Tens of thousands of ship tracks—cloud structures created when ships’ exhaust plumes interact with the atmosphere—are pinpointed automatically, furthering study of these climate-altering features.
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The When and Where of Mesospheric Bores Revealed
In a new study, the enigmatic gravity waves were seen most frequently at equatorial latitudes and propagating from the winter to the summer hemisphere.
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Unlocking a Treasure Trove for Subsurface Characterization
Earth and atmospheric tide signatures embedded in groundwater levels are a potential game changer in the monitoring of confined aquifers.
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Air-Sea Exchanges from a Wave-Following Platform
Data obtained from a wave-following platform are used to calibrate coefficients and multiple parameterizations of air-sea fluxes in swell conditions.
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Banned CFC Emissions Tracked to Eastern China
A new study indicates that better atmospheric monitoring networks are needed to enforce the Montreal Protocol.
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Diagnosing Soil Moisture Impacts on Model Energy Fluxes
Do climate models truthfully mimic how drying soil affects land-surface budget partition?
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Space Is Polluted by Junk…and It’s Getting Worse
The major shift from state to commercial space programs, as well as a sharp rise in the number of upcoming launches, raises concerns about our efforts to manage the problem.
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The Tropical Atmosphere’s Balancing Act
A new study finds that the tropical atmosphere maintains radiative-convective equilibrium as a whole, but not at smaller scales.
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Data Mining Reveals the Dynamics of Auroral Substorms
An analysis of 5 decades of satellite data has pieced together the most comprehensive picture yet of substorms, the magnetic disturbances that cause surges of aurora.
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The Diversity and Complexity of Atmospheric Aerosol
The variability in composition of individual aerosol particles and the way in which they mix in the atmosphere is complex and has significant impacts on Earth’s climate.