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Influence of the loading stiffness on sheared granular fault gouge, and applicability to slip-weakening theory

Tectonic faults can slip in a spectrum of fault slip behaviors, from aseismic slip and slow ruptures to elasto-dynamic earthquakes. Following frictional theory, laboratory experim…

Observation of different multifractal phase transitions over three typhoon events

Rainfall variability poses significant challenges for measurement and analysis, particularly as climate change intensifies extreme events. Using 10-second rainfall data from three…

Enhanced view of the M w 6.4 Petrinja earthquake sequence (2020-2022) using deep learning

The abilities and performance of machine learning for creating seismic catalogues are still questioned and being tested. We here present the Petrinja Earthquake Sequence Machine L…

Comments on Linear-viscous flow of temperate ice

Several points require clarification to enhance comprehension for future researchers in glaciology. 1. The terminology employed in the paper is somewhat misleading; the term “tert…

Effects of a novel Loss-of-function waxy endosperm allele on Sorghum Seed Development and Grain Quality

Waxy sorghum seeds, defined by reduced amylose content in starch, offer the potential for improving grain quality in food and industrial applications. While waxy endosperms arisin…

Direct S-wave splitting from deep moonquakes: real or apparent?

Mantle flow throughout the lunar evolutionary history could be constrained by shear wave splitting if it is reliably observed in the moonquake waveforms. However, despite the long…

Cooling rate correction in paleointensity experiments on archaeological and geological materials

Obtaining accurate estimates of the absolute intensity of the past geomagnetic field (paleointensity) is one of the major challenges in paleomagnetic research. Paleointensity data…

Stratospheric Aerosol Plumes

Aerosol eruption plumes in the tropical lower stratosphere appear to rise whereas extra-tropical plumes do not. We show that this occurs because the Brewer-Dobson transport circul…

Spatiotemporal Complexity of Megathrust Seismicity Controlled by Subducted-Sediment Properties, Shear Heating, and Dehy…

There is substantial spatial and temporal variability in earthquake magnitude and occurrence across different sections of subduction zones. While temperature, sediment properties,…

A Filtering Physics-Informed Neural Operator for Online Hydraulic Transient Teconstruction

Hydraulic transients pose significant risks to pipeline systems, including potential leaks and bursts. While traditional numerical methods are widely used for transient analysis, …

Sensitivity of ocean carbon sink estimates to rare observations

We evaluate the impact of new data in the annual release of SOCATv2024 on air-sea CO2 flux reconstructions. Using the pCO2-Residual and LDEO-HPD methods, we reconstruct surface oc…

A machine learning methodology to identify current and future multi-hazard extreme events

Understanding the complex interactions and impacts of extreme climate events on socio-economic and natural systems is a necessary step for developing effective risk reduction and …

Covariations between persistent synoptic features and Antarctic sea ice via unsupervised regression learning

During the past decade, a succession of anomalous events in sea ice concentration has suggested that perhaps a shift in the overall dynamics of sea ice in the Antarctic region is …

Seasonal Pre-planting Drought Impact-based Forecasting of Crop Yield in India

Accurate drought impact-based forecasting of crop yield in India remains challenging due to the country’s hydro-climatic diversity and complex interactions between climate variabi…

Identifying MESSENGER Magnetospheric Boundary Crossings Using a Random Forest Region Classifier

We present a new list of bow shock and magnetopause crossings based on automated region classification for the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Rang…

Plume Model Assessment of Tropical Convection Biases in Weather Forecast Systems: Application to the NOAA Unified Forec…

We develop a diagnostic framework for assessing systematic biases in tropical precipitation to support the improvement of weather forecast systems. The approach is demonstrated th…

Irrigation Water Productivity and Climate Impact Indices: The Multiple Dimensions of Climate-Smart Irrigation

• Irrigation is framed as a multi-objective optimization balancing crop productivity and soil emissions (climate impact) goals. • We derive a dual-index framework to assess irriga…

Charting a transformational course toward a safe and just future: the Earth Commission’s contribution

Humans are now operating well outside the planetary conditions that enabled stable and equitable development. The situation is urgent — we need a swift and profound shift in direc…

Inverse Estimation and Validation of Hydraulic Parameters of Paddy Soils under Humid Conditions Based on HYDRUS-1D Simu…

In humid regions, the infiltration-percolation characteristics and water retention capacity of paddy soils are key factors that determine the efficiency of irrigation water use an…

Opportunistic Short-term Compensatory Water Uptake by Subalpine Trees Observed via in situ Water Isotope Measurements

Variations in tree water sources are important to understand in semi-arid ecosystems because climatic shifts towards lower snowpack and increased drought affect water availabil…

The Impact of Model Retraining Frequency and Bias Correction on Predictive Performance in Air Quality Forecasting: Appl…

To effectively address air pollution's environmental and health impacts, high-definition data and advanced methods capturing both temporal and spatial variations are essential. Th…

Detection of Annual and Fine-Scale Interplate Coupling Variations Using Intraplate Earthquakes and Geodetic Data: Appli…

We propose a method to infer detailed spatiotemporal variations in interplate coupling by integrating geodetic and seismic data. It examines whether focal mechanisms of intraplate…

BIGapp: A User-Friendly Genomic Tool Kit Identified Quantitative Trait Loci for Creeping Rootedness in Alfalfa (Medicag…

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a globally vital forage crop valued for its perennial growth and multiple annual harvests. A breeding effort is underway to improve the crop for pr…

Finding mountain summits in high-resolution LiDAR data

Two semi-automated processes are described for determining all of the mountain summits above a minimum topographic prominence threshold in a large set of high-resolution LiDAR ele…

Mixed Layer and Oceanic Kelvin Wave Response Biases to Equatorial Pacific Westerly Wind Events in CMIP6 Models

This study explores the biases in westerly wind events (WWEs) and their induced oceanic Kelvin waves (OKWs) in seven CMIP6 models from three modeling centers that provide daily th…

Expanding on the aquatic deoxygenation planetary boundary: progress towards an 'unsafe' space, interactions with other …

Oxygen is critical for nearly all life on Earth, including aquatic species that breathe dissolved oxygen. In marine and freshwater systems, the rapid loss of dissolved oxygen obse…

Bridge Between Quantum and Classical Bremsstrahlung

This article uses a formula for Action, the path that minimizes energy, which can be written in the Lagrangian form as $ \int (T-V) dt$, which has a solution of a whole number mul…

Soil Health Unaltered by Conversion from No-till to Occasional Tillage

Achieving greater productivity and ecological sustainability of agricultural soils requires moving beyond conventional management practices. No-till (NT) enhances soil health whil…

Modeling Soil-Water Quality Interactions and Identifying Key Factors in Humid Aquaculture Areas Based on Random Forest …

In humid ecological areas, complex processes of material transfer and transformation occur between pond soil and water, which significantly influence water quality balance and the…

Buoyancy Feedbacks on Wave-Induced Melting of Icebergs

Icebergs play an important role in the climate system through their temporally and spatially distributed injection of freshwater into the ocean. Waterline melting from surface wav…

Bridging Clarity and Accuracy: A Simple Spectral Longwave Radiation Scheme for Idealized Climate Modeling

Parameterizing radiative transfer in means navigating trade-offs between physical accuracy and conceptual clarity. However, currently available schemes sit at the extremes of this…

Occurrence of red-green low latitude aurora during large geomagnetic storms: Two case studies

Low latitude auroras are seen during large geomagnetic disturbances when precipitation of electrons from the inner magnetosphere occurs. Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arcs formed from …

Discrepancies in the Representation of Surface and Layered Soil Moisture in Earth System Models

Surface soil moisture (mrsos) and vertically integrated soil moisture (mrsol) over the top 10 cm should, by definition, be physically consistent in Earth System Models (ESMs). How…

Warming Trends in Basin-Scale Heatwaves Across Ethiopia: An Observational Analysis Using Crossing Theory

This study investigates the intensification of heatwaves across Ethiopia’s major river basins from 1987 to 2024, employing crossing theory to analyze daily maximum temperature dat…

Effects of Warming and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on Tropical Cyclone Distribution and Frequency: Results from a H…

As global circulation models (GCMs) have increased in spatial resolution, more realistic tropical cyclones (TCs) and TC distributions have been simulated. Whereas prior research o…

Hydroacoustic observations of the 15 January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption: The role of bathymetry along the …

The 15 January 2022 submarine volcanic eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha`apai (HTHH) released immense energy throughout the ocean, solid Earth, and atmosphere. We analyze mid-ocean…

Nine-Year L-band InSAR Time Series of Tectonic and Non-tectonic Surface Deformation in Northern California

L-band InSAR preserves coherence in vegetated regions and has been successfully used to constrain static displacements, yet its application for measuring time-dependent deformatio…

Data-Driven Bed Load Inference from RFID Pebble Tracing in a Pre-Alpine Stream

We analyse pebble RFID tracing observations to investigate sediment transport dynamics in gravel-bed rivers using statistical modelling. The study examines a dataset of nearly 3,5…

A molecular cytogenetic perspective on chromosome biology and crop improvement Personal Reflections

The age of molecular cytogenetic analysis of crop plants dawned in the late 1960s and early 1970s with new advances in the identification of somatic chromosomes by C-banding and f…

Seasonal Pre-planting Drought Impact-based Forecasting of Crop Yield in India

Accurate drought impact-based forecasting of crop yield in India remains challenging due to the country’s hydro-climatic diversity and complex interactions between climate variabi…

Landfalling tropical cyclones significantly reduce Bangladesh's energy security

Bangladesh’s rapidly expanding, yet fragile, electricity grid is highly exposed to tropical cyclones. However, the operational impacts of these storms on the power system are not …

Marine heatwave in the Bohai-Yellow Seas enhanced the July 2025 rainstorm in Beijing and its surrounding areas

Beijing and its surrounding areas (BSA) experienced a record-breaking rainstorm from July 23 to 29, 2025, with area-averaged precipitation reaching 210.4 mm (38% of the annual mea…

Blocked coastal propagation inhibits model representation of southeast United States coastal sea level variability

Previous studies indicate that climate models misrepresent southeast United States coastal sea level variability but do not propose a definitive mechanistic explanation. Here, by …

The impact of epistasis on the genomic prediction of non-assessed and non-overlapping single crosses in multi-environme…

The objective of this simulation-based study was to assess the impact of epistasis on the genomic prediction of untested single crosses (SCs) in multi-environment trials (METs), a…

How the "Habitable Zone" Frames Exoplanet Discovery Papers: A Quantitative Snapshot and an Epistemological Appraisal

This paper investigates the uses of the concept of the habitable zone (HZ) in recent exoplanetary research. A corpus of articles (n=24) published between 2022 and 2024 was constru…

The Role of Bubbles in Air-Sea Gas Exchange: A Critical Review

Air-sea gas exchange regulates the exchange of climatically important gases between the ocean and the atmosphere, shaping both climate and ocean biogeochemistry. Bubbles beneath t…

Carbon dynamics in a Shortleaf Pine Forest Amidst a Two-year Drought

Texas experienced a severe drought in 2022-2023, the largest since 2012. Here we describe the divergent responses in the ecosystem gas exchange and carbon allocation, as affecte…

Diverse Environmental Factors Shape Patterns of Terrestrial and Riverine Productivity Decoupling

Synchronization of terrestrial and riverine gross primary productivity (GPP) reflects seasonal coordination of carbon uptake across land–water interfaces. Although watershed proce…

Wind control of the interannual ocean-biogeochemical variability in the South Atlantic Bight

In the South Atlantic Bight (SAB), changes in the strength and proximity to the coast of the Gulf Stream are thought to be primary factors determining the shelf-break upwelling ra…

Lithospheric structure of central Brazil revealed by combined three-dimensional electromagnetic and seismic tomography:…

The origin of intraplate seismicity and Cretaceous-Eocene alkaline magmatism in central Brazil has been the subject of long-standing debate. Here, we investigate the structure of …

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