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International Report Unveils the Global Atmospheric Impacts of the 2022 Hunga Volcano Eruption
The Hunga Volcanic Eruption Atmospheric Impacts Report, a landmark international scientific assessment, has been released today under the Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (APARC) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
The authors are pleased to see how well WACCM does at simulating Hunga impacts, and Hunga has become a benchmark for evaluating global chemistry-climate models.
Pieternel Levelt selected as member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pieternel Levelt, an associate director of the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has been selected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
KNAW announced this week that it had selected Levelt and 16 other members from a large number of nominations by expert juries in each scientific and scholarly field. They will be officially installed on September 29, 2025.
Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires more deadly than remote wildfires
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds.
The study, published this week in Science Advances, estimates that emissions from WUI fires are proportionately about three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from wildfires in general. This is because the fires, and their associated emissions, are far closer to populated areas.
