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Perspectives on Earth and space science: A blog from AGU’s journal editors

Photograph of abandoned domestic refrigerators
  • Øivind Hodnebrog
  • Keith P. Shine
  • Timothy J. Wallington
Atmospheric Sciences

16 September 2020

Halocarbons: What Are They and Why Are They Important?

CFCs and other halocarbons have long been known for causing an ozone hole over the Antarctic, but many of them are also powerful greenhouse gases.
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Photograph of a hailstone 2.5 inches in diameter
  • John T. Allen
  • Ian M. Giammanco
  • Matthew R. Kumjian
  • Heinz Jürgen Punge
  • Michael Kunz
  • Qinghong Zhang
  • Pieter Groenemeijer
Natural Hazards

11 September 2020

Ice from Above: Toward a Better Understanding of Hailstorms

Globally relevant and locally devastating, hailstorms produce significant societal impacts; despite this, our understanding of hailstorms and our ability to predict them is still limited.
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Image showing particles being ejected from the asteroid Bennu on 6 January 2019
  • Catherine W. V. Wolner
  • Carl W. Hergenrother
  • Dante S. Lauretta
Planetary Sciences

9 September 2020

Up Close with an Active Asteroid

A new journal special collection investigates the ejection of particles from the asteroid Bennu and the implications of these observations for asteroid science.
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Underwater photograph of a tank experiment designed to observe how diesel oil behaves when leaking from a pipe
  • Michel C. Boufadel
  • Scott A. Socolofsky
Ocean Sciences

1 September 2020

The Underwater Behavior of Oil and Gas Jets and Plumes

Exploring how the multiscale interaction between underwater oil and gas plumes and the environment impacts plume composition and trajectory.
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Photograph of the Thames flood barrier in London
  • J. A. Mattias Green
  • Ivan D. Haigh
  • Mark D. Pickering
Ocean Sciences

13 August 2020

The Ups and Downs of Tides

The size of tides has changed in the past and will continue to change in the future due to natural and anthropogenic influences on estuaries, coastlines, and near shore regions.
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  • Ryan Schultz
Geology & Geophysics

7 August 2020

Understanding Earthquakes Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing

A better understanding of how earthquakes are caused by hydraulic fracturing is an important part of building better practices to manage and mitigate their risks.
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Selfie taken by the Curiosity rover at the top of Vera Rubin ridge
  • A. Deanne Rogers
  • Mariek Schmidt
  • Abigail Fraeman
Planetary Sciences

31 July 2020

Curiosity Solves the Mystery of Gale Crater’s Hematite Ridge

A new special issue of JGR: Planets details the water-rich history of a distinctive geomorphic feature on Mars dubbed Vera Rubin ridge, as investigated by the Curiosity rover.
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Coral reef
  • Jack J. Middelburg
  • Karline Soetaert
  • Mathilde Hagens
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology

29 July 2020

Understanding Alkalinity to Quantify Ocean Buffering

Ocean alkalinity plays a major role in ocean’s carbon uptake, in buffering, and in calcium carbonate production and dissolution, and it impacts and is affected by various biogeochemical processes.
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Example time slices of geomagnetic field intensity at Earth’s surface over the past 100 thousand years from the global GGF100k model
  • Sanja Panovska
  • Monika Korte
  • Catherine G. Constable
Geology & Geophysics

22 July 2020

The Global Geomagnetic Field of the Past Hundred Thousand Years

Global data compilations and the production of time-varying paleomagnetic field models over the past hundred thousand years provide insights into geomagnetic field evolution.
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Photograph of storm cloud over Indian Ocean
  • Chidong Zhang
Atmospheric Sciences

6 July 2020

Mysterious Engine of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation

Understanding the fundamental physics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation, a phenomenon that occurs over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, remains a challenge in tropical atmospheric research.
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