Articles
Page 3 of 6
-
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:26
-
Forest canopy scattering properties with signal of opportunity reflectometry: theoretical simulations
In recent years, signal of opportunity reflectometry (SoOp-R) has become a promising remote sensing technique. This emerging technique employs the reflected signals from existing Global Navigation Satellite Sy...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:25 -
Strategies for smarter catchment hydrology models: incorporating scaling and better process representation
Hydrological models have proliferated in the past several decades prompting debates on the virtues and shortcomings of various modelling approaches. Rather than critiquing individual models or modelling approa...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:24 -
Imaging ground surface deformations in post-disaster settings via small UAVs
Small unmanned aerial vehicles have been seeing increased deployment in field surveys in recent years. Their portability, maneuverability, and high-resolution imaging are useful in mapping surface features tha...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:23 -
Weakened seasonality of the African rainforest precipitation in boreal winter and spring driven by tropical SST variabilities
Precipitation in the equatorial African rainforest plays an important role in both the regional hydrological cycle and the global climate variability. Previous studies mostly focus on the trends of drought in ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:22 -
The effects of ENSO, climate change and human activities on the water level of Lake Toba, Indonesia: a critical literature review
This research quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the factors responsible for the water level variations in Lake Toba, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. According to several studies carried out from 199...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:21 -
Complex tsunami hazards in eastern Indonesia from seismic and non-seismic sources: Deterministic modelling based on historical and modern data
Eastern Indonesia is one of the world’s most complex regions in terms of tsunami hazards, as it accommodates numerous seismic and non-seismic tsunami sources with a history of deadly tsunamis. This study is an...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:20 -
Spatiotemporal distribution of potentially toxic elements in the lower Gangetic delta and their implications for non-carcinogenic health risk management
River Hooghly, a tributary of river Ganges is one of the major rivers of Asia having traditional, social, economic, religious, and spiritual values. Water samples were collected from 18 sampling locations of r...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:19 -
Perspectives on eco-water security and sustainable development in the Yangtze River Basin
The Yangtze River, the largest river in China, has been facing major challenges in massive flooding and eco-environmental health over the past decades. Sustainable socioeconomic development in the Yangtze Rive...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:18 -
Underestimated responses of Walker circulation to ENSO-related SST anomaly in atmospheric and coupled models
The Pacific Walker circulation (WC) is a major component of the global climate system. It connects the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability to the climate variabilities from the other ocean basins...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:17 -
Local and remote SST variability contribute to the westward shift of the Pacific Walker circulation during 1979–2015
During the modern satellite era since 1979, the Pacific Walker circulation (PWC) experienced an intensification and a westward shift, which has broad impacts on the global climate variability. While the streng...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:16 -
Groundwater aquifer detection using the electrical resistivity method at Ito Campus, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan)
An electrical resistivity survey was carried out using the pole–pole configuration around the Sayanokami spring area in the northern part of Ito Campus (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) to study the groundwa...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:15 -
Correlation-aided method for identification and gradation of periodicities in hydrologic time series
Identification of periodicities in hydrological time series and evaluation of their statistical significance are not only important for water-related studies, but also challenging issues due to the complex var...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:14 -
On the geophysical processes impacting palaeo-sea-level observations
Past sea-level change represents the large-scale state of global climate, reflecting the waxing and waning of global ice sheets and the corresponding effect on ocean volume. Recent developments in sampling and...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:13 -
Arsenic in the Pearl River Delta and its related waterbody, South China: occurrence and sources, a review
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a densely populated special economic zone in South China where rapid development since the late 1990s coincided with an increase of many environmental problems in recent years. O...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:12 -
Bistatic scattering simulations of circular and linear polarizations over land surface for signals of opportunity reflectometry
Signals of Opportunity Reflectometry (SoOp-R) employs the communication system, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) constellation and other potential Signals of Opportunity (SoOp) as the transmitters. In...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:11 -
Isolating non-subduction-driven tectonic processes in Cascadia
Several tectonic processes combine to produce the crustal deformation observed across the Cascadia margin: (1) Cascadia subduction, (2) the northward propagation of the Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ), (3) the...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:10 -
The waveform inversion of mainshock and aftershock data of the 2006 M6.3 Yogyakarta earthquake
This study comprehensively investigates the source mechanisms associated with the mainshock and aftershocks of the Mw = 6.3 Yogyakarta earthquake which occurred on May 27, 2006. The process involved using mome...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:9 -
CMIP6 model-based analog forecasting for the seasonal prediction of sea surface temperature in the offshore area of China
Seasonal forecasts at lead times of 1–12 months for sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (SSTAs) in the offshore area of China are a considerable challenge for climate prediction in China. Previous research...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:8 -
Oil spill discrimination of multi-time-domain shipborne radar images using active contour model
Accidental oil spills cause serious pollution to the ocean and are difficult to control in short time. It is an important guarantee for emergency disposal to effectively monitor oil spills. Remote sensing is t...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:7 -
Geochemical approaches in tsunami research: current knowledge and challenges
Over the past decade or so, geochemical techniques have been applied to the study of modern and past tsunamis. Seawater incursions and the introduction of marine organic matter can be detected through geochemi...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:6 -
Benefits of radar-derived surface current assimilation for South of Africa ocean circulation
The oceanic circulation south of Africa is characterised by a complex dynamics with a strong variability due to the presence of the Agulhas current and numerous eddies. This area of interest is also the locati...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:5 -
Depth variation of seismic moment and recurrence interval in Japan
In repeating seismic event sequences within a specialized horizontal area, the moment magnitude is usually scaled with the recurrence interval. In addition to two horizontal dimensions, the vertical dimension ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:4 -
Asymmetry in the Earth’s magnetotail neutral sheet rotation due to IMF \(B_y\) sign?
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:3 -
Accessing future crop yield and crop water productivity over the Heihe River basin in northwest China under a changing climate
Quantitative evaluation of the response of crop yield and crop water productivity (CWP) to future climate change is important to prevent or mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. This study made such ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:2 -
Upper ocean response to tropical cyclones: a review
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are strong natural hazards that are important for local and global air–sea interactions. This manuscript briefly reviews the knowledge about the upper ocean responses to TCs, including ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2021 8:1 -
Potential of deep predictive coding networks for spatiotemporal tsunami wavefield prediction
Data assimilation is a powerful tool for directly forecasting tsunami wavefields from the waveforms recorded at dense observational stations like S-Net without the need to know the earthquake source parameters...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:20 -
Two-year consecutive concurrences of positive Indian Ocean Dipole and Central Pacific El Niño preconditioned the 2019/2020 Australian “black summer” bushfires
The 2019/20 Australian black summer bushfires were particularly severe in many respects, including its early commencement, large spatial coverage, and large number of burning days, preceded by record dry and h...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:19 -
Rebuild of the Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre (ISC)—part 2: 1980–2010
The Bulletin of the International Seismological Centre (ISC) remains in demand for a wide range of geophysical studies. Users of the ISC Bulletin benefit from its long-term coverage, the most comprehensive set...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:18 -
Total and dissolved soil organic and inorganic carbon and their relationships in typical loess cropland of Fengu Basin
There is evidence of connections between soil organic carbon (SOC) and inorganic carbon (SIC) in dryland of north China. However, fractions of SOC and SIC and the relationship are not well understood in the Lo...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:17 -
Flow of Antarctic Bottom water from the Vema Channel
We analyze measurements of bottom currents and thermohaline properties of water north of the Vema Channel with the goal to find pathway continuations of Antarctic Bottom Water flow from the Vema Channel into t...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:16 -
Global optimization of a numerical two-layer model using observed data: a case study of the 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
Following the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, a considerable landslide occurred on the southwestern part of the volcano and, upon entering the sea, generated a large tsunami within the Sunda Strait, Indonesia...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:15 -
Analysis of swarm earthquakes around Mt. Agung Bali, Indonesia prior to November 2017 eruption using regional BMKG network
Mt. Agung, located in Karangasem-Bali, Indonesia, had a significant increase of swarm earthquakes from September 2017 until the recent eruption in November 2017. To analyze the seismic swarm and its correlatio...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:14 -
Regional climate modeling for Asia
The regional climate model (RCM) with higher resolution and sophisticated physical processes can reproduce and project fine-scale climate information, which cannot be captured by the global climate model (GCM)...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:13 -
Evaluation of tropospheric ozone reanalyses with independent ozonesonde observations in East Asia
The modern reanalysis datasets provide not only meteorological variables, but also atmospheric chemical compositions such as tropospheric ozone and aerosol concentration. However, the quality of chemical compo...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:12 -
The source detection of 28 September 2018 Sulawesi tsunami by using ionospheric GNSS total electron content disturbance
The 28 September 2018 magnitude Mw7.8 Palu, Indonesia earthquake (0.178° S, 119.840° E, depth 13 km) occurred at 10:02 UTC. The major earthquake triggered catastrophic liquefaction, landslides, and a near-fiel...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:11 -
The turbulent dynamics of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s weather layers: order out of chaos?
The weather layers of the gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, comprise the shallow atmospheric layers that are influenced energetically by a combination of incoming solar radiation and localised latent heat...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:10 -
Processing of volcano infrasound using film sound audio post-production techniques to improve signal detection via array processing
The use of infrasound for the early detection of volcanic events has been shown to be effective over large distances, and unlike visual methods, is not weather dependent. Signals recorded via an infrasound arr...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:9 -
Hematite (α-Fe2O3) quantification in sedimentary magnetism: limitations of existing proxies and ways forward
Determination of hematite contributions to sedimentary magnetizations is an important but difficult task in quantitative environmental studies. The poorly crystalline and fine-grained nature of hematite nanopa...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:8 -
On the cloud radiative effect for tropical high clouds overlying low clouds
Since high and low clouds ubiquitously overlie the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) region, the cloud radiative effect (CRE) cannot be influenced by either high or low clouds, but by combinations of the clouds. ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:7 -
Study on streamflow response to land use change over the upper reaches of Zhanghe Reservoir in the Yangtze River basin
The Zhanghe Reservoir in Yangtze River basin plays a key role in fulfilling the crop water requirements of the irrigation area in its downstream region. This study employs the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment T...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:6 -
Understanding and reconstructing the coastal sea level variations along the western boundary of the North Pacific
To better understand the coastal sea level (SL) variations along the western boundary of the North Pacific, we quantitatively estimate the contributions of various forcing to the coastal SL variations on seaso...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:5 -
A full-polarization GNSS-R Delay-Doppler-Map (DDM) simulator for bare soil freeze/thaw process detection
The soil freeze/thaw processes have a significant impact on the surface energy and moisture balance, which play a key role in ecosystem diversity and productivity. The air-/space-borne Global Navigation Satell...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:4 -
Impacts of ocean current–atmosphere interactions on mesoscale eddy energetics in the Kuroshio extension region
The surface ocean current’s imprint on the wind stress (known as the current feedback) has a significant influence on the wind power input to the ocean. In this study, we investigate the effect of the current ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:3 -
Seismic Hazard Function (SHF) study of coastal sources of Sumatra Island: SHF evaluation of Padang and Bengkulu cities
Significant earthquakes on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, have predominantly been earthquakes with a thrust mechanism that occurred due to the subduction process and seismotectonics near coastal cities of W...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:2 -
Development of the Palu–Koro Fault in NW Palu Valley, Indonesia
The 220-km-long Palu–Koro Fault, Central Sulawesi, is a major fault with prominent expression in Eastern Indonesia. Many studies about the Palu–Koro Fault have shown its capability of generating large earthqua...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2020 7:1 -
Potential deployment of offshore bottom pressure gauges and adoption of data assimilation for tsunami warning system in the western Mediterranean Sea
Western Mediterranean Basin (WMB) is among tsunamigenic zones with numerous historical records of tsunami damage and deaths. Most recently, a moderate tsunami on 21 May 2003 offshore Algeria, North Africa, was...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2019 6:19 -
Hypocenter relocation of the aftershocks of the Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake (September 28, 2018) and swarm earthquakes of Mamasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia, using the BMKG network data
On September 28, 2018, the Mw 7.5 earthquake occurred in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This earthquake produced strong tremors, landslides, liquefaction and a tsunami and caused thousands of fatalities an...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2019 6:18 -
Deriving intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves using downscaled in situ rainfall assimilated with remote sensing data
The rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves play an important role in water resources engineering and management. The applications of IDF curves range from assessing rainfall events, classifying cli...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2019 6:17 -
Prevalence of asymmetrical rupture in small earthquakes and its effect on the estimation of stress drop: a systematic investigation in inland Japan
Stress drops of small earthquakes have been estimated under the assumption that the rupture propagates symmetrically within a circular fault. However, recent studies have observed directivity effects on seismi...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2019 6:16
Affiliated with
Annual Journal Metrics
-
2022 Citation Impact
4.0 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.2 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.897 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
1.158 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)2022 Speed
7 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
139 days submission to accept (Median)2022 Usage
242,126 downloads
309 Altmetric mentions
- ISSN: 2196-4092 (electronic)