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News from the EGU: Italy earthquake, new papers (August 2016)
The August 2016 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available. [ Read more ]
News from the EGU: elections, EGU17 call for sessions (July 2016)
The July 2016 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available. [ Read more ]
Press Release: New study reveals where MH370 debris more likely to be found
A team of researchers in Italy has used the location of confirmed debris from MH370 to determine where the airliner might have crashed, and where further debris could be found. The study is published today (27 July) in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). [ Read more ]
Press Release: Fire clues in cave dripwater – researchers find wildfire signatures in cave formations for the first time
When mineral-rich water drips from a cave’s ceiling over centuries and millennia, it forms rocky cones that hold clues to the Earth’s past climate. Now, researchers in Australia and the UK have found that these structures can also help trace past wildfires that burned above the cave. Their research is published today in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. [ Read more ]
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First characterization and validation of FORLI-HNO3 vertical profiles retrieved from IASI/Metop
HNO3 concentrations are obtained from the IASI instrument and the data set is characterized for the first time in terms of vertical profiles, averaging kernels and error profiles. A validation is also conducted through a comparison with ground-based FTIR measurements, with good results. The data set is then used to analyse HNO3 spatial and temporal variability for the year 2011. The latitudinal gradient and the large seasonal variability in polar regions are well represented with IASI data. [ Read more ]
Quantifying ice loss in the eastern Himalayas since 1974 using declassified spy satellite imagery
Here we utilize declassified spy satellite imagery to quantify ice volume loss of glaciers in the eastern Himalayas over approximately the last three decades. Clean-ice and debris-covered glaciers show similar magnitudes of ice loss, while calving glaciers are contributing a disproportionately large amount to total ice loss. Results highlight important physical processes affecting the ice mass budget and associated water resources in the Himalayas. [ Read more ]
Oxidation of sulfides and rapid weathering in recent landslides
Rapid dissolution of bedrock and regolith mobilised by landslides can be an important control on rates of overall chemical weathering in mountain ranges. In this study we analysed a number of landslides and rivers in Taiwan to better understand why this occurs. We find that sulfuric acid resulting from rapid oxidation of highly reactive sulfides in landslide deposits drives the intense weathering and can set catchment-scale solute budgets. This could be a CO2source in fast-eroding mountains. [ Read more ]
Latest Posts from EGU Blogs
- Solid Earth, an open-access journal, posted 1 day ago on Soil System Sciences
- Stop the press!: How to pitch your research to a journalist or editor, posted 1 day ago on GeoLog – EGU official blog
- Imaggeo on Mondays: the rocks that look like Swiss cheese, posted 3 days ago on GeoLog – EGU official blog
- What was going on this week in the world of the ECSeimologists?, posted 4 days ago on Seismology
- GeoTalk: Investigating the transport of plastic pollution in the oceans, posted 6 days ago on GeoLog – EGU official blog
- Image of the Week — ice tsunamis !, posted 6 days ago on Cryospheric Sciences
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