Climate change has created increasingly volatile weather and a drier atmosphere, making it harder for rivers to recuperate after a drought.
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AI Meets Its Match: The Butterfly Effect
Artificial intelligence algorithms fail to account for a key limitation in weather prediction.
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Radar Tracks Unfortunate Creatures Trapped in Tropical Cyclones
Cyclones can sweep up birds and insects and transport them great distances.
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WMO Weathered the Cold War, but Can It Survive Capitalism?
After 150 years of international cooperation, meteorology’s “vast machine” is adapting to private weather forecasting.
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The Nitty-Gritty Forces That Shape Planetary Surfaces
Scientists are coming up with ingenious ways to compare terrestrial sand dunes, dust storms, and rain with their counterparts on Mars and Titan.
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Hunting Hurricanes
NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters risk their lives each time they fly into the eye of a storm to collect crucial data for forecasting, hurricane modeling, and research.
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New Theory Explains Radiative Cooling of the Lower Atmosphere
The shape of radiative cooling in lower atmosphere is controlled by the lapse rate in the water vapor path according to a new theory and observations from subsidence regimes in the tropical Atlantic.
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A Theory of Squall Lines
About 50 years ago, vorticity thinking helped unveil basic properties of squall lines. Zhang now provides a closed theory, demystifying one of nature’s most important forms of convective organization.
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Drones Make Weather Prediction Easier at the Poles
Researchers measured wind speed with a commercially available drone and a lightweight sensor. The approach could help scientists gather more data from remote environments.
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Fiona Lo: A “Really Long, Convoluted Path” to Health
Lo uses her background in atmospheric sciences to forecast pollen concentrations.