Recommendations from AGU’s journal editors of some of the most interesting paper and poster sessions at this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting.
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Above and Below: Understanding River-Groundwater Exchanges
Field data, new technologies, numerical modelling, and geostatistical methods can be combined to improve understanding of the interactions between surface water and groundwater.
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Modeling Megathrust Zones
A recent paper in Review of Geophysics built a unifying model to predict the surface characteristics of large earthquakes.
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Airborne Fireball
A surprise sighting of a meteor in the sky above southeast Michigan.
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Pedotransfer Functions Bring New Life to Earth System Modeling
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes how currently available soil information furthers our understanding of soil processes and their integration in Earth system modeling.
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Learning from an Extreme El Niño
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes new scientific insights on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation from analysis of the 2015-2016 extreme El Niño.
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Spills, Sediment, and Shoreline Contamination
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes the formation and behavior of oil-sediment residues in marine and coastal environments following an oil spill.
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Probability Analysis Improves Hazard Assessment
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes a probabilistic method for evaluating tsunami location, size, and risk to human populations.
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Bioenergy’s Impacts on the Landscape
The editors of a new book describe how bioenergy production impacts the landscape, environmental processes, and climate.
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Examining our Eyes in the Sky
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics explored the challenges of validating data collected from Earth observation satellites.