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This week from AGU: Declines in HCFC-133a, baseball and earthquakes & 5 research papers

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American Geophysical Union

GeoSpace

Ozone destroyer drops mysteriously

Something strange has happened to the atmospheric concentration of a newly discovered, human-made, ozone-destroying gas: it has suddenly dropped and nobody knows why, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.

Eos.org

An opinion piece: My life in baseball and earthquakes

How earthquakes interrupted a Royals game and thrust me into a whirlpool of politics, media, and law.

New research papers

Recent U.S. policy developments addressing the effects of geomagnetically induced currents, Space Weather

MeV proton flux predictions near Saturn's D-ring, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Freshening anomalies in the Indonesian Throughflow and impacts on the Leeuwin Current during 2010-11, Geophysical Research Letters

Positive tropical marine low-cloud cover feedback inferred from cloud-controlling factors, Geophysical Research Letters

Global-scale convective aggregation: Implications for the Madden-Julian oscillation, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

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