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Summaries by AGU’s editors of recent journal articles

Atmospheric Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000136

21 June 2018

New Strategies to Protect People from Smoke During Wildfires

Satellite measurements coupled with inexpensive air quality monitors could help protect humans from smoke particulates during wildfire events.
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Geology & Geophysics

19 June 2018

Bulging, Shrinking, and Deformation of Land by Hydrologic Loading

The deformation of continents by groundwater can be measured locally by GPS or detected from satellites, but more precisely monitored when measurements are combined with a hydrologic model.
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Atmospheric Sciences

23 May 2018

Tides and Waves Interact to Cause Hurricanes in Near-Space

The interaction of tides and waves generated in the lower atmosphere can cause the mean zonal wind speed in the lower ionosphere to oscillate equivalent to a category 1 hurricane at Earth’s surface.
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Space Science & Space Physics

21 May 2018

A New Angle on the Earth’s Radiation Belts

A new empirical model of energetic electrons from Van Allen Probes data includes pitch angle analysis, revealing insights about radiation belt energization and loss processes.
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Planetary Sciences

17 May 2018

How Did Venus Get its Youthful Surface?

Catastrophic lithospheric recycling is unlikely to be the cause of Venus’s young surface from mantle convection models constrained by offset between the center of mass and center of shape of planet.
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Space Science & Space Physics

15 May 2018

Anatomy of a Flux Rope Hurtling Through the Solar System

Pancaking and erosion can explain a lot of the structural change in magnetic flux ropes as they fly evolve during their supersonic flight through the inner solar system.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

2 May 2018

Calibrating Hydrological Models by Satellite

Hydrological models are usually calibrated using observations of streamflow, but a new method uses remotely sensed land surface temperature for this purpose.
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Biogeosciences

27 April 2018

Getting Littoral with Lake Carbon Efflux

Next generation forced diffusion chambers reveal dynamic environment for lake carbon exchange with distance from shoreline.
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Biogeosciences

19 April 2018

Drones Hunt for Impacts of Oil Exploration on Wetland Emissions

Seismic lines, constructed for petroleum resource exploration, disturb Canadian peatlands, but how can we detect their impact on greenhouse gas budgets?
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Space Science & Space Physics

13 April 2018

Catching the Oncoming Radiation Storm

Improved processing enables satellite-based radiation sensors to match ground-based sensors in providing prompt warnings of the onset of atmospheric radiation storms that can endanger civil aviation.
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