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What is the force imposed by underwater currents?
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What is the metamorphic field gradient useful for?
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What is the difference between dew and rain?
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Peninsula vs Cape [closed]
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How to draw a strike and dip on a geologic map?
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How do I calculate Per capita $\ce{CO2}$ emissions?
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Why is q used for specific humidity?
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Topography & physiography
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Seismic dispersion: What does it really mean and what causes it?
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Explanation of yellow/pinkish sky? [closed]
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What is a typical value of the Péclet number for internal waves?
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In which state of matter exactly are the clouds? [duplicate]
Awarded Oct 28 at 17:21
If the Kola Superdeep Borehole were opened today, what would come out of it?
Awarded Oct 27 at 10:35
What would happen if Earth suddenly stopped rotating and revolving at the same time?
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Where do bad smells eventually go?
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What's the difference between Waste Water Reclamation and Waste Water Reuse? [closed]
Awarded Oct 20 at 4:47
Why is streak different from color?
Awarded Oct 19 at 13:57
Good Open source alternatives to SeisImager & RES2DINV?
Awarded Oct 15 at 10:41
What influences the movement (speed and direction) of tropical cyclones?
Awarded Oct 11 at 1:28
Is this ice cover real - and what circumstances are required to make it?
Awarded Oct 10 at 16:45
Why is Vladivostock so cold, while Dalian is so warm?
Awarded Oct 9 at 23:17
How can a tsunami be 'hot'?
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What would happen if magma flows into a very large oil deposit?
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Predicting rainfall with governing equations
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Causes of fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen in past 300 Mya
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Plotting ERA5 U/V Wind Data Using Python
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Why is Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the whole solar system?
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Why is Mauna Kea taller than the maximum height possible on Earth?
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Convert air vapor pressure to relative humidity
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What are Tetens coefficients?
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What is the mixing ratio of a cloud?
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Why in different places seems directions are changed? [closed]
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Why isn't the sun due south at noon? [closed]
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What allowed the Himalaya to become so high?
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Could an icy/extremely-cold asteroid/comet ever strike and cool the Earth?
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Is Earth getting heavier or lighter?
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Would hurricanes on an ocean planet continue indefinitely?
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run the WRF model using ERA5
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How significant is a 5-10 mb drop in pressure over a 20 minute period?
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Why there are no sharp corners in nature?
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How it's possible to measure temperature 2000 years ago with such precision?
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How do you tell if smoky quartz has been irradiated?
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Comparing the Earth with a basketball?
Awarded Aug 18 at 8:33
What is the difference between subvolcanic rocks and plutonic rocks?
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If rocks are stones, what type of rock are gallstones? [closed]
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Oscillations in the Keeling curve?
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Is there any river that does not discharge into larger body of water?
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What causes jagged appearance of mountains in SE Asia?
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Can Venus be considered to be tectonically active?
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What is this ring of cloud?
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Why did a branch against a window prevent condensation?
Awarded Jul 16 at 19:06
Rate of climate change with and without humans?
Awarded Jun 25 at 17:31
Where can fluorite be found on Long Island, New York?
Awarded Jun 20 at 11:55
How to calculate maximum and minimum mean monthly temperatures?
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Prevailing winds between 30 to 60 degrees latitude [duplicate]
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Do winds behave like waves?
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Why does an artesian well dry slower than a normal well?
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Volcanic activity in Taiwan, ever in recorded history, much chance in the near future?
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How is this crumbly crystal-rich rock formed?
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Adding time dimension and corresponding new variable to a netcdf file
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