Abstract: Improving the accuracy of climate and long-range meteorological forecasts is an important objective for many economic sectors: agriculture, energy and utilities, transportation and logistics, construction, disaster risk management, insurance and finance, retail, tourism and leisure. Traditional physical models face limitations at ultra-long lead times, which motivates the development of empirical–statistical approaches, including those leveraging…
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Dust detectors in the Aral Sea basin
The Aral Sea repeatedly appeared and disappeared over the last century but has now steadily decreased as the dust increased, resulting in desertification. There is still water in the north of the Aral Sea but the ‘desert’ lakebed in the middle has more dust and sandstorms than anywhere else in the world. Researchers used two…
Russian Climate Research 