Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists.
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Planetary Weather Modeling Advance: GenCast Predicts Earth’s Weather With State-of-the-art Accuracy
Editor’s note: We should all stop every once in a while and remember that Earth – our home world – is a planet too. We have the benefit of living […]
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Rapid Surge In Global Warming Mainly Due To Reduced Planetary Albedo
Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heatwaves at sea – 2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial […]
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Storms and Convection on Uranus and Neptune: Impact of Methane Abundance Revealed by a 3D Cloud-resolving Model
Uranus and Neptune have atmospheres dominated by molecular hydrogen and helium. In the upper troposphere, methane is the third main molecule and condenses, yielding a vertical gradient in CH4. This […]
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Cloud Atlas Of Mars Showcases An Array Of Atmospheric Phenomena
Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the Red Planet. A browsable database of 20-years-worth of images of clouds and storms, created by […]
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Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through An Inhabited World’s Atmosphere
Editor’s note: As we begin to mount Astrobiology expeditions to other worlds with potential habitable zones, understanding a world’s global climate will be important. Short term trends (“weather”) as well […]
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Microbial Composition Of Saharan Dust Plumes Deposited As Red Rain In Granada, Southern Spain
During dust storms, also biological material is transported from arid areas such as the Sahara Desert. In the present work, rain samples containing significant amounts of mineral dust have been […]
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Earth And Space Share The Same Turbulence
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers have discovered that the turbulence in the thermosphere exhibits the same physical laws as the wind in the lower atmosphere. Furthermore, […]
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Webb Maps Weather On Hot Gas-giant Exoplanet WASP-43b
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
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Creating A Digital Twin Of A Planet’s Weather: Earth
New ‘digital twin’ Earth technology could help predict water-based natural disasters before they strike