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I've tried searching for this myself, but Google is saturated with the Greenhouse Gases angle of Global Warming. What I'm interested in is the following: Greenhouse gases aside, to what extent do ...

I’m working on a terrain generator and I now need to color the terrain to be rock, grass, or snow. Ignoring snow for now, at first I thought I’d make flatter areas grass and make steeper areas rock. ...

i hope this question fits here. In my local nature reserve there is an "art" project... but the local population has it's concerns. Seeing most things seem to be random trash thrown in (like ...

Except near thermal vents, the deep ocean is generally considered to be quite cool. For instance, The Mariana Trench (~10 km deep) is 1-4 °C. However, the geothermal gradient runs counter to that, ...

A long time ago I did some reading on Mie scattering and atmospheric particulate counting and I got sidetracked on raindrop characterization. I remember reading about light and laser based ...

If perfumes and deodorants cause air pollution, does that mean they also heat the planet?

Did geologists determine the age of rocks and fossils before the advent of modern scientific dating methods such as radiometric, electron spin resonance and thermoluminescence? If they did, does ...

I am interested in weather predictions at 1-day, 1-week and 2-weeks, ideally with a 1-kilometer resolution in various regions around the globe. I am particularly interested in wind speed at 100m. I am ...

I am searching for previous work that has determined the electrical conductivity range for komatiites at the surface. Does anyone have some values or references?

I hope that my question fits in this forum. I am looking for empirical literature dedicated to pollution in the forest. So far, I have only found psychological literature that tries to find out what ...

I'm trying to get a general idea of how Earth and other planets behave over time for a project. While I can find plenty of good data about how much radiative heating there was, I can't find anything ...

I am unsure if this is the correct place to ask such a question I will give it a go. So, the lab I work in is building a "drone park" to conduct robotics and controls experiments in. This ...

I have two datasets, each with two differing resolutions. The first dataset is a coarser resolution data set that has 0.5 x 0.625 degree resolution and contains values of MERRA-2 boundary layer ...

Imagine the Earth's axis of rotation were to precess in synch with the orbit of earth around the sun so the north pole always pointed towards the sun (same current axial tilt of about 23 degrees). ...

Would it be possible to grow oil palms in the Sahara desert to increase the world wide production of oxygene and lower the carbon dioxide levels? https://conservationx.com/project/id/39/desertpalmoil ...

Disclaimer I've read this question already on sending water to the north pole, south pole and glaciers, and I thought I'd give it my own take and see how technically possible it could be. Question As ...

The motion of Typhoon In-fa or Fabian made a hard 90 degree left turn and started heading towards Taiwan, slowed to 5 km/hr before reaching it, then took a hard 90 degree right turn and proceeded ...

In the question below, it was determined that gravity reduces to zero at the center of the Earth. That is logical. Previous question: Does gravity increase the closer to the core you get? However if ...

I have heard Neil degrasse Tyson say the earth is pear shaped but I can’t find any source for this. We all know the earth has an equatorial bulge because it spins but Neil says “it’s slightly wider ...

Found it on the sand near Destin, Florida. Thought it was a shark tooth at first but I am second guessing. It is hollow and white. ]2

I came across a video where a piece of land was seen rising very rapidly after rain. The land got elevated within a few minutes by atleast a meter. Can anyone suggest possible mechanisms? I am sharing ...

One of my friends told me quite seriously that Gaia had evolved humans to burn the fossil fuels and thus stop the earth running out of CO2. Leaving aside the obvious nonsense it did raise an ...

I don't know much about science, I'm just curious about how much warming a certain amount of CH4 would cause compared to a similar amount of CO2 (both 5 GtC). I'm sorry if the question sounded a bit ...

Thinking about the movie Dune (this is not a sci fi question) got me to wondering. In the theoretical situation where you had a desert of sand with an unlimited depth here on Earth. At what depth ...

What variables are necessary to calculate carbon sequestration on densely population tree cover over a large spatial range? I wish to work on a project that has been proposed to me and my team at work....

Some regions have monsoon conditions, a seasonal reversal of wind due to the heating and cooling of major land masses. This is true of east Asia in particular; according to https://science.jrank.org/...

Not sure where to post this question, but it struck me the other day that the major driving force behind our modern industrial society is owed nearly entirely to the harnessing of petroleum power in ...

The Forrest Mims YouTube video An Exquisitely Rare Pollen Corona shows a pair of rings closely circled around the Sun with rainbow colors; blue on the inside. The first annulus is easy to see, the ...

The Aral Sea region has a problem with salinization of soils and drinking water, e.g. water coming from wells. As I understand it, it's caused by unsustainable cotton farming, but what is the exact ...

I want to validate a model and compare several parameterizations. I have some observations so I calculated the RMSE for each parameterization with the best meteorological forcing. However I want to ...

Is there a consensus on the "heaviness" of rain? and Relationship between Probability of Precipitation and Predicted Amount of Rain remind me of a gedankenexperiment of mine. I like to ...

If a popular website provides an hourly forecast, and it states at 12:00pm there will be a 20% chance of precipitation and 2.5 mm of rain... What does the "2.5 mm of rain" mean? (A) ... If ...

In Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume I, Feynman talks about the relation between Physics and Geology. He says “Mountains are no lower today, on the average, than they were in the past”. Through what ...

I would like to compare NOAA GFS (Global Forecast System) geopotential height from ASL and GTOPO30. However, I cannot find vertical offset information in GFS geopotential height. Does anyone know ...

I'm working on a script for calculating the Rainfall Anomaly Index1 (RAI) for an area using satellite imagery to estimate precipitation. The context I have seen the RAI used in before is for weather ...

The sites of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations tend to be very dry, unlike those of ancient Egypt. Looking at the areas via online maps also shows, that while the Nile river basin remains very green, ...

Why does the number of components become 3 when calculating the phase rule of rocks consisting of MS and Chl. According to the Goldschmidt's minimal phase rule, in most cases, the degree of freedom of ...

I am teaching a secondary school course on my state's local history. The textbook begins with the history of the first humans, yet I think it is unfair not to start back much earlier, introducing the ...

Has everyone heard the stories about two new sets of archaic human remains found? One set of remains in Israel (Nester Tampa 'Homo') and one set in China (Homo longi -Dragon Man)? Multiple press ...

In ice cores a lot of data are measured and analyzed and can be plotted versus depth, for example age of layers thickness of layers concentration of spurious gases concentration of solids delta ...

As part of the home dashboard I am developing, I get information about incoming rain. It is given in mm/min. Is there a consensus on the precipitation rate that is called "light rain", or &...

Anecdotally, where I live in northern Europe, the weather seems to be stormier in winter, and this seems to be backed up by hard data. For example, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...

I am trying to understand climate tipping points better and I am looking for a place to ask the following question. If Earth Science SE isn't the right place, a recommendation of a better place would ...

When radiometric dating, would water affect the measured age of old rocks ? Specifically would water affect Uranium-238 to Lead-206 dating of Zircon crystals? Would it affect the lead since it’s ...

Some context: I row every morning, and due to my rowing club's proximity to a large lake, it is often very windy and rough (which builds character, according to the coaches). I noticed that as we row ...

A lot of papers mention that Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is sensitive to soil background such as bare soil. My question is what is the exact reason behind the impact of soil on NDVI? ...

I’m a new prospector who was given the task of learning a GEM GSM-19T Proton Magnetometer. I’ve learned how to set it up, take base readings, and take walking surveys. However when setting up a base ...

I am reading a paper on A-Scab simulation model and there I saw an equation given in the picture I am confused what does wetness (W) mean, as in is it a meteorological variable ?? Or does it mean ...

I am making a global social media website for farmers and gardeners which can be used to share information about plant varieties. This sharing is done via so called garden journals. In a garden ...

I am reading studies about the age of the earth and U-238 to Pb-206 comes up a lot. My question is: In meteorites, or really anywhere, is lead 206 natural or does it always come from radioactive decay?...