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Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:31
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A re-assessment of historical records pertaining to the activity of Mt. Baekdu (Paektu, Tianchi) volcano
This study re-assesses the historical records pertaining to the activity of Mt. Baekdu according to volcanic phenomena. We categorized volcanic phenomena into five categories: rumbling, atmospheric abnormality...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:30 -
Probing shallow subsurface structures in the arc-continent collision suture zone near Hualien in Eastern Taiwan with magnetotelluric methods
We used the magnetotelluric method (MT) to investigate near-surface structures at the northern end of the Longitudinal Valley in Hualien City, eastern Taiwan. This valley is considered the suture zone of the a...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:29 -
Assessments of tree-ring intra-annual δ18O record for reconstructing hydroclimate with high temporal resolution
Tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopic ratios have been widely studied as a hydrological proxy in monsoonal Asia. There has been, however, little attempt to perform proxy assessment of the intra-annual isotopic d...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:28 -
Earthquake preparedness in an urban area: the case of Dhaka city, Bangladesh
This study aims to assess people’s preparedness for a potential earthquake in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. We have employed a model with six dimensions of holistic individual preparedness. A self-reported...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:27 -
Households’ vulnerability assessment: empirical evidence from cyclone-prone area of Bangladesh
Despite Bangladesh being vulnerable to cyclones, there is a dearth of research on cyclone vulnerability assessment. Assessing a household's vulnerability is considered a crucial step in avoiding the adverse ef...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:26 -
The 2022 Mw6.2 Pasaman, Indonesia, earthquake sequence and its implication of seismic hazard in central-west Sumatra
The 2022 Mw6.2 Pasaman earthquake took place in central-west Sumatra in association with activity in the Sumatran Fault system. This study clarifies the spatial and temporal distribution of the Pasaman earthquake...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:25 -
Sensor orientation of the TMD seismic network (Thailand) from P-wave particle motions
The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) seismic network began development in 2008. There are a total of 71 seismic stations consisting of 26 borehole stations and 45 surface stations currently installed. The ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:24 -
Numerical simulation of a heavy rainfall event over Mindanao, Philippines, on 03 May 2017: mesoscale convective systems under weak large-scale forcing
A heavy rainfall event caused by mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) resulted in flooding over areas of Davao City in Mindanao Island, Philippines, on 03 May 2017. The event occurred during the summer season (...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:23 -
Effects of amendments on carbon and nitrogen fractions in agricultural soils of Yellow River Delta
Although various measurements (including organic amendments) have been used to ameliorate saline–alkaline soils, soil organic matter (SOM) remains low in most salt-affected agriculture soils. It was hypothesiz...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:22 -
Absence of Cretaceous hairpin in the apparent polar wander path of southwest Japan: consistency in paleomagnetic pole positions
To test the hypothesis that a Cretaceous hairpin turn is absent in the apparent polar wander path (APWP) of the inner arc of southwestern Japanese island (southwest Japan), we refined a mid-Cretaceous (100 Ma)...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:21 -
Modeling the impacts of projected climate change on wheat crop suitability in semi-arid regions using the AHP-based weighted climatic suitability index and CMIP6
Due to rapid population growth and the limitation of land resources, the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems has attracted more attention all over the world. Human activities will alter the components of...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:20 -
Physics-informed deep learning framework to model intense precipitation events at super resolution
Physical modeling of precipitation at fine (sub-kilometer) spatial scales is computationally very expensive. This study develops a highly efficient framework for this task by coupling deep learning (DL) and ph...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:19 -
Characterization of landslides: a vertical electrical sounding approach
The high groundwater activity typically found in landslide bodies favors electrical resistivity methods to characterize the subsurface of landslides. The more water present, the more the current injection into...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:18 -
Resonance characteristics and impact of the 2006 Pingtung tsunami in southern Taiwan
Tsunami resonance excitation induces tsunami amplification, persistent oscillation, and strong current velocities, which may enlarge coastal hazards in tsunamigenic areas. Historically, the 2006 Pingtung earth...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:17 -
Intensity and timing of persistence barriers of global sea surface temperature anomalies
Due to its intrinsic connection to predictability, persistence barrier (PB) has been known as a crucial property of some important phenomena like El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), typically depicted as a ra...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:16 -
Responses of soil organic and inorganic carbon to organic and phosphorus fertilization in a saline − alkaline paddy field
There is evidence of increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and inorganic carbon (SIC) under fertilization in dry croplands of arid and semi-arid areas. However, not much is known about the responses of SOC and S...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:15 -
Correction: Coral distribution and diversity in Sakiyamawan–Amitoriwan nature conservation area of Iriomote Island in Japan
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:14 -
An intensity index and its application for summertime extratropical cyclones in East Asia
The intensity definition and classification of the extratropical cyclone (EC) are still less studied than the tropical cyclone, due to the relatively ambiguous structure and diverse life cycle of ECs. In this ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:13 -
Changes in nutrient stoichiometry in responding to diatom growth in cyclonic eddies
Nutrient stoichiometry (e.g., nitrate + nitrite to soluble reactive phosphorus, refer to N + N/SRP, N/P hereafter) governs growth, competition and niche partitioning of phytoplankton in the illuminated oceans....
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:12 -
China’s decarbonization requires achievable deep underground research facilities
This letter introduces the founding of a new Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-DUSEL in China, the distinguishing feature of which is focusing on the key scientific issue on the law of fluid ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:11 -
Seasonal mixed layer temperature and salt balances in the Banda Sea observed by an Argo float
For the first time, the processes controlling the variations of mixed layer temperature (MLT) and salinity (MLS) in the Banda Sea are quantified using data from a single Argo float in combination with satellit...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:10 -
Using an ensemble machine learning model to delineate groundwater potential zones in desert fringes of East Esna-Idfu area, Nile valley, Upper Egypt
The effects of climate change and rapid population growth increase the demand for freshwater, particularly in arid and hyper-arid environments, considering that groundwater is an essential water resource in th...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:9 -
Tidal and internal tidal impacts in the Tasman Sea
Barotropic and baroclinic tides were simulated for the Coral and Tasman Seas off eastern Australia and compared to a simulation without tides. Both simulations included geostrophic currents and replicated a cu...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:8 -
Shear wave splitting of the 2018 Lombok earthquake aftershock area, Indonesia
Lombok is one of the islands in the transitional zone from the Sunda Arc to the Banda Arc, Indonesia. In the mid-2018, the island of Lombok was shaken by a series of strong earthquakes, started with a moment m...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:7 -
Coral distribution and diversity in Sakiyamawan–Amitoriwan nature conservation area of Iriomote Island in Japan
Sakiyama and Amitori bays of Iriomote Island in Japan are adjacent, but their coral distributions differ significantly. This study investigates the differences in the coral distribution and diversity between b...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:6 -
Double-difference earthquake relocation using waveform cross-correlation in Central and East Java, Indonesia
The Central and East Java region, which is part of the Sunda Arc, has relatively high seismic rates due to the convergence of two major tectonic plates in the Indonesian region; i.e., the Indo-Australian Plate...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:5 -
Building a large dam: identifying the relationship between catchment area and slope using the confidence ellipse approach
With the population projections indicating continued growth during this century, construction of large dams can be considered as one of the best available options to meet the future increases in water, food, a...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:4 -
Identifying the shift in global wildfire weather conditions over the past four decades: an analysis based on change-points and long-term trends
Most of studies on change-point at a regional or global scale have only examined a single hydrometeorological variable and have been unable to identify any underlying explanations. In this study, we identified...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:3 -
Unprecedented warming in Northwestern India during April of 2022: roles of local forcing and atmospheric Rossby wave
A high surface air temperature (SAT) record over Northwestern India was reported in April 2022. This study examines the contribution of interannual variability on Indian SAT and possible reasons for the extrem...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:2 -
Predicting soil erosion potential under CMIP6 climate change scenarios in the Chini Lake Basin, Malaysia
Climate change and soil erosion are very associated with environmental defiance which affects the life sustainability of humans. However, the potency effects of both events in tropical regions are arduous to b...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2023 10:1 -
Spatial implementation of frequency ratio, statistical index and index of entropy models for landslide susceptibility mapping in Al-Balouta river basin, Tartous Governorate, Syria
Landslide vulnerability prediction maps are among the most important tools for managing natural hazards associated with slope stability in river basins that affect ecosystems, properties, infrastructure and so...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:45 -
Akatsuki LIR observing system simulation experiments evaluated by thermal tides in the Venus atmosphere
Impacts of temperature assimilation on Venusian thermal tides are investigated by the observing system simulation experiments assuming Akatsuki Longwave Infrared Camera (LIR) observations. Synthetic temperatur...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:44 -
Interplay of greening and ENSO on biosphere–atmosphere processes in Australia
Terrestrial ecosystems are fully coupled with the climate. The planet has been greening owing to the increased vegetation growth in response to the changing atmosphere, which in turn has feedback on the climat...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:43 -
Progress on the earthquake early warning and shakemaps system using low-cost sensors in Taiwan
Building an earthquake early warning (EEW) network requires the installation of seismic instruments around the seismogenic zone. Using low-cost sensors to build a seismic network for EEW and to generate shakem...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:42 -
Source characteristics of the 16 June 2020 ML 5.4 earthquake and its significant aftershock sequences, northern Red Sea, Egypt
The northern Red Sea in eastern Egypt is one of the world’s newest marine basins. The northern Red Sea is a very active seismic region and poses a significant hazard to the nearest cities on the Red Sea coast....
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:41 -
Anomalies of air pressure in Serbia as a result of the eruption of the volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai in mid-January 2022
The aim of the study is to show the anomalies of air pressure registered at meteorological stations in Serbia during the passage of shock waves on January 15 and 16, 2022, as a result of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:40 -
Performance assessment of the landslide susceptibility modelling using the support vector machine, radial basis function network, and weight of evidence models in the N'fis river basin, Morocco
Landslides in mountainous areas are one of the most important natural hazards and potentially cause severe damage and loss of human life. In order to reduce this damage, it is essential to determine the potent...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:39 -
Added value of high-resolution regional climate model in simulating precipitation based on the changes in kinetic energy
As the resolution of regional climate models has increased with the development of computing resources, Added Values (AVs) have always been a steady research topic. Most previous studies examined AVs qualitati...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:38 -
Effect of mesoscale eddies on the transport of low-salinity water from the Bay of Bengal into the Arabian Sea during winter
The distribution of sea surface salinity (SSS) in the Arabian Sea (AS) and Bay of Bengal (BoB) is in contrast due to differences in air-sea freshwater fluxes and river runoff inputs. The monsoon-induced inter-...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:37 -
Auroral responses to the visit of comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 in 2006
The stunning tails of comets are interesting astronomical phenomena to human beings and have been noticed for thousands of years. The bright tails also emit substantial materials into interplanetary space, inc...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:36 -
Performance evaluation of combining ICESat-2 and GEDI laser altimetry missions for inland lake level retrievals
Monitoring lake water levels is important to fully understand the characteristics and mechanism of lake dynamic change, the impact of climate change and human activities on lakes, etc. This paper first individ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:35 -
An exponential-interval sampling method for evaluating equilibrium climate sensitivity via reducing internal variability noise
Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) refers to the total global warming caused by an instantaneous doubling of CO2 from the preindustrial level. It is mainly estimated through the linear fit between the changes ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:34 -
Idealized simulations of tropical cyclones with thermodynamic conditions under reanalysis and CMIP5 scenarios
The idealized Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulations are conducted to investigate tropical cyclone (TC) size and intensity over the Western North Pacific (WNP) over the past decades, as represented...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:33 -
Geophysical model generation with generative adversarial networks
With the rapid development of deep learning technologies, data-driven methods have become one of the main research focuses in geophysical inversion. Applications of various neural network architectures to the ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:32 -
Scientific policies of developing countries and mid-level entry strategy: from the perspective of a marine scientist
Scientific developments are considered the primary source of the economic prosperity of a country. This faith in science appears stronger among economists and policymakers than those involved in day-to-day act...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:31 -
Methods to derive the magnetopause from soft X-ray images by the SMILE mission
Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a novel self-standing mission dedicated to observing the solar wind–magnetosphere coupling via simultaneous in situ solar wind/magnetosheath plasma ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:30 -
Effects of topography and sea surface temperature anomalies on heavy rainfall induced by Typhoon Chaba in 2016
Typhoon Chaba made landfall on the Korean Peninsula in the fall of 2016, resulting in record-breaking rainfall in southeastern Korea. In particular, the Ulsan metropolitan region experienced the most severe fl...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:29 -
Source mechanism of volcanic tectonic events from October 2010 to December 2011 at the Sinabung volcano area
From its first eruption at the end of August 2010, Mount Sinabung has been being seismically active. Thousands of micro earthquakes have occurred in the magma itself, in hydrothermal systems, and along nearby ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:28 -
Investigation of heavy metalloid pollutants in the south of Tehran using kriging method and HYDRUS model
Due to the high cost of the large-scale measurement of heavy metals, the use of statistical land models and techniques is one of the proper ways to study their distribution and level of pollution. The study ar...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2022 9:27
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