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Why did Antarctic sea ice hit a record low in February 2023? La Niña, a positive Southern Annular Mode and a negative Indian Ocean Dipole, together with low spring sea ice, helped set the stage.
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ALT Figure 2 from Dou and Zhang (2025), Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Top: composite Antarctic sea-ice concentration anomalies from austral spring (SON) to February for four positive-SAM/negative-IOD/La Niña events: 1998/99, 2010/11, 2021/22 and 2022/23. Blue shades indicate less ice and yellow-red shades indicate more ice. Bottom: years ranked from highest to lowest February sea-ice extent, compared with SAM, Niño-4 and IOD indices in the preceding season. Source: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-025-4309-9
Warmer world, bigger CO2 punch? Not quite. This research shows CO2’s heating effect grows 42% at first, but the atmosphere’s own adjustments cut that to 17%.
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Air models keep underestimating sulfate pollution. Why? Missing dust and haze chemistry. Adding them to GEOS-Chem cut the bias from 63% to under 1% in a dust event.
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~25% of clouds overlap in layers, yet satellites struggle to see inside them. Overlap-CloudDiff, a probabilistic deep learning model, retrieves their properties day and night from Aqua infrared data.
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How can a classic ENSO model simulate El Niño better? This study refines the Zebiak–Cane model's heating scheme and tests how key atmospheric parameters shape ENSO amplitude, period and diversity.
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Is typhoon risk moving north? 🌀 Using 1980–2025 records, new research shows tropical cyclone landfalls in East Asia are declining south of 20°N but rising north of 30°N — and storms now reach land ~1 day faster.
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Why do Antarctic sea ice anomalies now persist longer? Weakened subsurface stratification and shoaling Circumpolar Deep Water may hold the answer.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-025-4…
Why is summer ozone worsening in North China? Atmospheric ridges trap heat and fuel ozone formation. New research shows what drives them has shifted over the decades.
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New issue alert. @aasjournal Vol 43, Issue 11 is live! The first 4 papers form a special topic honoring 10 years of Fudan University’s atmospheric sciences discipline, alongside 12 more papers on climate, air quality and AI forecasting.
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. Learn the difference this #EarthScienceWeek! What climate question do you want answered?
Follow @aasjournal for the latest atmospheric and climate science research
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Clouds look calm from outside. Inside, aerosols quietly rewrite droplet size and cloud water. A tethered balloon gave scientists a rare front row seat over the Tibetan Plateau.
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Ever wondered why cloud droplets come in two sizes? Mixing in drier air can create a second mode and boost droplet spread. The new model cuts error by up to 33%.
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Cities, coasts, and villages all share one sky! This #WorldHabitatDay, atmospheric science insights help us to balance our population growth with protecting wildlife!
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How high can desert dust climb? Balloon soundings from Golmud give the first in situ look at dust reaching the tropopause over the northern Tibetan Plateau. Dust aloft traced to the Thar Desert; lower dust came from the Taklamakan. doi.org/10.1007/s00376-026-5… @EurekAlert @theIAMAS
How far can wildfire smoke travel? Analysis of the March 2025 wildfires in South Korea found elevated PM2.5 across parts of Japan, showing how extreme fires can rapidly affect air quality beyond the country where they begin.
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What happens in the stratosphere can shape weather far below. The 2024/25 Arctic winter saw an exceptionally strong polar vortex, a major SSW and an Arctic Oscillation minimum of −5.
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The scientific parallel is striking. A recent
@aasjournal study on North China's 2025 extreme rainfall finds these events are becoming less frequent but far more intense under warming, a pattern researchers are tracking worldwide.
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How much can methodology affect estimates of ocean heating?
This study examines how annual averaging, smoothing and time differentiation influence OHC-based estimates of Earth’s energy imbalance.
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Greening in China and India yields opposite local climate responses; their joint effect is non-additive, cooling S. China and W. Eurasia while warming northern N. America. doi.org/10.1007/s00376-026-6…
Understanding emissions helps us to understand our atmosphere. On #ZeroEmissionsDay, explore research examining atmospheric processes and their connections with climate and the wider Earth system:
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