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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 summer 2020. Here the video of the downburst recorded during ...[Read More]
For our seasonal greetings this year, we would like to present the outreach team of the climate division. Our team has grown after the last EGU assembly, and this was highly visible in our increased number of blog postings throughout the year. We published 14 post in total! The team is responsible for writing and editing blog posts as well as finding motivated guest writers. We try to address all ...[Read More]
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, Antarctic, and globally” might be of specia ...[Read More]
The vEGU21 abstract submission is now open until 13 January 2021!! Here we highlight GMPV sessions to help you navigating your way through the wild jungle of almost 700 available EGU sessions! Today we present you session GD6.2/ GMPV11: “The Arctic connection – plate tectonics, mantle dynamics and paleogeography serving paleo-climate models and modern jurisdiction”. From the conv ...[Read More]
There are countless Christmas films, and almost all of them feature some form of snow, ice or cold weather. There are the classics such as Home Alone, Elf and Miracle on 34th Street, and there are the newer, shall we say ‘Netflix’ style, which feature Princes, Knights and Vanessa Hudgens. There’s just no way to watch them all over the festive period, so let us recommend you our top 5 Christmas fil ...[Read More]
The Sassy Scientist has been a very good boy, slaving away at his fume cupboard and diligently hammering his keyboard. He therefore feels justified pinning his letter to Santa on the department noticeboard, putting on his favourite Christmas jumper, and hoping for more than a piece of anthracite in his stocking. What would the Sassy Scientist like for Christmas? Dear Father Christmas, I, the Sassy ...[Read More]
This edition of “Beyond Tectonics” is brought to you by Dr. Derya Gürer and Luca Magri. Derya is a Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, and Luca is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. In early 2020, they participated in a research voyage to one of the most remote places on the plane ...[Read More]
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 December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryospheric Sciences (CR), Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) and Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP). They are served by the journals: Geoscientif ...[Read More]
Please join us for GMPV ECS talks in early 2021! You can register in advance for the talks at the links below. In 2021, we’ll be running some special editions of the GMPV ECS online talks, where we focus on specific sub-disciplines of GMPV. Wednesday January 20th 11:00 CET – Volcanology special edition – speakers tbc. REGISTER HERE. Wednesday February 17th 16:00 CET – speakers tbc. REGISTER HERE. ...[Read More]
Ahhh analogue models… Those beautiful little (or not so little) worlds inside a box, captivatingly beautiful, impossibly detailed… (sorry, getting carried away, am I?). This week, Alex Hughes gives us the insider’s report on what actually goes on in analogue modelling labs when the “Experiment running, do not disturb!!” sign is on the door. Analogue models have been a ...[Read More]
