Science Highlights 2025

November

Amjath-Babu, T. S., Anwar, N. H., Chanda, A., Chaturvedi, R. K., Hina, S., Fadnavis, S., … & Singh, C. (2025). Perspectives on climate change in South Asia. Nature Climate Change, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02442-7

Fadnavis, S., Elshorbany, Y., Ziemke, J., Barret, B., Rap, A., Chandran, P. R. S., Pope, R. J., Sagar, V., Taraborrelli, D., Le Flochmoen, E., Cuesta, J., Wespes, C., Boersma, F., Glissenaar, I., De Smedt, I., Van Roozendael, M., Petetin, H., and Anglou, I. (2025). Influence of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds emission changes on tropospheric ozone variability, trends and radiative effect. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 8229–8254. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8229-2025

Kalashnikov, D.A., J.T. Abatzoglou, F.V. Davenport, Z.M. Labe, P.C. Loikith, D. Touma, and D. Singh (2025). Projections of Lightning-Ignited Wildfire Risk in the Western United States. Earth’s Future. DOI:10.1029/2025EF006108

Salauddin Mohammad, P Vinay Kumar, Syu-Ruei Jhang, M Venkat, Ratnam and Gopa Dutta (2025). Impact of wave dynamics and turbulence on stratosphere-troposphere exchange of ozone during convective events. J.Atmos. Solar Terrs. Phys. (Elsevier). 274 (2025), 106592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2025.106592

Vishnu H, Chitre M, Glowacki O, et al. (2025). Acoustic activity indicates submarine melt at tidewater glaciers. Journal of Glaciolog, 71:e83. doi:10.1017/jog.2025.10061

March

Ali, J., Wahl, T., Morim, J., Enriquez, A., Gall, M., & Emrich, C. T. (2025). Multivariate compound events drive historical floods and associated losses along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. Npj Natural Hazards, 2(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-025-00076-5

Beck, T.M., Schumacher, D.L., Achebak, H. et al. (2024). Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 245. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2

Kattel, D.B., Yao, T. (2025). Forces for recent snow cover variation on the Mount Everest region. J Earth Syst Sci 134, 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-024-02472-3

Manuel Blau, Pratik Kad, Jenny Turton, & Kyung-Ja Ha. (2024). Uneven global retreat of persistent mountain snow cover alongside mountain warming from ERA5-land. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00829-5

Tian, Y., Giaquinto, D., Capua, G., Claassen, J., Ali, J., Li, H., & De Michele, C. (2024). Historical changes in the causal effect networks of compound hot and dry extremes in central Europe. Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01934-2