EGU Blogs

Words on Wednesday: Brief Communication – The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation

Suzanne Hangx July 22, 2015

Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Scolobig, A.: Brief Communication: The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation, …[Read More]

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Atmospheric Sciences

Urban Climate

Dasaraden Mauree July 21, 2015

The 9th International Conference on Urban Climate and the 12th Urban Environment Symposium are taking place this week in the “Pink City” Toulouse. With the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) which will be held in December in Paris, the obvious focus topic for the urban climate conference is the mitigation and adaptation to climate change …[Read More]

GeoSphere

Geology Photo of the Week #44

Matt Herod July 20, 2015

For a bit of a change of pace the photo of the week this week isn’t a photo at all. Rather it’s a fascinating model output showing ocean surface currents in the North Atlantic. The Gulf Stream is clearly visible as it flows past Atlantic Canada and out towards the middle of the north Atlantic. …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: Strombolian eruption

Laura Roberts-Artal July 20, 2015

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 …[Read More]

ERE

Energy, Resources and the Environment

Booming Beijing: the impact of urban growth on local environment

Suzanne Hangx July 20, 2015

The global population is ever-growing. Cities are expanding at a rapid pace. A recent study by Mark Jacobsen of Stanford University and Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory investigated the urban growth of Beijing, China (published on June 15th in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres). Their results showed that the city had …[Read More]

WaterUnderground

When it snows, it pours (into aquifers)! Recharge seasonality around the world…

Scott Jasechko 19th July 2015

Written by Scott Jasechko University of Calgary isohydro.ca twitter.com/sjasechko Groundwater is renewed by rain and melted snow that moves under the ground, a process called groundwater recharge. The percentages of summer versus winter precipitation that make it under the ground are expected to be different for a number of reasons including larger plant water use …[Read More]

GeoLog

Geosciences Column: When water is scarce, understanding how we can save it is important

Laura Roberts-Artal July 17, 2015

Supplies of water on Earth are running dry. The rate at which an ever growing population consumes this precious resource is not matched by our Planet’s ability to replenish it. Water scarcity is proving a problem globally, with regions such as California and Brazil facing some of the most severe water shortages on record. Used …[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Need support? Check EGU Meetings Support for 2016

Suzanne Hangx July 16, 2015

Are you planning to host a meeting, workshop or training school, but need some support? Check out the EGU Meetings Support scheme for 2016. *** The EGU welcomes proposals for Topical Meetings, Training Schools and Workshops, as well as applications for EGU Sponsorship of External Meetings, for the year 2016.Successful proposals result in high profile …[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe

ERE Matters July 15, 2015

Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Gudmundsson, L. and Seneviratne, S. I.: Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2859-2879, …[Read More]

PalaeoBlog

Green Tea and Velociraptors

The Open Research Glossary round 2

Jon Tennant July 14, 2015

A few months ago, we published the crowd-sourced Open Research Glossary, details of which can be found here. We’ve taken this to the next level now, and published the updated and much prettier version of this resource on Figshare. This means it is now openly licensed for re-use, and can also be cited like any …[Read More]