NOVEMBER 16, 2020 Research Highlight Using AI to Detect Defects in Fusion Reactor Materials Researchers developed a new tool that combines artificial intelligence and microscopy data to rapidly test new materials for fusion reactor use. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight Aging Alters Mixing Behavior of Organic Aerosol Experiments show fresh organic aerosol readily mix and mingle but remain separated as they age; results inform model assumptions about particle growth. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight How Floods Start and Their Recent Trends Floodplain inundation simulations shed light on flood generation mechanisms and the increasing role of extreme rainfall. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight Capturing the Influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones An index that better captures El Niño-Southern Oscillation effects shows that Pacific tropical cyclones are more predictable than previously thought. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight How to More Accurately Model Massive Storms Study addresses shortcomings in global multiscale model storm simulations. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight Warmer Sea Surfaces Intensify Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Atmospheric rivers that make landfall on the U.S. West Coast show broad increases in size and intensity with warmer local sea surfaces. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Research Highlight A New Method Disentangles How the Atmosphere and Ocean Interact to Influence Climate A new method separates climate responses initiated from atmospheric changes from those due to changing ocean circulation. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 Research Highlight Learning Convective and Stratiform Cloud Interactions from Years of Observations Machine learning applied to model cloud-cloud interactions traditionally absent in global climate models. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 Research Highlight Coupled Models Improve East Asian Monsoon Precipitation Simulation via Bias Compensation Atmosphere model errors in this region originate from their own limitations rather than lack of air–sea coupling. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 Research Highlight Environmental Factors Impact Large Hail Annual Variability Across the U.S. Southern Great Plains Aerosols, El Niño, and sea surface temperature over the northern Gulf of Mexico influence variation. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 11, 2020 Research Highlight Evaluating Tropical Cyclone Simulation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model New analysis assesses the realism and biases of tropical cyclones at various resolutions in E3SM. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 10, 2020 Research Highlight Atmospheric Measurements Guide Model Toward Improved Prediction of Clouds Information extracted from a variety of atmospheric observations can correct the behavior of a model and improve simulated clouds. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 9, 2020 Research Highlight Model Microbial Consortium Simplifies Soil Microbiome Complexity A small collection of naturally interacting soil microbes could enable new studies of community interactions and metabolism. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Research Highlight Enhancing the Community Terrestrial System Model to Grow Perennial Bioenergy Crops Miscanthus and switchgrass are promising alternatives to traditional annual crops. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Research Highlight The Sweet Spot for Cooling the Earth’s Climate A new study provides insights on the location of forcing that yields the optimal cooling effect. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Research Highlight Diffusion in Large Organic Aerosols Influences Growth of Ultrafine Atmospheric Particles New research improves chemical understanding of how ultrafine atmospheric particles grow into climatically active sizes. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 5, 2020 Research Highlight Simulating the Effects of Irrigation Throughout a Watershed Community Land Model 5.0 can represent how irrigation influences water, carbon, and nitrogen budgets throughout a highly managed semiarid watershed. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 4, 2020 Research Highlight Earth System Model Offers New View of Aerosol Treatments Aerosol treatments in E3SM affect clouds, heat reflected to space, and Earth’s snow-or-ice-covered surface. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Research Highlight How to Measure the Invisible: Quantifying Electromagnetic Fields with Molly Grear Ocean engineer Molly Grear leads Triton Field Trials research studying methods to detect electromagnetic fields associated with marine energy devices. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 30, 2020 Research Highlight COSORE: A Community Database for Continuous Soil Respiration Data Researchers created an open database for soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data. ( Read More )