In the next upgrade of ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), changes in the ocean wind wave model component will be implemented that improve forecasts.
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2024
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NOAA is forecasting an above-average summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico covering approximately 5,827 square miles—an area roughly the size of Connecticut. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area of low oxygen that ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2024
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Clouds are one of the biggest mysteries in the climate system. They play a key role in regulating the temperature of our atmosphere. But we don't know how their behavior will change over time as Earth's atmosphere gets warmer. ...
Environment
May 27, 2024
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Will it rain tomorrow or will it be sunny? Better data and more computing power have made weather forecasts more accurate.
Environment
May 22, 2024
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Climate change increases the frequency of extreme events such as flooding. This reinforces the need to develop methods for more precise and faster flood forecasting in order to better protect the population in the future.
Earth Sciences
May 13, 2024
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub generated look-ahead projections for COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths under specific, policy-relevant scenarios. Those projections were provided ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 24, 2023
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In the last article of his prolific career, the late Marvin Goodfriend, who held the Allan H. Meltzer Professorship of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and was a lifelong student of inflation ...
Economics & Business
Dec 18, 2023
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Strong precipitation may cause natural disasters, such as floodings or landslides. Global climate models are required to forecast the frequency of these extreme events, which is expected to change as a result of climate change. ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2023
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The tides couldn't be controlled—only predicted. And for one day, June 6, in the spring of 1944, the tide prediction for the beaches of Normandy just may have been the most important in history.
Environment
Oct 13, 2023
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Winter is still weeks away, but meteorologists are already talking about a snowy winter ahead in the southern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. They anticipate more storms in the U.S. South and Northeast, and warmer, drier conditions ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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