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Volume 106 (2025): Issue 4 (Apr 2025)

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Open access

Numerical Weather Prediction in the Time of Exaflop Computers

J. Li
,
J. Steppeler
,
P. Gan
,
F. Fang
, and
L. Li
Open access

Beyond Expectations: Investigating Anomalous 2022-2023 Winter Weather Conditions and Water Resources Impacts in California

Claudia Jimenez Arellano
,
Nazak Rouzegari
,
Vu Dao
,
Mohammad Bolboli Zadeh
,
Eric Shearer
,
Vesta Afzali Gorooh
,
Phu Nguyen
,
Kuo-Lin Hsu
, and
Soroosh Sorooshian
Open access

Advancing Urban Water Resilience: Co-Producing Knowledge Through Civic-Academic Global Partnerships on Water and Climate

Ashish Sharma
,
Kuldip Kumar
,
Abhinav Wadhwa
,
Ana Mijic
,
Veroneque Ignace
,
Cristina Negri
,
Felicia Marcus
,
Jennifer Cherrier
,
Terri Mathews
,
Jose-Frederic Deroubaix
,
Jean-Claude Deutsch
, and
Ilan Juran
Open access

Towards improving representation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in climate models

L.C. Jackson
,
E.P. Chassignet
,
G. Danabasoglu
,
A. Treguier
, and
R. Zhang
Open access

Enhancing Research-to-Operations in Hydrological Forecasting: Innovations Across Scales and Horizons

Ilias G. Pechlivanidis
,
Yiheng Du
,
James Bennett
,
Marie-Amélie Boucher
,
Annie Y.Y. Chang
,
Louise Crochemore
,
Antara Dasgupta
,
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
,
Jürg Luterbacher
,
Florian Pappenberger
,
Maria-Helena Ramos
,
Louise Slater
,
Stefan Uhlenbrook
,
Fredrik Wetterhall
,
Andrew Wood
,
Waldo Lavado-Casimiro
,
Kei Yoshimura
,
Ruben Imhoff
,
Peter J. van Oevelen
,
Carolina Cantone
,
Céline Cattoën
,
Rafael Pimentel
, and
Micha Werner
Open access

ICON: Towards vertically integrated model configurations for numerical weather prediction, climate predictions and projections

Wolfgang A. Müller
,
Barbara Früh
,
Peter Korn
,
Roland Potthast
,
Johanna Baehr
,
Jean-Marie Bettems
,
Gergely Bölöni
,
Susanne Brienen
,
Kristina Fröhlich
,
Jürgen Helmert
,
Johann Jungclaus
,
Martin Köhler
,
Stephan Lorenz
,
Andrea Schneidereit
,
Reiner Schnur
,
Jan-Peter Schulz
,
Linda Schlemmer
,
Christine Sgoff
,
Trang V. Pham
,
Holger Pohlmann
,
Bernhard Vogel
,
Heike Vogel
,
Roland Wirth
,
Sönke Zaehle
,
Günther Zängl
,
Björn Stevens
, and
Jochem Marotzke
Open access

Atmospheric and Insect Responses to a Total Solar Eclipse

Joshua Wurman
,
Karen Kosiba
, and
Paul Robinson
Open access

Warming Stripes spark climate conversations: from the ocean to the stratosphere

Ed Hawkins
,
Richard G. Williams
,
Paul Young
,
Jeff Berardelli
,
Samantha N. Burgess
,
Ellie Highwood
,
William Randel
,
Vassil Roussenov
,
Doug Smith
, and
Bernadette Woods Placky
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The WWRP/WCRP S2S project and its achievements

F. Vitart
,
A. W. Robertson
,
A. Brookshaw
,
N. Caltabiano
,
C. A. S. Coelho
,
E. de Coning
,
P. A. Dirmeyer
,
D. I. V. Domeisen
,
L. Hirons
,
H. J. Kim
,
H. Lin
,
A. Kumar
,
A. Molod
,
J. Robbins
,
Z. Segele
,
C. M. Spillman
,
C. Stan
,
Y. Takaya
,
S. Woolnough
,
C. J. White
, and
T. Wu
Open access

Expanding the Horizons of Space Weather Forecasting through a Generic Framework: Insights from the JEDI Space Weather Data Assimilation Workshop

Hui Shao
,
Nicholas Pedatella
,
David D. Kuhl
,
Tzu-Wei Fang
,
Thomas Berger
,
Lindsey Hayden
,
Ben Ruston
,
Francois Hebert
,
Mark Miesch
,
Nai-Yu Wang
,
Irfan Azeem
, and
Thomas Auligne
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More room at the top: how small buoys help reveal the detailed dynamics of the air-sea interface

Luigi Cavaleri
,
Victor Alari
,
Alvise Benetazzo
,
Jan-Victor Bjorkqvist
,
Oyvind Breivik
,
Jacob Davis
,
Gaute Hope
,
Atle Kleven
,
Frode Leirvik
,
Tor Nordam
,
Jean Rabault
,
E.J. Rainville
,
Sander Rikka
,
Torunn Irene Seldal
, and
Jim Thomson
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What was the Bumpiest Flight Ever on NOAA’s WP-3D Hurricane Hunter Aircraft?

Joshua B. Wadler
,
Lauren Villafane
,
Joseph J. Cione
,
Kevin Adkins
, and
George R. Alvey III
Open access

Discussion on Major Drought Issues in the Northern Drought-prone Belt in China

Qiang Zhang
,
Weicheng Liu
,
Ping Yue
,
Liang Zhang
,
Sheng Wang
,
Jinhu Yang
,
Xiaojuan Lu
, and
Xinyang Yan
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Enhancing climate literacy and climate-informed management to strengthen agriculture and forestry sectors in the face of a changing climate: Insights from the Climate-Smart Caribbean workshops

Nora Álvarez-Berríos
,
Viviana Medina-Rodríguez
,
William A. Gould
,
Gabriela Cotto-Santos
,
Paloma S. Rodríguez-Serrano
, and
Guillermo Ortiz-Colón
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Future Directions for Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation Interaction Research in the Arctic from the QuIESCENT 2024 workshop

Lauren Zamora
,
Georgia Sotiropoulou
,
Gijs de Boer
,
Radiance Calmer
,
Jean-Christophe Raut
, and
Imogen Wadlow
Open access

Scientific Directions for Cloud Chamber Research: Instrumentation, Modeling, New Chambers, and Emerging Chamber Concepts

Raymond A. Shaw
,
Sisi Chen
,
Matt Freer
,
Alexei Korolev
,
Steve Krueger
,
Masataka Murakami
,
Dennis Niedermeier
,
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
,
Silvio Schmalfuß
,
Ping Tian
,
Fan Yang
,
Seong Soo Yum
,
Zeen Zhu
,
Joo Wan Cha
, and
Ottmar Möhler
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On the determination of GCOS ECV product requirements for climate applications

R. A. Roebeling
,
S. Bojinski
,
P. Poli
,
V. O. John
, and
J. Schulz
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Earth, wind and fire: Are Boulder’s extreme downslope winds changing?

Gerald A. Meehl
,
Christine A. Shields
,
Brendan M. Myers
,
McKenzie L. Larson
,
Dale Durran
,
Muntaha Pasha
,
Annareli Morales
,
Aneesh Subramanian
,
Andrew C. Winters
,
Paul Schlatter
, and
Morris Weisman
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NOAA Fire Weather Testbed Launches First In-Person Evaluation

E.M. Wells
,
B.J. Hatchett
,
K. Thiem
,
Z. Tolby
,
S. Hoekstra
,
J. Vickery
, and
D. Nietfeld
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Recommendations for the NSF Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE): Access and Capabilities

Bart Geerts
,
Brigitte Baeuerle
,
Minghui Diao
,
Ruben Delgado
,
Anna Gannet Hallar
,
Julie K. Lundquist
,
John Mak
,
David D. Turner
,
Patrick Veres
, and
Jothiram Vivekanandan
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Fatima-GB: Searching Clarity within Marine Fog

H.J.S. Fernando
,
C. Dorman
,
E. Pardyjak
,
L. Shen
,
Q. Wang
,
E. Creegan
,
S. Gaberšek
,
I. Gultepe
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S. Hoch
,
L. Lenain
,
D. Richter
,
R. Chang
,
T.C. VandenBoer
,
S. Bardoel
,
A. Barve
,
B. Blomquist
,
T. Bullock
,
Z. Chen
,
L. Colosi
,
R.S. Coppersmith
,
I. Crawford
,
L.R. Crilley
,
R. Dimitrova
,
A. Dowling
,
D. Eleuterio
,
S. Fiorino
,
M. Gallagher
,
N. Gapp
,
G. Giacosa
,
A. Grachev
,
L. Grare
,
T. Hintz
,
C. Hocut
,
K.Y. Huang
,
O. Hyde
,
K. Keefer
,
D.G. Ortiz-Suslow
,
A. Perelet
,
W. Perrie
,
J. Ruiz-Plancarte
,
L. Salehpoor
,
D. Singh
,
N. Statom
,
P. Taylor
,
S. Wang
, and
R. Yamaguchi
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The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP): Achievements, impacts and lessons learnt

Thomas Jung
,
Jeff Wilson
,
Eric Bazile
,
David Bromwich
,
Barbara Casati
,
Jonathan Day
,
Estelle De Coning
,
Clare Eayrs
,
Oystein Godoy
,
Helge Goessling
,
Robert Grumbine
,
Victoria J. Heinrich
,
Jun Inoue
,
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa
,
Jorn Kristiansen
,
Machiel Lamers
,
Daniela Liggett
,
Steffen M. Olsen
,
Donald Perovich
,
Ian A. Renfrew
,
Irina Sandu
,
Matthew D. Shupe
,
Vasily Smolyanitsky
,
Gunilla Svensson
,
Qizhen Sun
,
Taneil Uttal
,
Kirstin Werner
, and
Qinghua Yang
Open access

Measurements from Inside Hurricane Ian using a Mobile Instrumentation Network

Jacquelyn Ringhausen
,
Addison Alford
,
Noah Brauer
,
Kristin Calhoun
,
Vanna Chmielewski
, and
Sean Waugh
Open access

Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research and Training Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences

A. Gannet Hallar
,
Ian B. McCubbin
,
Randolph Borys
,
Douglas H. Lowenthal
,
Melanie Wetzel
,
Edward Hindman
,
Sarah D. Brooks
,
W. James Steenburgh
,
Lynne Gratz
,
Sebastian Hoch
,
Britton Stephens
,
John D. Horel
,
Noah P. Molotch
,
Gerald G. Mace
,
Adriana Bailey
,
Claire Pettersen
,
Elisabeth Andrews
,
Dan J. Cziczo
, and
Maria Garcia
Open access

Recent extreme cold waves are likely not to happen again this century

Aurélien Ribes
,
Yoann Robin
,
Octave Tessiot
, and
Julien Cattiaux
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Challenges and opportunities offered by geostationary space observations for air quality research and emission monitoring

Tai-Long He
,
Glenn-Michael Oomen
,
Wenfu Tang
,
Idir Bouarar
,
Kelly Chance
,
Cathy Clerbaux
,
David P. Edwards
,
Henk Eskes
,
Benjamin Gaubert
,
Claire Granier
,
Marc Guevara
,
Daniel J. Jacob
,
Jennifer Kaiser
,
Jhoon Kim
,
Shobha Kondragunta
,
Xiong Liu
,
Eloise A. Marais
,
Kazuyuki Miyazaki
,
Rokjin Park
,
Vincent-Henri Peuch
,
Gabriele Pfister
,
Andreas Richter
,
Trissevgeni Stavrakou
,
Raid M. Suleiman
,
Alexander J. Turner
,
Ben Veihelmann
,
Zhao-Cheng Zeng
, and
Guy P. Brasseur
Open access

Development of the next-generation air quality prediction system in the Unified Forecast System framework: Enhancing predictability of wildfire air quality impacts

Jianping Huang
,
Ivanka Stajner
,
Raffaele Montuoro
,
Fanglin Yang
,
Kai Wang
,
Ho-Chun Huang
,
Chan-Hoo Jeon
,
Brian Curtis
,
Jeff McQueen
,
Haixia Liu
,
Barry Baker
,
Daniel Tong
,
Youhua Tang
,
Patrick Campbell
,
Georg Grell
,
Gregory Frost
,
Rebecca Schwantes
,
Siyuan Wang
,
Shobha Kondragunta
,
Fangjun Li
, and
Youngsun Jung
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Uncertainty hotspots in global hydrologic modeling: the impact of precipitation and temperature forcings

Guoqiang Tang
,
Martyn P. Clark
,
Wouter J. M. Knoben
,
Hongli Liu
,
Shervan Gharari
,
Louise Arnal
,
Andrew W. Wood
,
Andrew J. Newman
,
Jim Freer
, and
Simon Michael Papalexiou
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Integrating High-Resolution Modeling with Diverse Field Campaign Observations through an Open Science Summer School

Maxwell A. Grover
,
Scott Collis
,
Daniel Feldman
,
Ann Fridlind
,
Ya-Chien Feng
,
Michael Giansiracusa
,
Sujata Goswami
,
William I. Gustafson Jr.
,
Thijs Heus
,
Robert C. Jackson
,
Timothy W. Juliano
,
Lishan Li
,
Joseph R. O’Brien
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Damao Zhang
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Insights from Nowcasting and Mesoscale Research Working Group Projects of the World Weather Research Programme

Paul Joe
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Elizabeth Ebert
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Tom Keenan
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J.J. Wang
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Yihong Duan
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George Isaac
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Yong Wang
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Dmitry Kiktev
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Ping Wah Li
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Kazuo Saito
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Gyu Won Lee
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Valéry Masson
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Barb Brown
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Jeanette Onvlee-Hooimeijer
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Peter Steinle
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Paola Salio
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Rachel Albrecht
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Jim Wilson
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Rita Roberts
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Juanzhen Sun
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Feng Liang
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Celeste Saulo
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Claudia Campetella
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Steve Goodman
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Bill Conway
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Chris Doyle
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Stéphane Bélair
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Jason Milbrandt
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Sylvie Leroyer
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Thibaut Montmerle
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Augusto Jose Pereira Filho
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Brian Golding
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Peter May
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Alan Seed
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Yinchun Wang
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Daniel Michelson
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Alexander Baklanov
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