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Taking into account the decay products of transuranic elements, are the world's uranium reserves growing or shrinking?

I was talking to a friend of mine who is an environmentalist like me but not a big fan of nuclear power and she told me it was not a good option in the long run because of the decay of uranium. Of course this is a ridiculous argument because U-238's…
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How to estimate dispersion in stratified flows

Consider a 2-dimensional domain with the typical x-z coordinates. Given an arbitrarily stratified flow, how can we estimate the depth varying horizontal dispersion of passive particles induced by the flow? At the moment, I am seeding the domain with…
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North Indian ocean tropical cyclones

Why are tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal more frequent and stronger than those in the Arabian Sea?
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How could humans alter storm intensity or direction other than cloud seeding?

I am familiar with the concept of cloud seeding, where precipitation can be induced with aerosols, thereby altering storm intensity further downwind. Are there methods that could be used to drastically alter storm wind intensity or storm direction?…
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How long does it take to form amber?

How long does the formation of the amber take? Are there any approximation of the minimal time needed to convert resin into amber in the most favorable conditions? Would it be possible to produce amber on the timescale of a human lifespan?
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What is the reasoning behind the statement "Faulting will occur along the plane where the shear stress is the highest"?

In "An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure", authors Seth Stein and Michael Wysession made the statement: "Faulting will occur along the plane where the shear stress is the highest". However, no further clarification was…
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Weight vs. Mass of Clouds

I came across a statement online that said that an average cloud has a weight of 1 million pounds. My main question is, does a cloud actually have weight on Earth or was the term "weight" a colloquial expression meaning "mass"? From my…
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How do I find the volume of ocean between any two layers of ocean depth?

I'm interested in this problem because I'm interested in obtaining a rough estimate of the average temperature increase of the sea given a net radiative forcing of 0.6 W/m^2. But in order to obtain an estimate, I need to know the volume of the ocean…
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Is there a convenient place to get vertical wind shear info for my location?

Now that it's thunderstorm season here in New Hampshire, it would be nice to be able to find out what the vertical wind shear is like at the altitudes that affect thunderstorm formation, to guess whether they'll form. Once cumulus clouds have…
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What are Tetens coefficients?

Tetens coefficients appear in a few meteorological/climatological models that I've been looking at,for example APSIM: svp_A = 6.106 svp_B = 17.27 svp_C = 237.3 These same values appear in at least two other models, but I can't find any…
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Is the urban heat island effect stronger during a particular season or part of the year?

It is known that cities tend to be warmer than the surrounding landscapes, and this is known as the "urban heat island effect". In the summer there is greater heat output from air conditioning systems. In the winter there is greater heat output…
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Is there any link between sea-water inflitration into groundwater and nitrate?

I recently read a pop-science article about sea-water infilitration into (sweet) groundwater. One specific instance mentioned was the gaza strip: Exzessive well building and drawing of groundwater lowers the groundwater level, this leads to sea…
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Argument for designing an ocean monitoring network based on satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration?

The idea is to design an integrated marine monitoring network by surveying in parallel the chlorophyll-a and the other oceanography parameters, which are either trophically related with the concentration of chlorophyll-a (e.g. nutrients,…
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Language to modernize a scientific Fortran codebase

Dear earth science community, I am seeking a language to modernize a large Fortran project that works with geospatial NetCDF files. The requirements for this language include: A rock-solid NetCDF library (we do not want to reinvent the…
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Could an icy/extremely-cold asteroid/comet ever strike and cool the Earth?

This is obviously an imaginary question, but it seems like something computable (which I don't have the mathematical ability to do so unfortunately). P.S. I do not have in-depth knowledge about comet/asteroid/meteoroid/even any space object at all,…
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