Contribute Geolocation Data

Help us add geographic metadata to scientific works!

The works listed below have been harvested from various scientific sources but do not have geolocation data yet. If you know the geographic location or area mentioned in any of these works, you can help us improve our database.

Know a publication that should be in OPTIMAP? Enter its DOI and we will fetch its metadata from Crossref and enrich it automatically. If we already have it, you will be taken to its page.

Please log in to add works by DOI — use the user menu at the top right of the page.

Showing 5001 to 5050 of 59105 works

Luminescence chronology of reticulated laterites in the humid subtropical mountains of South China

Laterite is a red weathering crust developed with various rocks and Quaternary loose sediments as its parent material in the tropics and subtropics regions of the world, and it is…

Distribution Expansion of Dengue Vectors and Climate Change in India

India has witnessed a five-fold increase in dengue incidence in the past decade. However, the nation-wide distribution of dengue vectors, and the impacts of climate change are not…

The 2021 Antarctic Total Eclipse: Ground Magnetometer and GNSS Wave Observations from the 40 Degree Magnetic Meridian

On December 04, 2021, a total solar eclipse occurred over west Antarctica. Nearly an hour beforehand, a geomagnetic substorm onset was observed in the northern hemisphere. Eclipse…

Fusion of MISR Stereo Cloud Heights and Terra-MODIS Thermal Infrared Radiances to Estimate Multi-layered Cloud Properti…

Our longest, stable record of cloud-top pressure (CTP) and cloud-top height (CTH) are derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Multi-Angle Imagin…

Rare event simulation of extreme European winter rainfall in an intermediate complexity climate model

We test the application of a rare event simulation algorithm to accelerate the sampling of extreme winter rainfall over Europe in a climate model. The genealogical particle analys…

A window into eastern Mediterranean productivity conditions over three Pliocene precession-forced climate cycles

Here, we explore the importance of export productivity versus anoxia in the formation of sedimentary layers with enhanced total organic carbon (TOC) content. We use geochemical, s…

Antarctic landfast sea ice: Physical, biogeochemical and ecological significance

Antarctic landfast sea ice (fast ice) is stationary sea ice that is attached to the coast, grounded icebergs, ice shelves, or other protrusions on the continental shelf. Fast ice …

An Integrated Nonlinear Analysis (INA) Software for Space Plasma Turbulence

We built an integrated nonlinear analysis software -INA- designed to study space plasma turbulence and intermittency. The MATLAB programming environment was used for the algorithm…

Magnetic field conditions upstream of Ganymede

Jupiter’ magnetic field is tilted by ~10º; with respect to the planet’s spin axis, and as a result the Jovian plasma sheet passes over the Galilean satellites at the jovigraphic e…

Sediment Transport Modeling Based on Geological Data for Holocene Coastal Evolution: Wave Source Estimation of Sandy La…

Sediment transport modeling (STM) is a potentially effective tool for estimating the magnitude of tsunamis and earthquakes without historical records. However, applying STM to pre…

A decomposition of the atmospheric and surface contributions to the outgoing longwave radiation

The outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), which consists of the thermal radiation from both the atmosphere and surface, is of critical importance to the Earth radiation energy budget…

2.5-Dimensional Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Cylindrical Objects Incorporating the Modified Optimization Waven…

More and more applications of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for cylindrical objects have been rising in recent decades. This paper presents a 2.5-dimensional differentia…

Advancing Regional Water Supply Management and Infrastructure Investment Pathways that are Equitable, Robust, Adaptive,…

Regionalization approaches wherein utilities in close geographic proximity cooperate to manage drought risks and co-invest in new infrastructure are increasingly necessary strateg…

Application of Orthogonal Polynomial Fitting Method to Extract Gravity Wave Signals from AIRS Data Related to Typhoon D…

Gravity waves can influence weather and climate patterns on various temporal and spatial scales in atmosphere. Despite their recognized importance, there are clearly a lack of suf…

Popular Conceptions of Unidentified Flying Objects Can Undermine Scientific Inquiry

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) appear frequently in science fiction and other public depictions of extraterrestrial technology. Recent interest in understanding UFOs, also kno…

A >200 ka U-Th based chronology from lacustrine evaporites, Searles Lake, CA

Well-dated lacustrine records are essential to establish the timing and drivers of regional hydroclimate change. Searles Basin, California records the depositional history of a fl…

Interannual variability of the 12-hour tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere in 15 years of meteor-radar observ…

The solar tides of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) show great variability on timescales of days to years, with significant variability at interannual timescales. Howev…

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Bayesian Neural Networks: Towards trustworthy predictions of ocean dynamics

The trustworthiness of neural networks is often challenged because they lack the ability to express uncertainty and explain their skill. This can be problematic given the increasi…

Possible planting boundaries of winter wheat in China under different emissions scenarios

Suitable planting areas for winter wheat in north China are expected to shift northwardly due to climate change, however, the increasing extreme events and the deficiency of water…

The Impact of an Open Water-balance Assumption on the Understanding of the Factors that Control the Long-term Streamflo…

Understanding how streamflow and its components, baseflow and quickflow, vary spatially according to climate and landscape characteristics is fundamental for dealing with differen…

A Coulomb Stress response model for time-dependent earthquake forecasts

Seismicity models are probabilistic forecasts of earthquake rates to support seismic hazard assessment. Physics-based models allow extrapolating previously unsampled parameter ran…

Mapping the spatial footprint of sea breeze winds in the southeastern United States.

Sea breeze winds are observed at various locations worldwide, but the spatially continuous mapping of sea breeze winds is rare. We have developed a scheme to map the areas of the …

An upper bound for extreme temperatures over midlatitude land

Heatwaves damage societies globally and are intensifying with global warming. Several mechanistic drivers of heatwaves, such as atmospheric blocking and soil moisture-atmosphere f…

Effect of variation of the coefficient of friction on the temperature at the level of the fault lips

Earth’s crust is an anisotropic and purely heterogeneous medium, which is justified by existence of different discontinuities, our study aims to show the effect of the variation o…

New parameterization to Inversion model to derive optical properties for global waters

The optical constituents like chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), coloured dissolved organic matter (ag) and particulate matter play significant role in presence of light field within the wate…

Snow spikes (penitentes) in the Dry Andes, but not on Europa: A defense of Lliboutry’s classic paper

There is a concern that in the low latitudes of Jupiter’s moon Europa, the ice surface has developed meter-scale bladed roughness, which would pose a hazard to a lander. That conc…

A framework fusing multiple representations of same processes from different 2 perspectives for robust modeling of plan…

A modeling framework is presented for hydrological modeling to more accurately describe the water, energy, and carbon cycles and their interactions with participating processes. T…

Exploring mission design for imaging spectroscopy retrievals for land and aquatic ecosystems

The retrival algorithms used for optical remote sensing satellite data to estimate Earth’s geophysical properties have specific requirements for spatial resolution, temporal revis…

Hybrid Modeling of Evapotranspiration: Inferring Stomatal and Aerodynamic Resistances Using Combined Physics-Based and …

The process of evapotranspiration transfers water vapour from vegetation and soil surfaces to the atmosphere, the so-called latent heat flux (𝑄 LE), and thus crucially modulates E…

Nonlinear earthquake response of marine sediments with distributed acoustic sensing

Seismic waves can be significantly amplified by soft sediment layers. Large dynamic strains can trigger a nonlinear response of shallow soils having low strength, which is charact…

When Is A Dust Storm Not A Dust Storm: Examining the Reliability of the Storm Events Database for Assessing the Inciden…

Dust is a meteorological phenomenon that has a strong impact on the environment, air quality, and human health. In the USA one of the most widely used databases of information on …

Midwinter dry spells amplify post-fire snowpack decline

Increasing wildfire and declining snowpacks in mountain regions threaten water availability. We combine satellite-based fire detection with snow seasonality classifications to exa…

DeepLandforms: A Deep Learning Computer Vision toolset applied to a prime use case for mapping planetary skylights

Thematic map creation is a process that implies several steps to be accomplished regardless of the type of the map to be produced, starting from data collection, through data expl…

Multiproxy reconstructions of integral energy spectra for extreme solar particle events of 7176 BCE, 660 BCE, 775 CE an…

Extreme solar particle events (ESPEs) are rare and the most potent known processes of solar eruptive activity. During ESPEs, a vast amount of cosmogenic isotopes (CIs) 10Be, 36Cl …

Photon

In the text “Photon”, I propose the hypothesis about what the photon is and how the photon interacts with electric charge. Unlike the other three omnidirectionally propagated forc…

Projected changes of surface winds over the Antarctic continental margin

Surface winds around the Antarctic continent control coupled ocean-ice processes that influence the climate system, including bottom water production, heat transport onto the cont…

Overview of NASA’s Solar Irradiance Science Team #2 (SIST-2) Program

The Solar Irradiance Science Team #2 (SIST-2) program is a competitively solicited National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Division (ESD) science resear…

Application of the DBSCAN algorithm for identifying morphological features of atmospheric systems over the amazon basin

In this work, machine learning techniques were applied to detect clusters present in satellite and weather radar images. The technique used was the unsupervised clustering algorit…

Tectonics, gold structural control and lithostratigraphy of Ferkessédougou metasedimentary basin, northern Côte d’Ivoir…

The study area is located in the Ferkessédougou belt in northern Côte d’Ivoire, precisely 30 km east of the city of Ferkessédougou. The aim of this study is to understand the tect…

Credit where credit is due: Data and software in the space weather community

This editorial aims to improve awareness of the current best practices in open research, and stimulate discussion on the practical implementation of AGU's data and software policy…

Mineralogical, Elemental, and Spatial Variability of Volcaniclastics in Fluvio-Coastal-Aeolian Sedimentary Systems and …

This study investigates the mineralogical, elemental, and spatial variability from source (proximal) to sink (distal) of Merapi basalt-andesitic stratovolcano (Java, Indonesia) to…

SEBALIGEE v2: Global Evapotranspiration Estimation Replacing Hot/Cold Pixels with Machine Learning

An open source computer algorithm, the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land-Improved (SEBALI), was designed to estimate actual evapotranspiration (ET) at a basin level. In th…

1.2-million-year band of Earth--Mars obliquity modulation on the evolution of cold late Miocene to warm early Pliocene …

The climatic transitions during the Miocene–Pliocene epochs had significant impacts on the worldwide biological diversity and were associated with large turnovers of continental v…

Big Arrays, Fast: Profiling Cloud Storage Read Throughput

As the size of geoscience datasets grows, scientists are eager to move away from a download-based workflow, where data files are downloaded a local computer for analysis, towards …

Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric Warmings and Coupling to the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere

Twenty six years of MF radar wind measurements made from 1994 to 2019 at Davis Station (68.6◦S, 77.9◦E) are used to study the mean re- sponse of the mesosphere-lower thermosphere …

Complex 3-D surface deformation in the 1971 San Fernando, California earthquake reveals static and dynamic controls on …

The shallow 1971 Mw 6.6 San Fernando, California earthquake involved a complex rupture process on an immature thrust fault with a non-planar geometry, and is notable for having a …

On the use of multi-objective optimization for multi-site calibration of extensive green roofs

Conceptual hydrological models are practical tools for estimating the performance of green roofs, with respect to stormwater management. Such models require calibration to obtain …

Slantwise convection in the Irminger Sea

The subpolar North Atlantic is a site of significant carbon dioxide, oxygen, and heat exchange with the atmosphere. This exchange, which regulates transient climate change and pre…

Thermospheric Temperature and Density Variability During 3 to 4 February 2022 Minor Geomagnetic Storm: The SpaceX Satel…

Themospheric conditions during a minor geomagnetic event of 3 and 4 February 2022 has been investigated using disk temperature (T$_{disk}$) observations from Global-scale Observat…

Entrainment Rates and Eddy Exchange Coefficients from Reanalysis Sea Surface Salinity Data

Simple analytic models developed in this study are applied to long-term averages of reanalysis surface salinity data to quantify two fundamental properties of ocean currents. The …

How to help

If you recognize any works that reference specific geographic locations, please login, confirm your account, and contribute metadata.

In case you find any errors in other metadata fields, if you see a work with incorrect location or time information, or if you find works that should be included in our database, please contact us:

Contact Us Back to Map