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Field photos of burned forest and graphs showing reflectance properties.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Summer Fire Means Winter Melt

by Valeriy Ivanov 2 February 20232 February 2023

Changing wildfire activity in California may impact seasonal hydrology by causing intense snowmelt during winter in areas where fires extend into higher elevation zones.

Maps showing distribution of different drought types.
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Streamflow Drought Intensification in the European Alps

by Valeriy Ivanov 1 February 202331 January 2023

A five-decade analysis of drought generation processes in the Alps shows their changing seasonality in high-elevation basins with increasingly frequent droughts caused by a lack of snowmelt water.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Measuring the Microstructure of Snow from Space

by Bjorn Stevens 15 December 20224 January 2023

There is more to snow than flakes. Microwave measurements are shown to be capable of illuminating the microstructure of snow in ways that will improve our ability to monitor snow fields from space.

Burned landscape of the Indian Creek watershed in southern Colorado after the Spring Creek Fire
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Wildfires Affect Snow in the American West

by Saima May Sidik 11 August 202211 August 2022

Data from 45 burned sites help researchers better understand climate change and wildfires’ impact on snowpack.

Three field photographs showing different vegetation types.
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It’s Cool to be Short When You’re in the Arctic Permafrost

by Ankur R. Desai 15 July 202225 July 2022

Extensive ground temperature measurements complicate our understanding of how vegetation cover, snow duration, and microtopography influence the pace of permafrost thaw in a changing climate.

Photo of Hüfifirn, a medium-sized glacier in Central Switzerland.
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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.

A wide view of snow-covered pines in mountains.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Trees Wearing Accelerometers Help Track Snowstorms

by Rebecca Dzombak 15 April 202215 April 2022

This device allows scientists to measure how much snow is trapped in canopies and predict changes to snowpack—a critical factor in annual water availability.

An aerial image of the windswept surface of Mars. The ground is rusty red with blacker sediment curling across the image in the form of dunes. A dusting of white snow accentuates the ridges of large and small scale dunes.
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Mars’s Dust Cycle Controls Its Polar Vortex and Snowfall

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 April 20221 April 2022

On Earth, the water cycle is a dominant climate force. On Mars, it’s the dust.

An image of the Sonnblick Observatory with snow
Posted inNews

The Alps Are Dusted with Nanoplastics

by Stacy Kish 30 March 20228 August 2022

A new study finds the lofted pollutants came from major European cities, but further study is required to fully understand the plastics’ transport and deposition processes.

Traditional Chinese architecture
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La arquitectura china evolucionó con los cambios en las nevadas

by Katherine Kornei 28 October 202128 October 2021

El diseño de los techos en el norte de China cambió a lo largo de siglos en respuesta a eventos de nieve extremos, sugiere nueva investigación.

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