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Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:26
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Assessment of GNSS-based height data of multiple ships for measuring and forecasting great tsunamis
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...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:25 -
Impact and mitigation of space weather effects on GNSS receiver performance
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...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:24 -
A brief history of solar-terrestrial physics in Australia
Solar-terrestrial physics research in Australia began in 1792 when de Rossel measured the southern hemisphere geomagnetic field at Recherche Bay on the southern tip of Tasmania, proving the field magnitude and...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:23 -
Pickup ion-mediated plasma physics of the outer heliosphere and very local interstellar medium
Observations of plasma and turbulence in the outer heliosphere (the distant supersonic solar wind and the subsonic solar wind beyond the heliospheric termination shock) made by the Voyager Interstellar Mission...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:22 -
The vortex moving toward Taiwan and the influence of the central mountain range
Surface friction is important to a vortex moving toward Taiwan but was ignored in several previous studies. The change of the potential vorticity comes from friction in the shallow-water equation, hence, it wa...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:21 -
The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool: critical to world oceanography and world climate
The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool holds a unique place on the globe. It is a large area [>30 × 106 km2] that is characterised by permanent surface temperature >28 °C and is therefore called the ‘heat engine’ of the glob...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:20 -
Historical findings of the Russian physical oceanographers in the Indian Ocean
This is a review paper related to three findings of Russian physical oceanographers in the Indian Ocean. Observations in the Indian Ocean were used to investigate mesoscale eddies, subsurface equatorial underc...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:19 -
The fast development of solar terrestrial sciences in Taiwan
In Taiwan, research and education of solar terrestrial sciences began with a ground-based ionosonde operated by Ministry of Communications in 1952 and courses of ionospheric physics and space physics offered b...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:18 -
Recent progress toward reducing the uncertainty in tropical low cloud feedback and climate sensitivity: a review
Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) to doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration is a key index for understanding the Earth’s climate history and prediction of future climate changes. Tropical low cloud feedbac...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:17 -
A GCM with cloud microphysics and its MJO simulation
The present study examines the Madden and Julian oscillation (MJO) appearing in a general circulation model (GCM) with full representation of cloud microphysics at 50 km horizontal resolution, and the MJO is c...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:16 -
The first scientific description of aurora borealis: the 10 September 1580 event in Transylvania, recorded by Marcello Squarcialupi
The first scientific treatise on aurora borealis was published by Marcello Squarcialupi, an Italian medical doctor working in the court of the Hungarian Prince of Transylvania. His book, De coelo ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:15 -
Introduction to the special issue on history development of solar terrestrial sciences including auroral sub-storms
Solar terrestrial (ST) sciences started centuries ago and branched into different disciplines. Starting with naked eye to highly sophisticated novel experimental techniques, observations have revealed the secr...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:14 -
Global view of sea-ice production in polynyas and its linkage to dense/bottom water formation
Global overturning circulation is driven by density differences. Saline water rejected during sea-ice formation in polynyas is the main source of dense water, and thus sea-ice production is a key factor in the...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:13 -
Relation of the auroral substorm to the substorm current wedge
The auroral substorm is an organized sequence of events seen in the aurora near midnight. It is a manifestation of the magnetospheric substorm which is a disturbance of the magnetosphere brought about by the s...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:12 -
Electrodynamics of ionospheric weather over low latitudes
The dynamic state of the ionosphere at low latitudes is largely controlled by electric fields originating from dynamo actions by atmospheric waves propagating from below and the solar wind-magnetosphere intera...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:11 -
The importance of ground magnetic data in specifying the state of magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling: a personal view
In the history of geomagnetism, geoelectricity and space science including solar terrestrial physics, ground magnetic records have been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for monitoring the levels of overall g...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:10 -
Synthetic versus long-term natural records of tropical cyclone storm surges: problems and issues
The majority of risk assessments of tropical cyclone storm surge and inundations are based on the generation of synthetic times series from short historical records. The accuracy of these synthetic time series...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:9 -
History and development of coronal mass ejections as a key player in solar terrestrial relationship
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are relatively a recently discovered phenomenon—in 1971, some 15 years into the Space Era. It took another two decades to realize that CMEs are the most important players in solar...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:8 -
Classifying Pacific islands
An earth-science-based classification of islands within the Pacific Basin resulted from the preparation of a database describing the location, area, and type of 1779 islands, where island type is determined as...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:7 -
Modifications of the ionosphere prior to large earthquakes: report from the Ionosphere Precursor Study Group
The current status of ionospheric precursor studies associated with large earthquakes (EQ) is summarized in this report. It is a joint endeavor of the “Ionosphere Precursor Study Task Group,” which was formed ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:6 -
Geomagnetic storms: historical perspective to modern view
The history of geomagnetism is more than 400 years old. Geomagnetic storms as we know them were discovered about 210 years ago. There has been keen interest in understanding Sun–Earth connection events, such a...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:5 -
Transmission of the electric fields to the low latitude ionosphere in the magnetosphere-ionosphere current circuit
The solar wind energy is transmitted to low latitude ionosphere in a current circuit from a dynamo in the magnetosphere to the equatorial ionosphere via the polar ionosphere. During the substorm growth phase a...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:4 -
A new parameter of geomagnetic storms for the severity of space weather
Using the continuous Dst data available since 1957 and H component data for the Carrington space weather event of 1859, the paper shows that the mean value of Dst during the main phase of geomagnetic storms, call...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:3 -
Water shortage risk assessment using spatiotemporal flow simulation
Paddy irrigation practices in Taiwan utilize complicated water conveyance networks which draw streamflows from different tributaries. Characterizing and simulating streamflow series is thus an essential task f...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:2 -
Long-term variations in the plasma sheet ion composition and substorm occurrence over 23 years
The Geotail satellite has been operating for almost two solar cycles (~23 years) since its launch in July 1992. The satellite carries the energetic particle and ion composition (EPIC) instrument that measures ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2016 3:1 -
Dipolarization fronts and magnetic flux transport
Recent emphasis on dipolarization fronts (DFs) has led to the impression that DFs play a significant role in bringing magnetic flux to the inner magnetosphere during substorms. In this work, we investigate the...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:15 -
Comparison of current disruption and magnetic reconnection
We examine similarities and differences between the concepts of current disruption (CD) and magnetic reconnection (MR). Both concepts have been invoked to account for explosive phenomena that involve energy tr...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:14 -
Coupled onshore erosion and offshore sediment loading as causes of lower crust flow on the margins of South China Sea
Hot, thick continental crust is susceptible to ductile flow within the middle and lower crust where quartz controls mechanical behavior. Reconstruction of subsidence in several sedimentary basins around the So...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:13 -
Localized extensional tectonics in an overall reverse-faulting regime, Northeast Japan
In Northeast Japan, it has been recognized that trench-normal compressional stresses, aligned in the approximate direction of plate convergence, tend to dominate stress fields over a broad region. However, a p...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:12 -
Evaluation of double-moment representation of ice hydrometeors in bulk microphysical parameterization: comparison between WRF numerical simulations and UND-Citation data during MC3E
The influence of double-moment representation of warm-rain and ice hydrometeors on the numerical simulations of a mesoscale convective system (MCS) over the US Southern Great Plains has been evaluated. The Wea...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:11 -
A new view on the solar wind interaction with the Moon
Characterised by a surface bound exosphere and localised crustal magnetic fields, the Moon was considered as a passive object when solar wind interacts with it. However, the neutral particle and plasma measure...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:10 -
Benchmark analysis of forecasted seasonal temperature over different climatic areas
From a long-term perspective, an improvement of seasonal forecasting, which is often exclusively based on climatology, could provide a new capability for the management of energy resources in a time scale of j...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:9 -
Probing of meteor showers at Mars during the encounter of comet C/2013 A1: predictions for the arrival of MAVEN/Mangalyaan
We have estimated (1) production rates, (2) ion and electron densities of meteor ablation and (3) ionization for different masses and velocities of meteoroids when comet C/2013 A1 crossed the orbit of Mars on ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:8 -
Bernoulli equation and flow over a mountain
The Bernoulli equation is applied to an air parcel which originates at a low level at the inflow region, climbs adiabatically over a mountain with an increase in velocity, then descends on the lee side and for...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:7 -
Preceding seismic activity and slow slip events in the source area of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: a review
The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake ruptured a large area of the megathrust east of NE Japan. The earthquake’s magnitude was 9.0, substantially larger than predicted. It is important to know what occurred in the so...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:6 -
Current understanding of the aeronomy of Mars
This paper provides a short overview of our current understanding of the upper atmosphere/ionosphere of Mars including the escaping neutral atmosphere to space that plays a key role in the current state of the...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:5 -
Geological and tectonic implications obtained from first seismic activity investigation around Lembang fault
The Lembang fault located at northern part of populated Bandung basin is the most conspicuous fault that potentially capable in generating earthquakes. The first seismic investigation around Lembang fault has ...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:4 -
Distributions of inorganic nitrogen and biological production in the equatorial Pacific: a basin-scale model sensitivity study of nitrification
Recent evidence indicates that there is stronger nitrification in the euphotic zone than previously thought. We employ a physical-biogeochemical model to study the implications of nitrification for basin-scale...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:3 -
New directions in hydro-climatic histories: observational data recovery, proxy records and the atmospheric circulation reconstructions over the earth (ACRE) initiative in Southeast Asia
The value of historic observational weather data for reconstructing long-term climate patterns and the detailed analysis of extreme weather events has long been recognized (Le Roy Ladurie, 1972; Lamb, 1977). I...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:2 -
Preliminary investigation of the formation age and chemical characterization of the tropical peat in the middle Sepik Plain, northern Papua New Guinea
Seven gouge cores in the middle Sepik Plain (northern Papua New Guinea) were bored to clarify the depositional age and the chemical characteristics of the tropical peat. The weakly-acidic peat layer (3–4 m thi...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2015 2:1 -
The salinity signature of the equatorial Pacific cold tongue as revealed by the satellite SMOS mission
The space-borne measurements of the SMOS mission reveal for the first time the complete features of the sea surface salinity (SSS) signature at the full scale of the Pacific basin. The SSS field in the equator...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:17 -
Passive acoustic measurement of flow velocity in the Straits of Florida
Group speed of sound in moving fluids depends on the propagation direction, which breaks acoustic reciprocity. Acoustic nonreciprocity provides a means to measure fluid motion. Using nonreciprocity, one can me...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:16 -
Advances in earthquake and tsunami sciences and disaster risk reduction since the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami
The December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the worst tsunami disaster in the world’s history with more than 200,000 casualties. This disaster was attributed to giant size (magnitude M ~ 9, source length >1000 km)...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:15 -
Active moon: evidences from Chandrayaan-1 and the proposed Indian missions
Chandrayaan-1, the polar Lunar orbiter mission of Indian Space Research Organization, successfully carried out study of Moon’s environment and surface processes for a period of about nine months during 2008–20...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:11 -
Potential for timing high-energy marine inundation events in the recent geological past through age-dating of reef boulders in Fiji
Transported coastal boulders have increasingly come to represent a valuable element of investigations within the broader framework of multi-proxy approaches applied to coastal hazard studies. Through a case st...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:14 -
Origin of the filamentary structure in space plasmas
We propose a scenario that filamentary structure appears together with propagating waves on the scale of ion gyroradius. The method is based on two-dimensional ion particle-in-cell (or hybrid) simulation in lo...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:12 -
A traveling atmospheric disturbance generated by a soil colour change in a high-resolution climate model experiment
The climate model CESM-WACCM is used to study the way a soil colour change of the eastern region of the Sahara affects the dynamics of the troposphere. The soil colour is darkened for 5 days. The difference be...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:13 -
A post-Tohoku earthquake review of earthquake probabilities in the Southern Kanto District, Japan
The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake generated an aftershock sequence that affected a large part of northern Honshu, and has given rise to widely divergent forecasts of changes in earthquake occurrence probabilit...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:10 -
The interannual relationship between MJO activity and tropical cyclone genesis in the Indian Ocean
The present study investigated the relationship between the interannual variations of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) over the Indian Ocean during the October-November-Decemb...
Citation: Geoscience Letters 2014 1:9
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