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Contrary Temperature Trend Stalls Upgraded Climate Model’s Debut

by L. Joel 5 July 201731 March 2023

Model builders investigate a puzzling malfunction in what’s expected to be the improved next version of the popular Community Earth System Model.

Features

Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up

by J. E. Campbell, J. Kesselmeier, D. Yakir, J. A. Berry, P. Peylin, S. Belviso, T. Vesala, K. Maseyk, U. Seibt, H. Chen, M. E. Whelan, T. W. Hilton, S. A. Montzka, M. B. Berkelhammer, S. T. Lennartz, L. Kuai, G. Wohlfahrt, Y. Wang, N. J. Blake, D. R. Blake, J. Stinecipher, I. Baker and Stephen Sitch 5 July 20177 July 2022

Current climate models disagree on how much carbon dioxide land ecosystems take up for photosynthesis. Tracking the stronger carbonyl sulfide signal could help.

Researchers model waves to understand how wind drives mixing in lake waters

Research Spotlights

How Does Wind Push Water?

by E. Underwood 22 June 20174 February 2022

A new 3-D model shows how wind affects hydrodynamic mixing in a northern Italian lake.

Temperature anomalies (deviations from the 1981–2010 monthly mean in degrees Celsius) estimated from advanced microwave sounding unit data for February 2016

Opinions

Climate and Other Models May Be More Accurate Than Reported

by C. J. Willmott, S. M. Robeson and K. Matsuura 21 June 201724 February 2023

Replacing a commonly used statistical measure of average error with an alternative measure would give a more meaningful assessment of model performance.

Researchers try to better model the role of Arctic plants on nitrogen uptake.

Research Spotlights

Tracking Nitrogen in Arctic Plants

by Elizabeth Thompson 20 June 201721 February 2023

Prevailing nutrient uptake models do not fit Arctic plants. Scientists test a new option that overcomes older models’ shortcomings.

Researchers assess how a changing climate will influence ocean upwelling

Research Spotlights

How Will Climate Change Affect the California Current Upwelling?

by Terri Cook 15 June 20176 October 2021

The results of new simulations that account for internal climate variability contrast with previous projections of how this vital West Coast current will respond to anthropogenic warming.

Researchers look at silicon carbide under heat and pressure to better understand its behavior in a planet mantle

Research Spotlights

Lab Tests Probe Carbon Planets’ Inner Dynamics

by Terri Cook 15 June 201730 September 2021

Thermal convection in deep interiors could be more vigorous in carbide planets than in comparably sized silicate planets, according to new high-pressure measurements of silicon carbide.