The health effects of our warming climate go far beyond heat illnesses and direct fallouts from more...
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The rise in the cost of the fuel used for trucking, agriculture and winter heating is worse...
Governors are turning to community benefit agreements as they scramble to address data center blowback without alienating...
Editors’ Vox is a blog from AGU’s Publications Department. “Mysterious”, “a black box”, “I’m really not sure…”—these...
Source: Community Science Resources such as sea level rise viewers, heat maps, and flood prediction services are...
Editors’ Vox is a blog from AGU’s Publications Department. As environmental conditions change, it is increasingly important...
One way or another, Iowa is about to elect a governor who faults industrial agriculture for the...
Surging power demand is turning electricity prices into a political flashpoint across the U.S. and Europe.
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that...
The stations around Philadelphia and New Jersey had raised questions about how they were able to undercut...
In May 1992, a group of scientists gathered at the edge of Marble Canyon in northern Arizona,...
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters As climate change has led to more frequent high-heat events around the world,...
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that...
The Colorado River and its reservoirs, which supply water for about 40 million people and 30 tribes...
The catastrophic debris flow that struck Nepal and Tibet today was triggered by the collapse of a...
Source: Geophysical Research Letters This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. 本文是Eos文章的授权翻译。 研究人员早已知道,厄尔尼诺-南方涛动（ENSO）存在不对称性，即风与洋流相互作用所引发的厄尔尼诺事件和拉尼娜事件的温差现象。然而，大规模气候模型往往未能充分反映这种不对称性，其原因尚不完全清楚。更准确地模拟导致厄尔尼诺事件变暖的机制，不仅有助于理解地球气候系统，还能提升未来ENSO事件的预测能力。 以往对厄尔尼诺-南方涛动（ENSO）不对称性的研究主要关注风应力响应和热力平流等大尺度过程，但并未完全解答这一问题。杨等人采用了一种新的方法，从更小的尺度入手，研究了昼夜海表温度变化如何影响ENSO不对称性。 研究人员比较了35个耦合模式比较计划第六阶段（CMIP6）模式，发现温度日变化幅度（DA）较大的模式能更好地捕捉ENSO不对称性。通过针对性的模式实验，他们进一步发现，这一机制的主要驱动因素是太平洋中部和东部地区日均海表温度异常响应的反向差异。这种东西向的温度差异导致海洋在数月甚至更长时间内出现不均匀升温。因此，厄尔尼诺现象对海洋的升温作用大于拉尼娜现象的降温作用。...
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth...
Source: AGU Advances Saturn’s moon Enceladus sports a thick shell of ice surrounding a liquid water ocean....
Anomalously high and low temperatures affect human habits in myriad ways—forcing us inside, disrupting our sleep, and...