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Distribution matters: Socioeconomic data distribution impacts future water scarcity
A global-scale study estimating the economically challenged and water-scarce population for the future showed the association of significant uncertainty due to the assumption of population distribution at the subgrid-scale, even though the future path taken by the society remains the same.
A century of column ozone monitoring: Uncovering the recovery
A new, long column ozone series helps better separating chemical and dynamical influences on the ozone layer. This shows that the recovery of the ozone layer, though not seen in mid-latitude observations, is underway but masked by changes in atmospheric dynamics.
Central shutdown and surrounding activation of aftershocks from megathrust earthquake stress transfer
Seismic hazard assessments are generally based on longterm earthquake rates. But megathrusts and other large shocks cause the hazard to depart abruptly from its average behavior, and so capturing this will improve forecasts, as well as providing a new way to hunt for prehistoric megathrusts.
