Regular Features

Imaggeo On Monday: The Virgin Forest of Arasbârân

Roshanak Tootoonchi September 13, 2021

The Virgin Forest of Arasbârân. Credit: Roshanak Tootoonchi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This photo was taken standing in the middle of Arasbârân Forest, a beautiful virgin forest in Kaleybar, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. In Autumn and Spring, it gets extremely rainy around this area, thus begins the flowing of ephemeral streams, like the one that is captured in this photo. Located between the Caspian Sea, Aras River and the Mediterranean region, this forest has got exceptional con ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: The evolution of a cloud during a day

Christoph Mayr September 6, 2021

The evolution of a cloud during a day. Credit: Christoph Mayr(distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

A cloud in the lee of the Patagonian Andes observed during an entire day. The shape of the cloud changed from lenticular to whirl- and funnel-shaped. Description by Christoph Mayr, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Konstantinos Kourtidis also added a comment to the image, explaining more about how lenticular clouds like these can form: “That’s a great photo sequence. The ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

Hazel Gibson August 31, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For August, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geodesy (G), Geodynamics (GD) and Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Geoscien ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013, observed from a geostationary orbit

Maximilian Reuter August 30, 2021

Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013, observed from a geostationary orbit. Credit: Maximilian Reuter (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The solar eclipse of November 3, 2013, as observed from the MSG satellite, in geostationary orbit 36000km above the equator. The eclipsed area, where the shadow of the full Moon reached the Earth’s surface, moved over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa. This eclipse was classified as a hybrid eclipse because it started out as an annular eclipse and became a total eclipse over equatorial Africa. W ...[Read More]