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Earth's atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae
Geological evidence indicates that a supernova within 100 parsecs of Earth occurs around once per million years. Such nearby supernovas can produce an intense gamma-ray burst...- publication PDF
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Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for environmental sciences: An...
Many of our generation's most pressing environmental science problems are wicked problems, which means they cannot be cleanly isolated and solved with a single "correct" answer....- publication PDF
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Air quality monitoring and the safety of farmworkers in wildfire mandatory...
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires due to climate change pose health risks to migrant farm workers laboring in wildfire-prone regions. This study focuses on...- publication PDF
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The synthesis of potential factors contributing to the asynchronous warming...
Atmospheric conditions, topsoil properties and land cover conditions play essential roles in ground surface temperature (GST), surface air temperature (SAT) and their...- publication PDF
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A machine learning-based approach to quantify ENSO sources of predictability
A machine learning method is used to identify sources of long-term ENSO predictability in the ocean (sea surface temperature (SST) and heat content) and the atmosphere (near-...- publication PDF
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Rainbows and climate change: A tutorial on climate model diagnostics and...
Earth system models (ESMs) must represent processes below the grid scale of a model using representations (parameterizations) of physical and chemical processes. As a tutorial...- publication PDF
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A need for actionable climate projections across the Global South
Inconsistent climate projections for much of the Global South from six generations of IPCC assessments have compounded the many challenges it faces in adapting to climate...- publication PDF
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Future water storage changes over the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North...
Water storage plays a profound role in the lives of people across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as it is the most water-stressed region worldwide. The lands around the...- publication PDF
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OH, HO2, and RO2 radical chemistry in a rural forest environment:...
The hydroxyl (OH), hydroperoxy (HO2), and organic peroxy (RO2) radicals play important roles in atmospheric chemistry. In the presence of nitrogen oxides (NOx), reactions...- publication PDF
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Stratospheric aerosol injection can reduce risks to Antarctic ice loss...
Owing to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to rapid ice loss in the upcoming decades and centuries. This study examines the...- publication PDF
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Meta-analysis of larval bivalve growth in response to ocean acidification...
Ocean acidification, caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and coastal physical, biological, and chemical processes, is an ongoing threat to carbonate-utilizing...- publication PDF
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Application of a differential fuel-cell analyzer for measuring atmospheric...
A commercially available differential fuel-cell analyzer has been adapted to make field-based ppm-level measurements of atmospheric O₂ variations. With the implementation of...- publication PDF
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The influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast...
Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning flashes from the National Lightning Detection Network are analyzed to determine if the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle influences...- publication PDF
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Multiscale weather forecasting sensitivities to urban characteristics and...
Sensitivities of microscale weather modeling to atmospheric conditions and urban layout are investigated utilizing a combination of automated surface observing systems (ASOS)...- publication PDF
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Climate change adaptation zones for terrestrial ecosystems-A demonstration...
Decision support tools are needed to ensure that appropriately timed and place-based adaptation is deployed in natural resource policy, planning, and management. Driven by...- publication PDF
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Glaciation of mixed-phase clouds: Insights from bulk model and...
Mixed-phase clouds affect precipitation and radiation differently from liquid and ice clouds, posing greater challenges to their representation in numerical simulations. Recent...- publication PDF
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Mass-conserving downscaling of climate model precipitation over mountainous...
A mass-conserving method to downscale precipitation from global climate models (GCMs) using sub-grid-scale topography and modeled 700-mb wind direction is presented. Runoff is...- publication PDF
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Electromagnetic waves generated by ionospheric feedback instability
A new interactive M-I coupling model that describes the dynamic interaction between magnetospheric dispersive waves, compressional modes, and auroral electron precipitations is...- publication PDF
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Variability in HDO/H₂O abundance ratios in the tropical tropopause layer
The dehydration of air in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) and mechanisms for the entry of water vapor into the stratosphere are investigated by an analysis of ACE-FTS...- publication PDF
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An optimized parallel LSQR algorithm for seismic tomography
The LSQR algorithm developed by Paige and Saunders (1982) is considered one of the most efficient and stable methods for solving large, sparse, and ill-posed linear (or...- publication PDF
