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Analysis of topographic effects on global surface BRDF/Albedo Shengbiao Wu1,2 Jianguang Wen1,2 1Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China 2Univers…

Preventing leakage of CO2 along wellbore cement sheaths is a key factor for ensuring success of geologic carbon storage (GCS) operations. Here, we examine a potential alternative …

Since 1973 micro-erosion meters (MEM) have been used at Kaikōura Peninsula to determine lowering rates on inter-tidal shore platforms. Rates measured over two, two year periods (1…

Klinkenberg-corrected gas permeability (k) estimation in tight-gas sandstones is essential for gas exploration and production in low-permeability porous rocks. Most models for est…

According to the concept of the seismic cycle, earthquakes result from the strain accumulation over a variable decade to millennial period, i.e., the interseismic stage, followed …

On September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a category 3 storm. Storm surge inundation heights in the lower Keys were in excess of 2m. In this study…

Lossless compression can reduce climate data storage by 30-40%. In general, further reductions require lossy compression that also reduces precision. Fortunately, geoscientific mo…

Continuous evolution of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provides the opportunity of using observations from multi-GNSS constellations for geodetic applications. It is a…

The Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia, whose inter-annual variability in local precipitation has resulted in droughts and floods that lead to economic and food insecurity, is the area of …

Regional numerical modeling provides a valuable means to assess important aspects of natural systems when the cost and effort of direct observation is impractical; the Arctic Ocea…

For youth with limited role models in the STEM fields, and restricted summer research opportunities resulting from a lack of financial resources and academic connections, the oppo…

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in last two decades, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars. Assessing their habitability will …

The overturning tropical Pacific circulation known as the Walker circulation embodies complex interactions between large-scale circulations, deep and shallow convection, stratocum…

Coronal holes (CH) are dark areas in EUV images that are generally associated with open magnetic field regions on the Sun. They can be used to estimate the open magnetic flux in t…

To date, actively flowing lava has only been observed on Earth and on Jupiter’s moon Io. This lack of observation means that for the vast majority of volcanic systems in the Solar…

Since 2011, UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Experts Meetings and CaribeWave exercises have resulted in a variety of tsunami models of credible scenarios …

Based on satellites monitoring of the X-Rays Precipitations (Solar Flares), Solar Proton Precipitations (Solar Proton Events), and Riometer absorption in association with F region…

We have developed a suite of computer-based interactive educational activities for introductory sedimentology and stratigraphy courses, called SedEdu. Specifically, SedEdu is a fr…

To improve our understanding of the Canoe Reach Geothermal Field in the Rocky Mountain Trench of western Canada, we examine the distribution of local earthquakes using a network o…

The climatology of upwelling in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) in current climate simulations and in future climate projections is examined using models participated in the C…

Global food security is negatively affected by drought. Climate projections show that drought frequency and intensity may increase in different parts of the globe. Early season fo…

The origin of Kiruna-type magnetite-apatite deposits, which are thought to form by magmatic and/or hydrothermal processes, has recently come under renewed scrutiny. Geological and…

Atmospheric temperature and relative humidity profiles are fundamental for atmospheric research such as numerical weather prediction and climate change assessment. Hyperspectral s…

The ocean floor broadband seismology has been established based on several practical observations by using broadband ocean bottom seismometer (BBOBS) and its new generation system…

Due to its inherent ability to estimate the background error covariances, an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is thought to be a practical approach to the strongly coupled data assim…

The fragility of human life has been tragically demonstrated through history by numerous natural hazards (e.g. earthquakes, tsunami, drought, floods, volcanic eruptions and landsl…

Das2 describes a collection of cooperating programs originally created to support daily review and analysis activities of the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) investig…

Irrigation parameterizations in land surface models have been advanced over the past decade, but the newly available data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite ha…

Land use sector is important in stabilizing global mean temperature rise to 2 °C or less, because land use changes are likely to affect the climate system. Changes in the extent a…

The frontier of wildfire-related risk assessment is moving into data science territory, and with good reason. Computational statistics, built on a foundation of high resolution re…

Long period magnetotelluric (MT) data is being collected as a component of the USArray covering the continent of North America at a quasi-regular grid. Data from 250 MT stations w…

NASA’s future missions will focus on looking for evidence of life under extreme environments, such as cold arid planets (Mars) and icy moons (Eurpoa). There is particular interest…

We inspected a distribution of events in spatial and temporal scales for two earthquake sequences of South Korea: the obtained spatiotemporal evolutions suggested a fault geometry…

In long-established cities such as Detroit, MI, stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces (roads, roofs, etc.) is combined with sanitary waste and piped beneath the city to a was…

Abstract Gas relative permeability, krg, is a key parameter to determine gas production in unconventional reservoirs. Several theoretical approaches were proposed to study gas rel…

Chapter 25 of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is an assessment of climate change and variability, climate-related risks, impacts and adaptation in the U.S. Southwest…

Meridional gradients in CO2 forcing are known to drive increases in poleward heat transport (Huang and Zhang 2014, Huang et al. 2017). However, the climate factors which control t…

Coalbed Methane is an attractive source of energy to mitigate the growing energy demand of India. It is often abbreviated as unconventional source of energy. In this paper two bor…

Numeric weather prediction is undergoing a revolution resulting from the continuous advances in scientific knowledge and technologies. With dozens of weather models emerging that …

This study examines the effects of Indian brick kiln (BK) industry, which is the second-largest in the world, to PM2.5 emission over the northern part of the country. We analyze M…

Total column measurements of CO2 (XCO2) have been proposed as a possible way to estimate emissions from large urban regions. Using calculations from the Weather Research and Forec…

Sediment transport in rivers near the threshold of grain motion is characterized by rare but large transport events. This intermittency makes it difficult to relate average sedime…

Malaria poses a great challenge for the maintenance of good public health and sustenance of human wellbeing in many parts of the world. Apparently, the anthropogenic global warmin…

Satellite missions like GRACE (now followed by GRACE-FO) and GOCE have remarkably advanced our knowledge on the global Earth’s gravity field, by measuring the first and second der…

The stable isotope, aerosol, and atmospheric gas records in ice cores provide exceptional archives of past climate. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Office of Po…

We explore seasonal mass oscillations by continental water storage in Southeast Asia and Himalayan arc region using continuous Global Positioning System (cGPS) measurements and sa…

Optical aurora can be classified into two broad categories, i.e., diffuse and discrete auroras. Recent studies based on optical observations obtained on the dayside reveal some im…

Marathwada division of Maharashtra is one of the semi-arid regions of India where the agricultural conditions are highly vulnerable to the scanty rain and severe droughts. Over th…

In the past, few studies have attempted to determine some of the internal properties of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), which were limited to a certain position or a certain time. …

Fine sediment dynamics is an important issue in alpine rivers since it impacts both dam management (decrease of the reservoir capacity, flushing strategy) and river management (in…