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difference between different meteorological models
I need to work with historical weather data (temperature and precipitation), we use meteoblue.com.
There (https://docs.meteoblue.com/en/meteo/data-sources/data-sources#data-sources) they write about ...
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How can the 'crystal cleavage' of apatite have a four-digit number?
On Wikipedia's page for apatite, the crystal cleavage is listed as [0001] or [0101], which I assume are Miller indices....
But how can there be four numbers/digits instead of two, like there usually ...
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Does a mountain top have higher gravity than a nearby sea-level surface?
Regardless the latitude and centrifugial 'force' is the gravity on mountains higher or lower than at sealevel?
Gravity is depending on the radius to the centre and the mass. Now if you are on a ...
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Is VLF-EM scanning for fractures a valid way to find groundwater for a well?
I posted this question on Engineering Stack Exchange as well. I'm not sure if here or there is the better place. There is no agriculture stack exchange (much as I wish there was) so I am posting there ...
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Why is the weather in San Francisco so different from that in San Jose?
San Francisco has around 5 months a year of intermittent rain. San Jose, just 50 miles south and nestled between mountains instead of between waters, has perhaps only 1 month of rain. San Francisco ...
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Stratigraphy of limestone applied to the Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is made from blocks of limestone quarried from the Giza plateau. The pyramid is composed up of about 200 layers, with individual blocks varying in thickness from 20 to 60 ...
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Why is Earth's density gradient a step-function, rather than smooth?
Why is the density of particles in Earth's atmosphere above surface-level so much less than ground and below? Why, instead, isn't Earth simply a ball of swirling gasses / liquids, which become ...
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Temperate Rainforests
I have heard that the Appalachian Mountains is qualified as a temperate rainforest. What qualifies a temperate rainforest and what makes the Appalachian Mountains a temperate rainforest?
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Korea a lot colder than New England this year
Normally, here in New England we consider our weather to somewhat parallel Korea's weather. However, this year it seems to be much colder in Korea. They are having record lows while we are having a ...
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What effect does climate change have on the Earth's rotation?
I recently read a blog entry from a leap-second expert explaining that in near term (i.e. last 3 years) the Earth has been spinning ever so slightly faster, delaying the need to insert a leap-second (...
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How long to breathe (the equivalent) of all of the atmosphere?
I have done some rough calculations of how long it might take humanity: approx 80,000 years (that's taking Earth's population as 7.5 billion, 11,000 litres a day of breathing per person, the weight of ...
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Why is Ozone hole above single area of earth? Why that area?
As titled. How does the hole fell specifically on that region of the stratosphere above the Antarctic and why?
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Why has the Earth's average sea level risen 'only' by nine inches after one degree C increase in temperature?
I am only doing gross calculations here, but...
If the Earth has warmed by about one degree Celsius in the last century or so, and the thermal expansion coefficient of water is about .0002085, then ...
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Why are thrust faults older than normal faults in the Himalayan-Tibetan plateau?
In the Himalayan-Tibetan plateau, both normal and thrust faults are observed. Geological
age dating suggests thrust faults are older (before 18-20 Ma) than the normal faults (after 18-20
Ma). Explain ...
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Why is Belgium (and Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Norway) still above consumption CO2 levels per capita of 1990? While many others did go down
"Consumption-based emissions reflect the consumption and lifestyle
choices of a country’s citizens."
Via this article https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 I see that Belgium's ...
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How to read stratigraphy data?
I have a list of geological data.
The data is for 3 variables: member, level and L+/-
These variables correspond to a particular position on a stratigraphic column/chart.
I would like help with ...
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Why did Hurricane Harvey have so much lightning associated with it?
Hurricane Harvey (Category 4 hurricane, in August 2017) was a prodigious lightning producer when it hit Houston/SE Texas. But I thought hurricanes don't have much lightning (with the eyewall being the ...
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Is it true that earthquakes are not felt in a cave?
I took a tour of a cave in northern California last weekend. The tour guide asked us, "If an earthquake occurred, what would we feel in here?"
My answer was, "fear," but she said we would feel ...
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The Medieval Climatic Anomaly
Trying to understand this question, posted to me by a lecturer at University:
"The Medieval Climatic Anomaly was distinctive in terms of the
prevailing climates and forcing mechanisms operating ...
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Conditions of Thunderstorms
Why do some heavy rainstorms and hailstorms not produce any lightning or thunder at all when I thought that these conditions of heavy rain and hail are right to bring lightning and thunder but don’t ...
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Which part of solar radiation (VIS, NIR) keeps Earth warm?
Which part of solar radiation (visible light vs. infrared radiation) plays main part in keeping Earth's surface warm?
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Global areas below sea level dataset?
Anyone know of an existing dataset of areas below sea level? Vector extents would be ideal. Doesn't need to be super detailed for my purposes, but it would be good if it included all areas (e.g. over-...
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How is it possible for rocks to be trapped within another type of rock?
More specifically, I would like to know how the rocks in these pictures have formed:
If this is because magma has melted and trapped the other rocks inside, do they have a different melting point ...
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Climate change impact / risk assessment
I work for a local council in the UK. We want to include climate change as a mandatory consideration in all of our decision making. This would require project managers to look at the risk (what ...
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Difference between soil Water Holding Capacity and soil pore volume?
I have got confused
I took 100g soil in a funnel with filter paper. poured 100 ml water and collected the drained water in a calibrated cylinder.
Water added in funnel = 100 ml
Water collected in ...
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Equilibrium condition for Kelvin's Vapor Pressure-curvature equation
This is regarding the Correction due to 'Curvature of the drop' made by Lord Kelvin to the Clausius-Clapeyron Equation.
So, the idea is that, during large scale nucleation of water vapour into cloud ...
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Why is Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the whole solar system?
Why is it that the volcanoes found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator, (one of which is Olympus Mons) so much larger than those found on Earth. In comparison, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, ...
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Is the weather of Miami, Florida and the weather of Lagos, Nigeria the same
I've been to Lagos and it rains a lot sometimes overflooding but it's pretty sunny. I'm aware that it rains a lot too in Miami. Is the climate the same apart from Lagos being near Equator and ITCZ ...
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Is this Asbestos? [migrated]
I found this as insulation layer in an oven (Ariston) while trying to replace a thermocouple and it looks like asbestos to me.
Is it Asbestos?
Is it dangerous?
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Why is the pond in my backyard not frozen when it is -15 °C (5 °F) outside?
I am in O'Fallon, Missouri and today it is -15 °C (5 °F) outside. I was taught water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F). I could understand if it was exactly 0 °C (32 °F) that the water might not be turning to ...
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Dating recent skeletons with radiometric dating techniques
Can we use radiometric dating techniques on recent skeletons from, say, around the year 2000 and so on and get the same result as the recorded date of death of the owner of the skeleton? If yes (or no)...
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Could saltwater be useful for greening deserts and sequestering CO2?
Desert greening is the conversion of deserts into moister environments with more vegetation. This could be used to combat desertification and (by sequestering CO2) climate change, and also to increase ...
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What sort of a plate is the Sunda plate?
I have read that the islands of Sumatra & Java have resulted from the subduction of oceanic crust of the Indo-Australian plate beneath the Sunda plate. I want to know whether this boundary is ...
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How do you infer what a cross section might look like below sea level?
Here is a schematic of a cross section which should represent an anticline:
https://postimg.cc/4HcmmZ26
Below sea level, I have inferred what the units might look like with the dashed lines. As I have ...
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Water Freezing Quandary
Good Day All,
I have quandary that I am unable to find an answer for.
I live in Ontario, Canada. Then home I reside on is directly on a lakefront. It makes for beautiful views and wonderful times in ...
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Where do I get hourly temperature data for cities with a high resolution?
I want to do a project with very high resolution temperature data from a city (any city) with very high resolution (<10 m), in an attempt to create an animated 3D microclimate map for that city.
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What is the most optimal latitude on Earth for the generation of extreme maximum temperatures?
First question on this StackExchange, so here goes...
Overall, reaching high temperatures is dependent on 2 factors:
The (maximum) solar angle in the day. The greater the solar angle, the more ...
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What is the best way to split strike and dip data on the image provided into “domains” in order to interpret folding on a stereonet?
Link to the original image: https://postimg.cc/v4bRqxxR
I believe this image represents two folds which are overturned and plunging. I would like to analyse these folds on a stereonet, but I am unsure ...
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Can small-scale backyard gardening produce more food per acre than broadscale [grain] farming?
Mark Shepard in his book "Restoration Agriculture" proclaims
[...] small-scale backyard gardening which has shown in study after study to produce more food per acre than broadscale grain ...
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What factor(s) could cause this sort of temperature increase, mid-night/early morning?
I am new to having a PWS (Personal Weather Station). I have not found any answers explaining why this sometimes occurs aside from explanations given factors that were not variables in my case (winds, ...
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Is a pampa an extinct valley? [closed]
I'm confused about the origin of a pampa. For this i'm referring to pampa. The wikipedia entry doesn't really give much information regarding the origin of a pampa. I've heard that it seems to had its ...
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How do you calculate the elevation at which clouds will form (lifting condensation level)?
I have a parcel of air at 30°C with a dew point temp of 15°C. It goes up and then back down a mountain 4km in height. Assuming the normal and dry adiabatic lapse rates apply, and an ELR=7.5°C/km, ...
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What does a mm of rain mean?
Lots of people have explained it over many sites but I still can not confidently say that I know what it means when they say Hong Kong experienced 3mm of rainfall last Friday.
Does it mean that 3mm ...
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Three Gorges Dam shifted North Pole by 2 cm?
Numerous sources repeat that, apart from slowing down the rotation of the globe, the Three Gorges Dam caused the geographic pole to shift by 2 cm. For example: https://blog.prv-engineering.co.uk/...
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How many mole of oxygen gas is there in the atmosphere?
At standard conditions, one liter of air, 0.21 L of oxygen gas, contains 0.0094 moles of $\rm O_2$. What is the total quantity of oxygen gas molecules in the atmosphere?
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Why does air pollution comes with cold weather in tropical areas?
I reside in Bangkok where the local press have reported several times these two last months November-December about high levels of smog. A similar phenomenon occurred last year in this period (end of ...
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Last ice age: did glaciers move South or move downhill?
(Note: this is from U.S. point of view)
I keep hearing how the glaciers "moved South" during the last ice age. But I thought glaciers moved downhill.
I can see that the glaciers formed ...
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How to map a comID to latitude/longitude?
I'm working with a dataset of river flow from NOAA and the locations of the measurements are indicated with a comID.
From what I gathered these comIDs are rooted from a dataset called NHD, although I ...
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Was the filling of the Three Gorges Dam's impact on the Earth's rotation rate detectable?
I'm a big fan of Vsauce and the video How Earth Moves is just one example of science related to the Earth available there (there's plenty more).
But the statement in this video starting at ...
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If 5 billion small devices where released to the atmosphere to convert CO2 to O2 what could go wrong? [closed]
Reading this question How many trees would I have to plant to solve Global Warming? was a small inspiration.
If 5 billion small devices where released to the atmosphere to convert CO2 to O2 what could ...