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An ominous dark cloud gathers above a dirt road
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Finding Faces in Hailstorms

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 13 September 20198 March 2022

Machine learning technology helps scientists recognize severe weather patterns.

Photos of a sensor on board the Curiosity rover before and after a dust storm
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Curiosity Monitors Rare Global Dust Storm From Mars’s Surface

by Anni Määttänen 12 August 201924 April 2024

Since the 1970s, no surface platform had made meteorological measurements of a global dust storm on Mars, but last summer NASA’s Curiosity rover witnessed one of these rare events.

Moon’s shadow obscures Sun during Great American Eclipse
Posted inScience Updates

Great American Eclipse Data May Fine-Tune Weather Forecasts

by T. R. Lee, M. Buban, M. A. Palecki, R. D. Leeper, H. J. Diamond, E. Dumas, T. P. Meyers and C. B. Baker 16 August 201811 August 2022

Measurements taken by an automated national meteorological monitoring network during the 2017 total solar eclipse illuminate how the land and atmosphere respond to a sudden loss of sunlight.

Researchers examine large-scale meteorological processes behind extreme precipitation events in the Middle East
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Causes Flash Floods in the Middle East?

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 26 March 201824 October 2022

Researchers zero in on the large-scale meteorological processes driving extreme precipitation events in the hot, arid desert region.

Researchers compare two model scenarios to assess the role of a “moist shell” in storm development
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Modeling Storm Evolution

by S. Witman 6 March 201831 January 2023

A “moist shell” makes all the difference in how some storms evolve.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Space Weather: Exploiting Meteorology’s Toolkit

by Michael A. Hapgood 31 January 20184 May 2022

Space weather forecasting is benefiting, and can benefit much further, from concepts and tools already developed by the global meteorological community.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Lightning Data Improves Precipitation Forecasts

by Minghua Zhang 22 November 20178 March 2022

Short-term forecasts of precipitation and convection can be improved when lightning data are assimilated in the Weather Research and Forecasting system.

Researchers look at raindrop size to understand the mechanics behind thunderstorm squall lines.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Microphysics of Squall Lines

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 16 October 201712 October 2022

Scientists tracked the distribution of raindrops of different sizes as a row of thunderstorms formed by a cold front developed and intensified over eastern China.

In alpine forests, variations in air and surface temperatures influence snowmelt
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How the Micrometeorology of Alpine Forests Affects Snowmelt

by Jenny Lunn 25 September 201723 March 2023

A field study in the Swiss Alps showed considerable spatial and temporal variability in forest air and surface temperatures, with implications for snowmelt models.

A camel wanders across the dry and dusty scrubland of Toghdeer region in Somaliland.
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Short Rains and Long Rains

by S. E. Nicholson 25 July 20178 March 2022

A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics examined the drivers of interannual and regional rainfall variability in eastern Africa.

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