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Map of continental USA showing horizontal distribution of the mean of the logarithmic eddy dissipation rate in the troposphere
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Radiosondes Measure Atmospheric Turbulence Over North America

by William J. Randel 16 August 201925 July 2022

Analyses of high-resolution radiosonde balloon measurements have provided a novel climatology of atmospheric turbulence parameters in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

The Polar 6 research airplane in Antarctica
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Missing Lakes Under Antarctic Ice Sheets

by E. Underwood 4 June 201928 July 2022

New radio sounding study finds little evidence of lakes under Antarctica’s Recovery Glacier.

A view of the aircraft used to collect radar data over Antarctica
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Subglacial Water Can Accelerate East Antarctic Glacier Flow

by Terri Cook 3 April 201928 July 2022

Airborne radar from the Recovery Glacier system demonstrates the importance of characterizing the underlying causes of ice flow speedup to understand how glacial discharge could change in the future.

An up-close look at the new antenna design
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Antenna Design Could Improve Satellite Communications

by David Shultz 14 March 201910 March 2022

A novel antenna design promises to improve bandwidth and allow for better communication between Earth stations and satellites.

A tornado in Arkansas in 2013
Posted inNews

Westward Expansion, Technology, and Tornado Fatalities

by Katherine Kornei 6 March 201916 September 2022

By mining records from 1808 to 2017, researchers can now show just how many lives have likely been saved by technology like radar.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Diurnal Variation of Rainfall over the Equator Revisited

by Minghua Zhang 26 October 20188 March 2022

Radar data show an afternoon precipitation maximum in the equatorial Indian Ocean in addition to the nocturnal maximum; this occurs under light surface winds and suppressed large-scale convection.

Horizontal black lines show weather satellite data loss from radio frequency interference in 2015.
Posted inOpinions

Wireless Frequency Sharing May Impede Weather Satellite Signals

by J. Gerth 8 October 20181 August 2022

The delivery of weather satellite imagery is reliable today, but will it stay that way in the future?

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Continental Convection Reaches New Highs

by William J. Randel 12 March 201829 March 2022

Ten years of high-resolution gridded NEXRAD radar data provide a new data set to quantify tropopause-overshooting convection over the continental United States.

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment 12-meter telescope
Posted inNews

A Decade of Atmospheric Data Aids Black Hole Observers

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 2 February 20185 January 2023

Astrophysicists are using a global atmospheric model to help them coordinate a multicontinent, radio-frequency observing campaign to gaze at the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Observations of Mysterious Radar Echoes

by Gang Lu 19 January 201812 October 2022

Exploring the relationship between solar extreme ultraviolet radiation flux and 150-km radar echoes.

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