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A landslide in coal waste covering about a square kilometre was triggered by heavy rainfall. At about...
Some of Thursday’s speeches reflected anger and dismay at U.S. policies but could not hide the ambivalence...
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres...
Source: AGU Advances This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. 本文是Eos文章的授权翻译。 众所周知，二氧化碳（CO2）浓度上升会导致地球大气温度升高。但缓慢的反馈过程，包括海洋的热量储存和碳循环的变化，意味着这种温度变化有时不会立即显现；地球可能需要数十年甚至数千年才能达到平衡。 然而，不同的气候模型对于何时达到这种平衡的预测却大相径庭。造成这些差异的原因之一是“模态效应”，即海面温度的不均匀变化会形成不同的海洋变暖模式，进而影响大气环流，最终影响云量、降水和热量传递。这些因素之间的复杂相互作用会加剧或减缓变暖，并影响气候对温室气体的敏感性。 帮助预测长期变暖模式的一种方法是回顾过去。挖掘古气候数据中的模式，特别是来自地球气候温暖时期的数据，可以为未来的变暖模式提供线索。刘小庆、张一歌等人分析了过去1000万年的海洋表面温度记录，以确定在二氧化碳浓度上升的情况下，不同海洋区域的相对升温情况。 该研究以地球上最大、最温暖的表层水体——西太平洋暖池为参考点，将其海表温度数据与其他17个海洋站点的海表温度数据进行比较，从而建立全球变暖模式。...
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Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says...
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Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution...
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When we look at the towering trees of old-growth forest patches in the Amazon, we might think...
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U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement would erase another 0.1 C of progress.
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Space Weather Space weather impacts...
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other...
A seemingly unending sheet of ice covers most of Antarctica, but there’s a hidden network of liquid...
An “executive branch machinery that defaulted to caution, process, and reactive strategies” undercut the ex-president’s massive energy...
It is reported that 51 people have been killed by a series of debris flows in Kenya,...
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Wildfires in the rainy, humid Amazon might once have seemed unlikely, but the region is changing. In...