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Abstract Arctic cold air outbreaks (CAOs) produce low‐level cloud patterns influencing the surface radiative balance. The stability parameter −H/L ${-}H/L$ (boundary‐layer height over Monin‐Obukhov length)...
Abstract We present a robust, global method to reconcile absolute water surface elevations (WSE) from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission with a...
Abstract In Earth’s collisionless magnetosheath, turbulence evolution and energy transformation across the system, especially at kinetic scales, remain poorly quantified without full‐coverage of high‐resolution observations....
Abstract We present laboratory results to address dust charging and lofting on the Moon and other airless planetary bodies in response to time‐varying solar wind...
Abstract Hydrological extremes are projected to intensify under climate change, yet their implications for water scarcity remain poorly understood. We use a multi‐model ensemble to...
Abstract SWOT river discharge products rely on the SWOT River Database (SWORD), designed mainly for single‐thread channels. We assess how well SWORD represents ∼65,000 river...