Offsets in radiocarbon concentration within the ocean or between the ocean and the atmosphere are particularly useful proxies for a variety of studies.
Reviews of Geophysics
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The Big Picture in Geospace
A NASA stereo-imaging mission called TWINS continues to push the boundaries of what we know about the region of space close to Earth.
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Diversity of El Niño Variability Makes Prediction Challenging
The atmospheric response to El Niño, both in the Pacific region and around the world, changes with each event and is uncertain in future under the influence greenhouse gas forcing.
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Counting Every Drop
The challenge of collecting and analyzing precipitation data collected at different times, in different places, and on different scales.
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A Landscape Shaped by Wind
High-altitude aeolian research on the Tibetan Plateau offers insights into the past, present, and future.
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Can Atmospheric Science Improve Global Disaster Resilience?
Scientific understanding of atmospheric hazards and their interconnectivity can contribute to international policy and disaster risk management.
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Ocean Tides Affect Ice Loss from Large Polar Ice Sheets
A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics discusses how ocean tides affect the motion of, and loss of ice from, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.
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The Challenges of Drought Prediction
Advances in dynamical modeling and the use of hybrid methods have improved drought prediction, but challenges still remain to improve the accuracy of drought forecasting.
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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.