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Is it always Slowdown of the Walker circulation at solar cycle maximum?

It is a commentary following a published paper in PNAS titled, ‘Slowdown of the Walker circulation at solar cycle maximum’, by Stergios Misios, Lesley J. Gray, Mads F. Knudsen, Ch…

More hots: Quantifying upward trends in the number of extremely hot days and nights in Tallahassee, Florida, USA: 1892–…

The U.S. National Weather Service Office (WSO) Tallahassee official record shows an upward trend in the number of hot days at a rate of 2.1% per year and a more pronounced upward …

Dynamical Systems Theory Sheds New Light on Compound Climate Extremes in Europe and Eastern North America

We propose a novel approach to the study of compound extremes, grounded in dynamical systems theory. Specifically, we present the co-recurrence ratio (α), which elucidates the dep…

Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Estimation in the Northwestern Himalayan Watershed using Spaceborne Polarimetric S…

Snow depth (SD) and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) constitute essential physical properties of snow and find extensive usage in the hydrological modelling domain. However, the promin…

Investigating the water movements around a shallow shipwreck in Big Tub Harbour of Lake Huron: implications for managin…

The Sweepstakes in Fathom Five National Marine Park is one of Ontarios more iconic shipwrecks. Continued exposure to water currents has directly and indirectly affected the integr…

Information-theoretic Portfolio Decision Model for Optimal Flood Management

The increasing impact of flooding urges more effective flood management strategies to guarantee sustainable ecosystem development. Recent catastrophes underline the importance of …

The influence of a slope break on turbidite deposits: an experimental investigation

Bypassing turbidity currents can travel downslope without depositing any of their suspended sediment load. Along the way, they may encounter a slope break (i.e. an abrupt decrease…

Pervasive foreshock activity across southern California

Foreshocks have been documented as preceding less than half of all mainshock earthquakes. These observations are difficult to reconcile with laboratory earthquake experiments and …

Decentralized Flood Forecasting Using Deep Neural Networks

Predicting flood for any location at times of extreme storms is a longstanding problem that has utmost importance in emergency management. Conventional methods that aim to predict…

Multiple episodes of sand injection leading to accumulation and leakage of hydrocarbons along the San Andreas/San Grego…

The presence of sand injections has proven to enhance the likelihood of hydrocarbon traps within siliciclastic successions. Through the development of large interconnected network…

Systems of intensive vertical vortices in turbulent atmosphere

At certain conditions a system of well-separated quasi-point vortices can appear in two-dimensional turbulence. Such system contains main part (almost entire) of the flow enstroph…

Are magnetic stripes on the Cuvier Abyssal Plain (offshore NW Australia) diagnostic of oceanic crust?

Magnetic stripes have long been used to define the presence and age of oceanic crust. However, continental crust heavily intruded by magma can record magnetic reversals akin to th…

Mixing, stratification and plankton under lake-ice during winter in a large lake: implications for spring dissolved oxy…

The mixing and stratification present under the ice during winter can have a profound influence on the following summertime hypolimnetic oxygen levels. During winter, plankton rel…

Global resource potential of seasonal pumped-storage

The risk of seasonal mismatches between electricity supply and demand is increasing due to expanded use of wind, solar and hydropower resources. Power system planners are thus in …

Large uncertainty in volcanic aerosol radiative forcing derived from ice cores

Reconstructions of volcanic aerosol radiative forcing are required to understand past climate variability. Currently, reconstructions of pre-20th century volcanic forcing are deri…

Data-driven prediction of a multi-scale Lorenz 96 chaotic system using deep learning methods: Reservoir computing, ANN,…

In this paper, the performance of three deep learning methods for predicting short-term evolution and for reproducing the long-term statistics of a multi-scale spatio-temporal Lor…

Guerrilla Badges for Reproducible Geospatial Data Science (AGILE 2019 Short Paper)

The building blocks of research are developing at an unprecedented pace. Data collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, review, and publication take place completely on …

Comments on the paper “Two independent real-time precursors of the 7.8 M earthquake in Ecuador based on radioactive and…

In the paper entitled “Two independent real-time precursors of the 7.8 M earthquake in Ecuador based on radioactive and geodetic processes – Powerful tools for an early warning sy…

Geometry and topology of estuary and braided river channel networks automatically extracted from topographic data

Automatic and objective extraction of channel networks from topography in systems with multiple interconnected channels, like braided rivers and estuaries, remains a major challen…

Optimizing Regional Climate Model Output for Hydro-Climate Applications in the Eastern Nile Basin

This study focuses on the Eastern Nile (EN) Basin, most of whose water flows into the High Aswan Dam (HAD), Egypt. It is, therefore, crucial to have an accurate hydrological asses…

Tracing the migration of mantle CO2 in gas fields and mineral water springs in south-east Australia using noble gas and…

Geochemical monitoring of CO2 storage requires understanding of both innate and introduced fluids in the crust as well as the subsurface processes that can change the geochemical …

Active fault scarps in southern Malawi and their implications for the distribution of strain in incipient continental r…

The distribution of deformation during the early stages of continental rifting is an important constraint on our understanding of continental breakup. Incipient rifting in East Af…

Probing the chemical transformation of seawater-soluble crude oil components during microbial oxidation

Studies assessing the environmental impacts of oil spills focus primarily on the non-water-soluble components, leaving the fate of the water-soluble fraction (WSF) largely unexplo…

Stepwise chemical abrasion–isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass spectrometry with trace element analysis of microfr…

The Hadean Jack Hills zircons represent the oldest known terrestrial material, providing a unique and truly direct record of Hadean Earth history. This zircon population has been …

Technical note: Limitations on the use of space borne differential SAR interferometry for systematic monitoring and fai…

Recent advances on satellite geodesy have boosted our capabilities to map and monitor landslides globally with unprecedented resolutions. In this scenario, differential interferom…

Evaluating the relationship between the area and latitude of large igneous provinces and Earth’s long-term climate state

One of the hypothesized effects of large igneous provinces (LIPs) is planetary cooling on million-year timescales associated with enhanced silicate weathering of the freshly-empla…

Gravitational field calculation in spherical coordinates using variable densities in depth

We present a new methodology to compute the gravitational fields generated by tesseroids (spherical prisms) whose density varies with depth according to an arbitrary continuous fu…

Areal parameter estimates from multiple datasets

A wide range of methods exist for interpolation between spatially distributed points drawn from a single population. Yet often multiple datasets are available with differing distr…

Modification of fumarolic gases by the ice-covered edifice of Erebus volcano, Antarctica

The chemistry of gases measured in ice caves and from warm geothermal ground at Erebus volcano, Antarctica, show that gas emissions are dominated by air, with varying amounts of a…

Distributed sensing of earthquakes and ocean-solid Earth interactions on seafloor telecom cables

Two thirds of the surface of our planet are covered by water and are still poorly instrumented, which has prevented the earth science community from addressing numerous key scient…

Understanding Low Cloud Mesoscale Morphology with an Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Network

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of machine learning algorithms with two neural networks, one generator and one discriminator, playing adversarial games with eac…

Decadal land-use/land-cover and land surface temperature change in Dubai and implications on the urban heat island effe…

The emirate of Dubai is the most populous and most developed of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates. By the end of the 20th century, the emirate had shifted …

A new method for in-situ measurement of the erosion threshold of river channels

The vast majority of alluvial deposits have some degree of cohesion, typically due to the presence of clays and/or organic matter. Determining the threshold fluid shear stress nec…

Lower crustal earthquakes in the East African Rift System: Insights from frictional properties of rock samples from the…

Earthquakes in the southern part of the East African Rift System (EARS) occur at depths up to 45 km in the lower crust, unusually deep for an extensional regime. Typically, earthq…

A Stratigraphic Approach to Inferring Depositional Ages From Detrital Geochronology Data

With the increasing use of detrital geochronology data for provenance analyses, we have also developed new constraints on the age of otherwise undateable sedimentary deposits. Bec…

Amplified Last-Glacial-Maximum response of Chandra valley (western Himalaya) glaciers

Geomorphological evidence suggests a subdued response of Himalayan glaciers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), with relatively minor advances (~10 km) reported in several glac…

Characterising Land Cover Change in Brunei Darussalam’s Capital District

In fast-developing regions, like Southeast-Asia, monitoring urban areas presents a challenge given the lack of publicly available data. This is an issue that precludes the nuances…

Physically consistent modeling of dike induced deformation and seismicity: Application to the 2014 Bárðarbunga dike, I…

Dike intrusions are often associated with surface deformation and propagating swarms of earthquakes. These are understood to be manifestations of the same underlying physical pr…

Glacier area and the variability of glacier change

This is the preprint of a letter that is under review in the Journal of Glaciology. The abstract is as follows: Large-scale remote-sensing data on ice loss in the Himalaya and oth…

Estimation of the total sub-debris ablation from point-scale ablation data on a debris-covered glacier

This is the preprint of an article that is under review in the Journal of Glaciology. The abstract is as follows: Glaciological mass balance is computed from point-scale field dat…

The glacial express

Glacial calcium carbonate (CaCO3) shells are larger than interglacial CaCO3 shells. My research explores the consequences of this size difference. Because larger CaCO3 shells sink…

The 2007 Caldera Collapse of Piton de la Fournaise Volcano: Source Process from Very-Long-Period Seismic Signals

In April 2007, Piton de la Fournaise volcano experienced its largest caldera collapse in at least 300 years. This event consisted of a series of 48 subsidence increments character…

Marine biomarkers from ice cores reveal enhanced high-latitude Southern Ocean carbon sink during the Antarctic Cold Rev…

Determining the feedbacks that modulate Southern Ocean carbon dynamics is key to understanding past and future climate. The global pause in rising atmospheric CO2 during the perio…

Comments on, Scaled Random Number Simulation of High Correlation Coeffieients for Gasoline Range Compound Concentration…

The paper comments on disclosure EarthArXiv 5 April, 2019 by L. R. Snowdon discounting correlations between light hydrocarbons suggesting steady-state catalysis in the origin of …

How erosive are submarine landslides?

Submarine landslides (slides) are ubiquitous on continental margins. They can pose a major hazard by triggering tsunami and damaging essential submarine infrastructure. Slide volu…

A shallow earthquake swarm close to hydrocarbon activities: discriminating between natural and induced causes for the 2…

Earthquakes induced by subsurface industrial activities are a globally emotive issue, with a growing catalogue of induced earthquake sequences. However, attempts at discriminating…

Past and projected weather pattern persistence with associated multi-hazards in the British Isles

Hazards such as heatwaves, droughts and floods are often associated with persistent weather patterns. Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) are important tools for …

Concurrent wet and dry hydrological extremes at the global scale

Multi-hazard events can be associated with larger socio-economic impacts than single-hazard events. Understanding the spatio-temporal interactions that characterise the former is,…

Creep on seismogenic faults: Insights from analogue earthquake experiments

Tectonic faults display a range of slip behaviors including continuous and episodic slip covering rates of more than 10 orders of magnitude (m/s). The physical control of such kin…

Slab Rollback Orogeny model for the evolution of the Central Alps: Seismo-Thermo-Mechanical test

Forces associated with subduction of cold and dense oceanic plates control the motions and deformations of convergent margins. However, how these forces sustain mountain building …

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