GregCocks · @GregCocks
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Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth’s Axis
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scientificamerican.com/article <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103509 <-- shared paper
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“ • Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

• Including groundwater depletion effects, the estimated drift of Earth's rotational pole agrees remarkably well with observations…”
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#gis #spatial #mapping #geodetic #Geodesy #earth #water #research #earthaxis #axis #pole #gravity #remotesensing #groundwater #pumping #global #waterresources #watersecurity #watersupply #sealevelrise #subsidence #earthobservation #aquifer

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GregCocks · @GregCocks
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Matthew Dockrey · @attoparsec
296 followers · 398 posts · Server clacks.link

Orogeny update: Experimenting with adding some lat/long grids to the inset map. I like how it emphasizes the properties of the different projections, but I'm not sure it's worth it.

But time for bed now.

#cartography #geodetic #tectonics #gamedev

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Roelof Rietbroek · @roelof
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Khurram Wadee ✅ · @mkwadee
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A post got me thinking of this and I’d read that the longest possible unbroken sea-going trip was from to and probably not in the way you’d perhaps think.

cntraveler.com/stories/2014-04

#geodetic #pakistan #siberia

Last updated 6 years ago