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2 answers

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Is it a coincidence that the circumference of the Earth in kilometers is almost $2^{12}$?

geodesy

Fred

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modified Apr 26 at 18:24

11 votes

4 answers

4k views

How plausible is it that "a portion of the ocean's floor" could suddenly be "thrown up to the surface" as described in this Lovecraft story?

blahdiblah

103

modified yesterday

8 votes

2 answers

657 views

Is "humidity" the quantifiable metric for mugginess?

humidity

JeopardyTempest

7,660

answered Apr 22 at 17:18

6 votes

1 answer

643 views

Do scientists ever make rock vapor in a laboratory? If so, is it ever used to study planetary or lunar formation?

geochemistry planetary-science planetary-formation

Gimelist

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modified 2 days ago

6 votes

2 answers

107 views

Can "meanders in meanders" form naturally?

geophysics rivers erosion

JeopardyTempest

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modified May 11 at 16:17

2 votes

1 answer

86 views

Would covering part of Lake Mead with large sheets of bubble wrap reduce the amount of water lost to evaporation?

climate-change hydrology water geoengineering water-vapour

Fred

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modified 21 hours ago

4 votes

1 answer

178 views

How did hydrogen make its way into proto-Earth?

geochemistry planetary-formation

AtmosphericPrisonEscape

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answered Apr 29 at 23:32

3 votes

1 answer

72 views

Predicting rock type from seismic processing

geophysics seismic stratigraphy inversion

kwinkunks

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modified 2 days ago

5 votes

1 answer

105 views

How do meteorologists accurately measure outdoor air temperature? There's sunlight, local trapping of air, radiant heat, precipitation

meteorology atmosphere instrumentation air

Fred

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modified May 5 at 17:53

4 votes

1 answer

81 views

Estimating meteorological visibility from air chemical and particulate composition

meteorology atmosphere-modelling air-pollution atmospheric-dust

gerrit♦

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modified Apr 21 at 13:47

4 votes

1 answer

78 views

Effects of Dredging Estuary Channel on Water Flow

oceanography hydrology tides

Thomas Perry

41

answered Apr 21 at 5:15

4 votes

1 answer

98 views

What materials are fossils made of?

paleontology fossils

Glorfindel

567

modified Apr 26 at 7:46

5 votes

1 answer

45 views

Clarification of dry deposition of particles

atmosphere atmosphere-modelling air-pollution

Deditos

3,133

answered Apr 25 at 12:14

4 votes

2 answers

55 views

What is the right term to describe the observation that your true bearing changes if you move in a non-cardinal direction on a globe?

terminology geodesy

Knob Scratcher

2,698

answered Apr 30 at 17:06

4 votes

1 answer

58 views

Cluster of cow burps now mapped; which satellites contribute to GHGSat's high-resolution maps of ppb levels of methane emission? How do they do it?

atmosphere earth-observation satellites instrumentation methane

justCal

1,027

modified May 2 at 11:30

2 votes

1 answer

59 views

When is the carbon stored in fossil fuels released back to the atmosphere under natural conditions?

carbon-cycle carbon fossil-fuel coal oil-reserves

Fred

20.3k

answered Apr 27 at 10:21

3 votes

1 answer

71 views

For how long can mid-oceanic islands be volcanically active?

geology volcanology islands

Karl Fabian

111

answered Apr 20 at 22:53

1 vote

2 answers

49 views

Formation of steam underground

water geothermal-heat drilling

Rodrigo de Azevedo

203

modified 2 days ago

2 votes

0 answers

62 views

Why are the Himalayan rivers highly tortuous in the mountain reaches?

sedimentology mountains rivers

Curiouser and curiouser

173

asked May 2 at 2:10

1 vote

0 answers

57 views

Urban heat island effect during winter time?

climate-change temperature climate-models urban-climate winter

Fred

20.3k

modified May 12 at 5:59

1 vote

1 answer

44 views

Air pressure on Mars below ground

barometric-pressure mars

Fred

20.3k

modified Apr 20 at 5:14

3 votes

1 answer

40 views

Is there a way to calculate crater depth?

geophysics meteorite impacts impact-craters

Fred

20.3k

answered May 12 at 1:23

4 votes

0 answers

48 views

When did mosquitoes reach Australia?

earth-history paleontology ecology geobiology

GrapefruitIsAwesome

290

modified Apr 25 at 3:44

2 votes

1 answer

29 views

What is the difference between permineralization and replacement

paleontology fossils

Fred

20.3k

modified Apr 24 at 9:00

0 votes

0 answers

40 views

The problem of the dissimilarity in the range of data values between the gridded data and the channel database in geosoft

geology geophysics geochemistry

Maged

1

modified May 12 at 23:10

2 votes

0 answers

36 views

Is it possible to reliably infer the anthropogenic contribution to the post-industrial rise in $\ce{CO2}$ from $^{14}\ce{C}$ observations?

climate-change carbon-cycle anthropogenic

Rodrigo de Azevedo

203

modified May 15 at 13:35

4 votes

1 answer

27 views

Minimum temperature in Growing Degree Day (GDD) - from daytime or from the whole day?

temperature agriculture

JeopardyTempest

7,660

answered May 2 at 13:54

1 vote

1 answer

26 views

Signs of hydrocarbon contamination in soil?

soil soil-science hydrocarbons

Fred

20.3k

answered Apr 21 at 1:16

1 vote

0 answers

33 views

Precision Agriculture using IOT System [closed]

agriculture

Fred

20.3k

modified May 13 at 18:53

3 votes

0 answers

33 views

What is the best way to interpolate Isotopic data and display them?

climate-models mapping python isotopic interpolation

Weiss

41

modified May 13 at 7:36

1 vote

0 answers

32 views

Which atmospheric parameters will give accurate result of electricity consumption of an area by using multiple regression model?

meteorology temperature data-analysis python

Dvarkesh

11

asked Apr 25 at 13:18

1 vote

0 answers

31 views

Variability in 4.5 billion year age of earth based on radioactive dating of meteorites?

earth-history dating radioactivity

mr_js

111

asked Apr 20 at 16:11

1 vote

0 answers

31 views

How to maintain average elevation of water on uneven terrain? [closed]

water

user26774

11

asked Apr 27 at 6:03

2 votes

0 answers

30 views

Visible satellite imagery, atmospheric anomaly (descending air) in cumulus fields?

meteorology atmosphere remote-sensing weather-satellites mesoscale-meteorology

Kfly

21

modified May 12 at 23:32

1 vote

0 answers

29 views

Complex interpolation for Isotopic data

models climate-models mapping python interpolation

Weiss

41

asked May 13 at 13:20

1 vote

0 answers

24 views

I'm trying to create a interactive matplotlib figure with a dropdown menu on a tkinter popup window but nothing displays

meteorology python

Linuxuser1234

21

modified Apr 25 at 1:53

1 vote

0 answers

22 views

What is the history behind the present day geology of California? What processes took place that led to the formation of each region as shown in fig?

geology tectonics structural-geology california

Lakhwinder Sidhu

55

asked Apr 22 at 11:40

3 votes

0 answers

22 views

Topographic differencing using lidar

topography

Chayan Lahiri

365

asked Apr 21 at 5:05

0 votes

1 answer

20 views

Where can I find archived NAM/HRRR model runs?

models weather-forecasting gfs

JeopardyTempest

7,660

answered Apr 20 at 4:04

1 vote

0 answers

19 views

How can i display NEXRAD data in 3d on matplotlib

meteorology python

Linuxuser1234

21

asked Apr 19 at 19:02

0 votes

0 answers

16 views

Does the collision of India influence the geology and geography of some of the other mountains of Asia, or just the Himalayas and Tibet?

geology geography mountains mountain-building

JohnWDailey

537

asked Apr 19 at 23:15

0 votes

0 answers

15 views

How to translate irradiance measurements from MERRA-2 datasets to GHI, DNI and DHI?

weather-forecasting atmospheric-radiation weather-satellites

Johannes Schwenzer

1

asked Apr 26 at 19:32

2 votes

0 answers

14 views

How well can they localize the sources of these marsquakes using only a single seismometer? Does being in the shadow zone of the core help or hinder?

seismology data-analysis mars instrumentation

uhoh

7,156

asked Apr 24 at 23:53

2 votes

0 answers

13 views

Does Environment Canada offer archived radar data in gridded format like in the US?

meteorology radar

spillthrill

835

modified Apr 19 at 19:59

0 votes

0 answers

12 views

Data for Isoscape

open-data mapping database isotopic

Jean-Marie Prival

5,584

modified yesterday

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