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Land Surface News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Land Surface.
Soil moisture is one of the components of land-surface evapotranspiration, and is a required parameter for evaporation calculations.
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July 28, 2020
Hunting for elusive answers to a multitude of questions about humanity's role in global climate change.
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July 28, 2020
Migrating populations tend to cling to historical language patterns acquired from their homelands.
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July 28, 2020
A regional modeling study suggests that summers in the United States may be different from 200 years ago as a result of large-scale land use changes.
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July 28, 2020
Weak Indian summer monsoons often follow winters of heavy Eurasian snowfall.
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July 28, 2020
A technique to study land senses water-level changes in the Mississippi River delta.
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July 28, 2020
In October 2001, a volcano in the remote South Sandwich Islands began spewing ash and lava. Less than 24 hours after the eruption began, a research team nearly 9,000 miles away was estimating how much energy the volcano was producing.
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July 28, 2020
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