Mission Possible: Estimating Cloud Area from Sky Images
A new method provides a previously unavailable data set that could help improve the representation of shifty shallow cumulus clouds in atmospheric models.
Decoding the Ocean's Influence on Global Surface Air Temperature Patterns
Study identifies recurrent patterns of temperature response to energy changes at random locations.
From Gray to Green: An Aerosol Journey in the Amazon
Surrounded by the Amazon rainforest, aircraft measurements from the urban plume over Manaus, Brazil, reveal the life cycle of organic aerosol.
Systematic Water Conservation Errors Reduced in E3SM Atmosphere Model
Improving water conservation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model's atmosphere component has important implications for projecting sea level change.
Effects of Water Management on Future Droughts from Atmosphere to Rivers: A Global Multi-Model Analysis
Water management activities could reduce both the duration and intensity of agricultural droughts by a factor of about ten in most regions, while they may increase those of hydrological droughts by up to 50 percent.