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Climate science and activism. Find out how environmental activism became climate activism, meet the Atmospheric Sciences Division ECS rep Mengze Li and apply to work as EGU’s new Editorial Manager!
Geodesy and photography! Learn our top 5 tips to get a great science photo, meet the Geodesy Division ECS co-rep Rebekka Steffen and submit your session proposal for EGU22.
The EGU Education Committee has awarded four Higher Education teaching grants for 2021, to educators from Europe and the United States. Find out more about our deserving winners and their plans for Higher Education teaching projects.
Natural Hazards in the news: flooding in western Europe, meet the Natural Hazards Division ECS Rep Valeria Cigala, how the Olympics has more geology than you expect and submit your session proposal for EGU22.
From the 13th to the 15th July 2021, a period of intense rainfall led to catastrophic and deadly flooding in Western Europe. Several of EGU’s Division Presidents from natural hazards, hydrology, geomorphology and more, explain what happened and why interdisciplinary disasters like this are difficult to manage.
In this study, we present a newly developed instrument, the humidity-controlled fast integrated mobility spectrometer (HFIMS), for fast measurements of aerosol hygroscopic growth. The HFIMS can measure the distributions of particle hygroscopic growth factors at six diameters from 35 to 265 nm under five RH levels from 20 to 85 % within 25 min. The HFIMS significantly advances our capability of characterizing the hygroscopic growth of atmospheric aerosols over a wide range of relative humidities.
Increased salt intrusion jeopardizes freshwater supply to the Mekong Delta, and the current trends are often inaccurately associated with sea level rise. Using observations and models, we show that salinity is highly sensitive to ocean surge, tides, water demand, and upstream discharge. We show that anthropogenic riverbed incision has significantly amplified salt intrusion, exemplifying the importance of preserving sediment budget and riverbed levels to protect deltas against salt intrusion.
Interactions of extreme fires with weather systems can produce towering smoke plumes that inject aerosols at very high altitudes (> 10 km). Three such major injections, largest at the time in terms of emitted aerosol mass, took place over British Columbia, Canada, in August 2017. We model the transport and impacts of injected aerosols on the radiation balance of the atmosphere. Our model results match the satellite-observed plume transport and residence time at these high altitudes very closely.
Women make up 50.8% of the worlds population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, BAME (Black Asia and Minority Ethnic) comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. The divide between women in the population and women in STEM needs to be addressed. Through a series of blog posts we hope to raise the voice of women in the cryosphere community, and spread awareness of the amazing work they …
Writing a paper can be challenging. While it can be satisfactory to see your science coming together in a consistent story, writing a nice paper requires you to prepare appealing figures, a bullett-proof text and, potentially, dealing with co-autors. Mirja asks: How do I finish a paper? Dear Mirja, Interesting question: over (more than a) few beers I heard colleagues and peers wondering how to start a paper but how to finish it is a rarer question. A paper is …
Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For September, the Divisions we are featuring are: Atmospheric Science (AS), and Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT), Climate of the Past (CP), Earth System Dynamics …
