May 31, 2022

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How Can Changes to Urban Neighborhoods and Buildings Affect Microclimates and Energy Use?

Computational work uses a Chicago neighborhood to understand and quantify climate effects on building energy use from changes in urban design.

May 25, 2022

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Capturing Biogeochemical Details in River Corridor Models

A new way of representing river-groundwater exchanges paves the way for next-generation river network modeling.

May 23, 2022

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Not Just Pollen in the Spring: Wild Grass Releases a Variety of Particles into the Air

Researchers find that fungal spores are most abundant during initial growth, while bacteria predominate during flowering and fruit development.

May 9, 2022

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How Does Drizzle Form? Machine Learning Improves Models of these Processes

Machine Learning offers New Insights and New Parameterization for the path from Drizzle Drops to Warm Rain

May 5, 2022

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Recycling Greenhouse Gases with Biotechnology

Biological production of acetone and isopropanol by gas fermentation captures more carbon than it releases.

April 19, 2022

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Peatland Plants Hide Responses to Environmental Change

Fine roots grow dramatically faster in an experimentally warmed peatland

April 14, 2022

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Machine Learning Helps Predict Protein Functions

Computers learn from a combination of experimental and evolutionary data to enhance the function of useful proteins.

April 12, 2022

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Predicting Methane Dynamics during Drought Recovery

A new model predicts small-scale differences in methane emissions from tropical soils on a hillside during drought and recovery.

April 7, 2022

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Better Clouds than Ever with New Exascale Computing-Ready Atmosphere Model

Scientists demonstrate the value of a new global atmosphere model for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model.

March 28, 2022

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Remote-Sensing Observations in the Arctic Offer New Insights Into Ice Particles

Six years of radar data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility site in Utqiaġvik, Alaska provide important details on how secondary ice particles form in Arctic clouds.