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A team of researchers from University of California, Davis, spent the summer at elementary schools across the state measuring tree canopies and just how hot playgrounds, basketball courts, soccer fields and other outdoor spaces can get.

Tree canopies at California schools cover only about 4-6% of the average campus, meaning student breaks and outside activities are often under the glaring sun for the roughly 5.8 million K-12 public school students in California. 

Weather forecasting is a complex and challenging task. But UC Davis graduate student Allan Lee is up for that challenge.

A “super El Niño” is predicted for this winter. What is El Niño, how might it impact local areas, and how does it relate to atmospheric rivers and climate change? The following UC Davis experts, listed alphabetically, are available to discuss with reporters these and other related questions.

Clouds are notoriously hard to pin down, especially in climate science. 

A study from the University of California, Davis, and published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that air temperature and cloud cover are strongly influenced by the buoyancy effect of water vapor, an effect currently neglected in some leading global climate models.