CASCADE Science & People Highlights
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Mountains Vulnerable to Extreme Rain from Climate Change
As rising global temperatures shift snow to rain, mountains across the Northern Hemisphere will be hotspots for extreme rainfall events that could trigger floods and landslides – potentially impacting a quarter of the world’s population.
Mohammed Ombadi, Mark Risser, Alan Rhoades, Charuleka Varadharajan, Nature, July 28, 2023
Published in Nature
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Climate Expert William Collins Selected as New Associate Laboratory Director
William Collins, an internationally renowned climate scientist, has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA). The staff scientists and affiliates in EESA work collaboratively across a wide range of climate, geological, energy, and ecological science disciplines to increase our understanding of fundamental Earth processes, and to provide solutions for urgent energy and environmental challenges.
William Collins
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New Math Methods and Perlmutter HPC Combine to Deliver Record-Breaking ML Algorithm
The record-breaking calculation was performed on a dataset composed of daily maximum temperatures (°C) across the United States between 1990 and 2019. (Credit: Marcus Noack, Berkeley Lab)
Marcus M. Noack, Harinarayan Krishnan, Mark D. Risser & Kristofer G. Reyes, Nature Scientific Reports, March 13, 2023.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30062-8
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Limiting Global Warming Now Can Preserve Valuable Freshwater Resource
Berkeley Lab researchers highlight need to implement wide-scale carbon mitigation strategies to maintain snowpack throughout the Americas
Alan Rhoades et al. Nature Climate Change, Nov. 14,2022, DOI:10.1038/s41558-022-01518-y
CASCADE is exploring novel approaches – including machine learning and artificial intelligence – to improve predictions of low-likelihood high-impact (LLHI) extreme weather and enable earlier warning of these destructive events, which may become more likely as the result of climate change.
CASCADE brings together atmospheric scientists, physicists, computer scientists, and statisticians from across the U.S. in a multi-year project that advances research on extremes, and develops new methods for data analysis and datasets that can help guide efforts to prepare communities for the impacts of these rare but potentially devastating events.
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