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Sensing a Connection: Tree Distribution is Influenced by Deep Critical Zone Structure
This study explores the impact of deep ( >5 m) critical zone (CZ) architecture on vegetation distribution in a semi-arid snow-dominated climate. Utilizing seismic refraction surve…
Does discounting 'hot' climate models improve the predictive skill of climate model ensembles?
It depends. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Assessment Report Six (AR6) took an ambitious step towards ending so-called 'model democracy' by discounting cli…
Stratospheric Transit Time Distributions Derived from Satellite Water Vapor Measurements
Stratospheric transit time distributions (age-of-air spectra) are estimated using satellite water vapor (H2O) measurements from the Microwave Limb Sounder over 2004-2021 assuming …
Impacts of Forest Management-Induced Productivity Changes on Future Land Use and Land Cover Change
Anthropogenic land use and land cover change (LULCC), is projected to continue in the future. However, the influence of forest management on forest productivity change and subsequ…
Automatic Monitoring of Rock-Slope Failures Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Semi-Supervised Learning
Effective use of the wealth of information provided by Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for mass movement monitoring remains a challenge. We propose a semi-supervised neural net…
Circulation and Dispersal in California's Borderland Basins
The Borderland Basins off Southern California are semi-isolated sea-floor depressions with connections to each other and to the open Pacific Ocean over narrow sills. A high-resolu…
GOLD observations of the thermospheric response to the 10-12 May 2024 geomagnetic storm
After days of intense solar activity, active region AR3664 launched seven CMEs towards Earth producing an extreme G5 geomagnetic storm commencing at 16:45 UT on Saturday May 10, 2…
Adaptively Implicit Advection for Atmospheric Flows
Implicit time-stepping for advection is applied locally in space and time where Courant numbers are large, but standard explicit time-stepping is used for the remaining solution w…
The Averaged Hydrostatic Boussinesq Equations in Generalized Vertical Coordinates
Due to their limited resolution, numerical ocean models need to be interpreted as representing filtered or averaged equations. How to interpret models in terms of formally average…
The sensitivity of regional sea level changes to the depth of Antarctic meltwater fluxes
Regional patterns of sea level rise are affected by a range of factors including glacial melting, which has occurred in recent decades and is projected to increase in the future, …
INVESTIGATING THE RESILIENCE OF SALT MARSHES TO EXTERNAL DISTURBANCE
Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems that provide numerous services and act as natural coastal defences by buffering storm waves and stabilising sediments. However, it is not clea…
Contribution of Western Arabian Sea Tropical cyclones to rainfall in the Horn of Africa
The occurrence of tropical cyclones (TC) in the Horn of Africa and nearby areas is for the first time examined to document their contribution to local rainfall and their trends ov…
Identifying and quantifying the impact of climatic and non-climatic drivers on river discharge in Europe
Our water resources have changed over the last century through a combination of water management evolutions and climate change. Understanding and decomposing these drivers of disc…
Mapping Multi-scale Surface Changes on Negribreen Glacier, Svalbard, during Surge using ICESat-2, Sentinel-1 and Airbor…
The Negribreen Glacier System on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, has been actively surging since 2016, i.e., during the entire lifetime of ICESat-2 (launched in September…
MAPPING OF A THICK SEDIMENTARY COVER FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION AT THE SOUTHERN BENUE TROUGH OF NIGERIA FROM A SYNTHETIC B…
Mapping of the basement relief in regions of a high geological importance is key to mineral prospecting. In this study, we estimate the sediment thickness within the Southern Be…
Time and terrain: Life on planet Earth in the century of complexities – and the inescapable role of the Earth and env…
“Pressure and time.” A momentous quote in a compelling movie from a few decades ago interestingly pointed at some of the ingredients that contributed to shaping the Earth. The m…
Tidal heating in a subsurface magma ocean on Io revisited
We investigate the tidal dissipation in Io’s hypothetical fluid magma ocean using a new approach based on the solution of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. Our results indicate that…
Spatial and Seasonal Controls on Eddy Subduction in the Southern Ocean
Carbon export driven by submesoscale, eddy-associated vertical velocities (“eddy subduction”) remains understudied, leaving a gap in our understanding of ocean carbon sequestratio…
Soil Moisture Memory: State-of-the-art and the way forward
Here, we review in depth how soils can remember moisture anomalies across spatial and temporal scales, embedded in the concept of soil moisture memory (SMM), and we explain the me…
Transient Wind-Driven Polynyas Within Nares Strait
Nares Strait, situated between northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island is a major sea ice export path from the Arctic Ocean. One of the narrowest parts of the strait --- Kennedy …
Volcanic Earthquake Classification using Transformer Encoder and Its Interpretability Evaluation
Precisely classifying earthquake types is crucial for elucidating the relationship between volcanic earthquakes and volcanic activity. However, traditional methods rely on subj…
Evidence for Erosional Efficiency of Extreme Precipitation Events at a Multi-Decennial Time Scale
Extreme precipitation events play a pivotal role in shaping Earth’s surface through their influences on hillslope processes and sediment transport in rivers. In this study, we foc…
Large isotope signals in tropical precipitation require large-scale changes in rainout
In the tropics, oxygen isotope signals of past climate change range from less than 1‰ to upwards of 7‰ or more. Regardless of the amplitude, these signals are often interpreted to…
A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis of the Effects of Tropical Cyclones on Diarrheal Diseases
Tropical cyclones bring health risks and can trigger outbreaks of diarrheal diseases in affected populations. There are several reviews that mention the relationship between tropi…
Acceleration of warming, deoxygenation and acidification in the Arabian Gulf driven by weakening of summer winds
The Arabian Gulf (AG) exports hypersaline, dense waters into the Sea of Oman (SOO), replaced by fresher inflowing surface waters from the Indian Ocean. We investigate the impact o…
One plate to find Them How a unique surviving photograph confirmed the Hochstetter Paradigm and located the White Terra…
This empirical research analyses a unique vintage photographic plate that confirms the location of a lost Wonder of the World, the Pink and White Terraces. Their location has been…
Latent Diffusion Model for Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Forecast at km Scale
Numerical weather prediction models often struggle to accurately simulate high-resolution precipitation processes, due to resolution limits and difficulties in representing convec…
An Investigation of Multiple Classifications of Clouds Over Mid-latitude Cyclones
Extratropical cyclones are the primary source of precipitation in the mid-latitudes. The physical mechanisms that drive cyclones are well understood, and a variety of studies have…
Antarctic vortex dehydration in 2023 as a substantial removal pathway for Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai water vapour
The January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) injected a huge amount (~150 Tg) of water vapour (H 2 O) into the stratosphere, along with small amount of SO 2 . An …
The 3D Dynamics of a Wildfire Plume Contained Within the Planetary Boundary Layer Using an Airborne Doppler Lidar
As wildfire pervasiveness increases with a changing climate, there is a need to develop new techniques with emerging technologies to understand the interaction between wildfires a…
Sub-daily Variations in Nitrous Oxide Fluxes from the Littoral Zone of a Temperate Eutrophic Lake
Lakes are sources of nitrous oxide (N2O). However, labor-intensive gas analysis has confined evaluations of temporal variability in lakes to the seasonal time scale. We used a sta…
Ice sheet-albedo feedback estimated from most recent deglaciation
Slow climate feedbacks are currently underrepresented in model assessments of climate sensitivity and their magnitudes are still poorly constrained. We combine a recently publishe…
Is equilibrium climate sensitivity clouding our judgement?
Equilibrium climate sensitivity - ECS - is easily-understood as the global mean atmospheric warming for a doubling of CO2. It is widely applied, has been studied for over 150 year…
Causal links between sea-ice variability in the Barents-Kara Seas and oceanic and atmospheric drivers
The sea-ice cover in the Barents and Kara Seas (BKS) displays pronounced interannual variability. Both atmospheric and oceanic drivers have been found to influence sea-ice variabi…
Contributions of irrigation modeling, soil moisture and snow data assimilation to the skill of high-resolution digital …
High-resolution water budget estimates benefit from modeling of human water management and satellite data assimilation (DA) in river basins with a large human footprint. Utilizing…
Western United States wintertime precipitation response to warming: an assessment in a global storm-resolving model
Years-long global storm-resolving simulations of the present and warmed climates are conducted with 3.25km horizontal grid spacing. We focus on wintertime precipitation in the coa…
Evaluating the dynamic psychological and behavioral changes of water-saving in public buildings under effective interve…
This paper addresses the critical aspect of water conservation in public buildings within the context of sustainable urban water resources management. While conventional approache…
Implementation of Dynamic Fire Injection Height in GFDL’s Atmospheric Model (AM4.0): Impacts on Aerosol Profiles and Ra…
Wildfires inject aerosols into the atmosphere at varying altitudes, modifying long-range transport, which impacts Earth’s climate system and air quality. Most global climate model…
A New GPM-DPR Algorithm to Estimate Snowfall in Mountain Regions
Reliable precipitation forcing is essential for calculating the water balance, seasonal snowpack, glacier mass balance, streamflow, and other hydrological variables. However, sate…
DiffESM: Conditional Emulation of Temperature and Precipitation in Earth System Models with 3D Diffusion Models
Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential for understanding the interaction between human activities and the Earth's climate. However, the computational demands of ESMs often limit…
Contamination impact mitigation in water distribution networks through consumer demand control
Amidst the time-consuming process of conducting laboratory tests to confirm contamination incidents, utilities must promptly implement measures to mitigate the impact of potential…
Statistical Downscaling of Coastal Directional Wave Spectra Using Deep Learning
The modelling of coastal Directional Wave Spectra (DWSs) often requires downscaling techniques integrating DWSs from open ocean boundaries. Dynamic downscaling methods reliant on …
Influence of ocean model horizontal resolution on the representation of global annual-to-multidecadal coastal sea level…
Emerging high-resolution global ocean climate models are expected to improve both hindcasts and forecasts of coastal sea level variability by better resolving ocean turbulence and…
Ionospheric, Thermospheric, Electrodynamic and Magnetic response to the annular solar eclipse of 14 October 2023: a mul…
On 14 October 2023, an annular eclipse took place between 1503 UT and 2055 UT. It affected both North and South America. In this study, we used multiple ground-based and space-bor…
Multi-proxy estimates of sea surface temperature and CO2 in the western Atlantic during the Late Miocene
Reconstructing atmospheric CO2 concentration in the Late Miocene is crucial for understanding the relationship between greenhouse gas concentrations and climate change in a warmer…
Towards Sustainable Iron Ore Tailings Management: Exploiting Versatile Reuse Opportunities for Environmental and Econom…
Mining and refining of iron ore result in prodigious quantities of Iron Ore Tailings (IOTs), necessitating urgent adoption of sustainable management practices. Depleted iron ore r…
From internal variability to aerosol effects: physical mechanisms behind observed decadal trends in Surface Solar Radia…
The Pacific Ocean, spanning over 30% of the Earth’s surface, provides an ideal setting for studying the surface radiative balance due to its relatively pristine atmospheric condit…
Towards calibrated ensembles of neural weather model forecasts
Neural Weather Models (NWM) are novel data-driven weather forecasting tools based on neural networks that have recently achieved comparable deterministic forecast skill to current…
Occurrence of rare lightning events during Hurricane Nicholas (2021)
Hurricane Nicholas was classified as a Category 1 tropical cyclone (TC) at 0000 UTC on 14 September 2021 and made landfall along the upper Texas Gulf Coast at 0530 UTC with maximu…
Himawari-ANU: A recalibrated geostationary land surface temperature dataset based on MODIS spatiotemporal characteristi…
The geostationary Himawari-8 satellite offers a unique opportunity to monitor sub-daily thermal dynamics over Asia and Oceania, and several operational land surface temperature (L…
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