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What is meant by inverted water table?
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What is the average depth of the ocean?
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How is ocean heat content measured?
Awarded Jul 15 at 4:05
Why is there a line of volcanoes along the northwest coast of North America?
Awarded Jul 12 at 23:00
Movement of the Prime/Greenwich Meridian
Awarded Jul 11 at 17:25
Why are the Little Colorado River and Havasu Creek blue?
Awarded Jul 10 at 22:00
Why doesn't sea level show seasonality?
Awarded Jul 10 at 11:45
How much of the current global warming is due to human influence?
Awarded Jul 9 at 0:10
How did the terms “acidic” and “basic” come to be associated with $SiO_2$ in igneous rocks?
Awarded Jul 8 at 22:30
Simple Climate Models that Predict Climate Change
Awarded Jul 8 at 13:15
Why is ocean surface velocity around 3% of wind velocity?
Awarded Jul 7 at 4:35
Can large earthquakes happen few times at same place(in days)
Awarded Jul 6 at 4:45
How do scientists measure the age of old animal remains?
Awarded Jul 5 at 13:15
Factors Affecting Soil Profile
Awarded Jul 2 at 8:15
What are rare earths and why do they cluster near alkaline magmatism?
Awarded Jun 30 at 20:05
How high can a mountain possibly get?
Awarded Jun 30 at 16:30
Drawing strike lines when given strike and dip
Awarded Jun 26 at 2:30
Does the Coriolis Effect affect a wind from East to West?
Awarded Jun 24 at 3:30
What is the line crossing the Pacific Ocean that is shown on maps?
Awarded Jun 23 at 5:00
Interpretation of a seismogram (three components)
Awarded Jun 22 at 6:00
How to set up a domain from namelist in WRF?
Awarded Jun 20 at 17:00
What is the name for the forested areas in mountains below the treeline?
Awarded Jun 20 at 9:25
What is the difference between Precipitable Water (PW or PWAT) and Quantitive Precipitation Forecast (QPF) in terms of computer weather model data?
Awarded Jun 20 at 1:40
Where can I find a table of ocean temperature pressure and depth
Awarded Jun 20 at 0:50
What is the white coating “patina” we often see on deposited chalcedony/agate?
Awarded Jun 19 at 7:30
Effect of urbanization on weather events
Awarded Jun 18 at 16:15
Why does the “Ring of Fire” pretty much define “Pacific Rim”
Awarded Jun 14 at 9:50
Erosion without weathering?
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:15
How much of the ice on earth is floating?
Awarded Jun 11 at 1:05
Why does part of the P-wave convert into a S-wave with an increase of incidence angle?
Awarded Jun 11 at 0:05
How to interpret the values of moisture flux convergence?
Awarded Jun 10 at 18:55
Why do rivers sometimes travel down the opposite side of the mountains from where the rain happens?
Awarded Jun 7 at 20:10
Why is there so much oil in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Canada, but almost none in Europe?
Awarded Jun 7 at 7:01
Coal self-heating and spontaneous combustion, how does this happen?
Awarded Jun 5 at 5:10
Axial Obliquity and Climate Change
Awarded Jun 1 at 6:30
How were the sea levels around western Europe during the Medieval Warm Period?
Awarded May 30 at 3:55
When will glaciation resume? Has global warming delayed return to global cooling?
Awarded May 29 at 22:30
Is this petrified wood or just “some rock”? [on hold]
Awarded May 29 at 10:40
Can anyone recommend a good college level meteorology textbook?
Awarded May 28 at 1:25
Why do tectonic plates have a tendency to drift closer to the equator?
Awarded May 27 at 22:35
What is the most important source of natural gas? coal, oil or other?
Awarded May 27 at 17:45
At what depth does the underground begin to warm up?
Awarded May 27 at 6:45
Identifying sedimentary rocks in hand specimen
Awarded May 24 at 8:05
Is there a buildup of static electricity in a sandstorm?
Awarded May 23 at 7:50
How long does one touch on a stalagmite/stalactite lasts?
Awarded May 20 at 4:50
How to measure ocean vertical velocity?
Awarded May 17 at 19:20
Why do meteorologists use DM and equal height surfaces for some maps?
Awarded May 17 at 11:30
Minimum sea-level pressure and maximum wind speed intensity relationship in Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Awarded May 17 at 2:45
What is the identity of this heavy, smooth, shiny black and red rock? [closed]
Awarded May 16 at 17:25
Why does the El Niño Stop?
Awarded May 16 at 0:00
How much garbage goes into the Pacific Ocean every year?
Awarded May 15 at 20:30
How accurate is a tipping-bucket rain gauge?
Awarded May 15 at 15:35
Seismology: What causes an earthquake? [closed]
Awarded May 15 at 15:25
Why does sea level correspond to boundary between oceanic and continental crust?
Awarded May 15 at 4:50
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?
Awarded May 9 at 15:10
Available Matlab code to design Seismic Colored Inversion Operator?
Awarded May 8 at 13:35
Why are inversion layers so important in meteorology?
Awarded May 7 at 20:10
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