Despite continuous efforts to evaluate and predict changes in Earth's climate, most models still struggle to accurately ...

The IMF How-To Note explains a practical method for integrating rising temperatures into long-term GDP projections using climate-model scenarios and empirically estimated impacts on economic growth.

The Past-to-Future (P2F) project addresses the critical challenge of enhancing our capacity to anticipate future climate ...

New research has uncovered why different climate models offer varying projections of sea surface temperature (SST) changes in ...

Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate.

Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Melissa churning northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The Category 5 hurricane is a recent example of ...

After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...

Scientists have developed a new way to represent the world's cities in global climate and Earth system models (GCM & ESMs), ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has shed light on a previously overlooked but common atmospheric phenomenon: the transition zone (TZ) where clouds and aerosols blend together ...

Failing to cut emissions costs lives and livelihoods but climate action protects both. Despite extensive research, most ...