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Flat Antarctica – Land height could help explain why Antarctica is warming slower than the Arctic
Temperatures in the Arctic are increasing twice as fast as in the rest of the globe, while the Antarctic is warming at a much slower rate. A new study published in Earth System Dynamics, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, shows that land height could be a “game changer” when it comes to explaining why temperatures are rising at such different rates in the two regions. [ Read more ]
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First AOGS–EGU Joint Conference: New Dimensions for Natural Hazards in Asia
The first AOGS-EGU joint conference will take place from 4 to 8 February 2018 in the Philippines. It will bring together students, early career and established scientists from all areas of the globe to discuss current advances in knowledge and new perspectives relevant to natural hazards in the Asian region. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 August. [ Read more ]
News from the EGU: EGU 2017 roundup, competition winners (April 2017)
The April 2017 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available. [ Read more ]
EGU 2017 Public Engagement Grants awarded to Martin Archer and Tero Mielonen
The EGU Outreach Committee has named Martin Archer and Tero Mielonen as the winners of the 2017 EGU Public Engagement Grants competition. [ Read more ]
Coral reefs struggle to keep up with rising seas, leave coastal communities at risk
In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean and Hawai’i, researchers found the sea floor is eroding in all five places, and the reefs cannot keep pace with sea level rise. As a result, coastal communities protected by the reefs are facing increased risks from storms, waves and erosion. The study, by a US Geological Survey team, is published today (20 April) in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union. [ Read more ]
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Non-linear effects of pore pressure increase on seismic event generation in a multi-degree-of-freedom rate-and-state model of tectonic fault sliding
The influence of fluid injection on tectonic fault sliding and generation of seismic events was studied in the paper by a multi-degree-of-freedom rate-and-state friction model with a two-parametric friction law. The considered system could exhibit different types of motion. The main seismic activity could appear directly after the start of fluid injection or in the post-injection phase (after some days or months). Such an influence of injection on seismicity is observed in the real cases. [ Read more ]
The polar amplification asymmetry: role of Antarctic surface height
The Arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the globe, including Antarctica. Here it was shown that one of the important mechanisms that sets Antarctica apart from the Arctic is heat transport from lower latitudes, and it was argued that a decrease in land height due to Antarctic melting would be favorable for increased atmospheric heat transport from midlatitudes. Other factors related to the larger Antarctic land height were also investigated. [ Read more ]
Ozone and haze pollution weakens net primary productivity in China
While it is widely recognized that air pollutants adversely affect human health and climate change, their impacts on the regional carbon balance are less well understood. We apply an Earth system model to quantify the combined effects of ozone and aerosol particles on net primary production in China. Ozone vegetation damage dominates over the aerosol effects, leading to a substantial net suppression of land carbon uptake in the present and future worlds. [ Read more ]
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