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Smog obscures a jade pagoda in a Beijing Park.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Despite Improvements, China’s Air Remains Unsafe

by Saima May Sidik 23 June 202212 August 2022

Toxic particulate matter has decreased by about a third over the past decade, but levels are still above what’s considered healthy.

Diagram showing the three barriers in seasonal forecast and the Conditional Generative Forecasting methodology developed to tackle these three barriers.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Learning from Climate Simulations for Global Seasonal Forecast

by Jiwen Fan 23 June 202222 December 2022

A probabilistic deep learning methodology that learns from climate simulation big data offers advantageous seasonal forecasting skill and crucial climate model diagnosis information at a global scale.

Mississippi River levee at Gretna, La.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Algorithm Detects Thousands of Missing Levees from U.S. Database

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 17 June 202221 February 2023

An existing levee database accounts for just one fifth of the country’s actual total levee count, limiting the study of how these embankments affect riparian ecosystem health in the United States.

Three photographs showing nodes being staged, transported by truck, and charged/harvested in racks.
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The Big Data Revolution Unlocks New Opportunities for Seismology

by Stephen J. Arrowsmith, Daniel T. Trugman, Karianne Bergen and Beatrice Magnani 9 June 202214 June 2022

The field of seismology is entering a new era where our understanding of earthquakes and the solid earth is increasingly driven by new Big Data experiments and algorithms.

Graph showing contribution of each large-scale atmospheric variable on the y-axis to predicted total convective area.
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Study Convection

by Minghua Zhang 8 June 202223 January 2023

Machine learning techniques are used to examine relationships between the large-scale state of the atmosphere, the convection total area, and the degree of organization in northern Australia.

Illustration of the AI algorithm estimating large earthquakes’ magnitudes on the basis of prompt elastogravity signals (PEGS) traveling at the speed of light, much faster than seismic (P and S) waves.
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Monitoring Earthquakes at the Speed of Light

by Mohammed El-Said 2 June 20222 June 2022

New research uses gravity and a machine learning model to instantaneously estimate the magnitude and location of large earthquakes.

A representation of the “plumbing system” underneath a volcano, with multiple reservoirs at different depths in the crust where magma may be stored.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths

by Paul Asimow 27 April 202215 November 2022

How big might future volcanic eruptions be? Crystals carry information to answer this and machine learning methods can visualize and interpret this multidimensional data.

Illustrations showing the uses of fractures in the subsurface.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Understanding and Utilizing the Fractured Earth

by Hari Viswanathan and Jeffrey Hyman 26 April 20222 August 2022

The prediction of flow and transport in fractured rock is one of the great challenges in the Earth and energy sciences with far-reaching economic and environmental impacts.

Scientists using ground-penetrating radar equipment
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Testing a Machine Learning Approach to Geophysical Inversion

by Morgan Rehnberg 1 April 20221 April 2022

Variational autoencoders can be leveraged to provide an effective method of inversion that is both accurate and computationally efficient.

Maps of time-mean precipitation pattern error for 40-day simulations with three configurations of a global atmospheric model with a coarse 200-km grid.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Corrective Machine Learning for Improving Climate Models

by Jiwen Fan 15 March 20225 January 2023

A machine-learned correction enables an efficient coarse-grid global atmosphere model to better track the weather and time-mean precipitation of an expensive fine-grid ‘digital twin’ reference model.

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