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When you envision what it looks like around the North Pole, you probably imagine...
Air, Ice, Sea

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: Cracking Arctic sea ice

Author Henrike Wilborn Date October 6, 2022
Henrike Wilborn
Tagged Arctic, cracks, North Pole, Ocean, Sea-ice, warming | Leave a comment |
Stable water isotopes (SWIs) have been used in meteorology since the 1950s, but they...
Air, Climate

Stable water isotopes: a powerful – but often overlooked – tool in the meteorological toolbox

Author Andrew Seidl Date August 26, 2022
Andrew Seidl
Tagged isotopes, meteorology, Water | Leave a comment |
In 2006, a group of atmospheric scientists published a paper with a plot where...
Climate

How (not) to lie with colors

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2022
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged colors, diverging data, endrainbow, perceptually uniform, rainbow palette, sequential data | Leave a comment |
How can a story connect a Goose God, a Ghost God with laser-blasting eyes...
Archaeology, Culture, Society

Death, chaos and geese in ancient Egypt

Author Elena Valianatou Date April 6, 2022
Elena Valianatou
Tagged #afterlife, #death, #egypt, #geese, #gods, archaeology, underworld | Leave a comment |
Between the warm tropics and the cold polar regions exists a broad belt of...
Air, Climate, Sea

How do heat and moisture from the ocean influence our weather in midlatitudes?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 19, 2020
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged baroclinicity, cold sector, heat and moisture from ocean, horisontal temperature gradients, midlatitude cyclones, North Atlantic storm track, storm development, surface fluxes | Leave a comment |
While working on tiny plant fossils from the sediment cores I am studying, I...
Culture, Earth, People, Society

Research on remote islands – Where your closest neighbor is an astronaut

Author Maaike Zwier Date March 26, 2020
Maaike Zwier
Tagged Antarctica, climatesnack, exploring, history, International Space Station, island, scientific exploration | Leave a comment |
The past decades of solar system exploration have revealed that Mars used to have...
Earth, Land

Ancient Lakes on Mars: Opportunities for past life

Author Elise Harrington Date October 21, 2019
Elise Harrington
Tagged aliens, astrobiology, lakes, Mars, paleolakes | Leave a comment |
Midlatitude weather is highly dominated by cyclones that typically form over the ocean and...
Air, Climate

How can evaporation of rain calm down the weather?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date August 26, 2019
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged condensation, cyclone development, evaporation of rain, latent cooling, latent heat, midlatitude cyclone, moist effects | Leave a comment |
The thick, white fog outside the airport window left no doubt about the reason...
Air, Climate

Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2019
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged Arctic, icing, numerical weather prediction, polar lows, Weather forecasting | Leave a comment |
There is much more to mud than mud masks and mud castles. Mud can...
Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

What’s in mud

Author Anne Morée Date April 4, 2019
Anne Morée
Tagged carbon isotopes, climate PhD, oceanography, publication | Leave a comment |
Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
Various predictions have forecast that within the next five to twenty years greenhouse gases...
Climate, Land, People

Promises and caveats of solar geoengineering on the land

Author Yuanchao Fan Date January 7, 2019
Yuanchao Fan
Tagged aerosol geoengineering, climate change and politics, climate change solutions, Geoengineering | Leave a comment |
We set sail from Iceland on Research Vessel G.O. Sars, in July 2015, to...
Climate, Sea

Big ocean temperature change recorded in tiny fossils!

Author Evangeline Sessford Date November 26, 2018
Evangeline Sessford
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Wanderlust, which evolved during German Romanticism in the early 1800s, is becoming increasingly popular....
Climate, Earth, Ice

Rock induced wanderlust – How mountain landforms reflect past climates

Author Philipp Marr Date November 15, 2018
Philipp Marr
Tagged Geography, geomorphology, Holocene Thermal Maximum, landform evolution, Last Glacial Maximum, Norway, periglacial landforms, Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating | Leave a comment |
All scientific statements must be testable, and any such test should be reproducible. However,...
Climate, Earth, Systems

Software in science: a plea to free your code

Author Marco van Hulten Date November 13, 2018
Marco van Hulten
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The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is known for two things –...
Earth, Land

Dating Oregon landslides with ‘ghost forests’

Author Will Struble Date November 8, 2018
Will Struble
Tagged Cascadia, dendrochronology, lakes, landslides, Pacific Northwest, subduction zone, tree rings | Leave a comment |
How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?...
Climate, Earth, Land, Systems

How long does it take a mountain to die and why does it matter to us?

Author Xumin Pan Date November 6, 2018
Xumin Pan
Tagged ESD summer school, geomorphology, orogen, Qilian, Rivers | Leave a comment |
Water is essential for life. It is a critical resource to be preserved and...
Biology, Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

Nature’s water purifier: Surface water-groundwater interactions

Author Reynold Chow Date October 29, 2018
Reynold Chow
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, groundwater, hyporheic exchange, micro-plastics, River dynamics, river pollutants, surface water-groundwater interactions | Leave a comment |
“All life, and all art, have a common field of tension: to live versus...
Climate, Culture, Outreach, People, Society

From different viewpoints we convey our insight: Interview with Rolf Aamot

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date October 16, 2018
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged art, Climate, outreach, scicomm, science communication | Leave a comment |
[This post was written by Mathew Stiller-Reeve for Geolog and is published on ClimateSnack...
Outreach, People, Society

Give us the foundation to build our transferrable skills!

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date June 25, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged academia and industry, career development, ECS skills, EGU, EGU ECS, EGU2018, Great Debates, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
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