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Merging Regional Climate Models and Remote Sensing Observations to Better Estimate Mountain Snow Water Equivalent

Large-scale, high-resolution estimation of snow water equivalent (SWE) in mountainous areas is challenging. Two approaches currently deployable at continental scale are SWE­­ reco…

Microwave Radiometry Improves Modeling of Antarctic Surface Melt Processes

Surface melt strongly influences the thermodynamics and stability of Antarctic ice shelves, yet firn models remain poorly constrained due to scarce observations. We present a fram…

Differentiating average and extreme extra-tropical cyclones by their vertical tilt and potential vorticity structure

This study investigates the difference of the vertical tilt and potential vorticity (PV) structure between average and extreme extra-tropical cyclones (ETCs) in the Northern Hemis…

EVALUATION OF SORGHUM [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Monech] GENOTYPES FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE BASED ON MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAIT

\articletype Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important crop in Ethiopia, especially in lowland areas where drought stress is a major issue. Despite its tolerance, sorg…

Impact of continental configuration on the climate response to greenhouse-gas forcing in an idealized GCM

The influence of continental configuration on the climate response to greenhouse-gas forcing remains poorly understood. Here, we use an idealized model with equal land-ocean cover…

Land Use Change and Climate Extremes: Evidence from Historical Records

This review synthesizes historical evidence on the impacts of land use and land cover change (LULCC) on climate extremes. Using station records, satellite remote sensing, reanalys…

Effects of a landfast ice representation on Antarctic shelf water properties and ice shelf melt simulated by NEMO4-SI³

The formation of dense water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in the global ocean overturning circulation, affecting the distribution of heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients a…

Object Detection of Tree Uprooting Signatures in Gridded Elevation Data

Tree uprooting (or tree throw) is a natural forest disturbance with consequences for ecology, pedology, hydrology, geomorphology, and atmospheric fluxes. These events leave topogr…

A lattice Boltzmann approach for modeling coupled evaporation/precipitation processes in porous media

We present a novel numerical approach for simulating coupled evaporation and salt precipitation processes in porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method. Our model combines a …

Linking the properties of deep convective cores and their associated anvil clouds observed over North America

Over North America, as with much of the world, deep convective clouds (DCCs) have crucial impacts on extreme weather and climate. It is expected that warming temperatures will inc…

Numerical model of a meter-scale labquake in the presence of granular gouge: a heterogeneity-aided supershear transition

Seismic waves originate from dynamic rupture propagation in faults. Seen from afar, faults are analogous to shear cracks, and their rupture can be analyzed using the tools of frac…

Beyond the Training Data: Confidence-Guided Mixing of Parameterizations in a Hybrid AI-Climate Model

Persistent systematic errors in Earth system models (ESMs) arise from difficulties in representing the full diversity of subgrid, multiscale atmospheric convection and turbulence.…

Cold-Air Pooling in a Colorado Mountain Watershed: Implications for Site Representativeness and Modeling

Accurate near-surface air temperature grids are critical for environmental modeling. Standard lapse rate methods use linear regression between observations to distribute temperatu…

Imprint of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on ionosphere and thermosphere

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a dominant mode of stratospheric variability and is known to modulate the variability of the ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system. However, …

Flow evolution and solute dispersion in the swash of regular waves

Beaches are sources and sinks for solutes and debris, and thus wave-driven flow on beaches is important in the dispersion and accumulation of contaminants at coastlines. The swash…

High-level, high-resolution ocean modeling at all scales with Oceananigans

We describe the user interface, governing equations, and numerical methods underpinning the community ocean modeling software called "Oceananigans". Oceananigans development has b…

Bilaterally Distinct (Supershear and Sub-Rayleigh) rupture and local propagation reversal of the 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

The 2025 Mw 7.9 Myanmar earthquake ruptured over 500 km of the Sagaing fault. We performed integrated analysis via back-projection, Multi-Point Source inversion, and finite-fault …

Optimizing Genomic Prediction Based Sparse Testing Designs for Multi-environment Trials in Tetraploid Potato cultivars

Genomic Prediction (GP) based sparse testing provides an opportunity to evaluate more genotypes within a fixed budget in multi-environment trials (METs) to lower phenotyping costs…

Primitive crust buried below southern highland of Mars

The geochemical studies for shergottites predicted an enriched end-member associated with the final residual liquid of Martian magma ocean, which may result in the formation of a …

Impact of Winter Oilseed Crops Pennycress and Camelina on Soybean Cyst Nematode Population in Minnesota Corn-soybean Fi…

Pennycress ( Thlaspi arvense ) and camelina ( Camelina sativa [L.] Crantz) are winter oilseed crops that can be implemented in cropping systems of the United States Midwest region…

A Fire-driven Shift in Canadian Air Quality Concerns Mirrors Trends in the US

The summer of 2023 was the most significant wildfire and smoke season on record in Canada. Data from five different satellite instruments going back to 2001 show that Canada and m…

Interacting contributions of climate and land use change to sediment yield in an agricultural geographically isolated w…

Soil loss due to erosion is a widespread problem in agricultural landscapes. However, a scarcity of long-term datasets and lack of reliable models challenge our understanding of t…

Uncertainty Impacts During Resolution of the Freezing Level for Forecast Verification

Accurate snow level forecasts are essential for predicting the precipitation phase in mountainous California watersheds, where small vertical errors can cause large discrepancies …

SWOT observations unveil fine-scale dynamics on the East Greenland Shelf

In the Arctic, mesoscale ocean processes occur at much smaller scales (10-60 km) than at mid-latitudes (50-100 km), and conventional altimetry thus only resolves the largest of th…

Recent observations of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica are consistent with high rates of loss in next 50 years

Thwaites Glacier has experienced accelerating mass loss, with rates increasing over fivefold since the 1990s. We apply transient calibration to two independent ice-sheet models (S…

Stream corridor structure drives patterns in lateral inorganic carbon inputs and CO$_2$ emissions in agricultural headw…

Headwater streams gain groundwater carrying dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from terrestrial environments and are hotspots for biogeochemical processing. Agricultural stream corr…

Assessing deposit-derived pyroclastic flow hazard at Stromboli (Italy): 2. Probabilistic invasion maps

This study assesses the hazard of deposit-derived pyroclastic density currents generated by paroxysms at Stromboli (Italy). Events that occurred in 1930 and 1944 demonstrate the d…

Metamorphic dehydration, fluid pressure, and the frictional-viscous transition along subduction megathrusts: Case study…

Relative plate motion in subduction zones transitions from frictional slip to viscous flow with increasing depth and temperature. The frictional-viscous transition can control the…

Characteristics of coherent Eddies in the Arctic Eurasian Basin Halocline inferred from a Model Simulation at 1-km Reso…

Mesoscale eddies are abundant features in the Arctic Ocean, influencing ocean dynamics, stratification, transporting heat, salt, and nutrients, and modulating sea ice melting. In …

Effects of temperature on mercury methylation and demethylation in boreal wetland soils

Wetlands are critical sites for methylmercury (MeHg) production, a neurotoxin that bioaccumulates in organisms and biomagnifies in aquatic food webs. Net MeHg production in wetlan…

Optimization of CRNP Deployment Strategy and Evaluation of Radial Measurement Representativeness in a Humid Hilly Region

The representativeness and response accuracy of Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe (CRNP) systems are significantly constrained in complex terrain environments, necessitating optimized depl…

Calving Laws and where to find them

Calving from tidewater glaciers and ice shelves is an important component of the mass balance of the cryosphere and may contribute significantly to future sea-level rise. Current …

Physical Modeling of Coastal Permafrost Erosion: A New Model for Predicting Niche Depth Evolution

Permafrost coastal systems are critical to Arctic environmental processes and understanding their erosion dynamics is essential for addressing climate change impacts. These coastl…

Distance-Dependent Stray Field Decay in Magnetically Stable Remanence Carriers: Implications for Magnetic Microscopy

Micropaleomagnetic analysis offers a path to high-precision reconstructions of ancient magnetic fields from terrestrial and space-returned samples by inverting the vertical stray …

Magnetic field induced by convective flow in Ganymede's subsurface ocean

It has been suggested that the convective flows in Ganymede’s subsurface ocean can generate a magnetic field that is strong enough to be measured by future space missions. Here, w…

Dynamics of downdrafts around a growing convective cloud: A numerical study

We examine the dynamics of cloud-edge downdrafts over the growth phase of isolated cumuli, combining Eulerian and Lagrangian analyses. As in previous studies, our results show tha…

Integrated Sentinel-1/2 Imagery Reveals Interconversion Between Permanent and Seasonal Water Dominates the Spatiotempor…

Seasonal dynamics in surface water area (SWA) provide valuable insights into regional climate change and anthropogenic activities. Conventional methods predominantly rely on opt…

Daily Drought Prediction in the Huaihe River Basin Using VMD-informer-LSTM

Accurate drought prediction is a key challenge in water resource management and agricultural planning. This study proposes a novel drought prediction framework that integrates Var…

Hop Response to Glufosinate-Based Spring Pruning and Implications for Crop and Weed Management

Spring pruning of hops (Humulus lupulus L.) is a critical practice to reduce foliar disease inoculum and control weeds, thereby supporting more profitable hop production. Although…

The characterization and impact of extreme winds in Nares Strait

Extreme winds in the Arctic can affect sea ice motion, ocean convection, maritime and aviation activity, and the formation of polynyas. This work investigates a severe wind event …

The need for systemic, place-based risk assessments to support short and longer-term climate change adaptation

Climate change adaptation requires more place-based evidence to understand the context of historic, present and future vulnerability and how this translates to local patterns of r…

Climate-Driven Wildfires: A Systematic Review of Prolongation, Spontaneity, and Scale with Lessons from California

Wildfires are no longer isolated local disasters, but rather they have become global threats intensified by climate change. To understand the relationship between climate change a…

Cosmic Spin Perturbation Integration and Normalization (C-SPIN): A Conservation-Led Theory of Cosmological Stability an…

We present Cosmic Spin Perturbation Integration and Normalization (C-SPIN), a conservation-led framework in which a small, expansion-normalized shear field acts as a ledger that c…

Impacts of shoreline change on nearshore marine environment at Gazi Bay, Kenya, - Mangrove Forest

Coastal zones are dynamic environments influenced by natural and human factors, resulting in shoreline changes. This study analyzed shoreline change at Gazi Bay, Kenya, between 19…

Quasi-Stationary Atmospheric Rivers as the Primary Driver of Rossby Wave Activity in the Global Subtropics

Hovmöller plots of upper-tropospheric local (Rossby) wave activity (LWA) show that the subtropics of the Pacific/Atlantic basins are relatively wave-free in the upstream and wavie…

Analysis of the electrokinetic coupling phenomena at partial saturation: Insights from an extended Pride's theory

We present an analysis of the electrokinetic coupling equations developed in a previous work by the same authors where an extension to Pride's theory encompassing partially satura…

Tunability of ice supersaturation in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in the LMDZ atmospheric model

Ice supersaturation (ISS) is an atmospheric phenomenon that is necessary for the in situ formation of cirrus clouds and persistent contrails. Including ISS in climate models is es…

Injection induced seismicity in complex fault zone architecture

Modeling of injection-induced seismicity plays a significant role in understanding the seismic risks associated with different anthropogenic activities including sub-surface energ…

Understanding the influence of air-sea interaction across western Arabian Sea on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall dis…

The variability of the Somalian Jet (SJ) over the western Indian Ocean (WIO) plays a crucial role in determining Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). This jet drives the Somalia…

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