By modeling toxic diatoms and coastal processes, scientists have discovered the degree to which nutrients from Southern California’s densely populated coast affect these blooms.
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A High-Resolution Look at Singapore’s Water Budget
Simulations that account for nuanced interplay between hydrological and plant processes could help guide urban water management.
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What Will the Future of Alaskan Wildfire Look Like?
More and larger fires, including in areas of historically low fire activity, are likely but not a given.
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User-Friendly Interface for Trace Element Open-System Melting Model
A 2001 model predicts trace element distributions in melts and residues of open-system mantle melting and melt migration. New software lets anyone apply this model despite its complex equations.
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Decoding Rocks to Reveal What the Critical Zone Hides
Rock physics models translate geophysical measurements into volumetric rock and fluid properties to quantify weathering trends, water storage, and architecture within Earth’s critical zone.
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Climate Change Will Reshape Malaria Prevalence Across Africa
As the continent warms, once cooler regions will become prime habitat for mosquitoes and their parasites, while in other regions, heat will lower disease transmission.
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Climate Model Benchmarking: Building Trust and Advancing Science
A critical look at how well climate models work, how to successfully use them, and the anticipated challenges for their next-generation development.
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It Takes Three to Model Methane Right
By combining conventional process-based and atmospheric inversion modeling with machine learning, scientists home in on a more realistic methane model.
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Decoding the Origins of Lightning’s Violent Currents
A compact set of physical equations delivers a unified, first-principles explanation for how lightning’s most destructive surge of current is born, races towards the clouds, and fades.