More and larger fires, including in areas of historically low fire activity, are likely but not a given.
Modeling
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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.
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Why Channel Steepness Might Not Always Be What You Think it to Be
Channel steepness is a popular metric in most studies of tectonic geomorphology, but the simple and convenient method of defining channels in the first place may have overlooked a serious pitfall.
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Solar Panels Can Cool Crops—and Workers
A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.