Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
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Declines in western water towers
Mountains act as natural water towers, influencing the water cycle by storing snow until the melt season when downstream demand is high. We calculate and track historic changes in the degree to which mountainous snowpacks delay the timing and amount of water availability relative to precipitation.
Towards a three-dimensional kinematic model of the Alpine-Himalayan belt
Sylvain Barbot and Lifeng Wang
Twenty years of year-round Antarctic oceanographic data
Imagine standing on the sea ice, In the middle of the Antarctic winter. It's well below freezing, and that's before you even consider the wind chill. It's dark and the sun has barely risen above the horizon that day.
The strange energetics in gravity currents
n fluid flows driven down a slope by their excess density, the ability to transport sediment is dependent on the turbulent energy. Our work showed that the energetics within these currents does not behave at all how one might expect. This is the story of how we came to this realisation.
