Weather

Meteorologists take advantage of weather data collected by commercial jetliners at different altitudes and locations. Fewer flights mean less data.

Commercial planes and ships usually gather valuable data to feed into weather models

Meteorologists are using supercomputers and the latest data about climate phenomena to predict temperature and precipitation four weeks in the future

Though hotter, humid weather can dampen transmission, it is not enough to significantly curtail the pandemic

For the fourth Science on the Hill event, Future Climate: What We Know, What We Don’t, experts talked with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about what goes into modeling our climate—and how such models are used in addition to long-term climate prediction.

In California and Florida alone, such codes have prevented $1 billion a year in structural damage

Extreme heat is deadly to many of the same populations that are most vulnerable to COVID-19

As climate- and ecological-monitoring projects go dark, data that stretch back for decades will soon contain coronavirus-associated gaps

Originally published in July 1957

The unknown influence of climate change has thrown a wrench into efforts to understand the Madden-Julian Oscillation

The shift, which may be linked to climate change, can affect sea levels and the distribution of heat and nutrients

The combination of day and night extreme heat will only get more frequent—and hotter—in the future