GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For February, the divisions we are featuring are Geodesy and Geodynamics. They are served by the journal: Solid Earth (SE) and Geoscientific Model Development (GMD).

Geoscientific Model Development:

Moving beyond post hoc explainable artificial intelligence: a perspective paper on lessons learned from dynamical climate modeling – 11 February 2025

We draw from traditional climate modeling practices to make recommendations for machine-learning (ML)-driven climate science. Our intended audience is climate modelers who are relatively new to ML. We show how component-level understanding – obtained when scientists can link model behavior to parts within the overall model – should guide the development and evaluation of ML models. Better understanding yields a stronger basis for trust in the models. We highlight several examples to demonstrate.

Annales Geophysicae:

Evaluating F10.7 and F30 radio fluxes as long-term solar proxies of energy deposition in the thermosphere – 25 February 2025

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics:

Opinion: Why all emergent constraints are wrong but some are useful – a machine learning perspective – 21 February 2025

Biogeoscienes:

What controls planktic foraminiferal calcification? – 12 February 2025

Toward more robust net primary production projections in the North Atlantic Ocean – 18 February 2025

The Cryosphere:

Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science – 21 February 2025

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences:

Creating a national urban flood dataset for China from news texts (2000–2022) at the county level – 13 February 2025

CH-RUN: a deep-learning-based spatially contiguous runoff reconstruction for Switzerland – 27 February 2025