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- GPUs open the potential to forecast urban weather for drones and air taxis https://news.ucar.edu/132811/gpus-open-potential-forecast-urban-weather-drones-and-air-taxis 32 comments
- Swirling polar vortices likely exist on the Sun https://news.ucar.edu/132996/swirling-polar-vortices-likely-exist-sun-new-research-finds 2 comments space
- Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface. The fraction of global fires that occur in WUI areas increased by about 23% from 2005 to 2020. Even more significantly, the global area burned by WUI fires during the same time increased by about 35% as a fraction of all burned areas https://news.ucar.edu/132950/fires-pose-growing-worldwide-threat-wildland-urban-interface 2 comments science
- The smoke from intense California wildfires in September 2020 darkened the skies so much that it slashed the state’s solar power production during peak hours by 10-30%, according to new study https://news.ucar.edu/132875/california-wildfire-smoke-dimmed-solar-energy-2020 10 comments science
- Water resources to become less predictable with climate change, study shows https://news.ucar.edu/132851/water-resources-become-less-predictable-climate-change 6 comments science
- New study highlights wide-ranging impacts of climate change https://news.ucar.edu/132822/new-study-highlights-wide-ranging-impacts-climate-change 2 comments science
- Aircraft reveal a surprisingly strong Southern Ocean carbon sink https://news.ucar.edu/132821/aircraft-reveal-surprisingly-strong-southern-ocean-carbon-sink 6 comments science