Research briefs

Amidst the challenges posed by climate change in predicting typhoons, a team of researchers has developed a technology that leverages real-time satellite data and deep learning capabilities to predict typhoons with greater precision.

A trio of physicists and oceanologists has found via the CESM1 climate model that an extreme El Niño tipping point could be reached in the coming decades under current emissions.

The progressive landslide took months to develop into a catastrophe

Severe droughts in the Amazon basin over the past two decades have caused low water level periods to last around a month longer than usual, triggering profound impacts on the local population.

Conventional tornado-tracking instrumentation relies on measurements made by technologies like drones or weather balloons, but those methods often require humans to get dangerously close to the path of an oncoming storm.

Researchers from around the world to examine what factors play a role in creating flash drought conditions. While their study used South Asia as a model, the findings can be applied to Texas and other areas that experience flash droughts.

Wilfires not only pose hazards to communities and wildlife with destruction of habits and infrastructure, but also affect public health, as well as impacting solar radiation and albedo feedbacks that link to global temperatures and meteorological cycles.

In a new study published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, researchers outlined a new metric to quantify the relative contributions of heat and humidity to humid heat - stickiness.