Topography is a key factor exacerbating compound flooding, while coastal wetlands help protect cities.
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Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Might Make Flights Smoother
A new study suggests an intervention aimed at cooling the planet could have the additional benefit of reducing aircraft turbulence.
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Extended Reality Offers Opportunities for Scientific Show-and-Tell
Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more intuitively, benefiting Earth and space science research and education.
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Comparing Machine Learning Models of Raindrop Formation
The simplest model, based on polynomials, yields the best performance.
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El Niño Warming Is Stronger Than La Niña Cooling. What’s the Right Way to Model This Asymmetry?
A new study looks at daily swings in sea surface temperatures for new insights.
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The Breakup of Gondwana Over 100 Million Years Ago May Be Why Antarctica Has Ice Today
A rift event set off a domino effect of geologic processes that created conditions ripe for Antarctica’s glaciation, a new study suggests.
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AI Improves Earthquake Detection
A new study shows the pros and cons of different model training methods.
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Seeing Earth’s Most Common Minerals from Space
A novel method marks an important step toward mapping quartz and feldspar globally.
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Machine Learning Rediscovers Equations Governing Ocean Biogeochemistry
Researchers used a process called symbolic regression to derive the equations from a biogeochemical model of the ocean.