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Editors’ Highlights

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Traces of Impacts on Warm Planetesimals Early in Solar System

by Laurent G. J. Montési and J. Filiberto 9 October 20208 March 2022

Meteorite NWA 11004 contains evidence of melting preceding an impact dated to 4546±36 Ma. Short lived radioactive decay had already heated the parent body of this meteorite before the impact.

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Smart Water Metering Need Not Compromise People’s Privacy

by Jim Hall 7 October 20201 October 2020

Scientists have devised a way of preserving privacy for smart water metering users while also providing water suppliers with information they can use to improve the efficiency of water services.

Two plots showing the spatial distribution of radon activities at ground level (left) and in free air (right) around the Mount Etna Central Crater
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Radon Enrichment in the Volcanic Plume of Mount Etna

by Corentin Caudron 5 October 202017 November 2022

More than 70 passive sensors on Mount Etna have captured the first radon measurements in volcanic plumes and show that radon could affect people around volcanoes.

Large rock balanced on cliffside
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Earthquake Hazard Hanging in the Balance

by T. Parsons 1 October 202011 February 2022

Earthquake hazard calculations for California’s coast are refined with a view of precariously balanced rocks that would have fallen if the largest predicted shaking happened in the past 20,000 years.

Right: Image of a solar flare observed on 19 October 2014. Left: Diagram showing configuration of the planets at the time of the flare
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The Importance of Solar Lyman-alpha Emissions for Space Weather

by Michael A. Hapgood 29 September 202013 October 2022

Lyman-alpha emissions convey a major part of the solar-flare photon energy reaching Earth and play a significant role in flare-driven enhancements of ionospheric conductivity.

Series of global maps showing virtual geomagnetic pole paths as calculated from the Black Sea paleomagnetic directional record
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The Restless Geomagnetic Field Over the Past 70,000 Years

by Bjarne S. G. Almqvist 25 September 202030 September 2022

Detailed paleomagnetic records from Black Sea sediments reveal intricate changes in the field during geomagnetic excursions.

Charts showing the system performance of the flood protection strategy and conventional systems
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Rainwater Harvesting Can Reduce Flooding as Well as Saving Water

by Jim Hall 23 September 202024 February 2023

Weather forecasting can greatly improve benefits of rainwater harvesting.

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Environmental Impact Bonds Incentivize Watershed Restoration

by Jim Hall 21 September 20206 January 2022

Environmental Impact Bonds for financing new water and environmental infrastructure can be properly priced with the help of watershed modelling.

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Ensemble Modeling of Coronal Mass Ejection Arrival at 1 AU

by Mary Hudson 18 September 202031 May 2022

Heliospheric imaging data can be used in ensemble modeling of CME arrival time at Earth to improve space weather forecasts, treating the solar wind as a 1-D incompressible hydrodynamic flow.

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What the Upper Ocean Looks Like During a Hurricane and Why It Matters

by Eileen Hofmann 17 September 202010 March 2022

High-resolution measurements reveal the structure of the upper ocean under a hurricane and its feedback on storm intensity.

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