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Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic stratospheric dynamics in chemistry versus no-chemistry climate models

Using nine chemistry-climate and eight associated no-chemistry models, we investigate the persistence and timing of cold episodes occurring in the Arctic and Antarctic stratospher…

Seasonal tracer subduction in the Subpolar North Atlantic driven by submesoscale fronts

Submesoscale flows (0.1 - 10 km) are often associated with large vertical velocities, which can have a significant impact on the transport of surface tracers, such as carbon. Howe…

Spatiotemporal variability of droughts in the Congo River Basin: The role of atmospheric moisture transport

The spatiotemporal evolution of droughts in the Congo River Basin (CRB) from 1981–2018 was investigated using the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardised Precipita…

Anomalous Multi-Variable Oceanographic Convergence on the 7th Arc in the Southeastern Indian Ocean Following the Disapp…

This paper reports the detection of a statistically anomalous, multi-variable oceanographic and atmospheric signal in the southeastern Indian Ocean (37°S–39°S, 89°E–94°E) using a …

A Method for Estimating the Reduction Factor Between the Maximum Sea Surface Wind Speed of a Typhoon and the Wind Speed…

To overcome the challenge of converting aircraft reconnaissance winds to near-surface typhoon winds, this paper presents a hybrid method combining physics and empirical relations.…

Bridging Event-Based and StorAge Selection Approaches to Backward Travel Time Distributions

Event-based backward travel time distributions (bTTDs) derived from tracer impulse responses provide event-scale insight into catchment transport, while StorAge Selection (SAS) fu…

The Sabne Framework V34.0: Deterministic Multi-Epoch Infrared Detection and Kinematic Tracking of Planet 9 (Candidate #…

We present a deterministic framework for the detection, long-baseline tracking, and dynamical coupling of Planet 9 (Designated Candidate #4) within the outer Solar System. Utilizi…

Nepal Terai Heatwave Projection For 2026: A Multi-Model Ensemble Assessment with Bias Correction and Extreme Value Theo…

Climate change is causing more heatwaves around the world, and their effects on highly populated agricultural areas can be devastating. This paper provides a forecast of heatwave …

A Rheological Pathway to Irreversible Planetary Dynamo Cessation: Tharsis-Scale Mantle Dewatering and the Termination o…

The global magnetic field of Mars ceased at approximately 4.1–3.7 Ga, an epoch that coincides with the principal constructional phase of the Tharsis volcanic province—the most vol…

The Saturnian Laboratory: Independent Observational Confirmation of Tidal Disruption, Equatorial Ring Bombardment, and …

The Orbital-Bioevolutionary Cycles Expanded (OBC-E) framework proposes that Earth episodically captured secondary satellites, triggering tidal disruption near the Roche limit, cir…

A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries

The Wind spacecraft is a critical element in NASA’s Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO) – a fleet of spacecraft created to understand the dynamics of the sun-Earth system – owin…

Three-way coupling of compositional flow and poromechanics in porous media

Coupled reservoir flow and geomechanics receives a growing research interests for applications in unconventional oil & gas recovery and geological CO2sequestration. For CO2 seques…

Observing a Volatile Organic Compound from a Geostationary Infrared Sounder: HCOOH from FengYun-4B/GIIRS

Formic acid (HCOOH) is one of the most abundant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Earth’s atmosphere and an important source of atmospheric acidity. Here we present the fir…

Comprehensive assessment of flood socioeconomic impacts through text-mining

In July 2021, Germany experienced its costliest riverine floods in history, with over 189 fatalities and a staggering \euro33 billion in damages. Following this event, news outlet…

Sub-diurnal methane variations on Mars driven by barometric pumping and planetary boundary layer evolution

In recent years, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on board the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover has detected methane variations in the atmosphere at Gale …

Identifying Coherence Across End-of-Century Montane Snow Projections in the Western United States

Montane snowpack is a vital source of water supply in the Western United States. However, the future of snow in these regions in a changing climate is uncertain. Here, we use a la…

ITRF2020: The International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) Contribution

The ILRS completed the reanalysis of the entire period of useful data from geodetic spherical targets spanning 1983 to end of 2020. The combined products were submitted to ITRS fo…

Long-lasting diapir growth history in the Basque- Cantabrian basin (Northern Spain): a review

The Basque-Cantabrian basin is located in northern Spain in the westernmost part of the Pyrenees. It is a Mesozoic rift, inverted during the Tertiary. In this basin, a subsiding d…

Are There Mantle Earthquakes Beneath the East African Rift? Probably yes!!!

Whether deep earthquakes beneath the southern East African Rift, down to 44 ±4 km, occur above or below the Moho has remained controversial. We explore a new technique, relying on…

A Rheological Feasibility Pathway for the Early Termination of the Martian Dynamo: Tharsis-Scale Mantle Dewatering on a…

The Martian global dynamo ceased early in planetary history, with available constraints placing the shutdown between approximately 4.1 and 3.7 Ga—an interval overlapping the main …

Robust decision-making via uncertainty quantification in Deep Learning Models for Marine Microfossil Classification

Taxonomic identification of marine microfossils such as foraminifera and coccolithophores is essential for reconstructing past oceanographic and climatic conditions. However, this…

Spatiotemporal Variability Drives the Inconsistency of Multiscale Severity of Intense Rainstorms

Short-duration intense rainstorms drive flash floods in small urban watersheds, yet assessing their severity across multiple spatiotemporal scales remains challenging because indi…

Machine Learning Eliminates Reanalysis Warm Bias and Reveals Weaker Winter Surface Cooling over Arctic Sea Ice

The surface energy budget governs Arctic sea-ice growth/melt, yet observations are sparse, and reanalysis datasets suffer from systematic biases. Here, we train a neural network w…

GeoVLM: Geography-Aware Multimodal Visual Reasoning for Earth Science Applications

The integration of large vision-language models with earth science data presents unique challenges including the scarcity of labeled geoscientific data, the need for effective lon…

A Statistical Study of Warm Plasma Cloak Particles Using Van Allen Probe Data

The Warm Plasma Cloak (WPC) consists of ions in the inner magnetosphere with energies between 10eV and 1keV and showing a bidirectional pitch angle distribution of particles. Thes…

Conformal Discovery Bounds for Candidate Dark-Matter Excesses in Gamma-Ray Sky Maps

Gamma-ray excesses near the inner Milky Way are scientifically important because a smooth component with the right angular profile and energy scale can resemble emission from anni…

Extreme El Nino 2026: Causes, Diagnostic Signatures, and Effects in India

The developing 2026 El Nino risk matters for India because a warm tropical Pacific can weaken the southwest monsoon, sharpen rainfall breaks, amplify compound heat, disturb sowing…

Tropical Cyclone-Extreme Heat Compound Events Drive Amplified Landfall

Tropical cyclone-extreme heat (TCEH) compound events pose severe risks for human health under climate change, yet their physical evolution remains poorly understood. Using global …

Detecting whale vocalizations up to 2.5 kHz using a seafloor distributed acoustic sensing array with incorporated loops

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is an increasingly popular tool for marine mammal monitoring. Until recently, most monitoring efforts targeted lower frequency sounds made by la…

Last Dance: Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a Potential Tool for Solving the Millennium problem NSE ?

In this article, we present mathematical evidence regarding the singularity problem (Figure \ref{fig:my_plots}) of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations—specifically as it is addressed a…

Diagnosing scale-dependent errors in the seasonal cycle of sea level in global ocean models

The sea level seasonal cycle provides a useful benchmark for evaluating ocean general circulation models (OGCMs). We leverage this observational signal to assess OGCM errors in se…

The Thermodynamic Forcing of ENSO: Linking Hemispheric Warming Asymmetry to Anthropogenic Waste Heat

Hemispheric warming asymmetry is believed to contribute to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and associated climatic extremes. However, the causes of this asymmetry remain a…

Spatiotemporal Characterization of Drought Dynamics Applying Combined Cluster Filtering

Understanding drought dynamics jointly in space and time is essential for effective drought risk management and forecasting systems. However, the characterization of simultaneous …

Future Strengthening of North Atlantic Anthropogenic Carbon Transport Despite AMOC Weakening

The North Atlantic is a major hotspot for the uptake, accumulation, and storage of anthropogenic carbon (Canth), processes that are closely linked to the Atlantic Meridional Overt…

The SDG monitoring framework provides limited evidence that environmental policies are delivering multiple ecological a…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide targets for humanity to achieve sustainable development by 2030. A monitoring framework of 248 environmental, social, and economic…

Compensatory Effects between CO2, Nitrogen Deposition, and Temperature in Terrestrial Biosphere Models without Nitrogen…

The strength of CO2 fertilisation is a major uncertainty across terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs) and is suggested to be overestimated without a representation of nitrogen (N) l…

New observations of recently active wrinkle ridges in the lunar mare: Implications for the timing and origin of lunar t…

The variety of tectonic features on the Moon indicates that the lunar lithosphere has undergone a complex deformational history. Lobate scarps and wrinkle ridges are two such tect…

Convective vortices and dust devils detected and characterized by Mars 2020

We characterize the vortex and dust devil activity at Jezero from pressure and winds obtained with the MEDA instrument on Mars 2020 over 415 sols (Ls=6-213º). Vortices are abundan…

Land subsidence, sea level rise, and enhanced tidal intrusion: unveiling the land loss and nuisance flooding potential …

We found a persistent increase in landward tidal attenuation in the Barataria region, indicating an increased risk of tidal intrusion over time. We inferred significant land sub…

The rise of GLOF danger: trends, drivers and hotspots between 2000 and 2020

Between 2000 and 2020, the potential for glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and the exposure and vulnerability of downstream populations to them, have changed across the globe. …

Evaluation of evapotranspiration models using different LAI and meteorological forcing data from 1982 to 2017

We evaluated the performance of three global evapotranspiration (ET) models using the multiple sets of LAI and meteorological data from 1982 to 2017, and investigated the uncertai…

Structures Accelerate Wildfire Spread in the Western United States

Wildfires are increasingly destructive in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where vegetation meets development. How fires spread as they transition into developed landscapes rem…

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