A new technique using dissolved noble gas tracers sheds light on how water moves through an aquifer, with implications for water resources and their vulnerability to climate change.
Research Spotlights
Research spotlights are plain-language summaries of recent articles published in AGU’s suite of 24 journals.
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Tracking Oxygen in the Sargasso Sea’s 18 Degree Water
Biogeochemical floats provide an improved picture of ocean mixing and oxygen movement in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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拉丁美洲环境观测网络的缺口
尽管拉丁美洲对全球碳和水循环具有显著影响，但其在FLUXNET站点中所占的比例相对较小，这限制了该观测网络在该地区的代表性。
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Extreme Rainfall Statistics May Shift as U.S. Climate Warms
Precipitation data and high-resolution modeling suggest that extreme rainfall events under a changing climate will be shorter, more intense, and more widely spread out.
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Upward Lightning Takes Its Cue from Nearby Lightning Events
Lightning in a thunderstorm changes the electromagnetic field in a way that sparks upward lightning from tall structures.
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Past Climate Change Affected Mountain Building in the Andes
Increased glaciation in the North Patagonian Andes may have influenced tectonic dynamics over the past 7 million years, suggesting a connection between climate change and mountain-building processes.
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Descifrando las causas de la actividad de los huracanes en el pasado
Registros individuales de paleohuracanes extraídos de los sedimentos de islas azotadas por tormentas no muestran una clara influencia del clima en la frecuencia de los huracanes en el último milenio.
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Ciertas formaciones rocosas pueden provocar riesgos de radón en los hogares
Investigadores de Kentucky han combinado resultados de kits de pruebas domésticas con el mapa geológico del estado para elaborar un mapa del potencial de radón en interiores basado en la geología subyacente a las viviendas del estado.
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Global Warming Causes Uneven Changes in Heat Stress Indicators
Different indicators change in different ways, but climate models project a clear trend of increasing heat stress.