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November 20, 2024

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Improving Hurricane Modeling With Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on supercomputers incorporating mountains of ...

Research Reveals How Stormy Conditions Affect Albatrosses' Ability to Feed

Nov. 6, 2024 — Researchers used biologging technology to analyse movements, activity patterns and eating habits of two species of Southern Ocean albatrosses to see how they responded to extreme weather. The study found that despite albatrosses' adaptation to use ...

Research Improves Hurricane Intensity Forecasting

Oct. 17, 2024 — A collaboration between is improving hurricane forecasting by incorporating the effects of sea spray into the models that predict hurricane ...

Lightning Strikes Kick Off a Game of Electron Pinball in Space

Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten satellites, and even humans, in ...

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Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive

Oct. 2, 2024 — Researchers have known for several decades that thunderstorms can act as miniature particle accelerators that produce antimatter, gamma rays and other nuclear phenomena. But they did not know how ...

Hurricanes Linked to Higher Death Rates for 15 Years After Storms Pass

Oct. 2, 2024 — U.S. tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, indirectly cause thousands of deaths for nearly 15 years after a storm. Researchers estimate an average U.S. tropical cyclone indirectly causes 7,000 to ...

Dams Built to Prevent Coastal Flooding Can Worsen It

Sep. 13, 2024 — The common practice of building dams to prevent flooding can actually contribute to more intense coastal flood events, according to a new study. By analyzing data and measurements from Charleston ...

Summer Storms Are Stronger and More Frequent Over Urban Areas

Sep. 10, 2024 — Summer storms are generally more frequent, intense and concentrated over cities than over rural areas, according to new, detailed observations of eight cities and their surroundings. The results ...

Scientists Discover Phenomenon Impacting Earth's Radiation Belts

Aug. 16, 2024 — Two scientists discovered a new type of 'whistler,' an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth's ...

New Research Shows Unprecedented Atmospheric Changes During May's Geomagnetic Superstorm

Aug. 16, 2024 — On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend, a tractor guided by GPS missed its mark. What ...

Hailstone Library to Improve Extreme Weather Forecasting

Aug. 16, 2024 — Researchers are measuring and scanning samples for a global 'hailstone library'. Storm simulations using 3-D modelling of real hailstones -- in all sorts of weird shapes from oblong to flat discs or ...

Climate Change Means That Tropical Cyclones in Southeast Asia Are Developing Faster, Lasting Longer

July 31, 2024 — A study reveals that tropical cyclones in Southeast Asia are now forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly, and lingering longer over ...

How Saharan Dust Regulates Hurricane Rainfall

July 24, 2024 — New research underscores the close relationship between dust plumes transported from the Sahara Desert in Africa, and rainfall from tropical cyclones along the U.S. Gulf Coast and ...

New Dawn for Space Storm Alerts Could Help Shield Earth's Tech

July 19, 2024 — Space storms could soon be forecasted with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ...

Weather Experts Discover New Effect of Storm -- In a Teacup

July 16, 2024 — A new study reveals that Storm Ciaran cut an invisible path of mayhem across southern Britain last autumn, destroying any possibility that 20 million people could have a proper cup of tea at ...

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Oceanic Seabirds Chase Tropical Cyclones

July 9, 2024 — A new study reveals that the rare Desertas Petrels (Pterodroma deserta), a wide-ranging seabird in the North Atlantic, exhibit unique foraging behaviors during hurricane season. Contrary to other ...

Study Explores What Motivates People to Watch Footage of Disasters and Extreme Weather

July 2, 2024 — The release in July 2024 of the blockbuster film Twisters (centred around a social-media celebrity storm-chaser) demonstrates an ongoing public fascination in hazards and extreme weather. The arrival ...

New Twists on Tornadoes: Earth Scientist Studies Why U.S. Has So Many Tornadoes

June 27, 2024 — Across the Midwest during the warmer months, studying the sky for signs of storms and tornadoes becomes one of the most popular pastimes. Working at the intersection of climate science and ...

Restoring the Great Salt Lake Would Have Environmental Justice as Well as Ecological Benefits

June 21, 2024 — Inland seas around the world are drying up due to increasing human water use and accelerating climate change, and their desiccation is releasing harmful dust that pollutes the surrounding areas ...

Effective Hurricane Risk Messaging

June 17, 2024 — Forecasters can use images in social media to better communicate weather related hazards of hurricanes, according to a pair of new ...

Researchers Use 3D Visualization to Predict, Prevent Hurricane Damage

June 10, 2024 — The researchers say 3D visualization of hurricanes and storm surges allows them to understand how flooding will impact coastal communities by allowing them to vividly see how each building and road ...

Details of Hurricane Ian's Aftermath Captured With New Remote Sensing Method

Apr. 29, 2024 — Using aerial imagery data and LiDAR, a study remotely identified the hardest-hit areas of Southwest Florida's Estero Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Researchers estimated the extent of ...

Hurricanes Jeopardize Carbon-Storing New England Forests

Apr. 24, 2024 — Many American companies are relying on carbon offsets to reduce their carbon footprint, especially those who have pledged to achieve 'net-zero emissions.' Sequestering carbon in forests is ...

Shoreline Model Predicts Long-Term Future of Storm Protection and Sea-Level Rise

Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, can disrupt natural processes that are keeping ...

AI Weather Forecasts Captured Ciaran's Destructive Path

Apr. 22, 2024 — The study highlights the rapid progress and transformative potential of AI in weather ...

Tracing the Largest Solar Storm in Modern Times from Tree Rings in Lapland

Apr. 4, 2024 — A research group was able to measure a spike in radiocarbon concentration of trees in Lapland that occurred after the Carrington flare. This discovery helps to prepare for dangerous solar ...

Severe Hurricanes Boost Influx of Juveniles and Gene Flow in a Coral Reef Sponge

Mar. 26, 2024 — A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...

India's Water Problems Set to Get Worse as the World Warms

Mar. 11, 2024 — Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...

Hurricanes and Power Grids: Eliminating Large-Scale Outages With a New Approach

Mar. 1, 2024 — Large scale-power outages caused by tropical cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages, a new study finds. Scientists ...

Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Archaeological Sites in Coastal Georgia

Feb. 28, 2024 — Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, according to a new ...

Cloud Clustering Causes More Extreme Rain

Feb. 25, 2024 — Understanding cloud patterns in our changing climate is essential to making accurate predictions about their impact on society and nature. Scientists published a new study that uses a high-resolution ...

Stronger Storms Free More Nutrients from Mud Flats

Feb. 22, 2024 — If storms become stronger in the future due to climate change, more nitrogen may be released from the bottom of coastal ...

In a Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes

Feb. 5, 2024 — For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds ...

Diverse Forests Are Best at Standing Up to Storms

Jan. 25, 2024 — European forests with a greater diversity of tree species are more resilient to storms, according to new ...