Atmospheric Sciences

Imaggeo on Mondays: The warming

Laura Roberts-Artal August 3, 2015

The warming. Credit: Martin Jucker (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Events of meteorological significance, such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, cyclones, jet streams and global-scale circulations can be described by a general term: atmospheric dynamics. When it comes to it, atmospheric dynamics deals with nothing more than air, which, in truth, is very difficult to directly observe, (with the exception of clouds and precipitation). This makes the study of atmospheri ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Deciphering the mysteries of the Mediterranean Sea with Katrin Schroeder

Laura Roberts-Artal July 24, 2015

Patagonian blues . Credit: Agathe Lisé-Pronovost (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. Following the EGU General Assembly, we spoke to Katrin Schroeder, the winner of a 2015 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists. First, could you introduce yourself and tell us a little more about your career path so far I am a physical oceanographer with a background in environmental science. I did my st ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Strombolian eruption

Laura Roberts-Artal July 20, 2015

Strombolian eruption. Credit: Jonas Kuhn (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Jonas Kuhn, a researcher at Heidelberg University , took the photograph during a field campaign at Stromboli volcano in Italy. The objective of this campaign was to gather data from different gaseous compounds of the volcanic plume. Via emission fluxes of volcanic gases (e.g. SO2, CO2, halogen compounds…) or the ratio of emitted gases, one can retrieve information about the interior of the v ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset over the Labrador Sea

Laura Roberts-Artal June 29, 2015

Ruby skies and calm waters are the backdrop for this week’s Imaggeo image – one of the ten finalist images in this year’s EGU Photo contest. “I took the picture while on a scientific cruise in West Greenland in 2013,” explains Christof Pearce, a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University. “We spent most of the time inside the fjord systems around the Greenland capital, Nuuk, but this specific ...[Read More]