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AI can be used to predict river flows and warn of potential flooding, new study reveals
(a) Close-up of the Ottawa River between survey stations 02KF009 (CS upstream or CSU) and 02KF005 (CS downstream or CSD). (b) Extensive diagram of river networks, watershed boundaries, and outflow points. It shows how these watersheds flow into and connect with the Ottawa River. Credit: Hydrology (2024). DOI: 10.3390/Hydrology11090151 As recent floods in Spain and elsewhere have shown, any warning…
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Other Sciences
Ancient Aboriginal heritage preserved on cliffs along the Murray River
Site conditions on the Pyke River cliff and an example of an eroded midden lens contained within the Woolinen Formation deposits above carbonate paleosols (MR = Murray River). Credit: Radiocarbon (2024). DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2024.99 A new study by Flinders University researchers, carried out in collaboration with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC), is located on a cliff top in…
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Why is Mount Everest so big? New study highlights river of injustice, but deeper forces are at work
Map of normalized channel steepness (ksn) as a measure of stream power. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01535-w Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmatha) is famous for being the tallest mountain in the Himalayas, and indeed on Earth. but why? At 8,849 meters above sea level, Mount Everest is about 250 meters higher than the other great mountains…
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A river is pushing up the top of Everest
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would be otherwise, and continues to grow, due to uplift caused by erosion of nearby river gorges, UCL researchers say. found out in a new study by. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, found that a significant canyon has been carved out by erosion from…
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Space & Cosmos
NASA’s Chandra discovers galaxy cluster crossing river
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Xiamen University/C. Ge; Optics: DESI Collaboration; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory have discovered two intersecting streams of superhot gas in a cluster of galaxies, a finding that suggests the intersection of gas streams could lead to the formation of new structures. Researchers have discovered a huge, comet-like tail of hot gas stretching more…
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