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In geophysics, crowdsourcing is an emerging non-traditional environmental monitoring approach that encourages contributions of data from individual citizens. Because of their reli…

The ocean has absorbed approximately 90% of the accumulated heat in the climate system since 1970. As global warming accelerates, understanding ocean heat content changes and trac…

As a result of climate change, California is experiencing the impact of more extreme weather patterns including longer drought periods and atmospheric rivers resulting in extreme …

On any given day, some region of the globe is likely to be affected by significant negative temperature anomalies. Depending on the severity, extreme cold periods may be deemed co…

The recent high spatial/spectral resolution observations have enabled constraining formation mechanisms of giant planets, especially at the final stages. The current interpretatio…

To better understand the mechanisms of crustal exhumation related to tectonic extension, we report on the progressive doming and detachment faulting of the Cretaceous Liaonan meta…

The impact of high-frequency atmospheric forcing on the Yellow Sea (YS) circulation with emphasis on the Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) was investigated by comparing model simulat…

The Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observation Fourier-Transform Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) onboard the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) launched in Jan. 20…

Under a high-end emission scenario to the year 2300, climate warming drives a drastic slowdown in the ocean’s meridional overturning circulation, with a cessation of Antarctic Bot…

A significant stress drop characterizes sometimes earthquakes induced by injection or extraction of fluids in rocks. Moreover, long-term fluid operations in underground reservoirs…

The detection and quantification of global land change by satellite observations are the grand challenges to improve the understanding of global environmental change. In this stud…

A major transport process in soils is hydrodynamic dispersion which affects the spreading and arrival of surface-applied pollutants at underlying groundwater reservoirs. When a so…

Glacial acceleration is the largest source of uncertainty in sea-level-rise assessment, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Of the different types of glaci…

The solar quiet variation (Sq) observed at observatories near the latitude of the Sq vortex focus is difficult to assess because it is affected by both the geomagnetic activity le…

Most of the existing three-dimensional (3-D) electromagnetic (EM) modeling solvers based on the integral equation (IE) method exploit fast Fourier transform (FFT) to accelerate th…

We explore the possibility that Callisto’s ocean sits beneath its high-pressure ice, rather than above it. Oceans perched between ice phases are considered to be stable configurat…

Changes in the heavy ion composition in the terrestrial ionosphere and magnetosphere can have significant impact on particle dynamics in the Earth’s magnetosphere-ionosphere syste…

Planetary scientists can face challenges in effectively interacting with audiences. To help address their needs, the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) conducts professional deve…

Formation of melt ponds is pervasive on sea ice and ice shelves prior to their disintegration. Such process should be critical for the deglaciation of a snowball Earth but has nev…

The recent discovery of thousands of protoplanetary disks and exoplanets has revealed that planet formation is a very efficient process in nature. There have been several theories…

To advance the understanding of crustal deformation and earthquake hazards in Canada, we analyze seismic and geodetic datasets and robustly estimate the crust strain accumulation …

Bangladesh is a small country of South Asia which is considered as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change and it is affected by severe weather and cli…

Energy spectra of ring current protons are crucial to understanding the ring current dynamics. Based on high-quality Van Allen Probes RBSPICE measurements, we investigate the glob…

As the number of man-made Earth-orbiting objects increases, satellite operators need enhanced space traffic management capabilities to ensure safe space operations. For objects in…

We investigate the relationships among summertime ozone (O3), temperature, and humidity on daily timescales across the Northern Hemisphere using observations and model simulations…

To study the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in climate change, we perform an abrupt CO2-doubling experiment using a coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice mo…

Similar to most West Antarctic ice shelves, those in the Bellingshausen Sea have rapidly thinned by hundreds of cubic kilometers over the last decades yet they remain under-studie…

One of the scientific payloads of Chang’E-5 (CE-5), i.e., the lunar penetrating array radar (LRPR), will carry out the in situ exploration of the regolith structure and guide the …

Skillful forecasts of daily streamflow on river networks are crucial for flood mitigation, especially in rainfall-driven river basins. This is of acute importance on the Narmada R…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a diverse range of both direct and indirect impacts on health (both physical and mental), the economy, and the environment. The relevant data sources…

Computational models of flood inundation, precipitation-runoff, and groundwater have traditionally been developed within their individual scientific fields. Increasingly, there is…

Imagery from the GOES series has been a key element of U.S. operational weather forecasting for four decades. While GOES observations are used extensively by human forecasters for…

Since June 2017, the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III instrument on the International Space Station (SAGE III/ISS) has been providing vertical profiles of upper tropos…

The most widely-studied mechanism of mass loss from extrasolar planets is photoevaporation via XUV ionization, primarily in the context of highly irradiated planets. However, the …

The subduction zone along the northern Tonga Trench has the highest plate convergence rate in the world, but limited records of its seismic and tsunamigenic activities. In 2009, a…

Hydrogen isotope ratios of sedimentary leaf waxes (δ2HWax values) are increasingly used to reconstruct past hydroclimate. Here, we add δ2HWax values from 19 lakes and four swamps …

The Cabled Observatory Vent Imaging Sonar (COVIS) was initially installed on the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Cabled Array (OOI-CA) observatory at ASHES hydrothermal vent fiel…

Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC) is a multi-year international program with participants from over 15 countries. Its overarching goal is to expedite the progress of improving…

The Unified Access Framework (UAF) project of the NOAA Global Earth Observation - Integrated Data Environment (GEO-IDE) in an on-going effort to provide access to NOAA-wide data i…

Advances in space weather science and small satellite (SmallSat) technology have proceeded in parallel over the past two decades, but better communication and coordination is need…

Xenoliths of plutonic rocks sporadically torn off by erupting magmas are known to carry valuable information about volcano plumbing systems and the lithosphere in which they empla…

Global mapping of the nature and distribution of volatiles such as sulfides on Mercury’s surface is essential for understanding the thermal evolution of the planet. The surface ex…

The upper-level jet stream impacts surface-level trace gas variability, yet the cause of this relationship remains unclear. We investigate the mechanism(s) responsible for the rel…

Up-to-date information about vegetation types and hydromorphological structures and features are essential for the management of waterways. They are e.g. used for the monitoring a…

Lakes are often defined by seasonal cycles. The seasonal timing, or phenology, of many lake processes, such as primary productivity, are changing in response to human activities. …

Using five independent substorm onset lists, we show that substorms occur more frequently when the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) By component and the dipole tilt angle Ψ hav…

Overestimation of precipitation frequency and duration while underestimating intensity, i.e., the “drizzling” bias, has been a long-standing problem of global climate models. Here…

The science guiding the \EURECA campaign and its measurements are presented. \EURECA comprised roughly five weeks of measurements in the downstream winter trades of the North Atla…

The Heliophysics Application Programmer’s Interface (HAPI) represents a grass-roots effort to develop a common interface that data providers can use to offer time series data for …

Green Bay is a large freshwater estuarine system that drains one-third of the Lake Michigan basin. The International Joint Commission designated southern Green Bay as an area of c…