This week from AGU: Mars' ice, Earth's mantle & 5 new research papers
2015-08-26
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Terraced craters: Windows into Mars' icy past
Just beneath Mars' dirt surface, or regolith, researchers found an enormous slab of water ice, measuring 40 meters (130 feet) thick, and covering an area equivalent to that of California and Texas combined, according to a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters.
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What lies deep in the mantle below?
For decades, scientists have probed Earth's remote mantle by analyzing how seismic waves of distant earthquakes pass through it. But we are still challenged by the technique's limitations.
New research papers
Ross Ice Shelf Vibrations, Geophysical Research Letters
A 21st Century Northward Tropical Precipitation Shift Caused by Future Anthropogenic Aerosol Reductions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Lightning channel length and flash energy determined from moments of the flash area distribution, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Fluxes and fate of dissolved methane released at the seafloor at the landward limit of the gas hydrate stability zone offshore western Svalbard, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
WRF simulated sensitivity to land surface schemes in short and medium ranges for a high-temperature event in east China: A comparative study, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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