Future changes in the precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) may have a profound influence on the ecosystem and environment of high-altitude East Asia. Despite this, climate modeling faces ...

The atmospheric energy cycle describes how solar heating, radiative cooling and surface fluxes generate and redistribute energy through the atmosphere. Solar radiation at low latitudes creates ...

Based on a brief record of atmospheric analysis data, the term “atmospheric river” (AR) was coined by Zhu and Newell 1 to represent the relatively narrow filaments of horizontal water vapor transport ...

Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring to learn that not all climatic changes are solely due to human activities. There are still natural rhythms ...

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Land use change is altering where ...

The schematic diagram of the atmospheric water cycle and its changes with ENSO events over the TP in summer. The black fonts represent the climatic mean value and interannual variability. The red ...

Earth’s atmosphere does not stop at a fixed altitude. It thins molecule by molecule, fading across hundreds of thousands of ...

Washington, D.C.– Much of our planet’s mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth’s chemical cycles were different from today’s. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion ...

An artist generated image illustrating possible futures in policy and research due to human modifications of the atmospheric water cycle. Human activity is changing the way water flows between the ...

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Researchers enlisted water ...