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Escalating Sea Level Variations Along Gulf Coast: New Study Revealed

Now, a new study shows that, from the Florida Keys to southern Alabama, those fluctuations have been intensifying over the past 20 years. Summer peaks have…

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Exploring Sediment Transport: Innovations in River Modeling

The largest flume is a 12-meter tilting version that can model many river conditions; another flume models the languid process of a nearly flat river bed…

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NASA-NOAA Satellite Tracks Tropical Cyclone 11P Toward Queensland

The VIIRS instrument aboard Suomi NPP captured an image of 11P on January 28 at 04:19 UTC/Jan. 27 at 11:19 p.m. EST. The image showed a more rounded…

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TRMM Satellite Analyzes Rainfall Patterns Near Mozambique

An analysis of rainfall from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments are shown on the left overlaid on a visible/infrared image…

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Cooperative SO2 and NOx Aerosol Formation in Haze Pollution

Since the start of this century, air pollution has become increasingly regional and more complex. Recent research has indicated that the cooperative transition…

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New NASA Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Measures Up

When a high-altitude aircraft flew over the icy Arctic Ocean and the snow-covered terrain of Greenland in April 2012, it was the first polar test of a new…

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Australia Watches System 99P as Cyclone Threat Grows

Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology posted a Cyclone Watch for coastal areas from Port Douglas to Proserpine, Queensland that are expected to be…

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UM Researchers Discover Deep Magma Chamber Below Kilauea

A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science uncovered a previously unknown magma chamber…

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Asian Ozone Pollution in Hawaii Linked to Climate Variability

The researchers found that since the mid-1990s, these shifts in atmospheric circulation have caused Asian ozone pollution reaching Hawaii to be relatively low…

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Carbon Cycle Sensitivity Doubles: Impact of Tropical Temperature

The research shows that a one degree rise in tropical temperature leads to around two billion extra tonnes of carbon being released per year into the…

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University of Hawaii Researchers Make Waves in Ocean Science

Researchers from the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,…

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Ocean Beneath Our Feet: Exploring Subduction Zones

Water is carried mantle by deep sea fault zones which penetrate the oceanic plate as it bends into the subduction zone. Subduction, where an oceanic tectonic…

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Dust’s Impact on Climate: Unveiling Earth’s Hidden Changes

In spring 2010, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from the South Pacific with a scientific treasure – ocean sediments from a previously almost…

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World's first magma-enhanced geothermal system created in Iceland

In 2009, a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten…

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Organic chemical origins in hydrothermal systems

Serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal systems have been suggested as likely sites for the formation of organic compounds in the abiotic conditions of early Earth,…

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North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean Bringing Climate Change to Antarctica

The findings, which rely on more than three decades of atmospheric data and appear in the journal Nature, show new ways in which distant regional conditions…

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