Science Spotlights
Science Spotlights
AMS Science Preview: AI Forecast Limits, Unpredictable Hurricanes, Mountain-Climbing Storms
New research published in AMS journals suggests that hurricane trends may become less predictable, discusses the limits of machine-learning weather forecasts, outlines a new process for calculating heat index, and more.
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Uncertainty in Hydrological Modeling
by Guoqiang Tang et al. What happens to hydrologic simulations when the entered weather data are uncertain? That’s the question...
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Advancing Urban Hazard Monitoring
by Kun Zhao et al. The Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China—home to more than 85 million people—is increasingly vulnerable...
From AMS Journals
Serendipity Leads to the SAIL-SPLASH-SOS Special Collection
Three field campaigns—the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL); the Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology...
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It’s Not the Heat—It’s The Humidity!
by John Lanzante The expression in the title is something to which we all can relate. All else being equal,...
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Regional Climate Centers at 40
by Natalie A. Umphlett et al. Just over 40 years ago, at the start of the Regional Climate Center (RCC)...
From AMS Journals
AMS Science Preview: Mississippi River, Ocean Carbon Storage, Gender and Floods
Research published in "early online" format in journals of the American Meteorological society discusses how gender affects flood mortality, U.S. ranchers and climate change, underestimations of Southern Ocean carbon uptake, terrain and tornadoes, increasing atmospheric rivers, and the future of Mississippi River water.
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The Global Precipitation Experiment
by Xubin Zeng et al. Precipitation is a critical component of the water cycle and a major driver of atmospheric...
From AMS Journals
Special Collection Stresses International Collaboration in Global Precipitation Studies
Recently approved by the AMS Publications Commission, the Special Collection from the 10th and 11th International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG)...
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Dusty with Age
~230,000 years—The age of a sediment core taken from a lake in Arizona that was used to study the history...
