Scientific Publications

Recent Publications

Ahn, D.Y. , Goldberg, D.L., Liu, F., Anderson, D.C., Coombes, T., Loughner, C.P., Kiel, M., Chatterjee, A. (2025). Satellite-Based Analysis of CO2 Emissions From Global Cities: Regional, Economic, and Demographic Attributes. ADU Advances, 6(4), Article e2025AV001747. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV001747.
Crawford, A.M., Loughner, C.P., Tong, D.Q., Stein, A.F. (2025). Reducing dependence of modeled resuspended volcanic ash on meteorological grid resolution. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13, sec: Atmospheric Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1511847.
Moore, C.E., Blakely, B., Pederson, T.L., Gomez-Casanovas, N., Gibson, C.D., Knecht, A.M., Aslan-Sungur, G., DeLucia, E.H., Heaton, E.A., VanLoocke, A., Meyers, T. and Bernacchi, C.J. (2025). From Depletion to Restoration: Lessons From Long-Term Monitoring of Carbon Gains and Losses in Cropping Systems. Global Change Biology, 31(6), Article e70291. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70291.
Lee, T.R., Pal, S., Meyers, T.P., Krishnan, P., Hirth, B., Heuer, M., Saylor, R.D., Kochendorfer, J., and Schroeder, J. (2025). Impact of the Bowen ratio on surface-layer parameterizations of heat, moisture, and turbulent Fluxes in drylands. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 64(5), 549–568. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0075.1.
Sun, J., Magen, C., Haghnegahdar, M., Liu, J., Fernandez, J., Farquhar, J. (2025). Constraining Wetland and Landfill Methane Emission Signatures Through Atmospheric Methane Clumped Isotopologue Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130, Article e2024JG008249. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008249.

State of the Climate in 2024: The Tropics

August 14, 2025

ARL’s Atmospheric Sciences and Modeling Division Director Dr. Howard Diamond was, for the 20th year, lead author on this year’s State of the Climate Tropics Chapter published by the American Meteorological Society on August 1.

This annual publication is compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and is based on contributions from over 600 scientists from around the world. It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space.

This is the 35th issuance of the annual assessment now known as State of the Climate, published in the Bulletin since 1996. As a supplement to the Bulletin, its foremost function is to document the status and trajectory of many components of the climate system. However, as a series, the report also documents the status and trajectory of our capacity and commitment to observe the climate system. The full report link can be found here and the Tropics Chapter link can be found here.

Cover of the Special Online Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 106, No. 8, August 2025