• About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • AGU Publications
    • AGU Journals
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
  • Career Center
  • AGU Blogs
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
  • AGU.org
  • AGU Publications
    • AGU Journals
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
  • Career Center
  • AGU Blogs
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Sign Up for Newsletter
  • About
  • Special Reports
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Third Pod from the Sun
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos

weather

A dark cloud bank hovers over the water off of a rocky beach
Posted inFeatures

The Challenges of Forecasting Small, But Mighty, Polar Lows

by M. Moreno-Ibáñez 3 September 20218 September 2022

These intense maritime storms pose threats to high-latitude coastal communities and economic activities and may influence climate and ocean circulation.

An extratropical cyclone over the U.S. Midwest
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Improving Weather Simulations Through Increased Generality

by Morgan Rehnberg 3 August 202111 October 2022

By adding support for spatially variable velocity fields and anisotropy, the CoSMoS simulation package can more accurately reproduce physical phenomena.

2015年6月20日至7月5日热浪期间,欧洲全天平均气温
Posted inResearch Spotlights

利用一般天气数据评估人类健康风险

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 1 July 202122 February 2023

研究人员指出,在评估与冷热相关的人类死亡风险方面,网格化的气候数据集与气象站数据一样有效。

3 plots with a time series showing turbulence kinetic energy (top), UAV battery drainage due to elevated turbulence conditions (center and bottom).
Posted inEditors' Highlights

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.
Posted inNews

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
Posted inNews

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
Posted inEditors' Highlights

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
Posted inResearch Spotlights

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
Posted inEditors' Highlights

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.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 11 Older posts

Features from AGU Journals

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHTS
Geophysical Research Letters
“Neural Networks Map the Ebb and Flow of Tiny Ponds”
By Sarah Derouin

EDITORS' HIGHLIGHTS
Community Science
“Collaboration Helps Overcome Challenges in Air Quality Monitoring”
By Muki Haklay

EDITORS' VOX
Reviews of Geophysics
“What We Know and Don’t Know About Climate Tipping Elements”
By Seaver Wang

Eos logo at left; AGU logo at right

About Eos
ENGAGE
Awards
Contact

Advertise
Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2023 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic