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Lightning flashes during a tornadic storm in Oklahoma.
Posted inFeatures

Lightning Research Flashes Forward

by Heather Goss 24 April 202022 November 2021

A greater understanding of lightning mechanisms is spurring the development of more accurate weather forecasting, increased public health precautions, and a more sophisticated understanding of lightning itself.

Lightning flashes over a city
Posted inAGU News

Investigating the Spark

by Heather Goss 24 April 202022 November 2021

In May, we look at lightning—what it tells us about dangerous weather, how to find it on other planets, and what we might learn if we get all that data in one place.

Schematic showing 4 difference scenarios in which atmospheric rivers affect the surface water budget
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Hydrological Footprint of Atmospheric Rivers on Land

by Minghua Zhang 10 September 201910 September 2019

Atmospheric rivers that make landfall in the western United States have significant impacts on the surface water balance, sharpening the seasonality of water resources in coastal watersheds.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

What Drives Surface Winds in a Deep Valley?

by Minghua Zhang 7 March 20196 March 2019

Surface winds in a Himalayan valley are found to vary daily and seasonally due to factors including pressure gradient, advection, turbulent vertical mixing, and the presence of glaciers.

Researchers improve climate models by including Himalayan topography and land-atmosphere interactions.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Better Way to Predict the Indian Monsoon

by E. Underwood 4 May 2018

A new study finds that including Himalayan topography and land-atmosphere interactions improves climate models.

Native Prairie in East Central North Dakota
Posted inEditors' Vox

Diagnosing the Warm Bias in the Central United States

by A. Steiner 23 April 2018

A set of four papers published in JGR: Atmospheres present results from a project investigating why models predict warmer surface temperatures than are observed in the central United States.

Researchers assess how human-made towers influence lightning data
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Antenna Towers Attract Additional Lightning Strikes

by S. Witman 26 May 201726 May 2017

Atmospheric scientists evaluate the influence of human-made structures on lightning data.

Link between Atlantic sea surface temperatures and tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific could improve future cyclone forecasts.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Two-Way Relationship Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

by B. Bane 3 March 2017

Researchers have uncovered a new connection between sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific that could improve accuracies of future cyclone forecasts.

Posted inScience Updates

Forecasting India's Water Future

by M. d. S. Mesquita, V. Veldore, L. Li, R. Krishnan, Y. Orsolini, R. Senan, M. V. S. Ramarao and E. Viste 31 March 201619 April 2016

The NORINDIA project sheds light on how climate change could affect monsoons, droughts, and glaciers in northern India.

Posted inScience Updates

The North American Monsoon: Models Versus Observations

by D. K. Adams, A. Q. Isaias and C. Lizárraga 20 January 201620 January 2016

Third Annual Regional Climatology and Meteorology Meeting for Northwest Mexico; Mexico City, Mexico, 4–5 June 2015

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