Questions tagged [earth-system]
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Crustal magnetic field of the Earth
Where can I find an accurate map of the Earth's crustal magnetic field?
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Effect of eccentricity and axial precession on glaciation/deglaciation
Having learned about the Milankovitch cycles, I've found two entirely separate explanations from different sources on how the combination of precession and eccentricity changes affect glaciation vs ...
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Dedicated book to understand climate and ocean science
Let me explain: I am a physics student who did some basic earth science during my early high school days. But thinking about earth science makes me very curious about deeper topics, like how the ...
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Can the planetary alignment actually affect earthquakes? [duplicate]
We've been hearing a lot these past few days about planes alignments and how it would affect seismology. How scientifically true is that?
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Under which conditions would you see the MOST lake effect precipitation?
It's well known that the Great Lakes produce large amounts of precipitation in the Fall. When cold polar air moves over the lakes it causes large amounts of relatively warm moist air to rise, ...
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Where can I find detailed description of different VARIANT-IDs in CMIP6 metadata?
Where do I find the documentation of different VARIANT-IDs for the CMIP6 dataset? A VARIANT-ID is of the format ...
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How, and where, are the unusual occurences of extinction debt playing out? [closed]
"Extinction Debt" describes the delayed disappearance of a species following some geologically fast change in an earth system that cannot be escaped. For example, it might takes years of ...
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After global warming, does an ice age occur because the polar caps have melted and caused more water to absorb the gloabl warming
Is there a le Chatilier principle within Earth - Earth heats up causes global warming resulting in polar ice melt resulting in higher sea levels which takes up the extra earth temp and the over ...
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How does atmospheric pressure remains constant even though we have released 43 billion tons of $\ce{CO2}$ in one year?
I've heard that the concentration of CO2 has been increased in the air.
It should have increased atmospheric pressure, right?
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What would happen to the earth if we removed nearly all of the air? [closed]
I wanted to know : what if someone pulled a really strong vacuum and prevented any air to enter. Would the earth be destroyed or nothing much would happen? I am not talking about the people and other ...
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When will the Earth lose its magnetic field?
Mars lost its magnetic field 4.5 billion years ago according to this article:
Mars lost its global magnetic field during the time of this heightened activity. After 500 million years, the Martian ...
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How much does the biosphere contribute to Earth's entropy production?
Papers like 1, 2, etc. and the work of Axel Kleidon (e.g. 3) suggest that the the biosphere increases the production of entropy of Earth but I'd like to know if we could quantify this in a simple way. ...
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What is the typical chemical composition of Earth's mass gain
Consider this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mass#Variation
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The main factor in mass gain is in-falling material, cosmic dust, meteors, etc. are the most significant contributors to ...
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Why does Meteorology rely on a spherical model of the earth, rather than a flat earth, to function? [closed]
I hear all the arguments one explains to a flat earther as to why the earth is Spherical and not flat. I am not a meteorologist, but I know enough Meteorology for me to fly safely as a pilot. Getting ...
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Is Earth's atmosphere 1600 km thick?
Some textbooks say that atmosphere extends up to 1600 km, but exosphere is more than 9000 km thick.
Where is the mistake?
George carlin