Hurricanes Gained Strength More Quickly in the Central and Eastern Atlantic Ocean Over the Last 30 Years
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.
Tiny Processes in Clouds Drive Storm System Longevity over the Central United States
With improved cloud microphysics representing observed storm structures, models can better simulate long-lasting storms prone to produce flooding.
A Hydrological Emulator for Global Applications
New open-source software mimics complex global hydrological models with extraordinary computational efficiency.
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.