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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.
Posted inNews

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.

Posted inNews

Crowdsourced Weather Projects Boost Climate Science Research

by Jennifer Schmidt 2 June 20227 June 2022

Historic observations, manually transcribed from handwritten records, are giving scientists a fresh glimpse into Victorian era climate.

Rain clouds hang over a valley in Uttarakhand, India.
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Higher Sea Surface Temperatures Could Lead to a Weaker Monsoon

by T. V. Padma 6 April 20226 April 2022

Most climate models predict that the South Asian monsoon will strengthen with climate change, but new research indicates warmer ocean temperatures may lead to a drier phenomenon.

A river in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
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Tree Rings Reveal a Puzzling Trend in Monsoon Intensity

by Saima Sidik 31 March 202231 March 2022

Tree rings confirm that in northern Australia, the past 40 years have experienced more rain than any similar length of time in the past 600 years.

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 202215 March 2022

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.

Aerial photo of Manaus, Brazil
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Pollution Is Disrupting Rain Cycles in the Amazon

by Meghie Rodrigues 4 March 202229 April 2022

A team of researchers in Brazil and the United States uncovered the importance of the mechanism of oxidation—a process with the potential to affect climate and precipitation across the tropics.

A river in southern Siberia flows between rocky banks toward mountains in the distance.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

High Mountain Rain Has Scientists Rethinking River Basics

by David Shultz 27 January 202227 January 2022

Rainfall varies with elevation, and such precipitation gradients can have profound and often counterintuitive effects on topography.

The Atacama Desert, Chile
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Understanding Rare Rain Events in the Driest Desert on Earth

by Emily Cerf 18 January 202218 January 2022

A new study reveals the atmospheric paths of storm events that can deliver a decade’s worth of rain in a few hours to the Atacama Desert.

A person carrying an umbrella walks through a rainstorm.
Posted inNews

Rainy Days Dampen Economic Growth

by Jenessa Duncombe 12 January 202213 January 2022

Research reveals the connection between a country’s day-to-day weather and its production.

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