A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics describes how a nonlinear approach and the concept of regimes helps our understanding.
Monitoring, forecasting, prediction
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Storm Model Foresaw Tornado Precursor Hours Before Twister Hit
The experimental Warn-on-Forecast project calculates probabilities of severe weather within at-risk areas smaller than those targeted by current forecasting models.
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Geoacoustics Takes to the Sky
Airborne Geoacoustics Workshop; Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3 January 2017
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Reducing Uncertainty in Hazard Prediction
The editors of a new book describe how to characterize uncertainty in natural hazards, the incorporation of uncertainty into modeling, its contribution to better decision-making, and research needs.
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Commercial Underwater Cable Systems Could Reduce Disaster Impact
Workshop on SMART Cable Applications in Earthquake and Tsunami Science and Early Warning; Potsdam, Germany, 3–4 November 2016
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Tracking Global Change with a Cloud-Based Living Atlas
With their feet in the cloud, Descartes Labs is pushing the limit of how we study the Earth with satellite images.
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Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards
The editors of a new book on tectonics discuss the origins of the science and its importance in a new millennium.
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Enhancing Safety in a Volcano's Shadow
A new project gives civil authorities and scientists a common set of tools for assessing volcanic hazards and managing associated risks.
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The Fate of Hydrocarbons Seeping from the Ocean Floor
Researchers investigate the properties of bubbles at deep-ocean oil seeps to improve oil spill models.
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Streamlining Rapid Tsunami Forecasting
With enough sensors, traditional forecasting methods could be replaced by models continuously updated with real-time wave data.