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How can one know the correct direction on a cloudy day?
Awarded Nov 21 at 21:47
ppmV versus μmol/mol for atmospheric CO2 - how to convert?
Awarded Nov 18 at 0:16
What is this spaceship-shaped cloud?
Awarded Nov 14 at 7:40
How bad is geo-engineering?
Awarded Nov 1 at 14:16
From how deep in the mantle has any rock ever been brought to the surface? Have scientists found anything they believe originated in the outer core?
Awarded Oct 23 at 9:31
Why are these U-shaped bodies of water frequent near Kura river?
Awarded Oct 15 at 13:34
Language to modernize a scientific Fortran codebase
Awarded Sep 23 at 17:56
Why aren't lenticular clouds moved by the wind?
Awarded Aug 8 at 2:31
On the light difference between morning and afternoon
Awarded Aug 7 at 8:36
Why is basalt denser than granite?
Awarded Aug 1 at 12:51
Why are frontal zones connected to low-pressure systems but not to high-pressure systems?
Awarded Jul 29 at 4:32
Why does the emission of aircrafts at higher altitudes have a greater effect on the climate?
Awarded Jul 22 at 22:42
Before the Great Oxygenation Event, where was the oxygen?
Awarded Jul 3 at 14:46
Why is global warming bad? [closed]
Awarded Jun 19 at 10:05
Why do rivers sometimes travel down the opposite side of the mountains from where the rain happens?
Awarded Jun 13 at 3:28
Is "humidity" the quantifiable metric for mugginess?
Awarded May 9 at 7:07
Earthquakes at plate boundaries
Awarded May 7 at 20:16
What is this cloud formation?
Awarded Apr 10 at 23:55
How fast does the Earth's inner-core spin?
Awarded Apr 2 at 0:16
Impacts of high-altitude emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) compared to sea level GHG emissions
Awarded Mar 17 at 22:21
Why is geothermal heat insignificant to surface temperature?
Awarded Mar 17 at 13:28
Why are CO2 sensors so expensive when CO sensors aren't?
Awarded Mar 12 at 6:55
What causes a rainbow, its colours and its shape?
Awarded Mar 12 at 0:18
Most amenable coastal geographic conditions for harbors?
Awarded Feb 16 at 2:17
Why aren't weather balloons left in the atmosphere permanently?
Awarded Feb 15 at 20:40
How has the total area of continents changed during the Earth history?
Awarded Feb 9 at 20:06
Why does the temperature change about every 50-100 meters near hills
Awarded Jan 31 at 9:33
Does Earth's core actually turn "backwards" at times?
Awarded Jan 25 at 17:03
Why is NaCl so hyper abundant in the ocean?
Awarded Jan 25 at 16:17
What oxidised the soil on Mars?
Awarded Jan 23 at 11:42
Have there been any studies on how vehicles directly contribute to a rising global temperature?
Awarded Jan 8 at 11:42
How were the sea levels around western Europe during the Medieval Warm Period?
Awarded Dec 17, 2022 at 0:25
Any other fumarolic ice caves in the literature? [closed]
Awarded Dec 7, 2022 at 20:56
Formation of ice shape
Awarded Nov 25, 2022 at 17:17
Does the 0m elevation height of a Digital Elevation Model (Copernicus DEM) correspond to mean sea level?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 15:06
Is it typically colder after a storm?
Awarded Oct 8, 2022 at 17:57
Are there any (land) hills/mountains with bases below sea level?
Awarded Aug 24, 2022 at 1:51
Was the filling of the Three Gorges Dam's impact on the Earth's rotation rate detectable?
Awarded Aug 9, 2022 at 12:28
Are there minerals which are not been found on earth but which are still possible to exist?
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 5:36
Who originated Taylor's axiom of lunar formation, and where?
Awarded Aug 5, 2022 at 19:50
Is it safe to keep volcanic sulfur at home?
Awarded Aug 1, 2022 at 12:48
Why had climate change not been proven beyond doubt for so long?
Awarded Jul 22, 2022 at 8:20
Why do colder climates have more rugged coasts?
Awarded Jul 19, 2022 at 9:03
How much carbon is sequestered out of the atmosphere through marine snow?
Awarded Jul 19, 2022 at 6:12
Why are salt domes suitable for the final disposal of nuclear waste?
Awarded Jul 15, 2022 at 16:40
What are these undersea lines all around Hawaii?
Awarded Jul 14, 2022 at 6:20
How deep could the surface of the Earth's crust get?
Awarded Jun 24, 2022 at 8:57
Composition of Martian Crust
Awarded May 28, 2022 at 8:18
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?
Awarded May 16, 2022 at 19:11
What are these underwater structures near 6°N 85°55'W
Awarded Apr 25, 2022 at 5:33
In the northern hemisphere summer, why are places in the north cooler than those in the south?
Awarded Apr 18, 2022 at 13:17
Taking into account the decay products of transuranic elements, are the world's uranium reserves growing or shrinking?
Awarded Mar 21, 2022 at 14:51
What is the white coating "patina" we often see on deposited chalcedony/agate?
Awarded Mar 7, 2022 at 9:32
How to statistically downscale wind speeds?
Awarded Feb 8, 2022 at 20:11
Large scale structures in the Sahara – what are they?
Awarded Feb 6, 2022 at 20:50
Argument for designing an ocean monitoring network based on satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration?
Awarded Feb 3, 2022 at 12:08
What is the smallest grid spacing that Eulerian air quality models should use?
Awarded Feb 3, 2022 at 12:08
Why don't errors accumulate in climate models when the time horizon increases?
Awarded Jan 31, 2022 at 5:41
Why don't weather forecast models normally take solar eclipses into account?
Awarded Jan 26, 2022 at 14:55
Geothermal instead of fossil and nuclear?
Awarded Jan 25, 2022 at 18:31
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