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A coast of the Galapagos Islands in the eastern tropical Pacific
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Tropical Climate Change Is a Puzzle—Could Aerosols Be a Piece?

by Andrew Chapman 9 September 202114 April 2022

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean hasn’t warmed as much as climate change models projected. A new study shows that aerosols in the atmosphere could be responsible.

Two maps of the tropical Pacific Ocean showing difference in precipitation between a control model and observations (top panel) and a model with elevated Central American orography (bottom panel).
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Raising Central American Orography Improves Climate Simulation

by Sarah Kang 9 June 20218 March 2022

Elevation of Central American orography significantly reduces the pervasive tropical rainfall bias by blocking the easterlies and consequently warming the northeastern tropical Pacific.

The moon appears at the top of the layers of atmosphere above the dark Earth. The orange-red glow is Earth’s troposphere, and the brown transitional layer is the tropopause.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Convective Transport Explains “Missing” Ice near the Tropical Tropopause

by David Shultz 10 May 202129 March 2022

Spaceborne lidar shows that more ice than expected is leaving the tropical tropopause layer in the atmosphere.

A satellite image of a tropical forest.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Tropical Carbon and Water Observed from Above

by J. Worden, S. Saatchi and A. Bloom 6 April 202129 March 2023

Satellite observations show how tropical forest carbon fluxes respond to changes in water from climate variability.

Plot showing relationship between subsidence rates and drainage density
Posted inEditors' Highlights

SE Asia Peatlands Subsidence Tied to Drainage Density

by A. Barros 29 March 202129 March 2023

Human-made channelization significantly accelerates peat decomposition and drives ground-surface deformation in tropical wetlands.

World map showing trends of gross primary productivity, increasing in the northern latitudes and decreasing in the tropics
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Water Stress Controls the Capacity of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink

by A. Barros 17 December 20201 March 2023

Despite increased photosynthetic activity at northern latitudes in recent decades, plant productivity in tropical zones suffers because of water limitations.

Four plots showing composites for very cold cloud tops for tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific during intensification at different times for the period 2000-2017
Posted inEditors' Highlights

How Tropical Cyclones Increase in Intensity Overnight

by Suzana Camargo 9 December 202030 September 2022

The diurnal variations of tropical cyclone intensification and decay are analyzed using satellite data for deep convective clouds.

Sea surface temperature and precipitation anomalies as a function of time
Posted inEditors' Highlights

More Clustered Clouds Amplify Tropical Rainfall Extremes

by Sarah Kang 15 October 202014 February 2023

Both satellite observations and model simulations reveal that more aggregated convection amplifies the increase in extreme rainfall events on a year-to-year basis.

The Danum River runs through a dense tropical forest.
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Restored Tropical Forests Recover Faster Than Those Left Alone

by Mohammed El-Said 3 September 202019 October 2022

The costs of active restoration may be offset by aggressive carbon pricing demanded by the Paris Agreement.

Satellite imagery showing the clouds of convective weather systems over Southeast Asia and the Philippine Sea on 18 September 2019
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Warming in the Antarctic Stratosphere Affects Tropical Weather

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 1 September 202029 March 2022

Rapid temperature spikes in the stratosphere above Antarctica can influence weather and spark cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere’s tropics.

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