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3 plots with a time series showing turbulence kinetic energy (top), UAV battery drainage due to elevated turbulence conditions (center and bottom).
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Modeling Urban-Weather Effects Can Inform Aerial Vehicle Flights

by D. Wuebbles 9 June 202120 July 2022

Microscale modeling can be used to understand and predict urban weather with sufficient detail to inform and support flight safety for crewed and uncrewed aerial vehicles.

Average temperature throughout the day in Europe during the heatwave from 30 June, 2015 to 5 July, 2015
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Calculating Human Health Risks with General Weather Data

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 3 June 202122 February 2023

Gridded climate data sets are just as effective as weather station data at assessing human mortality risk related to heat and cold, researchers suggest.

A man raises a red flag, signaling severe weather, on the shores of Lake Victoria.
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Forecasters Navigate a Highway to Success Around Lake Victoria

by Munyaradzi Makoni 13 May 20214 November 2022

An early-warning system establishes international networks to help communities manage severe weather on Africa’s largest lake.

Weather station in the Himalayas
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Tracing the Moisture That Nourishes the World’s Highest Glacier

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 14 December 20206 September 2022

Using data from weather stations on and around Mount Everest, scientists find that the Khumbu Glacier receives most of its moisture from the Bay of Bengal.

Two plots showing percent changes in TIME-GCM zonally averaged [O+] and [H+] as a function of latitude and altitude in the Northern Hemisphere between the “disturbed” and “pre-disturbance” time periods in 2012–2013
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Stratospheric Weather Impacts Light Species at Great Heights

by Michael P. Hickey 14 December 202016 March 2023

Sudden stratospheric warmings in the high latitude wintertime can drive changes in light species (H, He and O) all the way though the thermosphere, likely influencing ion densities in the exosphere.

Light clouds sit high in the sky on an otherwise sunny day
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Boosting Weather Prediction with Machine Learning

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 25 November 202028 March 2023

WeatherBench is a data set compiled to serve as a standard for evaluating new approaches to artificial intelligence–driven weather forecasting.

Charts showing the system performance of the flood protection strategy and conventional systems
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Rainwater Harvesting Can Reduce Flooding as Well as Saving Water

by Jim Hall 23 September 202024 February 2023

Weather forecasting can greatly improve benefits of rainwater harvesting.

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

Satellite image of storms Laura and Marco in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
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Storms Interact but Rarely Merge into Bigger Tempests

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 26 August 20206 January 2022

The Fujiwhara effect—complex interactions between large storms nearby each other—can steer hurricanes and tropical storms but doesn’t typically create colossal tempests.

Artist’s illustration of the Lagrange mission under consideration by the European Space Agency showing two spacecraft situated between the Sun and Earth
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How to Improve Space Weather Forecasting

by Mark Zastrow 19 June 202022 February 2023

The field of space weather forecasting could take cues from its Earthly counterpart to increase the reliability of models as well as warning times ahead of inbound solar storms.

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