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Forecast paths for hurricanes are commonly communicated through Cone of Uncertainty (COU) visualizations. An alternative visualization, animated risk trajectories (ARTs), uses dynamic ensembles of instances to convey an array of possible future tracks.
Rates of heat-related illness emergency department (HRI-ED) visits are rising in the United States, but the contribution of human-caused climate change to this trend is unknown.
The American Geophysical Union is launching a new living collection called “Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences.” The goal is to celebrate datasets that have had a significant impact on science and society by supporting research, analysis, and informed…
Sea ice is a fundamental regulator of Earth’s climate and an increasingly urgent forecast target itself. Can we trust the AI systems now being built to predict it?
Four global mass coral bleaching events have now been recorded. The first, in 1998, was associated with that year’s strong El Niño. Subsequent global-scale bleaching occurred in 2010 and then over the periods 2014–2017 and 2018–2025 (and likely ongoing).
This method combines empirical data (ERA5) with forced and preindustrial simulations from nine CMIP6 climate models to assess how climate change influences the frequency and intensity of daily Tw conditions.
This study introduces a novel rapid attribution framework that quantifies the impact of historically-warming North Atlantic SSTs on observed hurricane maximum wind speeds.
The planned, permanent relocation of entire communities away from sea level rise (SLR) and coastal floods is an already occurring climate change adaptation strategy. Yet, planned relocations are fraught undertakings with multiple goals, and may or may not achieve their most…
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