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CR
Cryospheric Sciences

For Dummies: Radar altimetry for measuring ice sheet elevation changes

March 3, 2023
For Dummies: Radar altimetry for measuring ice sheet elevation changes

Does measuring the surface of the ice sheets provide more than superficial knowledge of their current status? Read further to find out why the answer is definitely yes! Measuring surface elevation changes actually tells us where Greenland and Antarctica are thinning or thickening and how much they contribute to sea level rise. Scientists have been doing this for the past three decades, so keep on ...[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

ECS SpotLight: Climate change on extreme winds already affects off-shore wind energy availability in Europe

March 3, 2023
ECS SpotLight: Climate change on extreme winds already affects off-shore wind energy availability in Europe

Off-shore wind energy plays a key role in the transition to a renewable energy (RE) system, and its usage is expected to increase in the next few decades. Nevertheless, wind energy is one of the most variable and weather-dependent RE, because of its natural dependence on the wind speed, which can vary at different time scales, ranging from small-scale turbulence to seasonal oscillations and up to ...[Read More]

ST
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

ST-ECS Networking Campfire: How to select collaborators or your future research group?

March 2, 2023
ST-ECS Networking Campfire: How to select collaborators or your future research group?

Whether you are about to start working on your thesis, or you are ready to join a new research group, deciding which PI and which group to join is not something to be taken lightly. One first has to go through the process of understanding their goals and wishes, what the PI/group can offer, and whether they will fit in. The Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the Solar-Terrestrial (ST) division ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Anny Cazenave

, and March 2, 2023
Women in Geodesy: Anny Cazenave

  After introducing famous women in the history of Geodesy last month, we now turn to influential women in Geodesy who have received the prestigious Vening-Meinesz medal of the EGU. We have asked the first female receipient of the Vening-Meinesz medal, Anny Cazenave, about her view and story of being a women in science. She gave us inspiring answers to our questions.   Would you like to ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Where should hydrology go?

and March 1, 2023
Where should hydrology go?

In 1965, UNESCO launched the first International Hydrological Decade to promote hydrology as an independent scientific discipline. This initiative has since grown into a global movement boosting hydrological research around a changing theme: the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Scientific Decades. The last two decades have shown that community efforts can shape the field o ...[Read More]

SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

The study of sedimentary architecture and topography to reduce Earthquake damages: a sedimentological perspective on the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes

February 28, 2023
The study of sedimentary architecture and topography to reduce Earthquake damages: a sedimentological perspective on the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes

The area were most collapses occurred is a former alluvial outlet for the drainage of water and sediment from the upper parts of the Ahir Mountain When it comes to earthquakes, the nature of the Earth surface geology and its geometry is critical to understand the intensity and type of motion of the ground where we live. Of course, other factors matter when assessing the risk of damage in human-mad ...[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

Sea level rise: a global threat in a warming planet

and February 28, 2023
Sea level rise: a global threat in a warming planet

Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by seas and oceans but in the geological past the extension of sea and land has varied several times as sea level changed over time. During the past millions of years, the oceans have cyclically retreated and expanded with the alternating of warmer and colder climatic periods in consequence of the astronomical motions of the Earth, repeatedly changi ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

Unravelling the Complex Drivers of Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change

and February 27, 2023
Unravelling the Complex Drivers of Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change

In the last decades, the strength of climate change has been evident across the globe in many weather and climate extremes occurrences, including heatwaves and droughts. Those events are involved in all fire stages and influence all aspects of the fire regime [1].    Climate change is driving unprecedented wildfire in the Mediterranean region  The Mediterranean region is a climate change hots ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders

February 24, 2023
Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders

Here on the Cryoblog we often talk about the impacts of climate change in the Cryosphere. So now for something completely different: how does this fit into sustainable development in the Arctic? Here, I take you on a journey through the Arctic in a round-up of the recent Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders program, a unique early-career and mentoring program bringing together academic, industry, ind ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

Ambient seismic wavefield: how noise can be a signal

February 23, 2023
Ambient seismic wavefield: how noise can be a signal

Every now and then, the surface of our planet shakes violently during earthquakes like the recent magnitudes 7.8 and 7.5 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence in Türkiye. These vibrations are recorded by instruments called seismometers and are then processed and analyzed by seismologists to study the earthquake processes themselves as well as other deep Earth structures. Interestingly, seismometers al ...[Read More]