Planetary Science Institute

Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition

The Early Structural Evolution and Anisotropy of the Oceanic Upper Mantle

The dispersion of Love and Rayleigh waves in the period range 17–167 s is used to detect the change in the structure of the upper mantle as the age of the sea-floor increases aw...

Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015: demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure

In September–October 2015, El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions set the stage for massive fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), leading to persiste...

Astronomical CCD observing and reduction techniques

CCD instrumentation and techniques in observational astronomy are surveyed. The general topics addressed include: history of large array scientific CCD imagers; noise sources an...

Allende inclusions: volatile-element distribution and evidence for incomplete volatilization of presolar solids

A new method for the analysis of multi-mode surface-wave dispersion: Application to Love-wave propagation in the east Pacific

abstract A new technique is presented for simultaneously measuring the average, regional phase velocity of two or more surface-wave modes, even if they travel with the same grou...