Monthly news from EGU: Financial support for meetings, call for sessions (June 2018)
- EGU news
- 27 June 2018
The June 2018 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available.
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EGU 2019 call for sessions
- EGU news
- 25 June 2018
The call for session proposals for the EGU 2019 General Assembly is now open. Until 6 September you can suggest new sessions with conveners and description, or you can propose modifications to current ones. Please note that, similarly to last year, the 6 September deadline also applies to short courses and townhall meetings. The deadline to submit proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates is 15 August. The next EGU General Assembly is taking place in Vienna, Austria on 7–12 April 2019.
Follow EU policy news on the EGU website
- EGU news
- 22 June 2018
A new section on the EGU policy pages summarises recent EU policy news and opportunities that are relevant to geoscientists. It includes recently passed legislation, EU funding opportunities and EU Commission consultations.
Monthly news from EGU: Award nominations, new conference series (May 2018)
- EGU news
- 30 May 2018
The May 2018 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available.
HESS article most cited source on Wikipedia
- EGU news
- 9 May 2018
A paper published in the EGU/Copernicus journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences back in 2007 on global climate zones has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, referenced more than 2.8 million times.
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Mineralogy and physicochemical features of Saharan dust wet deposited in the Iberian Peninsula during an extreme red rain event
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- DOI 10.5194/acp-18-10089-2018
- 16 July 2018
Saharan dust wet deposited in Granada (Spain) on 21–23 February 2017 during the most extreme red rain event of the last decades led to the deposition of ~ 140 000 T of dust just in the city of Granada, dwarfing any other standard Saharan dust events taking place in the area. The multianalytical study of Saharan dust disclosed potential source areas and the mineralogy and composition of the size fractions of desert dust as well as its potential biogeochemical, radiative, and health effects.
Ionospheric and thermospheric response to the 27–28 February 2014 geomagnetic storm over north Africa
- Annales Geophysicae
- DOI 10.5194/angeo-36-987-2018
- 12 July 2018
The novelty of this paper lies in the fact that it addresses the thermosphere–ionosphere coupling in a midlatitude site in north Africa. We have used Fabry–Perot measurements of thermospheric winds and wide-angle camera detection of ionospheric structures at an altitude of about 250 km. We have also used GPS data to extract the TEC over the studied area. We have focused our study on the 27 February geomagnetic storm.
In-depth characterization of diazotroph activity across the western tropical South Pacific hotspot of N2 fixation (OUTPACE cruise)
- Biogeosciences
- DOI 10.5194/bg-15-4215-2018
- 12 July 2018
Here we report N2 fixation rates from a ∼ 4000 km transect in the western and central tropical South Pacific, a particularly undersampled region in the world ocean.
On the role of the North Equatorial Counter Current during a strong El Niño
- Ocean Science
- DOI 10.5194/os-14-633-2018
- 11 July 2018
Results from a high-resolution ocean model show that during the strong El Niños of 1983 and 1998, transport of warm water in the equatorial Pacific was dominated by the North Equatorial Counter Current and not by equatorial Kelvin waves. The results show why the NECC fails to do this in most years and how stronger than normal annual Rossby waves near the Equator can both trigger the El Niño in the western Pacific and help to ensure that the warm water arrives off South America around Christmas.
How to study Mega-earthquakes? By generating them!
- Natural Hazards
- posted 1 hour ago
Francesca Funiciello is an Associated Professor at Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy). Her research interests are, among others, geodynamics, seismotectonics, rheology of analogue materials and science communication. She leads an active and young research group composed by Fabio Corbi, Silvia Brizzi and Elenora van Rijsingen, and collaborates with many other young and experienced researchers in Europe. The main activities of Francesca, Fabio, Silvia and Elenora involve analogue and numerical modelling of subduction zones, geophysical data analysis and geostatistics in the …
Imaggeo on Mondays: Corno Grande, tallest peak of the Apennines
- GeoLog – EGU official blog
- posted 5 hours ago
In the middle of the Apennines lays the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountain chain, a picturesque collection of mountains situated in the heart of Italy. Featured here is one of the chain’s peaks, called the Corno Grande, meaning ‘Big Horn,’ coloured with a faint reddish light of a late-winter sunset. Sitting at 2,912 metres, this summit is easily the highest mountain in the Apennines. The areas surrounding Corno Grande is enclosed in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, …
Geosciences Column: The best spots to hunt for ancient ice cores
- GeoLog – EGU official blog
- posted 2 days ago
Where in the world can you find some of Earth’s oldest ice? That is the question a team of French and US scientists aimed to answer. They recently identified spots in East Antarctica that likely have the right conditions to harbor ice that formed 1.5 million years ago. Scientists hope that obtaining and analysing an undisturbed sample of ice this old will give them clues about Earth’s ancient climate. The team published their findings in The Cryosphere, an open access …