A new method provides a previously unavailable data set that could help improve the representation of shifty shallow cumulus clouds in atmospheric models.

A positive shift in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and changes in the large-scale hurricane environment are behind the increase in magnitude of rapid intensification.

Researchers zero in on the radiative feedback processes that continue to drive warming in the Arctic.

Cloud shadows are found to influence shallow cloud size and water content.

During 1980–2014, aerosols arriving from East Asia offset radiative flux increases in the western United States induced by domestic air pollution reductions.

Study strengthens understanding of how momentum is changed by vertical motions of storms across scales.

A review of modeling research on two-way interactions between human and Earth systems sheds light on system interactions and informs directions for future Earth system modeling research.

Researchers document, for the first time, a pronounced seasonal cycle in the strength of the Madden-Julian Oscillation over the Maritime Continent.

Linking microscale processes and macroscale fluxes using soil properties in a process-rich simulation.

Researchers uncover a nonlinear relationship between South Asian monsoon rainfall and water vapor over the tropical Indian Ocean in Earth system models.

Scientists use a new technique to assess how well satellite measurements can resolve the influence of atmospheric particles on clouds.

Sea surface temperatures have less influence on tropical cyclone intensification in the Atlantic than in the Pacific.

Demeter provides a flexible and repeatable methodology to connect models at varying scales to account for land surface changes.

Open-source tool helps connect high-resolution sectoral models and broader integrated human-Earth system models.

Changes in water volume tend to be smaller in managed watersheds but occur earlier.