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Mountains and blue sky in the background, with green pastures in the foreground. A road extends from the foreground toward the mountains.

Research Spotlights

New Tectonic Plate Model Could Improve Earthquake Risk Assessment

by Morgan Rehnberg 21 December 202218 January 2023

A new model of tectonic plates in New Zealand may identify areas of increased earthquake likelihood.

An illustrated scientific diagram shows how groundwater interacts with the rest of the water cycle.

Research Spotlights

Groundwater Replenishes Much Faster Than Scientists Previously Thought

by Rachel Fritts 20 December 202220 December 2022

A new climate-based model indicates that scientists may be underestimating groundwater’s importance in sustaining streams and plant life.

Editors' Highlights

Outsourcing the Work of Industrial Climate Science

by Bjorn Stevens 15 December 202210 April 2023

Climate science is increasingly structured in ways that subcontract repetitive activities to graduate students. Here, early career researchers raise the issue and explore some tradeoffs.

Editors' Highlights

Measuring the Microstructure of Snow from Space

by Bjorn Stevens 15 December 20224 January 2023

There is more to snow than flakes. Microwave measurements are shown to be capable of illuminating the microstructure of snow in ways that will improve our ability to monitor snow fields from space.

A 2017 landslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone, killed an estimated 1,100 residents, largely in informal settlements.

News

Protecting Poor Neighborhoods from Landslide Risk

by J. Besl 8 December 20221 June 2023

As low-income, informal settlements bloom in the tropics, their risk of landslides increases. A new modeling tool incorporates urbanization factors to protect the region’s poorest neighborhoods.

Diagram showing the molecular hydrogen in Callisto’s atmosphere.

Editors' Highlights

Callisto’s H Corona: Offspring of the Surface or the Atmosphere?

by Beatriz Sánchez-Cano and Anni Määttänen 7 December 202222 July 2024

The mostly unknown Callisto’s H corona is created by a global tenuous H₂ atmosphere and not by surface water as previously believed, providing the first evidence for H₂ in Callisto’s atmosphere.

Satellite image showing parts of Africa, North America, and South America, as well as several tropical storm systems over the Atlantic Ocean.

Research Spotlights

Linking African Winds to Atlantic Storms

by Sarah Stanley 7 December 20226 January 2023

Simulations suggest that waves in the atmosphere above northern Africa influence the intensity, timing, and location of formation of Atlantic tropical cyclones.

Two maps using color to show sea level and resulting self-attraction and loading field.

Editors' Highlights

Accurate Ocean Tides for Earth System Models

by Stephen M. Griffies 1 December 202216 February 2023

Accurate tide models require self-attraction and loading terms, but can this calculation be done accurately and efficiently for use in global tide and Earth system models?