Rainfall varies with elevation, and such precipitation gradients can have profound and often counterintuitive effects on topography.
David Shultz
Measuring Sea Level Rise Along the Coast
Scientists created a global map of vertical land motion to show how the solid ground is moving relative to the planet’s rising seas.
Explaining Thermal Tides in the Upper Atmosphere During the 2015 El Niño
Increased tropospheric heating and reduced dissipation combine to explain an anomalously large thermal tide.
Multicellular Algae Discovered in an Early Cambrian Formation
A new study describes eukaryotic organisms found organized in a cortex-medulla pattern in southern China’s Kuanchuanpu Formation.
Irtysh River Drove Arctic Sea Ice Expansion 3 Million Years Ago
The Siberian river’s creation caused a massive influx of fresh water into the Kara Sea and radically changed the Arctic Ocean and Earth’s climate.
Una mirada global al carbono orgánico superficial del suelo
El carbono orgánico del suelo es un elemento importante para la salud de los ecosistemas y del clima. En la actualidad la teledetección permite a los científicos observar globalmente esta importante pieza del rompecabezas del carbono.
Subduction Initiation May Depend on a Tectonic Plate’s History
New seismic imaging study of the Puysegur Trench aims to solve one of the last major questions in plate tectonics.