Climatology is the scientific discipline within the atmospheric sciences that investigates the statistical behavior, physical processes, and dynamics of the climate system over periods from decades to millennia. It analyzes long-term patterns and variability of atmospheric variables such as temperature, precipitation, radiation, and circulation, and their coupling with oceans, cryosphere, land surface, and biosphere. Climatology employs observational datasets, reanalyses, paleoclimate proxies, and numerical climate models to quantify mean states, extremes, teleconnections, and feedbacks, and to attribute observed changes to internal variability and external forcings, including solar, volcanic, and anthropogenic influences.
Measuring mountain snowpack at strategically selected hotspots consistently outperforms broader, basin-wide mapping in predicting water supply in the western United States, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
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A new systematic study of the atmospheric conditions at the Muztagh Station in western China has revealed the site's unique suitability for optical observations. Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2025
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So-called "100-year weather events" now seem almost commonplace as floods, storms and fires continue to set new standards for largest, strongest and most destructive. But to categorize weather as a true 100-year event, there ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2025
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A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has revealed the key factors that determine where trees can grow at the highest elevations across the globe. By compiling the most comprehensive ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2025
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Earth's climate is a dynamic system of interconnected physical processes and events occurring around the globe. Many of these processes are coupled so that changes in one event or process in one geographical area will result ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2025
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US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report—its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
Environment
Aug 8, 2025
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Artificial intelligence is giving some climate research projects a much-needed boost at a time of worsening extreme weather and funding cuts that threaten science in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Ecology
Aug 6, 2025
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All farming is, in a sense, a prediction business. Crops are planted in anticipation they'll grow and produce a bountiful harvest. Research led by Iowa State University agronomy professor Jianming Yu aims to give a major ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 5, 2025
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Top scientists told AFP Thursday their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy (DoE) was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming.
Environment
Aug 1, 2025
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The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There's a good chance the ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2025
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