A new database seeks to improve estimates of oceanic emissions of methane and nitrous oxide.
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Modeling Waves in the Atmosphere
How can a complex atmospheric process be simplified for a model?
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Measuring Solar Wind Interactions in Mars’s Exosphere
An updated analytical technique gave researchers a new look at ion cyclotron waves in Mars’s extended hydrogen exosphere.
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Exploring the Origin of High-Energy Particle Beams in the Atmosphere
Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration; Yerevan, Armenia, 22–26 September 2014
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Minerals in Martian Meteorite Illuminate Magnetic Mysteries
What causes the magnetic anomalies found on Mars? Scientists find revealing analogues in a tiny sample of Martian rock that could help answer this question.
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Measuring the Faint Glow of the Earth's Thin Exosphere
Scientists attempting to understand the Earth’s exosphere use a spectrometer to study different types of hydrogen atoms energized by the sun.
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The Impact of Coronagraphs
Observations of the Sun’s extended atmosphere with coronagraphs have become indispensable to both basic and applied research.
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Observing the Birkeland Currents
Scientists use continuous measurements to observe a complicated process in the Earth’s magnetosphere.