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Partial ruptures governed by the complex interplay between geodetic slip deficit, rigidity, and pore fluid pressure in …
Physics-based simulations are crucial to assessing the seismic hazard in the Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ), requiring assumptions about fault stress and material properties. Geod…
Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event
The Chicxulub asteroid impact event at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary ~66 Myr ago is widely considered responsible for the mass extinction event leading to the demise of…
Novel landforms: integrating people as key drivers of process and form in geomorphology
People alter the earth’s surface in diverse and prolific ways, from enhancing physical and chemical erosion to controlling water transport across drainage networks. These modifica…
The influence of wildfire smoke on ambient chemical species concentrations in the contiguous US
Wildfires are a significant contributor to ambient air pollution and pose a growing public health threat in many parts of the world. Increased wildfire activity over the past few …
Influence of wind speed on canopy Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) measurements for forest ecosystem
Wind speed can affect the observation of canopy vegetation index. When the wind blows, plants will swing, and the spatial structure of the canopy will change. This change may affe…
Comparative Analysis of SVM and CNN for Hyperspectral Image Classification
This paper presents a comparative analysis of tra- ditional machine learning methods and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for hyperspectral image classification. Utilizing the…
GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL MAPPING OF THE CENTRAL REGION USING INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL METHODS
Surface waters are deteriorating due mainly to poor farming practices, illegal mining activities and also climate change. In the Central region this has led to a rise in the need …
Influence of temperature on the residual shear strength of landslide soil: role of the clay fraction
The occurrence and fate of landslides are, among other factors, controlled by the shear strength of the materials involved and by how this strength changes during the landslide pr…
Rapid Fault Leakage Modelling for CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers
Simulating the fluid flow along fault zones at different scales is essential for predicting the CO2 leakage and containment during injection and storage. However, this can be chal…
Reconstructing past sea-level changes from storm-built beach ridges
Storm-built beach ridges, built by waves on sedimentary coasts, can be used as geomorphological indicators of past sea level. However, quantifying the relationship between the geo…
Critical Review of the Article: "Evidence of Dark Oxygen Production at the Abyssal Seafloor" by Sweetman et al. in Nat.…
This review examines the findings and methodologies presented in Sweetman et al. (2024) (hereafter referred to as ‘the paper’). The paper presents findings contrasting those of al…
Expanded constraints on chemical weathering reactions and carbon cycling beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Ice sheets may influence the global carbon cycle by releasing chemical weathering products and carbon from basal environments. However, limited data describing subglacial biogeoch…
The turbulent dynamics of anticyclonic submesoscale headland wakes
Flow interacting with bathymetry has been posited to be important for dissipation and mixing in the global ocean. Despite this, there are large uncertainties regarding mixing in t…
The cyclical nature of normal fault growth: Insights from 4D analogue models
Exploring how normal faults evolve is important for understanding the dynamic processes underlying the initiation and evolution of rift systems. Early-stage fault growth has been …
Remote sensing large-wood storage downstream of reservoirs during and after dam removal: Elwha River, Washington, USA
Large wood is an integral part of many rivers, often defining river-corridor morphology and habitat, but its occurrence, magnitude, and evolution in a river system are much less w…
Be clever or be cold: repurposed ovens for space heating following global catastrophic infrastructure loss
Global catastrophic infrastructure loss (GCIL) would disrupt energy supply networks, prohibiting heating in houses reliant on electricity or piped natural gas. Cold climates would…
Audible and Infrasonic waves generated during the 2022 Hunga eruption: Observations from across Aotearoa New Zealand
The 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano (Kingdom of Tonga) featured one of the most powerful blasts in recent history, generating atmospheric acoustic phenomena observed aro…
A global C-staggered composite model for shallow water equations 1 with latitude-longitude grid and reductions in the p…
To develop a numerical method for global geophysical fluids, we usually need to choose a spherical grid and numerical approximations to represent the partial derivative equations.…
Incongruent chemical weathering and adsorption of neodymium drive modulation of neodymium isotope composition of global…
We report incongruent weathering and differential release of radiogenic neodymium (143Nd) to challenge the widely accepted congruent behaviour of Nd isotopes during weathering of …
Intercomparison of satellite derived SST with logger data in the Caribbean – Implications for coral reef monitoring
Since the early 1980s measurements of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) derived from satellite-borne instruments have provided a wide range of global gridded products documenting chan…
Inadequate wastewater management in Dhaka's major hospitals: A Socio-Technical Systems (STS) analysis of leadership, po…
Unsafe hospital wastewater is a significant concern, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the health impact is often underreported. Socio-technical systems…
Corporate social responsibility management and sustainability of a Peruvian agribusiness: analysis of invention, adapta…
This research article analyzes the management of corporate social responsibility and the sustainability of a Peruvian agribusiness, considering invention, adaptability and organiz…
The impact of rural digitization on agricultural carbon emissions and its mechanism pathways
This paper utilizes provincial macro data from 2011 to 2020 to thoroughly investigate the impact of rural digitization on agricultural carbon emissions. The research findings reve…
Sensitivities of soil respiration and heterotrophic respiration to temperature in a cool-temperate forest with sika dee…
Overpopulated ungulates reduce the biomass of understory vegetation and promote the expansion of unpalatable plants in world forests. These understory degradations possibly influe…
Survival of the brightest? pIRIR dating of volcanic sediments in Sulawesi, Indonesia, using micro-aliquots of K-rich fe…
Volcanic sediments are challenging to date with luminescence-based methods. Both main minerals used for dating—quartz and K-rich feldspar—commonly have suboptimal luminescence pro…
Denoising Daily Displacement GNSS-Time series using Deep Neural Networks In a Near Real-Time Framing: a Single-Station …
Recent ground observations from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) displacement time series have provided compelling evidence that the motion of tectonic plates is ubiquit…
Constraining Earth's core composition from inner core nucleation.
The composition of Earth’s core is a fundamental property of the Earth’s deep interior, defining its present structure and long term thermal and magnetic evolution. However, the c…
Comprehensive Assessment of Flood Risk and Vulnerability for Essential Facilities: Iowa Case Study
Of all natural disasters that occur on this planet, flood events are universally one of the most common and most destructive. As climate change and human actions continue to cause…
Seaweed Cultivation: A Cost-Effective Strategy for Food Production in a Global Catastrophe
An event such as a large volcanic eruption, nuclear winter or asteroid/comet impact has the potential to seriously reduce incoming sunlight, impacting both the global climate and …
Taphonomic Controls on a Multi-Element Skeletal Fossil Record
Animals with multi-element skeletons, including the vertebrates, echinoderms, and arthropods, are some of the most biodiverse and ecologically important animal groups. Understand…
Using Hydrogeomorphic Features to Quantify Structural and Functional Hydrologic Connectivity in a Coastal Plain Headwat…
Headwater streams comprise most of the global river length, and hydrologic processes occurring in headwaters affect the chemical, physical, and biological functions of downstream …
Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction using Empirical Dynamic Modelling
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can originate from a variety of reasons, including water pollution coming from agriculture, effluent from treatment plants, sewage system leaks, pH and…
Deforestation – a call for consistent carbon accounting
Carbon accounting conventions treat emissions differently depending on their source. Fossil fuel carbon emissions are assessed as gross, whereas anthropogenic land carbon emission…
A Systematic Review of Neural Network Applications for Groundwater Level Prediction
Physical models have long been employed for groundwater level (GWL) prediction. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI), particularly neural networks (NNs), have gained widespread …
Scenario Development for Safety Assessment in Deep Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear …
Radiation and radioactive substances result in the production of radioactive wastes which require safe management and disposal to avoid risks to human health and the environment. …
Analyzing Sedimentary Rocks to Determine Hydrodynamic Conditions of Anambra Basin, South-Eastern Nigeria.
The Anambra Basin, situated in southeastern Nigeria, stands out as a significant sedimentary basin characterized by its intricate and multifaceted geological history. This complex…
Greenland Ice Sheet wide supraglacial lake evolution and dynamics: insights from the 2018 and 2019 melt seasons
Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) can impact both the ice sheet surface mass balance and ice dynamics. Thus, understanding the evolution and dynamics of supragl…
Multi-temporal elevation changes of Fedchenko Glacier (Tajikistan) from 1928 to 2021
The Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan's central Pamir region is one of Asia's longest glacier and has been a focal point for scientific investigation spanning the 20th and 21st cent…
On the influence of pressure, phase transitions, and water on large-scale seismic anisotropy underneath a subduction zo…
Seismic anisotropy mainly originates from the crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) ofminerals deformed in the convective mantle flow. While fabric transitions have been pr…
The first seismo-volcanological observatory on Montserrat
The first seismo-volcanological observatory in the anglophone Caribbean was established on Montserrat in 1936, in response to a volcano-seismic crisis that began in in 1933. Staff…
Signal and noise in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26°N
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is key to the redistribution of heat in the climate system. It is projected to weaken due to climate change. The RAPID moori…
Alteration processes of mantle peridotite in the Samail ophiolite inferred from independent component analysis of rock …
To quantify the alteration processes of mantle from geophysical data, an understanding of the relationship between alteration and the physical properties of mantle peridotite is e…
Mesoscale fractures control the scale dependences of seismic velocity and fluid flow in subduction zones
Natural geological systems contain porosity structures of various scales that play different roles in geophysical properties, fluid flow, and geodynamics. To understand seismic ac…
Tomotectonics of Cordilleran North America since Jurassic times: double-sided subduction, archipelago collisions, and B…
Tomotectonics hindcasts paleo-trenches, through the spatiotemporal superposition of subducted lithosphere (slabs imaged in the earth’s mantle) with plate reconstructions (constrai…
Towards automatic delineation of landslide source and runout
Mapping landslide-depleted source areas is pivotal for refining predictive models and volume estimations, yet these critical regions are often conflated with the landslide runouts…
The impact of abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios on renewable energy production
To combat global warming, energy systems are transitioning to generation from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, which are sensitive to climate conditions. While their out…
More biomass burning aerosol is being advected westward over the southern tropical Atlantic since 2003
Each year, agricultural fires in southern continental Africa emit approximately one third of the world’s biomass burning aerosol. This is advected westward by the prevailing circu…
Groundwater Exploration Methods in West Africa: A Review.
The focus of groundwater research has evolved, expanded, and adapted to meet the water demands of society. In recent years, discernible trends have emerged in groundwater studies,…
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