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Image of dark linear features on the surface of Mars known as recurring slope lineae
Posted inEditors' Highlights

After the Dust Cleared: New Clue on Mars’ Recurring Slope Lineae

by A. Deanne Rogers 8 April 20212 February 2022

An imaging campaign after the 2018 planet-encircling dust storm on Mars revealed a significant increase in detections of enigmatic recurring slope lineae and new insights into how they might form.

Cloud droplets in turbulence (left) and cloud droplets in Earth’s atmosphere (right)
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Atmospheric Turbulence May Promote Cloud Droplet Formation

by Morgan Rehnberg 18 March 20217 March 2022

Turbulence causes local variations in relative humidity, which can push particles past a critical saturation threshold for droplet nucleation.

Satellite image of dust carried from China into the north Pacific
Posted inNews

Dust on the Wind

by Nancy Averett 17 February 202126 January 2023

A new study confirms that an important wind system is shifting due to climate change.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Wind Stress is not the Ceiling of Momentum Flux to the Ocean

by Lei Zhou 15 February 202116 September 2022

The ocean is mainly driven by wind stress, but simultaneous observations show that the gain of momentum flux by the ocean can be larger than the wind stress due to the influence of ocean waves.

Schematic diagram of the experimental apparatus
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The Importance of Wind for the Fate of Volcanic Eruption Columns

by M. Pistolesi 13 November 20202 May 2022

A theoretical model coupled to lab experiments on turbulent jets with reversing buoyancy sheds new light on the role of wind in controlling the dynamics of volcanic eruptive columns.

Plot showing the distribution of the maximum wind speed attained by post-tropical cyclones and midlatitude cyclones in North Europe in the period June to November for the years 1979 to 2017
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Post-Tropical Cyclones Influence on European Windstorm Risk

by Suzana Camargo 28 October 20208 March 2022

Comparing the importance of midlatitude cyclones and post-tropical cyclones on European windstorms during the Atlantic hurricane season using ERA-5 reanalysis.

Image of part of Mars showing the planet’s atmosphere on the horizon
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Capturing Heat-Driven Atmospheric Tides on Mars

by Sarah Stanley 13 October 202023 September 2022

Spacecraft observations and model simulations provide new insights into tidal patterns that transport momentum and energy into the planet’s upper atmosphere.

Satellite image of gravity waves in tropospheric clouds off southern Australia in 2017
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Successfully Simulating Atmospheric Gravity Waves

by Morgan Rehnberg 30 September 202019 October 2021

These waves are key to moving energy from the troposphere to the thermosphere, but until now they haven’t been well described at high altitudes in computer models.

Satellite imagery showing a dust cloud spanning the tropical North Atlantic on 20 June 2020
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Trans-Atlantic Dusts May Not Enrich Amazon as Much as Thought

by David Shultz 16 September 20202 November 2021

New research indicates that nutrient loads delivered to South American ecosystems by dust originating in Africa are far lower than suggested in previous studies.

Map of the world showing trajectories that transport water from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Posted inEditors' Highlights

A New Perspective on a Classic Climate Conundrum

by Alessandra Giannini 6 August 202012 January 2022

The Lagrangian method applied to tracking water transport between the Atlantic and Pacific basins reveals a larger contribution by mid-latitude westerly winds across Eurasia than previously thought.

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