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Two maps using colors to show flood depths.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

An Innovative Approach to Model Complex Hurricane Flood Hazards

by Andra Garner 12 January 202311 January 2023

A new study shows that it is possible to produce regional assessments of how hurricane flood hazards change due to both evolving storm tides and precipitation rates in a warming climate.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

A Theory of Squall Lines

by Bjorn Stevens 9 January 20239 January 2023

About 50 years ago, vorticity thinking helped unveil basic properties of squall lines. Zhang now provides a closed theory, demystifying one of nature’s most important forms of convective organization.

A person stands amid tall trees on a lush green mountainside.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Amazon Basin Tree Rings Hold a Record of the Region’s Rainfall

by Rachel Fritts 11 October 202211 October 2022

New research provides a 200-year reconstruction of interannual rainfall in the Amazon basin using oxygen isotopes preserved in tree rings in Ecuador and Bolivia.

A small brown and gray mouse, Abrothrix hirta, sits on green grass strewn with a few brown leaves. The mouse faces left and is photographed in profile.
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Rain Makes Skulls Bigger—in Mice

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 October 202228 October 2022

New research shows how regional weather, shaped by towering mountain ranges, might influence the size and shape of local rodents.

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Why Does It Rain So Much Over Tropical Land?

by Nicolas Gruber 12 September 202220 December 2022

Analyses of observations show that tropical land receives more rain than its fair share, owing to a proposed negative feedback that is not captured in current climate models.

Four radar reflectivity diagrams.
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Advanced Real-Time Prediction of Storms With 30-Second Refresh

by Jiwen Fan 19 August 202228 September 2022

A new-generation weather radar and a massive supercomputing system enables forecasts of storms refreshed every 30 seconds, a significant development in severe weather prediction.

Photograph of a raincloud over an ocean.
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More Accurately Modeling Rain Formation

by Tapio Schneider 14 July 202222 December 2022

Rain and cloud droplets are treated as distinct categories in most models yet lie on a continuous droplet size spectrum in nature. Representing them as part of a continuous spectrum improves models.

Three maps of the United States with different colored data points.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Explaining Uncertainty in Estimates of Rain Response to Warming

by Alessandra Giannini 13 July 202225 July 2022

Humidity increases with warming. Theory and observations about how increased humidity translates into more extreme rainfall can be reconciled if attention is paid to data and methods.

An evergreen forest in southern Oregon.
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Large-Scale Reforestation Efforts Could Dry Out Landscapes Across the World

by Nathaniel Scharping 24 June 202224 June 2022

The complex interactions between forests and the water cycle might end up with more rain falling in the ocean—far from a thirsty land.

Monsoonal rainfall in Manipal, Western Ghats.
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A Community-Led Landslide Prediction System in India

by Rishika Pardikar 7 June 20227 June 2022

In a first-of-its-kind disaster prevention initiative, a meteorology-based landslide prediction system was developed as a crowdsourced science effort.

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