Upcoming Events--Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences

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05 2015

May 19, 2015

Earthquakes: Supercycles in subduction zones
On 11 March 2011, a massive release of stress between two overlapping tectonic plates occurred beneath the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, triggering a giant tsunami. The Tohoku quake resul...
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05 2015

May 19, 2015

Accelerated West Antarctic ice mass loss continues to outpace East Antarctic gains
Knowing where and how mass currently changes in polar ice sheets is of great importance (Oppenheimer, 1998, Mitrovica et al., 2011 and Stocker et al., 2013). Observations indicate that the Anta...
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04 2015

Apr 27, 2015

Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events
Abrupt climate change is a ubiquitous feature of the Late Pleistocene epoch1. In particular, the sequence of Dansgaard–Oeschger events (repeated transitions between warm interstadial and cold ...
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04 2015

Apr 24, 2015

Strong influence of westerly wind bursts on El Ni？o diversity
Despite the tremendous progress in the theory, observation and prediction of El Ni？o over the past three decades, the classification of El Ni？o diversity and the genesis of such diversity are...
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04 2015

Apr 24, 2015

X-raying the past: New insights into the life of extinct marine creatures
Using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, palaeontologists at the Ruhr-Universit？t Bochum (RUB) have been examining extinct marine creatures. Quantitative analyses provide new evidence that a...
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04 2015

Apr 17, 2015

Crowdsourced earthquake early warning
Earthquake early warning (EEW) strives to detect an earthquake’s initiation, estimate its location and magnitude, and alert people and automated systems to imminent shaking (1, 2). EEW has had...
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04 2015

Apr 17, 2015

The evolution of climatically driven weathering inputs into the western Arctic Ocean since the late Miocene: Radiogenic isotope evidence
Unraveling the oceanographic history of the Arctic Ocean and the evolution of weathering inputs from the surrounding continents, which have responded sensitively to local and global environment...
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04 2015

Apr 14, 2015

Western Canada to lose 70 percent of glaciers by 2100
Seventy per cent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, ...
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04 2015

Apr 09, 2015

Slab stagnation in the shallow lower mantle linked to an increase in mantle viscosity
The Earth’s lower mantle, ranging from 660 km to 2,890 km depth, constitutes more than 50% of Earth’s volume and is the largest geochemical reservoir for many elements. Throughout Earth’s hi...
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04 2015

Apr 09, 2015

Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone over the western Pacific during the Little Ice Age
Precipitation in low latitudes is primarily controlled by the position of the intertropical convergence zone, which migrates from south to north seasonally. The Little Ice Age (defined as AD 14...