Scientists Give Thunderstorms a Chemical Fingerprint to Decode How Rain Really Falls
French researchers have embedded water isotope tracking into a high-resolution storm model and validated it against a classic 1981 Sahelian ...
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Manaus Is Making Its Own Storms: Amazon City Supercharges Extreme Rainfall
High-resolution simulations of 45 extreme rainfall events show that Manaus's urban surface intensifies Amazonian downpours by up to 16.8 percent ...
Kolkata’s Unprecedented Night of Rain: Scientists Identify Warning Signs of Extreme Short-Deluge Events
A new case study shows that thermodynamic precursors from soundings, reanalysis and radar data can flag extreme short-duration rainfall events ...
Jet Streams, Not Just Heat, Drive Thunderstorms in Eastern Iraq, 30-Year Study Finds
A 30-year analysis of thunderstorms over Khanaqin, Iraq, shows that jet stream dynamics and upper-level troughs, rather than convective energy ...
Mountains Turn Typhoons Into Elevators, Pumping Surface Air to the Edge of Space
A high-resolution simulation of Typhoon Molave's 2020 landfall in the Philippines shows that mountains beneath a typhoon create gravity waves ...
New Buoyancy Index Explains Why Some El Niño Years Bring Floods and Others Stay Dry
A new Buoyancy Work Rate index couples atmospheric instability with vertical motion to explain why some El Niño years flood ...
Tethered Balloons Over Houston Reveal How Air Mass Origins Shape Cloud-Forming Particles
An analysis of 149 tethered balloon flights during the DOE TRACER campaign over Houston reveals how marine, mixed, and urban ...
Webb Telescope Catches Water Clouds Changing Weather on a Nearby Brown Dwarf
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have directly confirmed for the first time that water clouds on a world ...
Global Model at 220-Meter Resolution Wipes Out Phantom Popcorn Rain
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have run the first global large-eddy simulation at 220-meter grid spacing, eliminating the persistent ...
Cities Don’t Just Get Soaked by Extreme Rain—They Help Brew It
A major review in Nature Cities synthesizes evidence that cities actively intensify short-duration extreme rainfall through heat, roughness and aerosols, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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