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26 Questions

Is a Gumpe the same as a plunge pool or stream pool?

Why are Nowcasting SAF daytime products apparently truncated at solar angles of 20° (rather than the documented 10°)?

Why does the OSCAR database describe Landsats fire identification as "daylight only"?

Why is the upper atmosphere brighter than the lower atmosphere in some photos from space?

What is a breadboard (retrieval) algorithm in the context of geophysical satellite retrievals/remote sensing?

Can the forecast N+1 days ahead be more certain than the forecast N days ahead?

How do I read IASI GDS L1C in Python?

Is there a way to tell whether land is cleared from forest, or naturally bare?

To what accuracy and precision do we know the volume of the Earth?

Are the elements of an averaging kernel matrix always centered on the diagonal, or can they be exclusively off-diagonal in rare cases?

Why are methane spectroscopic parameters harder to determine and relatively poorly known, compared to other Earth trace gases?

Why do those glaciers form on the lee side of the mountains?

(How long) would Earth's atmosphere last without a global magnetic field?

Can overshooting tops enter the stratosphere, or will they rather push the tropopause upward?

Why were no interferometers launched on weather satellites between the '69-'72 IRIS-D and the 2002-onward AIRS?

Why is there no High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) on Metop-C?

Are Argo probe data used for numerical weather prediction (NWP)?

What factors determine the height of the turbopause?

What can we learn by studying lunar atmospheric tides?

What causes bottom water to rise?

How do I explain why the Tibetan plateau is colder than lowlands at similar latitudes?

Why are weather kites no longer used (much) operationally?

Are there any quantities defined analogically to the virtual temperature, but for other gases?

What methods exist for remote profiling of oceanic columns?

Have there been any attempts to measure profiles through deep convective systems using dropsondes?

Is climate chaotic?