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Atmospheric Science

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 02:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 06:08 GMT/UTC)

15-Apr-2025

SwRI-led research deciphers mysterious atmosphere of ‘Rosetta Stone’ exoplanet

Southwest Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a “Rosetta Stone” for understanding an entire class of new planets.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal

14-Apr-2025

New dust forecast system "iDust" helps renewable energy industry manage solar losses

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new forecasting tool called iDust that improves predictions of dust storms, offering significant benefits for solar energy production.

Journal: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

14-Apr-2025

Scientists trace hailstone origins using chemical fingerprints, overturning decades-old theories

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research reveals hailstones follow simpler growth paths than previously believed, with implications for severe weather forecasting

Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

14-Apr-2025

UH researcher unveils new model to evaluate impact of extreme events and natural hazards

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Houston professor of engineering has created a sophisticated computer model that tracks how water moves in estuaries – which is critical for evaluating climate variability and sea level fluctuation impacts for coastal communities.

Journal: Environmental Science and Pollution Research

14-Apr-2025

Scientists may have solved a puzzling space rock mystery

Curtin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science’s long-running questions – and it could change our understanding of how life began.

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5 per cent of meteorites found on Earth.

An international team of scientists from Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory and more scoured the globe to find an answer.

Journal: Nature Astronomy

14-Apr-2025

Do disasters delay early cancer diagnoses?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rates of colorectal cancer diagnoses dropped during and shortly after Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico, according to a recent analysis published by Wiley online in CANCER. However, late-stage diagnoses eventually exceeded expectations, suggesting that limited access to cancer screening services due to these disasters likely hindered timely CRC diagnoses.

Journal: Cancer

11-Apr-2025

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years — or more often — by the end of the century, scientists report.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: MIT Climate Resilience Early Warning Systems Climate Grand Challenges project, Jameel Observatory JO-CREWSNet project, MIT Weather and Climate Extremes Climate Grand Challenges project, Schmidt Sciences, LLC