Science Spotlights
Science Spotlights
AIRWISE: From Crisis to Control
India’s scientific leap in forecasting is revolutionizing Delhi’s fight for clean air.
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: Santa Ana Fire Winds; Chatbots on Climate
Research in AMS journals discusses a new classification for dangerous Santa Ana winds, driver responses to snow squall warnings, the rainiest possible Earth conditions, forecasting extreme waves, the Congo air boundary, LLMs and local climate, and more.
Science Spotlights
Why Snow Really Falls in Bands
by Stephen R. Guimond Extratropical cyclones frequently contain multibanded cloud and precipitation structures that can strongly influence the distribution and...
News & Events, Science Spotlights
A Triple Jeopardy Flood Event
by Alexander B. Rabinovich by ESA / Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A – https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115425117 The violent underwater...
From AMS Journals, News & Events
First Paper Published in the U.S. Climate Collection
The U.S. Climate Collection has published its first paper, with 175 authors outlining research priorities for future U.S.-focused climate assessments.
Science Spotlights
Creating Synergies in the “Urbisphere”
by Daniel Fenner Understanding how cities and the atmosphere dynamically interact, from the surface through the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL),...
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: High-Res Global Forecasting, Tornado Emergencies
Recent research in AMS journals spotlights tornado emergencies, kilometer-scale global weather forecasting, a new normal for polar sea ice, links between Tibetan snow cover and intense tropical cyclones, and more.
Science Spotlights
How the Warn-on-Forecast System Could Help Forecasters Catch Extreme Rainfall
by Patrick C. Burke In the early hours of August 21, 2021, an extreme rainfall event set a 24-h gauge...
Conference Spotlight
The State of Fire
Discussing advances and challenges in the field of fire weather, fire prediction, and damage mitigation at the 2026 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting (AWF/SCM) session and an AMS workshop.
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: Earth Energy, Neighborhood Hurricane Warnings
New research published in AMS journals discusses neighborhood-level forecasting of hurricane impacts, how deforestation in New Guinea affects North American temperatures, evidence climate change is behind increased wildfires, the climate benefits of national parks, and the potential for predicting hurricanes by analyzing lightning.
