MARCH 3, 2021 Research Highlight Land Significantly Contributes to East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Predictability Scientists used the strength of land-atmosphere coupling to improve predictions of East Asian summer monsoon rainfall. ( Read More )
MARCH 2, 2021 Research Highlight Safety First! How Triton Conducts Field Operations Safely with Sue Southard Operations specialist, Sue Southard helps the Triton Initiative conduct marine energy field research safely. ( Read More )
MARCH 1, 2021 Research Highlight A New Route to Studying How Aerosols Form Ice Crystals A new type of ice chamber allows researchers to understand how ice forms on atmospheric aerosol particles. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 17, 2021 Research Highlight Combining Simulations and Observations Reveals the Complexity of Shallow Clouds Current representations of shallow clouds in climate models have biases that lead to inaccuracies in models. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 10, 2021 Research Highlight A New Lens for Examining Storms in Climate Models A new process-oriented diagnostic approach provides new insights into simulated storms and their environments. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 3, 2021 Research Highlight Outlining Best Practices for Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer Use in Atmospheric Studies Demonstrating methods for using a portable optical particle spectrometer, a miniaturized and highly sensitive instrument, to measure atmospheric aerosol size distributions. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 2, 2021 Research Highlight Bringing Triton’s Vision to Life: Project Management with Alicia Amerson Project manager Alicia Amerson brings the Triton Initiative’s research on environmental monitoring for marine energy applications to life. ( Read More )
JANUARY 29, 2021 Research Highlight Satellite Observations Highlight Inaccuracies in How Climate Models Represent Dust Satellite observations provide insight into the processes that control the spatial distributions of dust in global climate models. ( Read More )
JANUARY 27, 2021 Research Highlight A Warmer Climate Delays Seasonal Rainfall Over Land Scientists discovered that a warming climate delays monsoonal rain, but only over land. ( Read More )
JANUARY 22, 2021 Research Highlight Considering Irrigation Improves Simulated Mesoscale Convective Systems and Low-Level Jets Regional climate models reveal irrigation’s role in strong precipitation and low-level winds across the Central United States. ( Read More )
JANUARY 19, 2021 Research Highlight Comparison is Key to Validating Aircraft Measurement Datasets Comparing large datasets from coordinated aircraft flights provides critical information about data researcher use in a range of analyses. ( Read More )
JANUARY 14, 2021 Research Highlight Urbanization Shapes Thunderstorms Near the Gulf Coast Urbanization-induced land cover and anthropogenic aerosol changes result in stronger thunderstorms with enhanced precipitation in the Houston area. ( Read More )
JANUARY 5, 2021 Research Highlight Creating Ears Under Water: Researching the Effects of Underwater Noise with Joe Haxel Marine scientist Joe Haxel leads Triton Field Trials research studying methods to monitor underwater noise associated with marine energy systems. ( Read More )
JANUARY 4, 2021 Research Highlight Grid Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change Associated with Regional Interconnections Long term power grid planning needs to consider regional dependencies in climate adaption plans. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 14, 2020 Research Highlight River and Reservoir Water Availability Guides Global Irrigation Modeling Integrating information on irrigation processes into Earth system models allows for more accurate representation of the global water cycle. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 3, 2020 Research Highlight Using a Simple Climate Model as an Earth System Model Emulator Hector, a reduced complexity climate model, can be calibrated to emulate 30 different complex, computationally expensive Earth System Models. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 1, 2020 Research Highlight Do Fish Swim Around or Through Energy Devices in the Water? Fish biologist Garrett Staines leads Triton Field Trials research on marine animal behavior and collision risk associated with marine energy devices. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 25, 2020 Research Highlight Photolysis is a Major Removal Mechanism that Controls the Budget of Organic Aerosol New experiments show organic aerosol can be lost from the atmosphere faster than most models predict. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Research Highlight Climatic Impacts on Future 21st Century Global Agricultural Yields Historical weather data informs projections of global yields of economically important crops. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Research Highlight Future U.S. Agricultural Production Impacted by Domestic and International Changes To accurately model future U.S. agricultural production, changes in international crop yields cannot be ignored. ( Read More )