Science Highlights

YESS aims to highlight the scientific contributions by early career researchers in the community to make their work more visible and to enhance scientific interactions among community members and beyond. The Science Highlights will be mainly in the form of published papers and will be posted here on a regular basis*.

Moetasim Ashfaq, Nathaniel Johnson,  Fred Kucharski, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Muhammad Adnan Abid, Matthew F. Horan, Deepti Singh, Salil Mahajan, Subimal Ghosh, Auroop R. Ganguly, Katherine J. Evans & Shafiqul Islam (2023). The influence of natural variability on extreme monsoons in Pakistan. npj Clim Atmos Sci 6, 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00462-8

Monthly standardized area-averaged precipitation anomaly (bars) from the average over 1991–2020. The years when the region experienced floods or droughts are labeled. The dotted lines represent standardized Niño1 + 2 (blue), Niño3 (yellow), Niño3.4 (gray), and Niño4 (orange) indices using detrended COBE/NOAA sea surface temperatures. All Niño indexes are multiplied by −1 for ease of comparison so that positive (negative) anomalies represent La Niña (El Niño). The number in parentheses represents the actual correlation between WSA and Niño indexes. Every third month in the time series is labeled starting with the first month on the x-axis.

Nasim Hossein Hamzeh, Karim Shukurov, Kaveh Mohammadpour, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Abbas Ranjbar Saadatabadi, Himan Shahabi (2023). A comprehensive investigation of the causes of drying and increasing saline dust in the Urmia Lake, northwest Iran, via ground and satellite observations, synoptic analysis and machine learning models. Ecological Informatics, Volume 78, 2023,102355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102355

If you want to submit your highlight, please fill this form.


If you can’t access to Google Form, you can send your highlight to gro.ytinummoc-sseynull@sthgilhgih-ecneics

Guidelines to submit your highlight:

  • You should be a YESS member.
  • The paper should be in the scope of interdisciplinary Earth system sciences (natural and social sciences).
  • You should be an author of the paper (lead or co-author).
  • The paper should be published within the last six months.
  • Citation should be in APA format + DOI.
  • Add a link to your YESS profile.
  • Add one picture or figure from your paper to feature on the website (optional).
  • Add your Twitter user to mention you when we advertise the Science Highlights (optional).


*Note that this will be a rolling list, which will be updated regularly based on incoming submissions.