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Press Release: Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
Two German researchers used a simple energy balance analysis to explain how the Earth’s water cycle responds differently to heating by sunlight than it does to warming due to a stronger atmospheric greenhouse effect. Further, they show that this difference implies that reflecting sunlight to reduce temperatures may have unwanted effects on the Earth’s rainfall patterns. The results are now published in ESD. [ Read more ]
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Press Release: How pigeons may smell their way home
Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a ‘map’ (to tell them home is south, for example) and a ‘compass’ (to tell them where south is), with the sun and the Earth’s magnetic field being the preferred compass systems. A new Biogeosciences paper provides evidence that the information pigeons use as a map is in fact available in the atmosphere: odours and winds allow them to find their way home. [ Read more ]
Press Release: The oldest ice core – Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth’s climate
How far into the past can ice-core records go? Scientists have now identified regions in Antarctica they say could store information about Earth’s climate and greenhouse gases extending as far back as 1.5 million years, almost twice as old as the oldest ice core drilled to date. The results are published today in Climate of the Past. [ Read more ]
EGU journals to display article-level metrics
Copernicus Publications, the publisher of the EGU open access journals, has just launched article-level metrics (ALMs) for all its journals. [ Read more ]
Press Release: EGU Science Journalism Fellowships (up to €5k) – call for applications
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is offering fellowships for journalists to report on ongoing research in the geosciences. Successful applicants will receive up to €5k to cover expenses related to their projects, including following scientists on location. [ Read more ]
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Statistical analysis to characterize transport of nutrients in groundwater near an abandoned feedlot
Surface water from a lagoon and groundwater samples from 17 wells within and near an abandoned feedlot in northwestern Minnesota, USA, were analyzed for carbon, nutrients, and field parameters. [ Read more ]
Seasonal variations of sea–air CO2 fluxes in the largest tropical marginal sea (South China Sea) based on multiple-year underway measurements
Based upon 14 field surveys conducted between 2003 and 2008, this paper shows that the seasonal pattern of sea surface partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and sea–air CO2 fluxes differed among four different physical–biogeochemical domains in the South China Sea proper. [ Read more ]
Rainfall estimation using moving cars as rain gauges – laboratory experiments
The spatial assessment of short time-step precipitation is a challenging task. Low density of observation networks, as well as the bias in radar rainfall estimation motivated the new idea of exploiting cars as moving rain gauges with windshield wipers or optical sensors as measurement devices. [ Read more ]
Voyager 2 observation of the multifractal spectrum in the heliosphere and the heliosheath
This paper looks in detail at the multifractal scaling of the fluctuations in the interplanetary magnetic field strength as measured onboard Voyager 2 in the entire heliosphere and even in the heliosheath. [ Read more ]
Latest Posts from EGU Blogs
- Science snap (#14): San Andreas Fault, posted 1 day ago on Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Seeking young scientists! A great opportunity to get involved in the EGU, posted 2 days ago on GeoLog – EGU official blog
- Friday Photo (108): Damage from Cloudburst, posted 2 days ago on Geology for Global Development
- Climate change effects on agriculture and land and water resources in Spain, posted 3 days ago on G-Soil
- December 5th is soil day!, posted 3 days ago on G-Soil
- “I’m a scientist, get me out of here…!”, posted 4 days ago on Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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