The making of Tara Oceans: funding blue skies research for our Blue Planet by Eric Karsenti

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The impact of heterogeneous surface temperatures on the 2-m air temperature over the Arctic Ocean under clear skies in spring by A. Tetzlaff, L. Kaleschke, C. Lüpkes, F. Ament, T. Vihma

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Machine Learning Models for Approximating Downward Short-Wave Radiation Flux over the Ocean from All-Sky Optical Imagery Based on DASIO Dataset by Mikhail Krinitskiy, Vasilisa Koshkina, Mikhail Borisov, Nikita Anikin, Sergey Gulev, Maria Artemeva

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Uses and functions of conceptual metaphor in pedagogical meditation discourse by Antonio-José Silvestre-López

“…Among them, differences in degree of source domain granularity (Langacker 2008) ranging from vaguer notions like undefined space or spaciousness to conceptually richer and finer-grained scenarios like the home and shelter, ocean, landscape, or sky models. The speakers were found to use these source domains consistently with explanatory purposes (explanatory function) to help their audience reconceptualise some of the most frequent target topics in their talks (e.g., the present moment, the meditator, the mind, awareness, or meditation) from more mindfully-oriented perspectives, hence allowing to become aware of and get rid of potential misconceptions. …”
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Modelled radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect with multi-observation evaluation by G. Myhre, T. F. Berglen, M. Johnsrud, C. R. Hoyle, T. K. Berntsen, S. A. Christopher, D. W. Fahey, I. S. A. Isaksen, T. A. Jones, R. A. Kahn, N. Loeb, P. Quinn, L. Remer, J. P. Schwarz, K. E. Yttri

“…Satellite derived estimates of aerosol radiative effect over ocean for clear sky conditions differs significantly on regional scales (almost up to a factor two), but also in the global mean. …”
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Modelling the direct effect of aerosols in the solar near-infrared on a planetary scale by N. Hatzianastassiou, C. Matsoukas, A. Fotiadi, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., P. Koepke, K. G. Pavlakis, I. Vardavas

“…The computations were performed on a global scale (over land and ocean) under all-sky conditions, using detailed spectral aerosol optical properties taken from the Global Aerosol Data Set (GADS) supplemented by realistic data for the rest of surface and atmospheric parameters. …”
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Editorial: Meltdowns and militarisation by David Robie

“…The brainchild of USP’s Dr Mohit Prasad and professors Victor Bascara, Keith Comacho and Elizabeth DeLoughrey of the University of California at Los Angeles, this drew its inspiration from another conference at Laucala Bay some two years earlier. The 2010 Oceans, Islands and Skies Symposium (OIS), with papers published in a special edition of the USP literary journal Dreadlocks (Prasad, 2010-11) in 2012, had established the disruption to the traditionally organic and fluid nature of relations between artists, writers and performers in the Pacific by the contemporary crisis of the environment. …”
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