Scientists have developed a consensus guide of standard protocols for how best to measure oceanic primary productivity, a key component in Earth’s carbon cycle.
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Wind Shear Instabilities Emit Gravity Waves
A new study shows that atmospheric gravity waves can be generated by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the wind shear layer.
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Food Production Could Add 1°C of Global Warming by 2100
A new study teases apart greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, showing how the food we eat heats up the world.
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New Machine Learning Parameterization Tested on Atmospheric Model
For the first time, a neural network parameterization of subgrid momentum transport is developed by training on a coarse-grained high-resolution atmospheric simulation.
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Climate Change Knocks It Out of the Park
A climate curve ball: Short-term gains in home runs might soon give way to long-term problems when it gets too hot to play.
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Bayesian Inversion Used to Recover Geometry of Ruptured Fault
A new Bayesian inversion framework is used to solve non-planar geometry of a ruptured fault from spatially variable slip and rake measured with geodesy.
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Quantifying Extreme Events from Short Weather Forecast Data
Subseasonal weather forecast ensembles are a useful tool for overcoming the inherent difficulty of quantifying extreme weather risk caused by data scarcity.
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What We Know and Don’t Know About Climate Tipping Elements
As climate change continues, parts of the Earth system such as ice sheets, frozen soils, or the Amazon rainforest could shift—some quickly, some slowly—after crossing key thresholds or tipping points.
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Analyzing Sources of Pollution in the Great Lakes
Understanding how agriculture and land use affect nutrient flows and concentrations in the vast area of the Great Lakes is an essential step to developing sustainable management strategies.