A new study suggests drought conditions in the Amazon rainforest over the rest of the century.
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A Path Toward Understanding Regional Sea Level Rise
Finer-resolution models, as well as an improved understanding of ocean shelf–sea processes, are key to understanding the way different coastlines will be affected by rising waters, extreme storm surges, and waves.
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Crustal Melts at the Core-Mantle Boundary
Seismic waves get sent in all directions for deep mantle anomalies, and a new analysis shows where those scatters lie and what properties they have.
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Modeling Earth Systems at a Quintillion Calculations per Second
I SCREAM, you SCREAM, we all SCREAM for faster climate modeling.
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Cloud Brightening Could Have Unintended Effects in a Warming World
New research shows that though marine cloud brightening holds potential to temporarily reduce heat stress regionally, the technique has unpredictable and far-reaching outcomes.
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Sarah Minson: A Collaborative Quake Career
A geophysicist thrives on teamwork at the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Alexander Farnsworth: Finding Fact in Climate Fiction
A paleoclimatologist uses his modeling skills for both science and sci-fi.
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Equation Discovery for Subgrid-Scale Closures
Machine learning can discover closure equations for fluid simulations. A new study finds that common algorithms rediscover known, unstable closures, which can be stabilized with higher-order terms.
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Unveiling the Origins of Dome Craters on Ganymede and Callisto
Large craters with broad central domes are a unique crater morphology on Jupiter’s largest icy moons: Ganymede and Callisto. A new study examines how remnant impact heat may lead to their formation.
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Need for Better Accounting of CFC-12 Emissions from China
New observations show that bottom-up tracking of CFC-12 emissions from China are underestimated, illustrating the need for better accounting for reductions from the Montreal Protocol.