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I was always under the impression that evaporated water from the Atlantic Ocean traveled west to hydrate the eastern U.S. and that not only did the western U.S. have to deal with rain shadows from …
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Recently I was looking at a map of known impact structures and I noticed that they are concentrated between the tropical and arctic latitudes, but there is very little near the equator. I can think …
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I spent already days on the following: In one of my meteorology scripts the equations for conservation of momentum in the rotation reference system of earth are given by: The apparent forces are in …
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So far I understood, geopotential $\Phi$ is just defined by $$\vec \nabla \phi = \vec g$$ But because g can be taken to be constant within troposphere, it is nothing but $$\Phi(z) = g \cdot z + C$$ So …
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In the foliation of a gneiss for instance, minerals are segregated by composition. What causes minerals phases to be grouped into layers like this?
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At 2735 m (8973 ft) below sea level, the Kidd mine reportedly has the deepest non-marine point of the Earth’s surface (since the Kola borehole is sealed). I wonder what the pressure down there is, as …
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I traversed a route in a city. The route has different elevation. So I need to remove the effect of elevation from my air temperature measurements. The measurements done by temperature data logger …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I keep reading that final storage sites for nuclear waste are being built in salt domes. In the case of the German Gorleben project, the salt domes were determined to be unsuitable after prolonged …
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My geology textbook tells me that soil is not renewable, and I agree with this, but there was some question in my class as to whether this is true. Some soils take more than a human lifetime to …
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Where is the current body of science learning towards, that iron came from meteor or it was somehow formed on earth?
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As the Earth’s axis is inclined, during summer in the northern hemisphere places in the north are exposed to the Sun’s rays for longer, so days are longer during summer (say in June – Aug). Yet, …
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Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling show that the height of the tropopause depends on the location, notably the latitude, and that the troposphere is roughly 8km higher at the equator than the poles …
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What conversion functions exist to transfer precipitation forecast in mm to expected snowfall in cm? Simple rules of thumbs as well as more advanced methods would be of interest.
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It is said that Earth rotates from west to east. I take this as Earth’s western hemisphere moves towards the Eastern hemisphere when seen from the frame of reference of pole star. Now I can also …
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Can you answer these questions?
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Comming from this question: Can we really travel through earth’s core? I wonder what makes special a volcanic pipe to be stable since the mantle through the surface, in comparison to our try or …
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To be exact, I’m talking about the Y-Axis. Normalizing does not make sense to me. How does this not skew data?
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