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Wave-current Interactions in the California Current Region: Potential Implications for SWOT
While waves propagating over a uniform current are simply subject to a Doppler shift of their phase, inhomogeneous flows can modify the wavenumber, direction, and amplitude of the…
An evaluation of Biodiversity Action Plan under Biodiversity Governance: Case of Pakistan
Biodiversity governance is the backbone to ensure biodiversity livelihood. The Government of Pakistan considered biodiversity as a major component by following the signing of the …
Controls on soil respiration rates at sites throughout North America
Soil respiration represents one of the dominant fluxes of CO2 from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere, therefore, it is important to understand how it is controlled across a…
Ducting and Biases of GPS Radio Occultation Bending Angle and Refractivity in the Moist Lower Troposphere
Radio occultation (RO) can provide high vertical resolution thermodynamic soundings of the planetary boundary layer (PBL). However, sharp moisture gradients and strong temperature…
15 micron cutoff HgCdTe Infrared Detector Arrays for Exo-Astronomy
The holy grail of ExoPlanet research is finding and characterizing terrestrial planets orbiting in the habitable zones of a neighboring stars. The first question to be answered is…
Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Oilfield Flares Accounting for Realistic Flare Gas Composition and Distribution of Flare Ef…
The greenhouse gas footprint of oilfield flares comprises carbon dioxide and uncombusted hydrocarbons. It has been broadly assumed that oilfield flares are 98% efficient, and that…
The evolving distribution of relative humidity conditional upon daily maximum temperature in a warming climate
The impacts of heat waves in a warming climate depend not just on changing temperatures but also on changing humidity. Using 35 simulations from the Community Earth System Model L…
On the relevance of stemflow: An argument against funneling ratios and for a return to scaled flux-per-unit-area metric…
From inside the stemflow research community, the past decade’s progress might look great: 1) the number of papers published on stemflow per year has doubled; 2) citations of stemf…
Electron Microburst Size Distribution Derived with AeroCube-6
Microbursts are an impulsive increase of electrons from the radiation belts into the atmosphere and have been directly observed in low Earth orbit and the upper atmosphere. Prior …
Combining Chemical and Dynamical Measurements to Delineate the Interplay between Dynamical Forcings and Global Pollution
This work addresses the relationship between major dynamical forcings and variability in NO column measurements. The dominating impact on Siberia is due to El Niño, on Indonesia, …
Storm-time Disturbed Electric Field Influence in the Strong Sporadic E-layers Occurrence over Boa Vista, a low latitude…
The formation of strong sporadic E-layers (Es) is frequently observed during the recovery phase of the magnetic storms over Boa Vista (BV, 2.8°N, 60.7°W), a low latitude region ov…
Mechanisms of Changes in Marine Fog in CMIP5 Multi-Model Simulations
In this study, the changes in the occurrence of marine fog over the summer North Pacific in warmer sea surface temperature (SST) or increased CO2 climates were investigated based …
Geomorphic transport from historical shape from motion: Implications for tropical and alpine environments
Mountainous landscape evolution under tropical and alpine environments is mainly dictated by climatic forcing which influences underlying mechanisms of geomorphic transport (e.g.,…
Auroral structure and dynamics from GOLD
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission data contain significant quantitative information about the aurora on a global scale. Here we present techniques …
Size and composition of the residual and depleted mantle reservoir
Most previous efforts to characterize the size and composition of the upper mantle, the source of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), have assumed that this MORB source is the residu…
How Representative are Estimates of Fast Melt Ascent Velocity under Iceland following its Deglaciation?
Partial melting of the asthenospheric mantle generates the magma that supplies volcanic systems. The timescale of melt extraction from the mantle has been hotly debated. Microstru…
Phase Angle Dependent Ultraviolet to Far-Infrared (0.25-100 μm) Reflectance Spectroscopy of Mukundpura (CM2) Meteorite:…
Specialized spectral library measured under controlled planetary surface conditions is important to accurately derive the chemical and physical properties from remote observations…
Spatial and Temporal Variability of North Atlantic Eddy Field at Scale less than 100km.
Ocean circulation is dominated by turbulent geostrophic eddy fields with typical scales ranging from 10 km to 300 km. At mesoscales (> 50 km), the size of eddy structures varies r…
Rapid Outer Radiation Belt Flux Dropouts and Fast Acceleration during the March 2015 and 2013 Storms: Role of ULF Wave …
We present simulations of the outer radiation belt electron flux during the March 2015 and March 2013 storms using a radial diffusion model. Despite differences in Dst intensity b…
Topological properties of epidemic aftershock processes
Earthquakes in seismological catalogs and acoustic emission events in lab experiments can be statistically described as a linear Hawkes point process, where the spatio-temporal ra…
Parallel Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) Using Global Arrays
The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) code was parallelized for distributed memory computers using the Global Arrays (GA) programming model. To analyze parallel …
Capillary Pressure Derived Relative Permeability Relationships
Surface tension controls all aspects of fluid flow in porous media. Through measurements of surface tension interaction under multiphase conditions, a relative permeability relati…
Relative contributions of sinking and non-sinking carbon to the downward carbon flux
The downward flux of organic carbon exported from the surface ocean is of great importance to the Earth’s climate because it represents the major pathway for transporting CO from …
Surface-Wave Images of Western Canada: Lithospheric Variations Across the Cordillera/Craton Boundary
Two-station surface-wave analysis was used to measure Rayleigh-wave phase velocities between 105 station pairs in western Canada, straddling the boundary between the tectonically …
Anisotropic Zonation in the Lithosphere of Central North America: Influence of a Strong Cratonic Lithosphere on the Mid…
We present shear-wave splitting analyses of SKS and SKKS waves recorded at sixteen Superior Province Rifting Earthscope Experiment (SPREE) seismic stations on the north shore of L…
Brinicles and the fates of trapped salts in the ices of ocean worlds
Brinicles are self-assembling tubular ice membrane structures, centimeters to meters in length, formed by the downward migration of supercooled brine rejected from ice sheets, and…
Path effects on surface-wave amplification in sedimentary basins
Sedimentary basins strongly affect earthquake ground motions of both body and surface waves that propagate through them. Yet to characterize seismic hazards at a specific site, it…
North Atlantic Piacenzian Data Model Comparison: PRISM4 and PlioMIP2
The mid-Piacenzian (Pliocene) climate represents the most geologically recent interval of long-term average warmth, relative to the last million years, sharing similarities with t…
Analyzing Wildland Fire Smoke Emissions Data Using Compositional Data Techniques
By conservation of mass, the mass of wildland fuel that is pyrolyzed and combusted must equal the mass of smoke emissions, residual char and ash. For a given set of conditions, th…
Keeping Everyone HAPI: Achieving Interoperability for Heliophysics and Planetary Time Series Data
The ability to access time series data with one API would significantly enhance science data interoperability. The Heliophysics Application Programmers Interface (HAPI) is a simpl…
Thermochronological comparison between evolution of hinterland near field and far field of Zagros convergence margin
To assess the tectonic response of near-field and far-field deformation in the upper plate of a subduction/collision system, we present here a thermochronological study on the sub…
Modulation of mid-Holocene northern African rainfall by direct and indirect dust aerosol effects
During the mid-Holocene (MH, 6,000 years BP), precessional forcing drove enhanced monsoon rainfall, expanded vegetation cover, and reduced dust emissions throughout the African Sa…
Meter-Scale Experiments on Magma-Water Interaction
Interaction of magma with ground or surface water can lead to explosive phreatomagmatic eruptions. Poorly understood questions of this process center on effects of system geometry…
Influence of coastal morphology on river discharge division and tidal energy transport at tidal junctions in the Kapuas…
Tides influence the allocation of river discharge to distributary channels interconnected by tidal junctions. Geometrical properties of distributary channels and nearshore coastal…
Seismic Hazard Maps With The Effect Of Local Geology For Washington, DC
We have developed improved seismic hazard maps with the effect of local geology for the Washington, DC area. The input ground motion prediction equations, source model, and logic …
Integrated Geophysical Investigation and 3-D Fault Characterization of the Rochester and Adna 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, T…
The Rochester and Adna 7.5 minute quadrangles in the Washington forearc of the Cascadia subduction zone encompass the Doty fault, a large forearc fault crossing the I-5 corridor s…
Paleomagnetism and geochronology of Oligocene and Miocene volcanic sections from Ethiopia: geomagnetic variability in t…
We report palaeomagnetic and K-Ar geochronologic results of two volcanic sections from Ethiopia. One section, dated around 29-30 Ma and spanning ~1 km in thickness, is related to …
Characterizing Roadway Runoff and Hydraulic Performance of Engineered Media for Treating Contaminated Runoff
The objective of this joint field and laboratory study is to characterize the delivery and infiltration of nutrient loads from roadway runoff within roadway shoulders. Roadway run…
Monitoring and quantifying the impact of forest degradation associated to charcoal production in sub Saharan Africa thr…
Urban population in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is rapidly growing. While only 30% of its population lived in urban centers in 2000, this figure will reach 60% by year 2050. Urban en…
Origin and Age of the Researcher Ridge Seamount Chain (Central Atlantic)
Researcher Ridge (RR) is a 400km long, WNW-ESE oriented chain of volcanic seamounts, located on ~20 to 40 Ma old oceanic crust on the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR)…
Confronting a multi-plume scheme with observations of continental shallow convection
Multi-plume convection schemes based on discretized size densities can be easily made scale-aware by size filtering the parametrized plumes to fit the model resolution. Combined w…
Drought monitoring and forecasting for Lower Mekong Countries via the Regional Hydrological Extremes Assimilation Syste…
The Lower Mekong is facing an increasing impact of droughts and at the regional level, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) is mandated to work with government agencies on creating a…
Global Analysis of Extreme Sea Levels During the Last Interglacial
Coastal risks are increasing due to the warming of the climate, resulting in rising mean sea levels and changes in storminess. Projections of future coastal flooding rely on globa…
Integrated geophysical approach for the seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) exploration
In the SIP ““Next-generation Ocean Resource Exploration Techniques” project, various types of geophysical surveys, such as time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM), DC resistivity, self…
Floods of a warmer world: learning from the last interglacial
In a warmer world, the hydrological cycle will change in intensity and in its geographic behaviour. This, in turn, will change patterns of river flood and the risk associated with…
Experimental study and analytical modeling of preferential flow and partitioning dynamics at unsaturated fracture inter…
Unsaturated fractured aquifer systems offer a domain for complex gravity-driven flow dynamics leading to the development of preferential flow along fracture networks that often st…
Muon Survey Tomography Based On Micromegas Detectors For Unreachable Sites Technology (MUST^2). Principles, Experimenta…
Transmission muography is an expanding technique based on the attenuation of the natural-occurring cosmic muons flux due to the opacity of the medium to obtain the distribution of…
Lithospheric scattering and structure beneath seismic arrays from teleseismic P waveforms
Random and small-scale subsurface heterogeneities in velocity and/or density scatter the seismic wavefield when they have scale lengths on the order of the seismic wavelength. Sei…
Multiparameter techniques for seafloor vertical deformation assessment in the Campi Flegrei volcanic area
The Campi Flegrei caldera is well known for being one of the most volcanically risky areas in the world. Notably, it has an extension of about 120 square km, and 40% of its area i…
Analysis of 3D plasma motions in a chromospheric jet formed due to magnetic reconnection
i) Within the framework of 3D resistive MHD, we simulate the formation of a plasma jet with the morphology, upward velocity and timescale formation similar to those expected for T…
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