time series, included more stations, and used better processing methods.
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Glimpsing the Ins and Outs of the Arctic Atmospheric Cauldron
Specially equipped aircraft will follow air masses into and out of the Arctic, observing their transformations and improving our knowledge of the Arctic climate and its global influence.
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New Global Surface Temperature Dataset Spans 170 Years
HadCRUT5, the new version of the Met Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit global surface temperature dataset from 1850 to 2018, has extended and improved the previous temperature record.
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Ice Age Testing Reveals Challenges in Climate Model Sensitivity
Increased reflection of incoming sunlight by clouds led one current-generation climate model to predict unrealistically cold temperatures during the last ice age.