Prescribed heating derived from February 1998 CMAP monthly mean precipitation. (a) Upper atmosphere (𝜎 = ~0.3) anomalous latent heating determined from precipitation anomalies. (b) Vertical profile of latent heat release at the Equator from precipitation anomalies. Credit: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2025). DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-24-0196.1 A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framewo