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San Pablo Bay marsh
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Atmospheric Rivers Help Coastal Wetlands Build Up Sediment

by Alexandra K. Scammell 13 July 202230 January 2024

Accounting for these storms and flooding can help experts predict and respond to rising sea levels.

Un techo colapsado lleno de granizo en un supermercado de la Ciudad de México.
Posted inENGAGE, News

El granizo que colapsó a la Ciudad de México

by Humberto Basilio 12 July 202227 March 2023

Cuando una granizada intensa golpeó la capital de México la semana pasada, los ciudadanos se empezaron a preguntar si el cambio climático podría ser la causa. Pero, ¿es esa la pregunta que nos debemos hacer?

Four graphs showing the percent area covered by atmospheric rivers in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Comparing Methods for Analysis of Atmospheric Rivers

by Minghua Zhang 4 July 202230 January 2024

Results from the Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) describe the similarity and difference of using eleven detection algorithms and three reanalysis products.

Map overlain with moisture, precipitation, and wind currents for the westward propagating moisture model.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Western Hemisphere Moisture Mode

by Suzana Camargo 24 June 202224 February 2023

A new study presents the first evidence of the existence of an intraseasonal westward-propagating moisture mode over the Western Hemisphere.

A hail-laden roof collapsed on a supermarket in Mexico City.
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A Hail of a Night in Mexico

by Humberto Basilio 24 June 202217 March 2023

When a severe hailstorm hit Mexico’s capital last week, citizens began to wonder whether climate change could be the cause. But is that the right question to ask?

Photo of S-band radar site with Mt. Aragats in the background.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Radar Diagnosis of the Thundercloud Electron Accelerator

by Minghua Zhang 14 June 202210 March 2023

Altitude-resolved S-band radar observations of graupel are used to decipher thunderstorm ground enhancements in surface electric field and gamma ray flux.

Northern California’s Eel River watershed
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Small Catchments Sustain Silicon Signatures Following Storms

by Jack Lee 10 June 202229 June 2022

Watersheds have unique patterns of silicon export due to differences in subsurface water routing and biogeochemical reactions.

Photo of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Mountains Undergo Enhanced Impacts of Climate Change

by Nicholas Pepin, Carolina Adler, Sven Kotlarski and Elisa Palazzi 10 May 202210 November 2022

As climate change persists, amplified temperature increases in mountains and changes in precipitation will diminish snow and ice.

Plot showing how the height of melting layer is higher than that of the freezing level in cyclones.
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Melting Layer Characteristics of Cyclones

by Jonathan H. Jiang 22 March 202213 March 2023

Dual‐frequency Precipitation Radar observations reveal the characteristics and microphysical processes of the melting layer in cyclone precipitation over the western North Pacific.

Maps of time-mean precipitation pattern error for 40-day simulations with three configurations of a global atmospheric model with a coarse 200-km grid.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Corrective Machine Learning for Improving Climate Models

by Jiwen Fan 15 March 20225 January 2023

A machine-learned correction enables an efficient coarse-grid global atmosphere model to better track the weather and time-mean precipitation of an expensive fine-grid ‘digital twin’ reference model.

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