Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Letter to the Editor
The complex geological structures in East Java and Bali provide important opportunities for natural resource exploitation, but also harbor perils associated with natural disasters. Such a condition makes the E...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:14
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research Letter
Three mysterious explosion sounds were heard in the coastal towns of Tamsui, west of Taipei in northern Taiwan, in the early evening of December 5, 2013. The event left clear signals that are identified in the...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:13
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research Letter
Measurement and modelling of regional or country-level carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes are becoming critical for verification of the greenhouse gases emission control. One of the commonly adopted approaches is invers...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:9
Published on: 16 May 2017
Research Letter
Recent 230Th dating of fossil corals in west Luzon has provided new insights on the emergence of late Quaternary marine terraces that fringe west Luzon Island facing the Manila Trench. Apart from regional sea lev...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:12
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research Letter
High-accuracy age estimations of tsunami deposits are very important for tsunami deposit research because the recurrence interval and frequency of tsunami deposits allow us to assess the devastating impacts of...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:11
Published on: 5 May 2017
Research Letter
Rapidly expanding human activities have profoundly affected various biophysical and biogeochemical processes of the Earth system over a broad range of scales, and freshwater systems are now amongst the most ex...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:10
Published on: 4 May 2017
Research Letter
The time scales of reconnection outflow, substorm expansion, and development of instabilities in the terrestrial magnetosphere are comparable, i.e., from several to tens of minutes, and their existence is rela...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:8
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research Letter
Austria has a moderate seismicity, and on average the population feels 40 earthquakes per year or approximately three earthquakes per month. A severe earthquake with light building damage is expected roughly e...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:7
Published on: 29 March 2017
Research Letter
The M w 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 was a complete (and deadly) surprise, because it occurred well away from the nearest plate boundary in a region of very low historical seismicit...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:6
Published on: 9 March 2017
Original article
We test the static Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis for three recent megathrust earthquakes (the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, the 2010 Maule earthquake, and the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake) using focal ...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:5
Published on: 6 March 2017
Review
China is one of the countries with the longest cultural tradition. Meanwhile, China has been suffering very heavy earthquake disasters; so, there are abundant earthquake recordings. In this paper, we try to sk...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:4
Published on: 27 February 2017
Review
Since seismicity in Japan is fairly high, Japanese interest in historical seismicity can be traced back to the nineth century, only a few centuries after the formation of the ancient ruling state. A 1000 years...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:3
Published on: 28 January 2017
Research Letter
Correlation between the frequency of summer tropical cyclones (TCs) affecting Korea and the East Asian summer monsoon index (EASMI) was analyzed over the last 37 years. A clear positive correlation existed be...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:2
Published on: 21 January 2017
Research Letter
By performing a statistical change-point analysis of activities of the tropical cyclones (TCs) that have affected Korea (K-TCs), it was found that there was a significant change between 1983 and 1984. During t...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:1
Published on: 19 January 2017
Review
The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) is the dominant mode of tropical atmospheric intraseasonal variability and a primary source of predictability for global sub-seasonal prediction. Understanding the origin an...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:34
Published on: 9 December 2016
Research Letter
Low-latitude continental shelves, mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sedimentary systems, provide an understanding of sedimentary environments driven by paleoclimatological processes. The Bonaparte Gulf, northweste...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:33
Published on: 7 December 2016
Research Letter
Large-scale fields and inner-core processes relevant to the formation and intensification of Typhoon Fengshen (2008) were examined by simulations using a global nonhydrostatic model with a cloud-permitting res...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:32
Published on: 1 December 2016
Review
This paper argues that more work is needed to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations by scholars across the physical sciences and humanities to improve Data Rescue Activities (DARE). Debate over the scal...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:31
Published on: 15 November 2016
Research Letter
On Wednesday 6 April 1667, an earthquake occurred, and severely affected a large area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, also known as southern Dalmatia, in today Croatia, and part of Montenegro. This p...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:30
Published on: 9 November 2016
Research Letter
This study found that there is a significant negative correlation between summer drought in Korea, China and Japan and the frequency of tropical cyclone (TC) in the subtropical western North Pacific (SWNP) usi...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:29
Published on: 3 November 2016
Erratum
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:28
Published on: 22 September 2016
The original article was published in Geoscience Letters 2016 3:26
Review
Gravity waves are primarily generated in the lower atmosphere, and can reach thermospheric heights in the course of their propagation. This paper reviews the recent progress in understanding the role of gravit...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:27
Published on: 24 August 2016
Research Letter
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:26
Published on: 22 August 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Geoscience Letters 2016 3:28
Research Letter
Ship height positioning by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) was investigated for measuring and forecasting great tsunamis. We first examined GNSS height-positioning data of a navigating vessel. If...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:25
Published on: 17 August 2016
Review
It is well known that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals suffer from a number of vulnerabilities, out of which a potential severe vulnerability is the effect of space weather. Space weather effe...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:24
Published on: 12 August 2016
