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Peter Weiss
Public Information Manager
Phone: +1 202 777 7507
E-mail: Pweiss@agu.org

Mary Catherine Adams
Public Information Specialist
Phone: +1 202 777 7530
E-mail: MCAdams@agu.org

Phone (toll free in North America): +1 (800) 966 2481
Fax: +1 202 328 0566

2013 Journal Highlights

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21 May 2013

  • Southern California ozone pollution declining in recent decades
  • Southern Ocean is less efficient at exporting carbon than thought
  • Collisions of coronal mass ejections can be super elastic
  • Measuring isotope variability in water vapor over Southern California
  • Uneven warming shifts equatorial rain band, midlatitude westerlies
  • Models without volcanic forcing underestimate sea level rise
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7 May 2013

  • Graphite lubricates fault zones
  • Sediment processes can be significant source of ambient noise
  • Evolution of the Qin Mountains as part of the supercontinent Rodinia
  • Studying how flocculation affects acoustic reflection
  • How do braided river dynamics affect sediment storage?
  • Charting the growth of the Turkish-Iranian plateau
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23 April 2013

  • Beachfront nourishment decisions: the “sucker-free rider” problem
  • Identifying the physical processes that control the stratigraphic record
  • Uplift of Zagros Mountains slows down convergence of two plates
  • Extensive Antarctic campaign finds cold bias in satellite records
  • Measuring tidal displacement using GPS
  • Hydrology affects carbon storage potential of prairie potholes
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9 April 2013

  • Characterizing the Moon’s radiation environment
  • Three-dimensional mapping of airflow over dunes
  • Forest organic runoff breaks down faster than agricultural, urban runoff
  • Examining CO2¬ concentrations and flow dynamics in streams
  • Measuring the forces generated by erosive debris flows
  • Agulhas Current leakage could stabilize Atlantic overturning circulation
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26 March 2013

  • Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction
  • Predicting fire activity using terrestrial water storage data
  • Monitoring subsidence and vent wall collapse on Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
  • Italian all-sky imager tracks auroral red arcs over Europe
  • Nonnative salmon alter nitrification in Great Lakes tributaries
  • High rates of nitrogen fixation measured in equatorial upwelling region
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12 March 2013

  • Canadian Arctic glacier melt accelerating, irreversible
  • Eyjafjallajökull's iron-rich ash fertilized North Atlantic Ocean
  • A seismometer in orbit around Earth
  • Distinguishing drought and water scarcity
  • Evaluating the seismic risk of mineral carbon sequestration
  • Tracing nitrate in watersheds
  • Devastating East African drought made more likely by climate change
  • Large solar proton event explains 774-775 CE carbon-14 increase
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26 February 2013

  • Brazil's sugarcane boom could affect regional temperatures
  • A window into the interior of asteroid Vesta
  • Citizen science finds spring could come a month early to warming U.S.
  • Land use changes affect extreme temperatures
  • Arctic climate warming leads to increased storm surge activity
  • Predictive model to protect satellites from space weather
  • Small agricultural impoundments affect pollutant transport
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11 February 2013

  • Global climatology of explosive cyclones
  • For U.S. biomes, climate change will decrease vegetative productivity
  • Lightning detected from space can indicate thundercloud height
  • Storminess helps coastal marshes withstand sea level rise
  • How many lakes are there, and how big are they?
  • Characterizing noise in the global nuclear weapon monitoring system
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28 January 2013

  • Io's volcanism controls Jupiter's magnetospheric activity
  • Projected U.S. water use likely to increase as climate warms
  • Mercury's crust likely made of magnesium-rich basalt
  • Assessing the Great Whirl, despite all the pirates
  • Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood
  • Low density of Earth's core due to oxygen and silicon impurities
  • Understanding the structure of subducting plates
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14 January 2013

  • Seabird activity influences Arctic methane and nitrous oxide emissions
  • U.S. cities less susceptible to water scarcity than previously thought
  • First direct evidence that breaking waves cause horizontal eddies
  • Variability of transparent organic particles in Arctic floodplain lakes
  • Tropical cyclone waves detected with infrasound sensor array
  • Aftershocks to Philippine quake found within nearby megathrust fault

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