Based on tests of a machine learning-based (ML) hybrid model, combining ML with established physics-based frameworks represents a promising path toward developing ML-based Earth system models.
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Resolved Storm-Environment Interactions: Linking Local to Global Scales
Kilometer-scale global climate models offer unprecedented possibilities to simulate thunderstorms and analyze how they interact with their environment across many scales, shaping the climate state.
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Distant Cousins? How Field Work on Earth Could Help Us to Better Understand Titan
What do Saturn’s moon Titan and the Earth have in common? Quite a lot as it turns out, from hydrocarbon deposits to polar clouds, lakes and rivers, craters and canyons, and more.
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Harnessing Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictability from Annual Evolution
Capturing year-to-year variations of the stratospheric polar vortex’s annual evolution enables skillful prediction of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) cold-season anomalies up to six months in advance.
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Tracking Microplastics Above and Below the Waves
Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the particles’ pathways and the impacts they may have on coastal regions.
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Next Generation Fluid Flow Solver for Earth System Modeling
A new fluid solver from the Climate Modeling Alliance sets a benchmark in atmospheric modeling, with unmatched consistency in moist thermodynamics, energy conservation, and CPU/GPU scaling.
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UCAR Sues Federal Agencies
The lawsuit alleges that the federal agencies are “waging a campaign of retaliation” against Colorado and its institutions because the state has not bowed to federal authorities.
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Slow Atmospheric Circulations Shape Storm Tracks and Wave-Breaking Patterns
Connections between fast and slow parts of the atmosphere are analyzed over 35 years to understand the links between storms, weather regimes, and atmospheric wave breaking events.
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Tropopause Temperature Drives Tropical Cyclone Simulation Diversity
Tropopause temperature biases create major tropical cyclone differences in models; cooler air boosts storm potential intensity, raising global cyclone frequency and hurricanes in experiments.
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Senate Committee Approves Bill to Expand NOAA Capabilities
The markup meeting, to discuss the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2026 and the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, lasted less than 20 minutes.