Unanswered Questions
127 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Will global climate change alter the interannual and/or intraseasonal variance of temperature and/or precipitation?
A quick skim of the regional chapters in AR5 shows predicted changes to average temperature and precipitation. If I understand (in rough terms) the modelling methodologies used, a variety of models (...
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Using sodium chloride load as a point source pollutant variable in SWAT model?
I'm currently working with the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). My task is to model the loading of sodium chloride into streams. One approach I would like to take is to use the point ...
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How do you determine the % of precipitation falling as snow in the case below?
I have just started a course in hydrology (a totally different field from mine which is computer science) and I can't find the link between the fact that a river flows into a lake and the % of ...
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By how much did the Earth's diameter decrease due to cooling, if at all, since it was formed?
The answer to How long until Earth's core solidifies? question cites an estimation that the Earth (as a planet, not the surface of it) has cooled down by about 250K since it was formed. The question ...
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Could the Pineapple Express collide with cold air, resulting in extreme snowfall?
The pineapple express is a colloquial term for the strong atmospheric river produced by the polar jet stream, which drives excessive moisture and warmer air towards north-western North America. With ...
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Global Land and Sea Surface Temperature Data
We are a spin-off from TU Munich and currently working on equipping a CubeSat with a thermal imager. The imager should be able to acquire thermal/ir images with resolution of about 200m/px. In the ...
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How does fog affect the conductivity/breakdown voltage of air?
Could the breakdown voltage of air significantly go down in very foggy weather (especially very salty fog from seawater)? Kind of a hypothetical question, but if anyone has something on this, I'd ...
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Why is the air above the Himalayas warmer than surrounding areas?
Looking at earth.nullschool.net on13.09.2021you can see that the temperature above the Himalayas appear warmer than the surroundings (at 700 hPa): At the surface ...
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Are there rules to estimate average temperature
I have temperature data from a weather station, but there are missing data (not more than 80% of the daily temperature observations). The World Meteorological Organization has some rules to validate ...
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Estimating fog incidence based on ocean temperature
In the tropics, say the Caribbean, I have read that there is very often a lot of nighttime and morning fog. I have read that the crucial factors are The ocean temperature Cool nighttime air ...
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Is there a study relating water table to construction/RCC activity?
Background: The soil in our locality is/was Black Cotton Soil - mostly from weathered humus over the years. Our locality was also mostly large (by Indian standards) plots mostly with load-bearing ...
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Near Future Precipitation and Temperature estimations?
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with temperature and precipitation estimation? I need to estimate P and T from April to July 2016. I am planning to use excel to do the calculation because ...
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Freshwater changes in time?
Taking freshwater as being: Fresh water is naturally occurring water on the Earth's surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as ...
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Kinetic or equilibrium fractionation from 2H and 18O in evaporation and condensation?
Is the isotope fractionation that occurs during evaporation of surface water equilibrium fractionation or kinetic fractionation? I mean, evaporation can be described by Rayleigh fractionation, but I ...
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What are those precipitation and water droplet characterization instruments called that they put on meteorological aircraft? How do they work?
很久以前在米氏scatteri我做了一些阅读ng and atmospheric particulate counting and I got sidetracked on raindrop characterization. I remember reading about light and laser based ...