Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe wrote the most influential climate science paper of all time in 1967.
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Forecasting models help us predict when, where and how strongly hurricanes may strike. But such rapid intensification, can elude the predictions of even the best models. Accurately predicting when these violent storms surge and strengthen is an uncertainty within the hurricane forecasting community.
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The continents which number five, six ,seven, or even more depending on the model used are still very poorly understood. They form the emerged part of the Earth’s continental crust. The continents have varied structures as well as rocks of different compositions and ages, and this diversity makes them difficult to study.
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Researchers are developing artificial intelligence that could expose climate change tipping points. The deep learning algorithm could function as an early warning system against runaway climate change.
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Doctor Sophie Coulsen and her colleagues explained in a recent paper that, as glacial ice from Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic Islands melts, Earth’s crust beneath these land masses warps, an impact that can be measured hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles away.
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Not only are rising temperatures leading to rising sea levels but most of the increase in energy in the climate system is occurring in the ocean.
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Lava samples have revealed a surprising discovery about the geological makeup of the Earth’s crust and could have implications for volcanic eruption early warning systems, a University of Queensland led study has found.
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Earth system models are the most important tools for describing the physical state of the Earth including climate models which can predict how it might change in the future under the influence of human activities. AI is used increasingly to help improve these forecasts.
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Around 650 million years ago, the Earth entered into the Marinoan glaciation where the entire planet froze. The “Snowball Earth” restricted the evolution of life. But when it warmed, biotic life began to flourish. A research team from Tohoku University has studied rock samples from China to tell us more about this transition.
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The Earth’s sprawling ocean ridge system is a result of overturning material in its interior, where boiling temperatures can melt and eject rocks up through the crust, splitting the sea floor and reshaping the planet’s surface over hundreds of millions of years.
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