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Tectonics and Structural Geology

TS Must-Read – Sibson (1977) Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanism

TS Must-Read – Sibson (1977) Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanism

The paper “Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanisms” by R. H. Sibson (1977), was one of the first studies that established major connections between the rocks that form in faults, and their conditions and mechanics during formation at crustal scale. Concretely, Sibson (1977) established: 1.) links among the textures and lithologies that develop along fault zones …[Read More]

OS
Ocean Sciences

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

We would like to end this year by looking back and thanking you! In July we finally launched the Ocean Sciences blog and joined the EGU blogsphere. Since then we had nine blog posts. Thank you to all the great guest authors we had this year. After the initial Ocean Sciences blog team of Gwyn …[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

NPG Paper of the Month: “Statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts for
 severe weather at Deutscher Wetterdienst”

NPG Paper of the Month: “Statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts for
 severe weather at Deutscher Wetterdienst”

The October 2020 NPG Paper of the Month award goes to Reinhold Hess for the paper “Statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts for 
severe weather at Deutscher Wetterdienst“. Ensemble Forecasting rose with the understanding of the limited predictability of weather. In a perfect ensemble system, the obtained ensemble of forecasts expresses the distribution of possible weather …[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

Bring on 2021!

Bring on 2021!

Good news, everyone: 2020 is almost over! Your beloved EGU Geodynamics blog team is taking a 2-week break to recover from this extraordinary year. Or maybe ‘unprecedented’ is a better word? I am – of course – referring to the fact that 2020 has been the most successful blog year to date. Not at all …[Read More]

SM
Seismology

Git or Perish: First commit

Git or Perish: First commit

Maria, a member of our ECS team, recently interviewed Dr Eric Daub from The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. Here the Seismology ECS Team wants to know how we can do code better. Together. This is the first interview with software engineers explaining the importance of good practices in software development. Dr Eric Daub received …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Nature of ice crystals

Imaggeo On Monday: Nature of ice crystals

Moisture coming from the ground is freezing at the entrances of small ground pockets, shaping wonderful natural ice crystals, during a very cold and dry winter in Poland in 2019. Description by Katarzyna Walczak, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu.   Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs …[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

Climate Change: is Viticulture under threat?

Climate Change:  is Viticulture under threat?

In the afternoon of August 29, 2020, an intense supercell, which is a thunderstorm characterized by the presence of a deep, persistently rotating updraft, affected the province of Verona in the north of Italy (Figure 1). It was not the first event of this kind; several other events, including tornado episodes, had already occurred during …[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Maria Vasilyevna Klenova (12 August 1898 – 6 August 1976): The polar scientist who was known as the mother of marine geology.

Maria Vasilyevna Klenova (12 August 1898 – 6 August 1976): The polar scientist who was known as the mother of marine geology.

  On the 12th of August 1898, Maria Vasilyevna Klenova was born to a working-class family in Irkutsk1. This city started as a military outpost in 1652, but had become a bustling city around the turn of the 20th century with around half a million inhabitants. In the year Maria was born, Irkutsk became connected …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#vEGU21 – Session in the Spotlight: Volcano-glacier interactions: Arctic, Antarctic, and globally

#vEGU21 – Session in the Spotlight: Volcano-glacier interactions: Arctic, Antarctic, and globally

The last thing to finish this year is to submit your abstract to vEGU21? And you didn’t decide yet which session would be most appropriate for you? Here is our final session in the spotlight for this year! You are interested in the interaction of volcanoes and glaciers? Then todays session GMPV9.4: “Volcano-glacier interactions: Arctic, …[Read More]