Vote in EGU’s Autumn Election 2020!
- EGU news
- 5 November 2020
Exercising your right as an EGU member will help ensure the continuation of the Union’s well-established, bottom-up structure.
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EGU General Assembly 2021 to be held virtually
- EGU news
- 2 November 2020
#vEGU21 will be a fully online meeting that offers as full a representation of the experience that EGU members traditionally enjoy at the annual meeting in Vienna as possible.
The Loupe – October: EGU’s Natural Hazards & Risk Reduction Month
- EGU news
- 30 October 2020
This month’s newsletter recognises natural hazards and the importance of reducing the risks associated with them and updates members on the 2021 EGU awards & medals!
EGU announces its 2021 awards and medals!
- EGU news
- 21 October 2020
The European Geosciences Union is honouring 51 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
EGU statement: Proposed cuts to EU science funding could slow future research and innovation
- EGU news
- 21 October 2020
The ongoing pandemic and intensifying effects of climate change demonstrate that Europe needs to invest in its scientists and research and innovation sector. Both are crucial for addressing future economic and societal challenges.
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Reviews and syntheses: The mechanisms underlying carbon storage in soil
- Biogeosciences
- DOI 10.5194/bg-17-5223-2020
- 25 November 2020
The 4 per 1000 initiative aims to restore carbon storage in soils to both mitigate climate change and contribute to food security. The French National Institute for Agricultural Research conducted a study to determine the carbon storage potential in French soils and associated costs. This paper is a part of that study. It reviews recent advances concerning the mechanisms that controls C stabilization in soils. Synthetic figures integrating new concepts should be of pedagogical interest.
Global modeling of cloud water acidity, precipitation acidity, and acidinputs to ecosystems
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- DOI 10.5194/acp-20-12223-2020
- 24 November 2020
Cloud water pH affects atmospheric chemistry, and acid rain damages ecosystems. We use model simulations along with observations to present a global view of cloud water and precipitation pH. Sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and ammonia control the pH in the northern midlatitudes, but carboxylic acids and dust cations are important in the tropics and subtropics. The acid inputs to many nitrogen-saturated ecosystems are high enough to cause acidification, with ammonium as the main acidifying species.
The Making of the New European Wind Atlas – Part 2: Production and evaluation
- Geoscientific Model Development
- DOI 10.5194/gmd-13-5079-2020
- 23 November 2020
This is the second of two papers that document the creation of the New European Wind Atlas (NEWA). The paper includes a detailed description of the technical and practical aspects that went into running the mesoscale simulations and the microscale downscaling for generating the climatology. A comprehensive evaluation of each component of the NEWA model chain is presented using observations from a large set of tall masts located all over Europe.
A technical description of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- DOI 10.5194/amt-13-5681-2020
- 19 November 2020
The Balloon Lidar Experiment was the first lidar dedicated to measurements in the mesosphere flown on a balloon. During a 6 d flight, it made high-resolution observations of polar mesospheric clouds which form at high latitudes during summer at ~ 83 km altitude and are the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere. We describe the instrument and assess its performance. We could detect fainter clouds with higher resolution than what is possible with ground-based instruments.
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How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic
- GeoLog – EGU official blog
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- Seismology
- posted 1 day ago
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Career Progression – from Academia to Industry
- Ocean Sciences
- posted 1 day ago
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