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How to measure ocean vertical velocity?
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Why do meteorologists use DM and equal height surfaces for some maps?
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Minimum sea-level pressure and maximum wind speed intensity relationship in Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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What is the identity of this heavy, smooth, shiny black and red rock? [closed]
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Why does the El Niño Stop?
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How much garbage goes into the Pacific Ocean every year?
Awarded May 15 at 20:30
How accurate is a tipping-bucket rain gauge?
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Seismology: What causes an earthquake? [closed]
Awarded May 15 at 15:25
Why does sea level correspond to boundary between oceanic and continental crust?
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How far upstream would severe sea level rise (1m) noticably affect a large river?
Awarded May 10 at 19:10
Why do anticyclones bring clear skies in summertime?
Awarded May 9 at 21:00
What are the differences between alluvial, eluvial and colluvial deposits? [duplicate]
Awarded May 9 at 17:25
Plotting the wind direction in 3D?
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Available Matlab code to design Seismic Colored Inversion Operator?
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Why are inversion layers so important in meteorology?
Awarded May 7 at 20:10
Does natural plant decomposition release more greenhouse gases than burning
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What is the source of lava of volcano? From magma below crust? Or from molten crust by rubbing?
Awarded May 3 at 17:45
When is the next glaciation due?
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Why don't Antarctic waters have more upwellings, when Arctic waters are so rich in upwellings?
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Plotting wind barbs in python (no U,V component)
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Why is carbon pollution given more importance than Sulfur pollution or Nitrogen pollution?
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How was this egg shaped rock made and what is it?
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Deciphering NCDC data
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Did the Neolithic Revolution have an effect on the earth's climate?
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Model types: Robust diagnostic versus prognostic
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Could Global Climate Change increase the average moisture in the air?
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If there's more water in the atmosphere due to global warming, how are there fewer mountain glaciers?
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How does one interpret negative geopotential height values?
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Exhumation of blueschist
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Numerical weather forecasting - resources for a programmer?
Awarded Apr 23 at 18:40
Why don't cold fronts and other steep-gradient weather effects just dissipate?
Awarded Apr 22 at 16:55
Cause of Wallace line
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How to identify a predator's coprolite from an herbivore's?
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Why do human populations concentrate near fault lines, volcanoes, etc.?
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What fraction of dry land is below sea level?
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Can ice caps reform if they disappear?
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How would Earth map look like if all ice melts?
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Help interpreting a wind rose diagram
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Are greenhouse effect and ozone depletion correlated?
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What is the difference between w-wind, vertical p-velocity and Omega?
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How will climate change affect the latitudinal distribution of precipitation over each latitudinal region?
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What percentage of Earth's surface is arid?
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What separates the Karakoram Range, the Hindu Kush, and the Himalayan Range?
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Does the amount of rainfall relate to temperatures of a place?
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How much atmoshphere is there compared to land and water
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Has an entire plate ever subducted?
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How can I distinguish real from fake? (Jade Stone)
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What does global weirding mean regarding temperature extremes?
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How long does it take for fossil fuels to renew? [duplicate]
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Maps and Faults
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Which one is the correct concept of Continental Crust and Oceanic Crust?
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A parcel of air in an isothermal layer
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Why is earth's axis tilted?
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Siberia (Beringia) during last glacier period
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What influences tide-height the most? Can I guess the height by looking on a globe?
Awarded Mar 27 at 2:02
What are the fields in Petrel's IESX seismic horizon file?
Awarded Mar 24 at 14:00
Have there ever been simultaneous cyclones in the same ocean but different hemispheres?
Awarded Mar 22 at 16:00
How deep could the surface of the Earth's crust get?
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Pangaea - Why did all the land mass form in one area?
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Why are there no CO2 snowfalls on Earth?
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