Contribute Geolocation Data
Help us add geographic metadata to scientific works!
The works listed below have been harvested from various scientific sources but do not have geolocation data yet. If you know the geographic location or area mentioned in any of these works, you can help us improve our database.
Know a publication that should be in OPTIMAP? Enter its DOI and we will fetch its metadata from Crossref and enrich it automatically. If we already have it, you will be taken to its page.
Please log in to add works by DOI — use the user menu at the top right of the page.
ess-open-archive)
Showing 12551 to 12600 of 22070 works
A simultaneous observation of lightning by ASIM, Colombia-Lightning Mapping Array, GLM and ISS-LIS
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) on the International Space Station (ISS) provides optical radiances and images of lightning flashes in several spectral bands. Thi…
14-year acceleration along the Japan trench and the Sagami trough
An acceleration of the background seismicity and a shortening of the slow slip events on the Boso peninsula (Japan) recurrence intervals suggest a slow decoupling of the Philippin…
Theoretical predictions vs environmental observations on serpentinization fluids: Lessons from the Samail ophiolite in …
Thermodynamic calculations provide valuable insights into the reactions that drive the profound fluid transformations during serpentinization, where surface fluids are transformed…
Post-Earthquake Fold Growth Imaged in the Qaidam basin, China, With InSAR
Questions regarding the development of folds and their interactions with the seismic faults within thrust systems remain unanswered. However, estimating fault slip and earthquake …
Evaluating the nature and extent of changes to climate sensitivity between FGOALS-g2 and FGOALS-g3
Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and its related feedbacks are important metrics used to measure the global mean surface temperature change in future climate projections. Thi…
The Unique Role of Jason-2 Geodetic Mission for High Resolution Gravity Field Modelling
The Geodetic Mission (GM) of Jason-2 was planned to provide ground-tracks with a systematic spacing of 4 km after 2 years and 2 km after 4 years to increase the spatial resolution…
Basal crevasse formation on Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, as proxy for past subglacial flooding events
Linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) suggests that short-lived flow accelerations, such as the one observed in the 2006 Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, subglacial flooding even…
Solving the conundrum of extensional folding in metamorphic core complexes
Folds with axial traces parallel to the extension direction are a common feature in continental detachment systems and metamorphic core complexes. Yet, how they form has been puzz…
Retrieval of Ocean Wave Heights from Spaceborne SAR over the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone with a Neural Network
The twin Sentinel-1 (S1) satellites have been extensively acquiring synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in the Arctic, providing the unique opportunity to obtain ocean dynamic par…
Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation impacts on water isotope records during the Last Interglacial
Knowledge of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has varied in response to past climates can inform the prediction of future AIS behaviour. Water stable isotope records from Antarct…
Tropical TGF Paradox: A Perspective From TRMM Precipitation Radar
The Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGF) to lightning ratio, computed over the 3 tropical chimneys, presents a paradox: African thunderstorms produce the most lightning but yield t…
Hysteresis Patterns of Watershed Nitrogen Retention and Loss over the past 50 years in United States Hydrological Basins
Patterns of watershed nitrogen (N) retention and loss are shaped by how watershed biogeochemical processes retain, biogeochemically transform, and lose incoming atmospheric deposi…
Evaluating Processing Choices for the Geodetic Estimation of Earth Orientation Parameters with Numerical Models of Glob…
Different Earth orientation parameter (EOP) time series are publicly available that typically arise from the combination of individual space geodetic technique solutions. The appl…
GFDL SHiELD: A Unified System for Weather-to-Seasonal Prediction
We present the System for High-resolution prediction on Earth-to-Local Domains (SHiELD), an atmosphere model coupling the nonhydrostatic FV3 Dynamical Core to a physics suite orig…
Water Mixing Approach (WMA) for reactive transport modeling
We describe a formulation to solve reactive transport problems. The basic idea is to represent transport as mixing water instead of individual solute concentrations, hence the Wat…
Characterizing ocean kinematics from surface drifters
Kinematic properties, such as the vorticity, divergence, and rate of strain, describe the evolution of velocity and encapsulate the rate of deformation and rotation of a fluid par…
Observed impacts of COVID-19 on urban CO2 emissions
Governments restricted mobility and effectively shuttered much of the global economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Six San Francisco Bay Area counties were the first regio…
Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; Part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronolog…
Arclogites, or clinopyroxene-, garnet-, amphibole-, and Fe-Ti oxide-bearing cumulates and restites (collectively representing residues) to andesitic continental arc magmas, are re…
The Past, Present and the Futuristic Earth-Moon Orbital-Globe Dynamics - and its habitability
Using Advanced Kinematic Model (AKM), the unfolding of Earth’s eco-system under the influence of the evolving tidally interacting Earth-Moon System (E-M system) is studied. E-M sy…
Semantic Annotation of Data Using JSON Linked Data
The Earthcube Geosemantics Framework (https://ecgs.ncsa.illinois.edu/) developed a prototype of a decentralized framework that combines the Linked Data and RESTful web services to…
Touch national monument: web-based AR application of Taniwhasaurus mikasaensis
Mosasaurids is a group of aquatic lizards living in the Late Cretaceous sea. They are found worldwide. Taniwhasaurus mikasaensis Caldwell et al. 2008 is a species of Mosasauridae …
Detection of Hertz Frequency Multi-Harmonic Field Lines Resonances at Low-L (L∼1.2) during Van Allen Probe Perigee Pass…
We present new and previously unreported in-situ observations of Hertz frequency multi-harmonic mode field line resonances detected by the Electric Field and Waves (EFW) instrumen…
Arctic Cyclones and the Influence on Short-Term Changes in Sea Ice
Declining Arctic sea ice thickness and extent over the past several decades has resulted in extensive regions of thin ice vulnerable to melting. We use the ERA-5 reanalysis along …
NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Database Initiative
Marine microplastics (< 5 mm) pollution is a growing problem affecting coastal communities, marine ecosystems, marine life and human health. Microplastics have been detected throu…
A machine learning model of Arctic sea ice motions
Sea ice motions play an important role in the polar climate by transporting pollutants, heat, water and salt as well as changing the ice cover. Numerous physics-based models have …
Fluid Flow with Three Upstream Configurations in Freezing Tubes
The flow and stability of liquid through a tube at subfreezing temperature can be modified by the upstream flow conditions. A simplified model for the dynamics is used to show beh…
A Fresh Look at Jovian Decametric Radio Emission Occurrence Probabilities in the CML-Io Phase Plane
The occurrence of Jovian decametric emission (DAM) is sporadic as observed from ground-based instruments. When the timing intervals of observed occurrences of Jovian DAM are compa…
Radar characterization of ice crystal orientation fabric and anisotropic rheology within an Antarctic ice stream
We use polarimetric radar sounding to investigate variation in ice crystal orientation fabric within the near-surface (top 40-300 m) of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica. To ass…
Can a COVID-19 related regional-scale CO2 emission reduction be detected from space using satellite XCO2 retrievals?: A…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2020 in large parts of the world. We have analysed an ensemble of satellite retrievals of column-averag…
Endogeneity in household water treatment behaviour in developing countries
Endogeneity or reverse causality can lead to biased estimation of effects and to inaccurate interpretations of cause and effect water-use relationships. However, biased estimation…
Simulating flow, transport and hydrogeochemical processes within fracture networks
Modelling physical processes such as flow and transport within a fracture network can be challenging, both conceptually and numerically. A typical approach is to upscale the prope…
Putting the Research Catchments on a Map: An Overview of Research Sites that have Shaped Knowledge in Trans-Disciplinar…
Worldwide, catchment studies have profoundly influenced science, policy, management, education, and public perception of natural resources. Despite the legacy, some catchment stud…
Intraregional Comparisons of the Near-Storm Environments of Thunderstorms with Typical and Anomalous Charge Structure
We gridded eleven years of cloud-to-ground (CG) flashes detected by the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network during the warm season in 15 km x 15 km x 15 min grid cells to id…
On the variability of the semidiurnal solar and lunar tides of the equatorial electrojetduring sudden stratospheric war…
The variabilities of the semidiurnal solar and lunar tide of the equatorial electrojet (EEJ) are investigated during the 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2013 major sudden stratospheric warmi…
Relationship between lunar tidal enhancements in the equatorial electrojet and stratospheric wind anomalies during stra…
A number of studies in recent years have reported about the lunar tidal enhancements in the equatorial electrojet (EEJ) from ground- and space-based magnetometer measurements duri…
Sentinel-3 SLSTR SST Validation using a Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) Service
ESA is building on almost 15 years of continuous Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) from UK-funded shipborne radiometers by establishing a service to provide historic and ongoi…
Analysis of recent anthropogenic surface emissions from bottom-up inventories and top-down estimates: are future emissi…
This study compares recent CO, NO, NMVOC, SO, BC and OC anthropogenic emissions from several state-of-the-art top-down estimates to global and regional bottom-up inventories and p…
A bound on Ekman pumping
Momentum transport by boundary-layer turbulence causes a weak synoptic-scale vertical motion. The classical textbook solution for the strength of this Ekman pumping depends on the…
South Atlantic Dipole Changes From 1851 to 2010
The South Atlantic Dipole (SAD) is the main mode of coupled variability between ocean and atmosphere on interannual and interdecadal timescales on the South Atlantic Ocean. Its oc…
Contemporary Deformation of the Fenwei faulted zone From Global Positioning System Data
The Fenwei faulted zone is a region with high level of seismic hazard. Different models are proposed for the formation of the Fenwei faulted zone, but none has given its specific …
Nowcasting Earthquakes in Southern California with Machine Learning:Bursts, Swarms and Aftershocks May Reveal the Regio…
Seismic bursts in Southern California are sequences of small earthquakes strongly clustered in space and time, and include seismic swarms and aftershock sequences. A readily obser…
Progressing Characteristics of Leader/return stroke Sequences of an Altitude-triggered Lightning Flash Containing 15 At…
An altitude-triggered lightning flash with 8 leader/return stroke sequences containing 15 attempted leaders and 8 stroked leaders was observed with a high-speed camera and a mirro…
Design Considerations for an Offshore Instrument Network for Tsunami Early Warning in the Cascadia Subduction Zone
We report on a feasibility study for an offshore instrument network in the Cascadia subduction zone to improve earthquake and tsunami early warning. The global DART buoy network p…
Estimation of the mode conversion effect on the determination of southern boundary for the $\sim$ 100 MeV electron prec…
The parameters of sporadic $D_s$ layer of electric conductivity caused by ultraenergetic relativistic electron (URE) precipitations are determined due to indirect electromagnetic …
The Next Decade of Observations at Axial Seamount: A Geophysical Perspective
The Ocean Observatories Initiative Cabled Array (OOI-CA) is a 25-year facility that provides unprecedented power and communications at Axial Seamount and sites on the Cascadia con…
An Estimation of the Effect of Soil Moisture on Subsequent Precipitation Using the SMOS Soil Moisture Product
The nature of the relationship between soil-moisture and subsequent precipitation is debated. Past studies have indicated that it varies by location, but there have been disagreem…
Constraining uncertainty in aerosol direct forcing
The uncertainty in present-day anthropogenic forcing is dominated by uncertainty in the strength of the contribution from aerosol. Much of the uncertainty in the direct aerosol fo…
Investigation of the Influences of Cloud Microphysics and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Solar Irradiance Using WRF-Sola…
Accurate forecast of solar irradiance remains a major challenge, especially under the influences of aerosols, clouds and aerosol-cloud interactions due to their inadequate paramet…
Tracing anthropogenic trace element contamination of natural and human systems in the South Pacific using honey bees as…
New Caledonia’s Ni deposits account for ~ 8.2% of the world’s production of mined nickel, with a major smelting facility located in the country’s capital city of Nouméa (populatio…
Water quality modelling of the Ganga river basin for pollution and contaminants analysis using SWAT model
Ganga river basin (GRB) in the Indian subcontinent is one of the most heavily irrigated land in the world. According to a book published in 2005 by Central Water Commission (CWC),…
How to help
If you recognize any works that reference specific geographic locations, please login, confirm your account, and contribute metadata.
In case you find any errors in other metadata fields, if you see a work with incorrect location or time information, or if you find works that should be included in our database, please contact us: