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Why are mornings cooler than nights?
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Why is Montana warmer than Wyoming?
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How can a starting point south of the north pole to an endpoint north of the south pole be halfway around the world?
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Do rising CO2 levels change the appearance of the sky in infrared?
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Does WRF simulation use sigma or eta vertical coordinate system?
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What would happen to the Earth if there were no seasons?
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With all the rain Seattle gets, why is widespread flooding relatively rare?
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What equation should I use in this isostasy problem?
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How is carbon distributed among the atmosphere, the oceans, the biomass and the unburnt fossil fuels?
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Discrete Slant Stack on seismic data
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How to calculate the solar radiation at any place, any time
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Are you more likely to get a sunburn at the pole than the equator?
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How to plot lat-lon-rainfall in MATLAB?
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Interpolate Gaussian grids to regular fixed grids using bilinear interpolation?
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Why is WRF-Chem not reading my emissions data?
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What is the best way to accurately measure wavelength between crests on a pier?
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What are these underwater structures near 6°N 85°55'W
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Why don't green house gases escape into space?
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Why do tropical cyclones not tear themselves apart?
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Why does the meandering pattern of the jet stream itself propagate?
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How is global greenhouse gas emission calculated?
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Can Some not all mountains actually be Giant petrified Tree Stumps? [closed]
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How quickly do landslides occur? [closed]
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How to find/calculate the yearly evaporation of a given area?
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How can daily brightness be quantified or measured?
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Why is phase rotation needed to produce the colored inversion operator?
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How can I get historical weather data for the United States?
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Why are there different vertical gradients of temperature in different layers of the atmosphere?
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Which is worse, plastic or styrofoam cups?
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What causes this striped rock formation?
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If ALL the ice melted, what percentage of the Earth's surface would be water?
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How to prepare GrADS's .ctl file to convert grd file into .nc file in batch mode?
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What is the consensus among geologists about climate change being caused by humans?
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Regarding the melting glaciers and icebergs, why isn't the extra water vapor in the atmosphere mentioned in discussions of global warming?
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Is there a standard definition of the term “mountain”?
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converting segd data to SU format using seismic unix
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Other than tectonic activity, what can reshape a world's surface?
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What is the relationship between raw seismic data, CMP Stacking, NMO & Machine Learning
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What causes some plates to move faster than others?
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Why do trees break at the same wind speed?
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Safest spots when an asteroid hits? [closed]
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How would I use data to find specific humidity and mixing ratio?
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What is the difference between Water Holding Capacity, Field Capacity and TAWC?
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Is this a contradiction in Wikipedia's definition of temperate zone?
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Magnetic rocks no magnetite
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Which plant produces the most oxygen?
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How is dense magma able to rise and punch through continental crust?
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Rivers - How to calculate maximum velocity from average velocity in a cross section
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Why do we consider hydrostatic pressure and lithostatic pressure separately?
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How to determine ocean bottom depth for a data set consisting of longitude and latitude?
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Are metals and other elements in every continent?
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Gaussian wavelet generation with a given frequency
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What type of cloud formation are these dark low-hanging clouds?
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As the earth's core cools, will the size be affected?
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Why does dew accumlate on only one side of my car?
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Can cooled/hardened lava rock return to a molten state?
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How to tell if a single day of weather is an anomaly or due to climate change?
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why we don't have solar eclipse every month?
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What factors affect the size of rain shadows?
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What is the force imposed by underwater currents?
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