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Distribution and Flux of Trace Metals (Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and U) in the Amazon and Pará River Estuary a…
The Amazon River has the largest volume on earth, making up 15–20% of the annual fluvial discharge into oceans. The neighboring Pará River mixes with the Amazon River waters in th…
The Pakistan flood of August 2022: causes and implications
The risk of floods has increased in South Asia due to high vulnerability and exposure. The August 2022 Pakistan flood shows a glimpse of the enormity and devastation that can furt…
Geomorphic process chains in high-mountain regions - A review and classification approach for natural hazards assessment
Human populations and infrastructure in high mountain regions are exposed to a wide range of natural hazards, the frequency, magnitude, and location of which are extremely sensiti…
Nocturnal turbulence at Jezero crater, as determined from MEDA measurements and modeling
Mars 2020 Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) instrument data acquired during half of a martian year (L s 13º-180º), and modeling efforts with the Mars Regional Atmospheri…
GNSS Scintillations in the Cusp, and the Role of Precipitating Particle Energy Fluxes
Using a large dataset of ground-based GNSS scintillation observations coupled with in-situ particle detector data, we perform a statistical analysis of both the input energy flux …
Impact of Downstream Flow Contribution on the Flood Prone Areas of a Hydropower Project
The sudden release from the dam during monsoon season is now becoming a grave concern, especially in the downstream areas. The situation worsens if rainfall occurs at the same tim…
Trends and Spatio-Temporal Variability of Summer Mean and Extreme Precipitation Events across South Korea for 1973-2022
Climate change has altered the frequency, intensity, and timing of mean and extreme precipitation events. Extreme precipitation has caused tremendous socio-economic losses and dis…
Statistical and clustering analysis of microseismicity from a Saskatchewan potash mine
Typical mining operations can induce microseismicity and in some cases can result in the occurrence of moderate to large events, which is an expected but not always fully understo…
MANGO: An optical network to study the dynamics of the Earth’s upper atmosphere
The Mid-latitude All-sky-imaging Network for Geophysical Observations (MANGO) employs a combination of two powerful optical techniques used to observe the dynamics of Earth’s uppe…
New Perspectives for Nonlinear Depth-inversion of the Nearshore Using Boussinesq Theory
Accurately mapping the evolving bathymetry under energetic wave breaking is challenging, yet critical for improving our understanding of sandy beach morphodynamics. Though remote …
Characterizing Offshore Freshened Groundwater Salinity Patterns using Trans-dimensional Bayesian Inversion of Controlle…
Although marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) methods are effective for investigating offshore freshened groundwater (OFG) systems, interpreting the spatial extent and …
FaIRGP: A Bayesian Energy Balance Model for Surface Temperatures Emulation
Emulators, or reduced complexity climate models, are surrogate Earth system models that produce projections of key climate quantities with minimal computational resources. Using t…
A new nonparametric copula framework for the joint analysis of river temperature and low flow characteristics for aquat…
The joint probability analysis of river water temperature (RWT) and low flow (LF) characteristics is essential as their combined effect can negatively affect aquatic species, e.g.…
Shear Wave Splitting Analysis using Deep Learning (SWSNet)
Teleseismic shear-wave splitting analyses are typically performed by reversing the splitting process through the application of frequency- or time-domain operations minimizing tra…
Point-source moment tensor inversion via a Bayesian hierarchical inversion with 2D-structure uncertainty: Implications …
Determining the seismic moment tensors (MT) from the observed waveforms, known as full-waveform seismic MT inversion, remains challenging for small to moderate-size earthquakes at…
Why are Mountaintops Cold? The Decorrelation of Surface Temperature and Elevation Due to the Greenhouse Effect Weakenin…
\justifying The wet-to-dry transition of Mars is recorded by a changing distribution of rivers, which was interpreted as the result of a decorrelation between surface temperature …
Book Review: "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall
This book review essay looks at Tim Marshall's "Prisoners of Geography" and its in-depth examination of the interplay between geography and international politics. The aim is to h…
Ambient noise tomography of northern Borneo reveals evidence of subduction and post-subduction processes.
The region of northern Borneo in South East Asia sits within a post-subduction setting formed by the recent termination of two sequential but opposed subduction systems. In this s…
Assessing Storm Surge Multi-Scenarios based on Ensemble Tropical Cyclone Forecasting
Ensemble forecasting is a promising tool to aid in making informed decisions against risks of coastal storm surges. Although tropical cyclone (TC) ensemble forecasts are commonly …
A Century Of Reforestation Reduced Anthropogenic Warming in the Eastern United States
Restoring and preventing losses of the world’s forests are promising natural pathways to mitigate climate change. In addition to regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide concentratio…
Linking water age, nitrate export regime, and nitrate isotope biogeochemistry in a tile-drained agricultural field
Recent theoretical advances related to time-variant water age in hydrologic systems have opened the door to a new method that probes water mixing and selection behaviors using Sto…
An unsupervised learning approach for predicting wind farm power and downstream wakes using weather patterns
Wind energy resource assessment typically requires numerical modelling, but this is too computationally intensive for multi-year timescales. Increasingly, unsupervised machine lea…
Generation of high-resolution water surface slopes from multi-mission satellite altimetry
For nearly three decades, satellite radar altimetry has provided measurements of the water surface elevation (WSE) of rivers. These observations can be used to calculate the water…
Disentangling The Causes of Discrepancies In Simulated Immersion-mode Ice Nucleating Particles
We assess the predictability of immersion-mode ice nucleating particles (INPs) at a remote marine site in the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) using aerosol simulations from a global …
Sub-mesoscale Wind-Front Interactions: the combined impact of thermal and current feedback
Surface ocean temperature and velocity anomalies at meso- and sub-meso-scales induce wind stress anomalies. These wind-front interactions, referred to as thermal (TFB) and current…
Hyper-local temperature prediction using detailed urban climate informatics
Modeling urban microclimate accurately is challenging due to the high surface heterogeneity of urban land cover and the vertical structure of street morphology. Recent years have …
Multi-Scale Ionospheric Poynting Fluxes Using Ground and Space-Based Observations
We present three events where high-resolution electric and magnetic field measurements from the Swarm satellite constellation coincided with excellent F-region ionospheric coverag…
Rift zone architecture and inflation-driven seismicity of Mauna Loa volcano
The 2022 eruption at Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i, marked the first extrusive activity from the volcano after 38 years of quiescence. The eruption was preceded by several years of seismic u…
New features and enhancements in Community Land Model (CLM5) snow albedo modeling: description, sensitivity, and evalua…
We enhance the Community Land Model (CLM) snow albedo modeling by implementing several new features with more realistic and physical representations of snow-aerosol-radiation inte…
No consistent simulated trends in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation for the past 6,000 years
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key feature of the North Atlantic with global ocean impacts. The AMOC’s response to past changes in forcings during the…
The Multi-Scale Interactions of Atmospheric Phenomenon in Extreme and Mean Precipitation
Globally, extreme precipitation events cause enormous impacts. Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, which in combination with rising popu…
An Analytical Model for Calculating Particle Impact Rate in Granular Flow
High-frequency seismic waves are generated by inter-particle collisions during granular flows travel downslope. However, the accurate estimation of particle impact rates over gran…
Impact of Surface Roughness Changes on Surface Wind Speed over Western Europe: A Study with a Regional Climate Model …
The temporal trend of wind speed near the surface over land has been investigated over recent decades. A prevailing trend of decline was found in several studies for most areas …
Large-scale Climate and Atmospheric Drivers of Local Headland Bypassing
Headland Bypassing is mainly a wave-driven coastal process that interconnects sediment compartments and allows the continuity of the longshore sediment transport. Waves, in turn, …
Chapter 1: Progress in Understanding and Parameterizing Fast Physics in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models
This introductory chapter discusses the atmospheric subgrid processes ─ collectively called "fast 11 physics" or "fast processes", and their parameterizations in large scale atmos…
Probing gravity waves in the middle atmosphere using infrasound from explosions
This study uses low-frequency, inaudible acoustic waves (infrasound) to probe wind and temperature fluctuations associated with breaking gravity waves in the middle atmosphere. Bu…
Wave groups and small scale variability of wave heights observed by altimeters
Recent satellite altimeter retracking and filtering methods have considerably reduced the noise level in estimates of the significant wave height (Hs), allowing to study processes…
Numerical Investigation of Influential Factors in Hydraulic Fracturing Processes Using Coupled Discrete Element-Lattice…
Hydraulic fracturing is widely used to stimulate unconventional reservoirs, but a systematic and comprehensive investigation into the hydraulic fracturing process is rare. In this…
Correcting Physics-Based Global Tide and Storm Water Level Forecasts with the Temporal Fusion Transformer
Global and coastal ocean surface water elevation prediction skill has advanced considerably with improved algorithms, more refined discretizations and high-performance parallel co…
Methane producing and reducing microorganisms display a high resilience to drought in a Swedish hemi-boreal mire
An increased frequency of droughts due to anthropogenic climate change can lead to considerable stress for soil microorganisms and their functioning within northern peatlands. A b…
ICESat-2 Satellite Altimetry Measurement of Ice Shelf Water influenced Fast Ice in Terra Nova Bay
Coastal fast ice provides a protective barrier to continental land ice and an important biological habitat. Antarctic fast ice extent has been well quantified using satellite remo…
Electron Heating in Magnetosheath Turbulence: Dominant Role of the Parallel Electric Field within Coherent Structures
How are particles being energized by turbulent electromagnetic fields is an outstanding question in plasma physics and astrophysics. This paper investigates the electron accelerat…
Physically Structured Variational Inference for Bayesian Full Waveform Inversion
Full waveform inversion (FWI) creates high resolution models of the Earth’s subsurface structures from seismic waveform data. Due to the non-linearity and non-uniqueness of FWI pr…
Seasonal and storm event-based dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration in a Mediterranean headwater ca…
This study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of DOC concentration in a Mediterranean headwater catchment (Turbolo River catchment, southern Italy) equipped with two m…
A Millennial-Scale Oscillation in Latitudinal Temperature Gradients along the Western North Atlantic during the Mid-Hol…
Changes in vegetation in North America indicate Holocene shifts in the latitudinal temperature gradient along the western margin of the North Atlantic. The dynamics of tree taxa s…
The elusive role of aseismic slip along a seaward dipping normal fault in the indirect triggering of a normal faultin…
Although blind normal faults are common in subduction environments, their rheology, kinematics and interaction with the upper crust are poorly constrained. A month-long shallow …
The stochastic nature of the transport of coarse material in rain-impacted flows
Traditionally, so-called physically based models of erosion by rain-impacted flow focus on the conservation of mass. Raindrop induced saltation and rolling produce random intermit…
Is equilibrium climate sensitivity clouding our judgement?
Equilibrium climate sensitivity - ECS - is easily-understood, has been studied for over 150 years and is therefore appealing as a metric for communication of climate model results…
Gravitational potential energy is conserved along neutral surfaces in ocean
It is recapitulated that the gravitational potential energy that is conserved along the neutral surfaces needs two terms, one from buoyancy and the other from gravity. I also show…
Km-Scale Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) Over South America - A Feature Tracker Intercomparison
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are clusters of thunderstorms that are important in Earth’s water and energy cycle. Additionally, they are responsible for extreme events such …
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