A new study uses Argo floats and an ocean circulation model to track the sources supplying pulses of oxygen to the deep North Pacific.
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Crystal Clocks Serve as Stopwatch for Magma Storage and Travel Times
Magma stored for 1,000 years in an Icelandic volcano journeyed to the surface in just 4 days.
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A Nearly 100-Year-Old Physics Model Replicates Modern Arctic Ice Melt
The model was previously used to describe the behavior of ferromagnets in the presence of external magnetic fields.
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Revealing the Arctic Crust
A new model, ArcCRUST, reveals with unprecedent resolution the geometry and the thermal state of the oceanic crust of the High Arctic and Circum-Arctic domain.
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The Little Ice Age Wasn’t Global, but Current Climate Change Is
None of the cold and warm epochs from the past 2,000 years were global events, but the current period of climate change is more intense and is happening simultaneously across the entire planet.
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Latest Climate Model Points to Hotter Earth
The model’s dire forecast matches those of other leading models.
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Improving Climate Predictions over Decades
Several factors make long-term climate predictions difficult. New research looks at how to improve model predictability by separating climate signals from the noise.
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Translating Climate Models to the Language of Paleoclimate Data
A new model will help climate models better interpret paleoclimate reconstructions derived from lake sediment and could improve predictions of future climatic conditions.
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New Study Shifts Paradigm of Coastal Sediment Modeling
A new model improves predictions for sediment movement in vegetated shoreline zones and reveals a universal predictor that could change the understanding of coastal landscape evolution.
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Vertical Shear and Tropical Cyclone Generated Gravity Waves
How does vertical wind shear impact the characteristics of gravity waves generated by tropical cyclones?