sea ice productionIn Arctic coastal polynyas, persistent areas of thin ice, a large amount of new ice forms during winters. Significant heat is lost through these regions of thin ice. Knowing how much ice is produced in polynyas is important for determining overall cold saline water formation ...
an approach was developed to map key characteristics of the world's building stock in a so far unprecedented level of spatial detail for every single settlement on our planet. The resulting World Settlement Footprint 3D dataset quantifies the fraction, total area, average height, and total volum...
Generally speaking, thebest time to visit most places in Southeast Asia is from November to Februarywhen the weather is dry (driest) and warm (on average). One of the busiest times is around Christmas and New Year. Hotels in popular cities/islands and flights between popular destinations are ...
Their geology is fascinating, but due to a lack of topography and relatively thick forest cover in the islands’ interior, you can sometimes miss a sense of being on an island. Not so in Islamorada, where the teal waters of Florida Bay and the Gulf squeeze in on the Overseas Hwy. There...
Ocean-driven melting of floating ice-shelves in the Amundsen Sea is currently the main process controlling Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise. Using a regional ocean model, we present a comprehensive suite of future projections of ice-shelf mel
In total, 90 gelatinous spheres, averaging one meter in diameter, have been recorded from ~ 1985 to 2019 from the NE Atlantic Ocean, including the Mediterranean Sea, using citizen science. More than 50% had a dark streak through center. They were recorded from the surface to ~ 60–70 ...
Disney Lorcanapublisher Ravensburger spent the first few weeks of 2024 giving fans in the United States and Europe what they wanted, namelymore cardsavailable for purchase on store shelves. Now they’re providing additional certainty for the game as a whole with a 2024 roadmap. Details include ...
First Battle of the MarneThe dotted line on the map shows how far the Germans had advanced into France before the First Battle of the Marne. As a result of the battle the Germans were pushed back to the solid line marked in red. (more)...
A map showing the distance traveled from San Francisco to the Canadian border. The four saildrones are currently making their way back to San Francisco. The ~8,000 nautical mile round trip mission took the Saildrone fleet across the North Pacific Ocean, through the Aleutian Islands, across the...
The light green areas are the continental shelves 0–100 m below sea level. 'Hexian etc.' ¼ Hexian, Chaoxian and Tangshan. (b) The submarine topography around the Penghu Channel. The location of vertebrate fossil concentration in the Penghu Channel is encircled. The base map created ...