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Potential Impacts of Energy and Vehicle Transformation through 2050 on the Atmospheric Environment of Japan: focus on P…

The impacts of renewable energy shifting, passenger car electrification, and lightweighting through 2050 on the atmospheric concentrations of PM2.5 total mass, Fe, Cu, and Zn, and…

Variability of snow and rainfall partitioning into evapotranspiration and summer runoff across nine mountainous catchme…

Understanding the partitioning of snow and rain contributing to either catchment streamflow or evapotranspiration (ET) is of critical relevance for water management in response to…

A comparative assessment of the distribution of Joule heating in altitude as estimated in TIE-GCM and EISCAT over one s…

During geomagnetically active times, Joule heating in the Lower Thermosphere - Ionosphere is a significant energy source, greatly affecting density, temperature, composition and c…

Using Machine Learning with Partial Dependence Analysis to Investigate Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Near-surface …

Soil moisture influences near-surface air temperature by partitioning downwelling radiation into latent and sensible heat fluxes, through which dry soils generally lead to highe…

Siege of the South: Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Water Vapor Excluded from 2022 Antarctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex

We use Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) trace gas measurements to investigate whether water vapor (H2O) injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) eru…

Turning lakes into river gauges using the LakeFlow algorithm

Rivers and lakes are intrinsically connected waterbodies yet they are rarely used to hydrologically constrain one another with remote sensing. Here we begin to bridge the gap betw…

Developing a detection and monitoring framework for wildfire regimes with L-Band Polarimetric SAR

Many communities coexist with wildfires that can lead to loss of lives, property, and ecosystem services. The increasing usage of remote sensing tools to aid disaster response and…

Transition from Rain-fed to Irrigation-fed Agriculture in Rural Areas to Exacerbate Urban Water Scarcity

Irrigation expansion is often posed as a promising option to enhance food security. Here, we assess the influence of expansion of irrigation, primarily in rural areas of the conti…

The mass scale law of the Universe

In this paper we will present a new mass scale law of the universe. First from the Dimensionless unification of the fundamental interactions we will find the formulas for the Plan…

Filling the gap of wind observations inside tropical cyclones

The WIVERN (WInd VElocity Radar Nephoscope) mission, currently under the Phase-0 of the ESA Earth Explorer program, promises to provide new insight in the coupling between winds a…

Classifying Interplanetary Discontinuities Using Supervised Machine Learning

Directional discontinuities (DDs) are defined as abrupt changes of the magnetic field orientation. We use observations from ESA’s Cluster mission to compile a database of events: …

A hierarchical ensemble manifold methodology for new knowledge on spatial data: An application to ocean physics

Algorithms to determine regions of interest in large or highly complex and nonlinear data is becoming increasingly important. Novel methodologies from computer science and dynamic…

Electron heating associated with magnetic reconnection in foreshock waves: particle-in-cell simulation analysis

Magnetic reconnection occurs in turbulent plasmas like shock transition regions, while its exact role in energy dissipation therein is not yet clear. We perform a 2D particle-in-c…

Quantifying “climate distinguishability” after stratospheric aerosol injection using explainable artificial intelligence

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) has been proposed as a possible complementary solution to limit global warming and its societal consequences. However, the climate impacts of…

Global estimates of mesoscale vertical velocity near 1000 m from Argo observations

Global estimates of mesoscale vertical velocity remain poorly constrained due to a historical lack of adequate observations on the spatial and temporal scales needed to measure th…

Sensing a Connection: Tree Distribution is Influenced by Deep Critical Zone Structure

This study explores the impact of deep ( >5 m) critical zone (CZ) architecture on vegetation distribution in a semi-arid snow-dominated climate. Utilizing seismic refraction surve…

Giving some tooth to Precambrian carbonates and the tales they tell about ancient oceans

Enigmatic is a word that often comes up in discussions about Proterozoic molar tooth carbonate structures (MTS). But when unusual features such as these are common in rocks of a p…

Spatiotemporal Variability Relationships of Shallow Cloud Height and Planetary Boundary Layer Height Over the Northeast…

Over 18 years of satellite data from Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) and 14 years from Global Navigation Satellite System-radio occultation (GNSS-RO), with ERA5 reana…

Retreat of Thwaites Glacier Triggered by its Neighbours

The Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica is experiencing the most rapid mass loss and grounding line retreat in Antarctica. Its glaciers are vulnerable to retreat through mar…

SuPreMeChiF - a New Approach to Detect Subtle Changes in Continuous Monitoring Data, with a case study of COVID-19 impa…

The lack of precursory signals at some volcanic eruptions could be due to the analysis performed which failed to capture subtle changes. We have developed a new technique, “Subtle…

A model-based investigation of the recent rebound of shelf water salinity in the Ross Sea

Intense atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions in the Ross Sea play a vital role in global overturning circulation by supplying saline and dense shelf waters. Since the 1960s, fresheni…

Emergence of unstable focused flow induced by variable-density flows in vertical fractures

Fluids with different densities often coexist in subsurface fractures and lead to variable-density flows that control subsurface processes such as seawater intrusion, contaminant …

Simulating moisture transport over the Tibetan Plateau in Summer across hydrostatic to non-hydrostatic scales with a gl…

Moisture transport in summer induces annual precipitation peak over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) thus being one crucial sustentation of water cycle between the TP and its surrounding …

Does increasing horizontal resolution improve the simulation of intense tropical rainfall?

We examine tropical rainfall from Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory’s Atmosphere Model version 4 (GFDL AM4) at three horizontal resolutions of 100 km, 50 km, and 25 km. The mo…

Downcoast Redistribution of Changjiang Diluted Water due to Typhoon Chan-Hom (2015)

Typhoons are known to substantially influence the coastal circulation and the associated biogeochemical processes. The transport of Changjiang Diluted Water (CDW), an important so…

Global crustal thickness revealed by surface waves orbiting Mars

We report observations of Rayleigh waves that orbit around Mars up to three times following the S1222a marsquake. Averaging these signals, we find the largest amplitude signals at…

Drivers of high rates of carbon burial in a riverine-influenced freshwater marsh in the Lake Erie watershed of southern…

Freshwater marshes are prevalent and important stores of carbon. They bury carbon in deeper soils, although reported rates of carbon accumulation are significantly higher over rec…

Beyond the Lenormand phase diagram: Self-regulation mechanisms for controlling two-phase flows in porous media

It is unclear why two-phase fluid flows in porous media develop a series of fluid displacement patterns. This study treats a two-phase flow system as an open thermodynamical syste…

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Southern Ocean Ventilation

Ocean ventilation translates atmospheric forcing into the ocean interior. The Southern Ocean is an important ventilation site for heat and carbon and is likely to influence the ou…

Investigating the Mainshock and Aftershock of the May 2006 Earthquake in Central Java for Aerothropolis Development at …

Research on the analysis of the source mechanism of the mainshock and aftershock events of the May 27, 2006, Yogyakarta earthquake, which is thought to have originated from the Op…

Salt-penetrating and non-salt-penetrating tear faults in central Tarim Basin

We examined two tear faults, namely, Nos. 4 and 7 Faults, in Tarim Basin to investigate how a tear fault penetrates the salt layer. Using high-quality seismic data, we showed that…

Predicting PM2.5 Concentrations Across USA Using Machine Learning

Fine particulate matter with a size less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) is increasing due to economic growth, air pollution, and forest fires in some states in the United States. Although pr…

Assessment of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in CMIP6 Models based on Moisture Mode Theory

The moist processes of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 models are assessed using moisture mode theory-based diagnostics ov…

Is equilibrium climate sensitivity clouding our judgement?

Equilibrium climate sensitivity - ECS - is easily-understood, has been studied for over 150 years and is therefore appealing as a metric for communication of climate model results…

Process Modeling of Aerosol-cloud Interaction in Summertime Precipitating Shallow Cumulus over the Western North Atlant…

Process modeling of aerosol-cloud interaction is essential to bridging gaps between observational analysis and climate modeling of aerosol effects in the Earth system and eventual…

Upward Lightning at Wind Turbines: Risk Assessment from Larger-Scale Meteorology

Upward lightning (UL) has become a major threat to the growing number of wind turbines producing renewable electricity. It can be much more destructive than downward lightning due…

Potential for shoreline recession to accelerate discharge of groundwater pollutants to coastal waters

Discharge of groundwater-derived pollutants to inland and marine coastal waters is influenced by the transport and reactive processes occurring in nearshore aquifers. The effect o…

Aridification of northwest Australia and nutrient decline in the Timor Sea during the 40 kyr world

Studying tropical hydroclimate and productivity change in the past is critical for understanding global climate dynamics. Northwest Australia is an ideal location for investigatin…

Assessing Radiative Impacts of African Smoke Aerosols over the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

Biomass burning smoke aerosols exhibit complex impacts on the temperature profile of the atmosphere and cloud development. Central Africa is a region where smoke aerosols are cons…

Moisture transport axes and their relation to atmospheric rivers and warm moist intrusions

The water vapor transport in the extratropics is mainly organized in narrow elongated filaments. These filaments are referred to with a variety of names depending on the contexts.…

Extraction of mantle discontinuities from teleseismic ambient noise

Ocean swell activities excite body-wave microseisms that contain information on the Earth's internal structure. Although seismic interferometry is feasible for exploring structure…

Quantum Calculation of Classical Kinetic Equations: A Novel Approach for Numerical Analysis of 6D Boltzmann-Maxwell Equ…

A novel quantum algorithm for solving the Boltzmann-Maxwell equations of the 6D collisionless plasma is proposed. The equation describes the kinetic behavior of plasma particles i…

Paleostress analysis of the Nyasa / Malawi Rift: implication for the present-day regional dynamics

The Nyasa/ Malawi rift is characterized by poor magma with relatively large earthquakes. There has been a controversy as to the stress kinematics of the rift, some considering it …

An iterative algorithm for predicting seafloor topography from gravity anomalies

As high-resolution global coverage cannot easily be achieved by direct bathymetry, the use of gravity data is an alternative method to predict seafloor topography. Currently, the …

East Asia orogenesis restricted oceanic circulation between Paleo-Tethys and Panthalassa before the Permian mass extinc…

The Paleo-Tethys and Panthalassa are two major oceans that witnessed the end-Permian mass extinction, and they have been suggested to have distinct compositions, with the Paleo-Te…

On the formation of thrust fault-related landforms in Mercury’s Northern Smooth Plains: A new mechanical model of the l…

There are a large number of tectonic shortening structures distributed across the planet Mercury, which are interpreted as the product of lithospheric deformation mainly attribute…

Wave attenuation by sea ice in the Arctic marginal ice zone observed by spaceborne SAR

Attenuation of ocean waves by ice is a crucial process of the interaction between waves and sea ice in marginal ice zone (MIZ), while such interaction can contribute to the retrea…

Shallow Tectonic Stress Magnitudes at the Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand

Quantifying tectonic stress magnitudes is crucial in understanding crustal deformation processes, fault geomechanics, and variable plate interface slip behaviors in subduction zon…

Bizarre Love Triangle: Triad Interactions between the M2, K1, and O1 tides in the Western Pacific

Momentum exchange between ocean tidal waves of different frequencies facilitates energy transfer and dissipation. However, such mechanisms are poorly understood, and how such proc…

Learning Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence

Accurately representing vertical turbulent fluxes in the planetary boundary layer is vital for moisture and energy transport. Nonetheless, the parameterization of the boundary lay…

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