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We describe a new approach allowing for systematic causal attribution of weather and climate-related events, in near-real time. The method is purposely designed to facilitate its implementation at meteorological centers by relying on data…

Precipitation from tropical cyclones (TCs) can cause disasters such as flooding, mudslides, and landslides. Predicting such precipitation in advance is crucial, giving people time to prepare and defend against these precipitation-induced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Cheng Huang , Pan Mu , Cong Bai , Peter AG Watson

Solar-thermal evaporation, a traditional steam generation method for solar desalination, has received numerous attentions in recent years due to the significant increase in efficiency by adopting interfacial evaporation. While most of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 Xiao Luo , Jincheng Shi , Changying Zhao , Zhouyang Luo , Xiaokun Gu , Hua Bao

As tropical cyclones become more intense due to climate change, the rise of Al-based modelling provides a more affordable and accessible approach compared to traditional methods based on mathematical models. This work leverages generative…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Pritthijit Nath , Pancham Shukla , Shuai Wang , César Quilodrán-Casas

A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights that water-related disasters have caused the highest human losses among natural disasters over the past 50 years, with over 91\% of deaths occurring in low-income…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ting-Yu Dai , Hayato Ushijima-Mwesigwa

By introducing a concept of "minifying layer", we propose a universal device to hide the position of an object by shifting its scattering without scaling effect for a distance, independent of the direction of incident wave and observation.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wei Li , Jianguo Guan , Wei Wang , Zhigang Sun , Zhengyi Fu

The atmospheric scattering of light has a significant influence on results of optical observations of air showers. It causes attenuation of direct light from the shower, but also contributes a delayed signal to the observed light. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-10 Jan Pekala , Henryk Wilczynski

The prediction of solar flares is still a significant challenge in space weather research, with no techniques currently capable of producing reliable forecasts performing significantly above climatology. In this paper, we present a flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Christian Thibeault , Antoine Strugarek , Paul Charbonneau , Benoit Tremblay

With the use of the appropriate technology, such as photovoltaics and seawater desalination, humans have the ability to sustainably increase their production of food and energy while minimising detrimental impacts on the Earth system.

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Axel Kleidon

In this exploratory article, we present a constructive method for scattering points on the surface of $d$ dimensional spheres which we believe is new and of interest. Indeed, the problem of uniformly distributing points on spheres is an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Béla Bajnok , Steven B. Damelin , Jenny Li , Gary L. Mullen

Pressure-solution is a chemo-mechanical process, involving dissolution at grain/asperity contacts and precipitation away from them. It induces a compaction in time of rocks and sediments. The present study investigates numerically the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Alexandre Sac-Morane , Hadrien Rattez , Manolis Veveakis

It is widely established that extreme space weather events associated with solar flares are capable of causing widespread technological damage. We develop a simple mathematical model to assess the economic losses arising from these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Manasvi Lingam , Abraham Loeb

We demonstrate how, from the point of view of energy flow through an open system, rain is analogous to many other relaxational processes in Nature such as earthquakes. By identifying rain events as the basic entities of the phenomenon, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-24 Ole Peters , Kim Christensen

In this paper, we incorporate seasonal variations of insolation into the global climate model C-GOLDSTEIN. We use a new approach for modelling insolation from the space perspective presented in the authors' earlier work and build it into…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Sofya Prakhova , Volker Rehbock , Igor Suleimanov

We introduce a new, probability-level approach to calculations in scalar field particle scattering. The approach involves the implicit summation over final states, which makes causality manifest since retarded propagators emerge naturally.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Ross Jenkinson , Peter Millington

We present a Monte Carlo simulation for the scattering of light in the case of an isotropic light source. The scattering phase functions are studied particularly in detail to understand how they can affect the multiple light scattering in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-18 J. Colombi , K. Louedec

We present a novel diffusion-based framework for synthesizing 2D vector fields from sparse, coherent inputs (i.e., streamlines) while maintaining physical plausibility. Our method employs a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nguyen K. Phan , Ricardo Morales , Sebastian D. Espriella , Guoning Chen

Deep learning offers promising capabilities for the statistical downscaling of climate and weather forecasts, with generative approaches showing particular success in capturing fine-scale precipitation patterns. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Paula Harder , Christian Lessig , Matthew Chantry , Francis Pelletier , David Rolnick

The ability of pollen to enable the glaciation of supercooled liquid water has been demonstrated in laboratory studies; however, the potential large-scale effect of trees and pollen on clouds, precipitation and climate is pressing knowledge…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Jan Kretzschmar , Mira Pöhlker , Frank Stratmann , Heike Wex , Christian Wirth , Johannes Quaas

Electromagnetic cloaking refers to the ability to prevent an object from scattering an incident electromagnetic field. This has been accomplished in recent works by routing the incident field around the object or by changing the scattering…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-06-21 Michael Selvanayagam , George V. Eleftheriades