Traditional satellite ocean color algorithms for chlorophyll-a and inherent optical property retrieval rely on deterministic regression models that typically produce single-point predictions without explicit uncertainty quantification. The absence of uncertainty awareness undermines in-situ/model match-ups, reduces predictive reliability, and ultimately erodes user confidence. In the present study, I address this limitation by demonstrating how to implement a complete Bayesian workflow applied to the foundational chlorophyll-a retrieval problem. To that end, I use a set of well-established Bayesian modeling tools and techniques to train and evaluate probabilistic models that approximate the underlying data-generating process and yield posterior distributions conditioned on both data and model structure. The posterior distribution is an information-rich construct that can be mined for diverse insights. I develop and compare models of increasing complexity, beginning with a baseline polynomial regression and culminating in a hierarchical partial pooling model with heteroscedasticity. Similar to classical machine learning, model complexity in a Bayesian setting must also be scrutinized for its potential to overfit. This is addressed through efficient cross-validation and uncertainty calibration that exploit the full posterior distribution. Within this framework, the most complex model performed best in terms of out-of-sample uncertainty calibration and generalizability. Persistent localized mismatches across models point to domains where predictive power remains limited. Taken together, these results show how placing uncertainty at the center of inference allows a Bayesian approach to produce transparent, interpretable, and reliable chlorophyll-a retrievals from satellite ocean color data, paving the way for the development of more robust marine ecosystem monitoring products.
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A Case of Kumasi, Ghana","abstract":"Kumasi, Ghana, and most rapidly developing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with increasing environmental and infrastructure concerns as a result of rapid urbanization, inadequate land use planning, and climate change. Traditional grey infrastructure has been inadequate in mitigating these problems. This paper assessed the economic and environmental advantages of Nature-Based Solutions for sustainable infrastructure in Kumasi through a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles, reports, and empirical research published from 2006-2025. The paper consolidates evidence across four environmental and four economic dimensions, namely climate regulation and air quality enhancement, stormwater and flood control, biodiversity and ecosystem restoration, and soil and water quality enhancement, and cost efficiency and life-cycle savings, enhanced property values and tourism appeal, creation of jobs and green economy prospects, and savings on public health expenditure, respectively. The findings indicate that Nature-Based Solutions provide multifunctional, cost-effective, and ecologically sustainable alternatives to conventional infrastructure, with significant benefits in climate regulation, flood control, and biodiversity enhancement. This paper also proposes actionable recommendations for integrating Nature-Based Solutions into urban planning in Kumasi, with implications for other cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. 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Each seismic phase follows its own propagation path and sampling depth, bringing constraints from different regions of the Earth such as the crust, mantle, or even the outer and inner cores. The choice of phase for analysis therefore depends on the study target and the scientific objective: surface waves are particularly suited for imaging shallow, large-scale structures, whereas body waves provide higher-resolution information at depth, inaccessible to surface-wave methods. However, a persistent challenge in body-wave studies is that the relatively low-amplitude P and S arrivals are often obscured by stronger, slowly attenuating surface waves that overlap in both time and frequency. Although body waves typically contain higher frequency content, their spectral overlap with surface waves limits the effectiveness of conventional filtering approaches. Addressing this issue requires advanced signal processing techniques. One such method, Sparsity-Promoting Time–Frequency Filtering (SP-TFF; Mohammadigheymasi et al., 2022), exploits high-resolution polarization characteristics in the time–frequency domain to separate seismic phases. SP-TFF combines amplitude, directivity, and rectilinearity constraints to enhance phase discrimination. In this study, we further develop SP-TFF by designing a filter set specifically tailored to isolate body-wave arrivals that are otherwise masked by high-amplitude surface waves. The directivity filters are constructed based on the predicted incidence of seismic rays from the earthquake hypocenter to each station, enabling focused extraction of the incoming body wave energy and suppression of interfering phases, including surface waves and scattered wavefields. We demonstrate the method using both synthetic tests and waveform data from the Mw 7.0 Guerrero, Mexico, earthquake of September 8, 2021 (depth 21.8 km, reverse-thrust faulting), recorded by stations of the United States National Seismic Network (USNSN). Our results show that SP-TFF provides a robust computational framework for automated body-wave extraction, integrating polarization-informed filtering into seismological data processing pipelines. The approach is scalable to large waveform datasets and can enhance both real-time and retrospective seismological analyses, positioning it as a valuable informatics tool for Earth science. The codes required to reproduce the synthetic and observational examples are openly available on GitHub for the broader geoscience community.
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Given its status as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspot, land cover monitoring for effective conservation strategies and sustainable development planning is essential. While early research relied on coarse or medium-resolution satellite imagery for limited temporal coverage, recent initiatives like MapBiomas Colombia have improved national-scale mapping capabilities. However, mapping the complex spectral-temporal patterns of heterogeneous tropical mountain environments benefits from advanced methods that can track long-term surface trends. This study presents comprehensive annual land cover maps for the Colombian Andes and Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta spanning 1997-2024, representing the longest and most detailed temporal analysis of this critical region to date. We employed the Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) algorithm applied to Landsat data, coupled with machine learning models trained on a custom dataset designed to address existing limitations in temporal depth and spatial detail. Our time series approach leverages spectral-temporal signatures to distinguish land cover types with similar spectral characteristics but distinct temporal behaviors, providing a unique method for monitoring forest dynamics, habitat changes, and anthropogenic impacts across the Colombian Andes.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Tide-gauge records show mean sea level rising at 3.51 mm per year since 1921, while InSAR analyses identify localized subsidence exceeding 4 mm per year, producing effective relative rise of 7 to 8 mm per year. This acceleration explains the increase in nuisance flooding from fewer than 5 days annually in the 1950s to more than 70 days annually today, with NOAA projecting 90 to 120 days by 2030 and over 180 by 2050.\n\nSubsurface dynamics further amplify this trajectory. Rising groundwater reduces soil storage capacity, while saltwater intrusion degrades permeability and vegetation, compounding chronic inundation. FEMA floodplain maps, which designate 35 percent of the peninsula as 100-year floodplain, omit much of the area already subject to routine flooding.\n\nThis study integrates oceanic, geodetic, groundwater, and regulatory data into a hydrology-based framework. Results indicate Charleston’s flood risk is systematically underestimated. Effective resilience requires accounting for all interacting drivers rather than treating them in isolation.\n","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties.\r\nSection 3 – License Conditions.\r\n\r\nYour exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.\r\n\r\nAttribution.\r\n\r\nIf You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:\r\n\r\nretain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:\r\nidentification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);\r\na copyright notice;\r\na notice that refers to this Public License;\r\na notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;\r\na URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;\r\nindicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications; and\r\nindicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.\r\nYou may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. 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This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.\r\nTo the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.\r\nThe disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.\r\nSection 6 – Term and Termination.\r\n\r\nThis Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.\r\nWhere Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:\r\n\r\nautomatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or\r\nupon express reinstatement by the Licensor.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.\r\nSections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.\r\nSection 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.\r\n\r\nThe Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.\r\nAny arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nSection 8 – Interpretation.\r\n\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"coastal flooding"},{"word":"Sea-level rise"},{"word":"Land subsidence"},{"word":"flood risk assessment"},{"word":"Hydrologic attenuation"},{"word":"Nuisance flooding"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-27T11:01:28.381000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-29T01:22:15.846000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-29T01:22:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5R745","authors":[{"pk":118882,"first_name":"Trevor","middle_name":"Mason","last_name":"Ponto","salutation":"Mr","orcid":"0009-0002-4634-1540"}],"subject":[{"name":"Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment"},{"name":"Environmental Studies"},{"name":"Hydrology"},{"name":"Water Resource Management"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Hydrology-Based Coastal Risk Assessment.PDF","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10045/download/18608/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10047,"title":"Surface Expression of Low Basal Friction Upstream of Antarctic Grounding Lines","abstract":"Ice sheets leave contact with the bed at grounding lines, beyond which floating ice shelves experience no friction at their base. In places where basal friction begins to decrease upstream of the grounding line, ice sheets respond more strongly to climate forcing. However, the spatial extent of zones of low grounding line friction is poorly constrained by observations. Here, we use a steady-state model of marine-terminating ice stream flow to show that the location where basal friction begins to weaken upstream of the grounding line is accompanied by a prominent surface slope break. We then use observations of grounding zone features around the Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from ICESat-2 laser altimetry to find the displacement between grounding line locations determined from SAR flexure measurements and such surface slope break points. We find widespread evidence of decreasing friction hundreds to thousands of meters upstream of grounding lines around the Antarctic Ice Sheet, indicating that grounding lines may be more sensitive to forcing than typically assumed in ice sheet models where friction does not decrease upstream of the grounding line. We suggest that such an observational approach should be used to parameterize grounding line friction interpolation schemes in ice sheet models.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.\r\n\r\nSection 1 – Definitions.\r\n\r\nAdapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.\r\nSection 2 – Scope.\r\n\r\nLicense grant.\r\nSubject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:\r\nreproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and\r\nproduce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.\r\nExceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.\r\nTerm. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).\r\nMedia and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You from making technical modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights, including technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective Technological Measures. For purposes of this Public License, simply making modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted Material.\r\nDownstream recipients.\r\nOffer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nNo downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material.\r\nNo endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor or others designated to receive attribution as provided in Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).\r\nOther rights.\r\n\r\nMoral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.\r\nPatent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether directly or through a collecting society under any voluntary or waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties.\r\nSection 3 – License Conditions.\r\n\r\nYour exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.\r\n\r\nAttribution.\r\n\r\nIf You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:\r\n\r\nretain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:\r\nidentification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);\r\na copyright notice;\r\na notice that refers to this Public License;\r\na notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;\r\na URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;\r\nindicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications; and\r\nindicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.\r\nYou may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.\r\nIf requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.\r\nIf You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public License.\r\nSection 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.\r\n\r\nWhere the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:\r\n\r\nfor the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database;\r\nif You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents in a database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual contents) is Adapted Material; and\r\nYou must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4 supplements and does not replace Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include other Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nSection 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.\r\n\r\nUnless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.\r\nTo the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.\r\nThe disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.\r\nSection 6 – Term and Termination.\r\n\r\nThis Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.\r\nWhere Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:\r\n\r\nautomatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or\r\nupon express reinstatement by the Licensor.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.\r\nSections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.\r\nSection 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.\r\n\r\nThe Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.\r\nAny arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nSection 8 – Interpretation.\r\n\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Antarctica"},{"word":"Grounding lines"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-27T17:28:50.991000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-28T07:41:16.905000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-27T12:45:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5HQ8B","authors":[{"pk":118912,"first_name":"Ella","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stewart","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":28120,"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"","last_name":"Robel","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0003-4520-0105"},{"pk":118911,"first_name":"Winnie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chu","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Earth Sciences"},{"name":"Glaciology"},{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Stewart_AGlacSubmitDraft_082725.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10047/download/18617/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10048,"title":"Designing nature-building communities","abstract":"Urban renaturing efforts increasingly emphasize the role of collaborative governance in managing nature-based solutions (NbS). However, existing frameworks often prioritize institutional perspectives and top-down participation, overlooking the early-stage design needs of grassroots initiatives. This study introduces the concept of Nature-Building Communities (NbCs)—voluntary, community-driven governance networks focused on creating and maintaining urban ecosystems. Using a design science research approach, we synthesize insights from socio-ecological systems, adaptive co-management, platform design, and energy communities to develop a practical design framework that supports the self-organization of NbCs. The framework identifies core design problems across five dimensions: scope, architecture, value logic, governance, and strategy. It is validated through a case study in Hungary, where a school-based NbC was initiated as part of an EU-funded greening intervention. Our findings provide actionable guidance for grassroots actors, intermediaries, and policymakers aiming to support autonomous community participation in the co-governance of urban NbS. This approach shifts the emphasis from institutional “reach down” to grassroots “reach up,” enabling more just and effective urban renaturing.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.\r\n\r\nSection 1 – Definitions.\r\n\r\nAdapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.\r\nSection 2 – Scope.\r\n\r\nLicense grant.\r\nSubject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:\r\nreproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and\r\nproduce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.\r\nExceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.\r\nTerm. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).\r\nMedia and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You from making technical modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights, including technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective Technological Measures. For purposes of this Public License, simply making modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted Material.\r\nDownstream recipients.\r\nOffer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nNo downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material.\r\nNo endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor or others designated to receive attribution as provided in Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).\r\nOther rights.\r\n\r\nMoral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.\r\nPatent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether directly or through a collecting society under any voluntary or waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties.\r\nSection 3 – License Conditions.\r\n\r\nYour exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.\r\n\r\nAttribution.\r\n\r\nIf You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:\r\n\r\nretain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:\r\nidentification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);\r\na copyright notice;\r\na notice that refers to this Public License;\r\na notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;\r\na URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;\r\nindicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications; and\r\nindicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.\r\nYou may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Nature-based solutions"},{"word":"co-governance"},{"word":"urban commons"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-27T17:41:37.260000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-28T00:48:43.478000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-28T00:48:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X51Q9C","authors":[{"pk":118913,"first_name":"Viktor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bukovszki","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118915,"first_name":"Mariel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zamudio Valdes","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118914,"first_name":"Stephan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pauleit","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Environmental Studies"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"NbC_paper1_preprint1.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10048/download/18618/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10050,"title":"Development of Low-Cost, Open-Source Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Water System Monitoring","abstract":"Commercially available Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in the market are expensive, and the software used for automating navigation and bathymetry mapping are typically proprietary. Large scale collection of water quantity and quality data requires dynamic in-situ sensing approaches with open-source software for user flexibility. This manuscript presents an open-source, economic, and efficient USV platform for in-situ depth sensing to perform hydrographic surveys in freshwater bodies with capabilities to explore inaccessible shallow regions by humans. The USV components cost less than $3,000. The application of the USV for a bathymetric survey was performed at Horse Creek Cove at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. These results find that an estimated 43,000 m3 of sediment accumulated in this cove over a time span of eleven years between a 2009 manual survey and our 2020 analysis with the USV. This USV platform provides an advantageous method for widescale adoption and use manual methods of mapping of bathymetry and potentially other water quality parameters.
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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)"},{"word":" Hydrographic survey"},{"word":" bathymetry mapping"},{"word":" Open-source software"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-27T20:09:35.113000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-28T00:51:05.812000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-28T00:51:00+02:00","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-64","preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5S74G","authors":[{"pk":118919,"first_name":"Abhiram","middle_name":"Siva Prasad","last_name":"Pamula","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118918,"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Krzmarzick","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118920,"first_name":"Muwanika","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jdiobe","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118921,"first_name":"Jamey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jacob","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118922,"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lampert","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Education"},{"name":"Engineering"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Manscript_preprint_with_coverletter.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10050/download/18620/"},{"original_filename":"Supplemental Information.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10050/download/18621/"},{"original_filename":"Manuscript_sd_preprint_with_coverletter.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10050/download/18622/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10052,"title":"Evaluation of biochar produced from coffee husks as an alternative treatment for wastewater contaminated with agrochemicals in the southwestern region of Antioquia.","abstract":"Excessive use of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers has enhanced agricultural productivity but has also generated significant environmental impacts and public health risks. Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphorus insecticide, is highly persistent in the environment due to its affinity for organic matter and its ability to be transported via runoff into water bodies, where conventional wastewater treatments fail to remove it. In response to this challenge, biochar has emerged as a low-cost adsorbent with high potential, owing to its physicochemical properties derived from pyrolysis. In this study, the adsorption capacity of biochar derived from coffee husks—an abundant agricultural residue in Southwestern Antioquia—was evaluated for chlorpyrifos removal in water samples. The highest biochar yield (20%) was obtained by oven-drying the husks for three hours, producing a material with 9.50% moisture, 48.41% volatile matter, 15.85% ash, 26.24% fixed carbon, pH 10, and an electrical conductivity of 5.38 mS cm⁻¹. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a porous structure with diameters ranging from 3.31 to 42.60 µm. The biochar achieved removal efficiencies of up to 96.28%, exceeding 80% in six of the nine treatments evaluated. These findings demonstrate the strong potential of coffee husk-derived biochar as a sustainable and cost-effective adsorbent for agrochemical removal. Notably, treatments combining higher biochar doses with longer contact times achieved the best performance, underscoring the material’s applicability in real-world wastewater treatment systems.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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Grounded icebergs in coastal Antarctica substantially affect surface snow distribution and landfast sea ice patterns, which has received limited scientific attention. To address this gap, this study integrates observational data with numerical snow transport simulations to investigate snow distribution on landfast ice around icebergs, emphasizing the influence of wind and iceberg size. Observations show that persistent wind directions shape characteristic snow patterns around icebergs, with substantial windward and lateral drifts and an elongated snow-depleted region in the lee. They also indicate that snowdrift size scales non-linearly with iceberg size, demonstrating reduced snow accumulation efficiency for larger icebergs. This trend is partially captured by the model, which also highlights the key role of wind direction shifts in reproducing observed distributions. The model further suggests that the maximum extent of snowdrifts is constrained by peak wind speeds encountered on site. Together, our findings reveal emerging links between ice shelf and fast ice processes, the use of iceberg-associated snowdrifts as proxies for local weather, and insights into the snow mass balance on Antarctic landfast ice.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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In particular, igneous intrusions can trigger the generation of large amounts of greenhouse gases in organic-rich host rocks, leading to dramatic climate change and mass extinctions. Volcanism can also have significant impacts on hydrocarbon-bearing sedimentary basins. The Neuquén Basin, Argentina, is an outstanding example of hydrocarbon-producing sedimentary basin hosting massive volcanism. The combination of substantial industry subsurface data and outstanding outcrops makes the Neuquén Basin a world-class geological object to study magma-sedimentary rock interactions and their implications to hydrocarbon systems. This contribution reviews well-studied examples from the Neuquén Basin that illustrate: (1) thermal effects of sills on maturation of the organic matter of the source rock, (2) fracturing processes in igneous intrusions and the host rock, (3) sills as producing fractured reservoirs, (4) intrusion-induced doming as structural trap or as potential fractured reservoir, (5) fluid migration along igneous intrusions, (6) reservoir compartmentalization induced by dykes, (7) generation of bitumen dykes in vicinity of intrusions, and (8) improvement of geophysical imaging using large-scale outcrops.\nAll in all, our review (1) documents various effects of magma-rock interactions in hydrocarbon-bearing sedimentary basins, and (2) highlights the great scientific value of the Neuquén Basin as a world-class case study for unravelling processes of magma-rock interactions in hydrocarbon-bearing sedimentary basins.\n","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nNonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. 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For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.\r\nIf requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.\r\nIf You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public License.\r\nSection 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.\r\n\r\nWhere the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:\r\n\r\nfor the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database for NonCommercial purposes only;\r\nif You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents in a database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual contents) is Adapted Material; and\r\nYou must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4 supplements and does not replace Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include other Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nSection 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.\r\n\r\nUnless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. 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Although InSAR has been widely used to estimate the vertical displacements of the field, capturing the full three-dimensional deformation, including omnidirectional horizontal components, remained a challenge and has only been achieved from spatially sparse GNSS observations. The recent development of the InSAR strapdown method suggests a solution to this problem. Yet, for an accurate decomposition, it is essential to isolate only scatterers representative of the deep gas-production-related deformation signal. Here we present a novel, data-driven approach that first disentangles the different deformation mechanisms present in the InSAR data. We then apply the strapdown method to decompose InSAR observations into vertical and directional horizontal displacement components, using frame orientation parameters estimated\ndirectly from the data. We incorporate uncontroversial contextual information and apply a bootstrapping method to enhance the quality of the results, and propagate the uncertainty in the input data to provide quality metrics of the final estimates. Using this approach, we obtain reliable threedimensional displacement estimates for the Groningen gas field, revealing previously unquantified horizontal displacements. Our results show that these horizontal displacements, especially close to the boundaries of the reservoir are significant and must be considered alongside vertical motion to fully understand and mitigate the impacts of gas production.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"geodesy"},{"word":"InSAR"},{"word":"radar"},{"word":"Groningen"},{"word":"decomposition"},{"word":"displacements"},{"word":"Earth Observation"},{"word":"Strapdown"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-28T16:18:58.903000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-30T00:57:52.359000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-29T06:59:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5775W","authors":[{"pk":21928,"first_name":"Wietske","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Brouwer","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":4080,"first_name":"Ramon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hanssen","salutation":"Prof.","orcid":"0000-0002-6067-7561"}],"subject":[{"name":"Earth Sciences"},{"name":"Environmental Monitoring"},{"name":"Geophysics and Seismology"},{"name":"Mining Engineering"},{"name":"Oil, Gas, and Energy"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"brouwer_hanssen_groningen_submitted20250828_eartharxiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10061/download/18636/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10062,"title":"Using X-ray Fluorescence to Detect Automobile Heavy Metal Pollution in Los Angeles Soils with Copper and Palladium as Indicators","abstract":"This project evaluates the effectiveness of using portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) to detect soil composition matrices that show patterns of anthropogenic influence. We explore 26 areas within Los Angeles County, California, that have various amounts of traffic; classifying each locale as Urban or Recreational. The main elements of interest are copper and palladium. These indicators are largely theorized to originate from brake pad wear-and-tear and vehicle emissions. Wildfires and the degradation of city related infrastructures provide additional context to the concentrations of copper that are found within each area. \n\nIn all samples, copper was reliably detected with an average concentration of 29.35 ± 24.74 parts per million (ppm). Elevated copper levels were notably associated with areas of high traffic density. This supports its use as an elemental marker for vehicle brake-pad pollution. Palladium, by contrast, was detected at an average of 19.54 ± 9.63 ppm across the region. However, higher relative measurement uncertainty and a lack of clear spatial variability suggest that these measurements may be affected by instrumental noise or soil matrix interference. Furthermore, the difference between concentrations found here and previous studies from around the world makes palladium less reliable for environmental assessment. Overall, these findings support the use of portable x-ray fluorescence for rapid screening of copper for tracking automobile activity; while highlighting limitations in its ability to accurately quantify trace levels of palladium.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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It is envisioned as an innovative system that can coordinate analysis for spatial questions using structured reasoning grounded in semantic relationships, domain rules, and validated workflows. It is designed to coordinate analytic workflows autonomously and deliver validated, relevant geospatial answers and data quickly. This paper presents the technical and conceptual foundations of an INM, centered on multi-agent orchestration, natural language interfaces, retrieval-augmented generation, and access to trusted public data. Unlike static systems, an INM initiates from user input, which it analyzes and then activates task-specific agents to locate, analyze, and explain results in a transparent and accountable system. The platform represents a paradigm shift toward autonomous geospatial systems that could be capable of internal review, self-correction, and continuous learning. An INM can open new possibilities for changing access to geospatial intelligence, improving scientific rigor and decision-making, and building adaptive infrastructure aligned with federal science integrity principles.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"GeoAI"},{"word":"Agentic AI"},{"word":"Autonomous Geospatial Analysis"},{"word":"Spatial Intelligence"},{"word":"Knowledge graph"},{"word":"foundation model"}],"date_submitted":"2025-08-28T22:10:32.148000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-28T22:44:55.039000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-28T22:44:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5W163","authors":[{"pk":49440,"first_name":"Samantha","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Arundel","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":49439,"first_name":"Wenwen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118992,"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"McKeehan","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118993,"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Campbell","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118994,"first_name":"Jung-Kuan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118995,"first_name":"Lawrence","middle_name":"V.","last_name":"Stanislawski","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118996,"first_name":"Ethan","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Sharvers","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118997,"first_name":"Greg","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matthews","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118998,"first_name":"Philip","middle_name":"","last_name":"Thiem","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":118999,"first_name":"Dalia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Varanka","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119000,"first_name":"Lynn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Usery","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"intelligent_national_map_earthArxiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10064/download/18643/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10066,"title":"Undrainable pore spaces comprise half of US groundwater storage","abstract":"Groundwater is vital to global freshwater access, streamflow generation, and biogeochemical cycling, but not all groundwater can be drained due to adhesive and capillary forces. Quantifying the proportion of groundwater that can be drained—and is, thus, theoretically recoverable—is critical for characterising groundwater’s role in earth system processes. Unfortunately, estimates of theoretically recoverable groundwater are poorly constrained due to a lack of three-dimensional lithologic observations. Here we analyse ~19.2 million 3D lithologic observations recorded in ~3.7 million drilling reports across the United States. We show that only half of US groundwater is theoretically recoverable by wells due to the abundance of aquitards, which retain most of their water when drained. The abundance of aquitards emphasizes that the great majority of groundwater is stored in confined aquifers, which are often more sensitive to rapid groundwater-level declines than shallower unconfined aquifers. The widespread prevalence of aquitards and confined conditions suggests that even modest groundwater pumping can lead to substantial drawdown in many aquifers, inducing land subsidence and creating potential water quality risks.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.\r\nIf requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.\r\nIf You Share Adapted Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public License.\r\nSection 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.\r\n\r\nWhere the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:\r\n\r\nfor the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database;\r\nif You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents in a database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database in which You have Sui Generis Database Rights (but not its individual contents) is Adapted Material; and\r\nYou must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4 supplements and does not replace Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include other Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nSection 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.\r\n\r\nUnless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[],"date_submitted":"2025-08-28T22:13:23.754000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-08-28T22:43:40.538000+02:00","date_published":"2025-08-28T22:43:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X50Q8P","authors":[{"pk":56509,"first_name":"Merhawi","middle_name":"GebreEgziabher","last_name":"GebreMichael","salutation":"Dr","orcid":null},{"pk":119001,"first_name":"Debra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Perrone","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":17150,"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jasechko","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Earth Sciences"},{"name":"Environmental Sciences"},{"name":"Hydrology"},{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"},{"name":"Water Resource Management"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"manuscript.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10066/download/18644/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10076,"title":"Using ruptures from an earthquake cycle simulator to test geodetic early warning system performance","abstract":"New Zealand's vulnerability to seismic hazards highlights the need for systems capable of providing earthquake early warning (EEW) alerts or rapid notice of strong shaking. Large offshore earthquakes along the subduction zone east of the North Island could also trigger catastrophic tsunamis, inundating coastal communities in under an hour. Although New Zealand operates a robust seismic and geodetic network capable of monitoring moderate-to-large earthquakes, the limited observational record of large earthquakes poses challenges for EEW design and response. This study evaluates magnitude estimation from G-FAST, an early warning algorithm that uses Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to characterize earthquake sources. We analyze synthetic rupture scenarios along the Hikurangi subduction margin generated by the earthquake simulator RSQSim. For each rupture, GNSS displacements are generated at each site and compared with Peak Ground Displacement (PGD) scaling relationships to test whether they replicate real earthquakes. While we also assess PGD values from rupture scenarios produced with simpler semi-stochastic kinematic modeling, those from RSQSim yield ground motions more consistent with expected values. Given these results, synthetic displacement data from RSQSim ruptures were ingested into G-FAST to evaluate performance for rapid earthquake characterization, finding that PGD-based estimates capture moment magnitude in 90% of cases. This framework demonstrates the utility of synthetic catalogs for testing geodetic EEW performance in characterizing large subduction earthquakes in the North Island region and provides a path- way toward tsunami early warning procedures.
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By incorporating air-temperature anomalies over sea-ice areas, DCENT-I provides spatially complete monthly temperature fields at 5° resolution from 1850 to the present (currently the end of 2024) as a 200-member ensemble. Uncertainty estimates that account for the need to infill for missing observations are made using a Multivariate Gaussian Process, and these are consistent with estimates derived from masked climate model simulations. The use of anisotropic and heterogeneous kernels leads to a reconstruction of El Ni\\~no variability whose spatial pattern and temporal variance is generally consistent throughout the record. As compared with taking the unfilled average, infilling increases the global mean surface temperature (GMST) warming estimate for 2005--2024 using a 1850--1900 baseline by 0.08 [0.05, 0.11]ØC (95% confidence interval), largely because of infilling in rapidly warming Arctic regions. Compared with HadCRUT5, GISTEMP v4, NOAA Global Temp v6, and Berkeley Earth, DCENT-I shows a steadier and slightly faster GMST warming trend, reflecting the bias-adjustments inherited from DCENT.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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These include: 1. Geological environment; 2. Source of nutrients/initial molecules; 3. Source of energy; 4. RNA world versus metabolic world: which came first? To date, scientists have been unable to reach a consensus on these questions. Regarding geological environment, the distinct conditions within the inner, middle, snow line, and outer regions of the protoplanetary disc—including solar, cosmic, and isotopic radiation—along with the exchange of dust and gases between these zones, provided an exceptional reaction platform for prebiotic chemistry. Concerning the origin of life's food/precursor molecules, the protoplanetary disc—the stellar gas and dust disc formed during star formation—served as a crucial transitional stage linking interstellar matter to life's chemical potential. Transition metals, short- and long-lived radioactive isotopes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), fullerenes, and the metal-organic compounds formed from these substances play a crucial role in life's composition. Analysis of meteorites reinforces the credibility of the protoplanetary and planetary discs as potential sites for the origin of life. Quantum mechanics may significantly influence the possibility of life emerging within protoplanetary discs. Regarding energy sources, the energy required for the emergence of life is quantifiable. The energy driving life's birth and evolution within protoplanetary and planetary discs can be summarized by the equations F = ma and ΔE = Δm × c². These energy sources derive not only from the kinetic energy of the protoplanetary disc and interactions between dust particles, expressed by F=ma, but this kinetic energy can also be converted into chemical reactions, ultimately yielding prebiotic effects. Energy generated by radiation from the decay of radioactive isotopes within the protoplanetary and planetary discs, alongside energy produced by solar nuclear fusion, can be expressed by the formula ΔE = Δm × c². This energy not only generates heat but, crucially, produces radiolysis effects through solar radiation, cosmic rays, and isotope decay. These effects facilitate prebiotic chemical reactions and provide sustenance and nutrients for life within the planetary disc. Concerning the RNA-world versus metabolism-first debate, the high concentrations of PAHs and fullerenes in protoplanetary discs and planetary discs, coupled with their influence on the formation of aromatic amino acids and aromatic hydrophobic proteins affecting nucleic acid molecular chirality, underscore the metabolism-first theory. The discovery of Hemolithin in meteorites and its implications for RNA generation reinforce the \"metabolism precedes genetics\" theoretical framework. Starting from Hemolithin and primitive metabolic systems found in meteorites, lipid membrane vesicles encapsulated metabolic small molecules and informational polymers. Sustained by external energy sources, these gradually evolved into primitive systems possessing the tripartite functions of \"replication–metabolism–boundary\". It subsequently led to the integration of energy, protein metabolism, and membrane–genetic systems within protoplanetary and planetary discs. Ultimately, a self-maintaining and self-replicating cycle system was established within the planetary disc. The core emphasis of this paper lies in the continuity and consistency, spanning hundreds of millions of years, of the gas and molecular dust composition within the protoplanetary disc and the gases and molecules that could be generated within planetary disc planetesimals. It provided a stable energy source and an excellent sanctuary for the birth of life within the protoplanetary disc and the evolution of life within planetary disc planetesimals. The philosophical coherence that life should emerge wherever gases and molecules exist elucidates the availability of protoplanetary disc gases and molecules (such as H2, CO, and electrons) alongside the bacteria consuming these substances within the disc's planetesimals. These gases and molecules are generated within planetary disc planetesimals by radioactive isotopes (such as 26AL,60F, 238U, ⁴⁰K), simultaneously producing oxygen radicals and hydrogen peroxide (e.g., H₂O₂, •OH, O₂•⁻, NO₃⁻). Thus, isotopes provided both the energy for bacterial survival and the nutrients required for bacterial metabolism, while simultaneously generating oxygen-free radicals and hydrogen peroxide that constituted a hazard to these bacteria. Consequently, bacteria acquired the capacity to resist oxygen-free radicals and hydrogen peroxide while obtaining the nutrients essential for their metabolism. The core of this process lies in the \"radiation-metabolism coupling\" and \"radiation-metabolism co-evolution\" hypotheses concerning the origin of life in protoplanetary and planetary disks. Within this theoretical framework, radiation-generated gases, molecules, and oxygen free radicals coexisted long-term with bacterial metabolism and antioxidant functions, forming the \"radiation-metabolism co-evolution\" model for life's origin. Only this \"radiation environment-metabolism co-evolution\" hypothesis can explain the survival characteristics exhibited by all bacteria and viruses we observe today. The fundamental reason why bacteria, archaea, and viruses possess exponentially higher radiation resistance than mammals lies in the direct consequence of these microorganisms' prolonged coexistence with radiation within planetary disks. Affected by the reducing atmosphere of the protoplanetary disk, the internal environment of planetesimals in the protoplanetary disk is mainly reduced, while the internal environment of planetesimals in the planetary disk is mainly oxidized due to the influence of short- and long-lived isotopes.Evidence from the significantly higher abundances of short-lived radioactive isotopes (SLRs) and long-lived radioactive isotopes (LLRs) in Murchison meteorite and other meteorites compared to the Earth's crust has highlighted the central theme of ‘radiation-metabolism co-evolution’. Research on the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) demonstrates that this event, dominated by cyanobacteria, represents a consistent progression from ‘radiation-metabolism coupling’ and ‘radiation-metabolism co-evolution’ to radiation-metabolism-atmosphere environmental change. Comparing sulphur isotope mass-independent fractionation (S-MIF, Δ³³S) before and after the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) with planetary disc material reveals that the GOE effectively restored Earth's S-MIF state to the oxidized conditions present in the planetary disc. It further demonstrates that bacteria originating from the planetary disc transformed Earth's atmosphere into the oxidized environment they inhabited within the disc – the very environment that sustains our existence today. Finally, it is discussed that the highly efficient aerobic metabolism of eukaryotes is also directly descended from the antioxidant bacteria present in protoplanetary disc planetesimals. Migratory birds, which traverse Earth's magnetic field lines, share connections with bacterial antioxidant mechanisms and primordial genetic material. Finally, constructing a novel Tree of Life reveals that the evolutionary lineage of life differs entirely from our currently accepted model. The roots and trunk of this evolutionary tree do not originate on Earth, but rather on the planetary disc. Two branches diverge from the trunk: bacteria and archaea. The archaea branch further gives rise to a branch of eukaryotes, constituting the primary life forms on our planet today. Meanwhile, bacteria, archaea, and viruses continue to evolve both on the planetary disc and on Earth, exerting influence upon the life forms evolving on our planet. Given that fullerene (C₆₀) itself exhibits quantum wave-particle duality, akin to the quantum effects observed in light, electrons, protons, and neutrons, the associated electro-nutritive bacteria—which convert electrons into nutrients—also possess quantum properties. It constitutes the pivotal link in this paper's integration of quantum mechanics into the origins of life. This analytical discussion further suggests that the essence of life and consciousness may fundamentally be quantum in nature. Under this premise that the essence of life and consciousness is quantum, the boundaries between physics, life, and consciousness may dissolve. At a deeper philosophical level, electro-nutritive life embodies the biological manifestation of quantum order. The electron resonance, coherence, and wave-particle duality exhibited by fullerene do not vanish with the emergence of life but gain structural continuity at the cellular level. It indicates that life's metabolism and consciousness are not entities 'transcending' the physical, but rather self-organized stages of the physical quantum order. From the cosmos to life, electron flow constitutes the sole truly continuous language of energy. As 'cosmic quantum energy nodes', fullerenes become, in a metaphysical sense, the mediating symbols between matter and life. Life's existence depends on the flow of energy. From stellar radiation to molecular chemistry, through neural activity to conscious experience, energy remains uninterrupted, merely organized and encoded at different levels. At the cosmos's inception, energy existed as quantum field oscillations. Within protoplanetary discs, it underwent physical transformation through electron flow via fullerenes, PAHs, and Fe–S systems; within living organisms, this electron flow becomes the carrier of information, driving neural activity and metabolic equilibrium. Thus, spanning from the physical to the biological, from molecules to consciousness, there exists a continuous \"quantum electron flow continuum\"—one that not only conveys energy but also carries information, forming the quantum unity of life and consciousness. Life is the process by which cosmic energy achieves self-organization and self-awareness through the flow of quantum electrons. From this perspective, consciousness does not \"emerge within life\"; rather, it is the manifestation of the universe's own quantum order attaining a perceptible state within living organisms. Quantum conductor molecules such as fullerenes represent the earliest form of this order—already \"thinking\" quantum-mechanically in the lifeless cosmos, storing energy, transmitting information, and creating structures. Fullerenes are the quantum expression of energy; electro-nutritive microorganisms are the metabolic expression of energy flow; neural networks are the cognitive expression of energy-information. There is no discontinuity between them, only transitions in complexity. Thus, the universality of life lies in its being not an exception to the cosmos, but a form of cosmic energy becoming self-aware. The overarching trend of the universe becoming life—its evolution from quantum fields, stars, and molecules to organisms—can be viewed as a progressive increase in the density of energy and information. Within this framework, life is not a localized event, but a natural stage in the cosmic complexity of information. In other words, the universe progressively 'becomes life' during its evolution. \n Ultimately, this paper establishes three laws governing the origins of life at distinct levels: the Solar System Law, the Stellar System Law, and the Cosmic Life Law. The Solar System Law elucidates the unity of life discovered across planets and asteroids within our solar system, demonstrating that all life forms observed here are unified by the \"Central Law\". The Stellar System Law states that on any planetary body within a stellar system, even if primitive life exists, without a \"Great Oxidation Event\" akin to the one facilitated by cyanobacteria, life would remain confined to prokaryotic forms and never evolve. Such life would vanish alongside the stellar system's demise. The Cosmic Life Law elucidates the protoplanetary disc as a decisive factor in the formation of amino acid chirality. It further posits that quantum life and quantum consciousness constitute the very essence of cosmic life and consciousness.\n\nKeywords: Origin of Life, Evolution of Life, Natural Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Dust in the Universe, Protoplanetary Disc, Planetary Disc, Planetesimal, PAHs, SLRs， LLRs， S-MIF, Radiation-Metabolism Coupling, Radiation-Metabolism Co-evolution, Great Oxidation Event, Radiation-Metabolism-Atmospheric Change- Emergence of Eukaryotes, Fullerenes and Quantum Mechanics， Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Biology, Quantum–Biological Coupling， Quantum Life, Quantum Organic Conscious Entity， Quantum Information Dynamics， Tree of Life, Planetary Disc Panspermia\n","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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The geomagnetic or Pole shift method of climate sensitivity is briefly reviewed. The hypothesis that the previous two warm periods shared a common driver is tested and proven. Granger causality tests have been made and indicate that Pole Shift is the driver of temperature but is intercorrelated with CO2 with a subsequent delay on emission of CO2 from the oceans. A series of twelve single linear regression analyses is first performed starting with three individual possible drivers of the present warming period (PWP) said period being divided up into pre and post 1979 and said drivers being namely, Pole shift latitude (PS), CO2 and Albedo. Earth’s temperature/time record since the last Ice Age or at least the last 14,000 years or so is also fitted by means of a simple polynomial equation, the number of parameters increase in post-industrial times. Earth temperature anomaly from typical Ice Age to Present Day and including Maunder Minimum (LIA) is shown to be fitted by a self-limiting rational equation. Once optimum CO2 has been established it is concluded there are faster acting sinks and mechanisms disclosed which increase in sequestration ability to hold effect, if not value. Reasons for GISTEMP v4 data bias are discussed and validated. Traditional Greenhouse Warming with a maximum effect in the Upper Troposphere is not supported. Apparent ‘runaway’ warming is a product of Pole Shift induced albedo shift not C02. Earth’s temperature stabilizes at an optimum CO2 level around 290-311 ppmv by means of processes which obey a Rational Function of the general form Y = a+bx/1+ cx+dx^2. Addition of further CO2 then appears only to make minimal overall difference to the extension of this function and adds on only about 150 mK at CO2 concentrations of even up to 3200 ppmv. The notion of PS as dominant driver together with adaptive and strengthening CO2 biotic sinks is supported. ","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Using Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) compliance data for CWSs currently without nitrate removal, we analyzed nitrate levels across CWS types, source water type, well characteristics, and geography. Results show that large urban CWS frequently exceed 5 mg-N/L due to their reliance on surface water that is vulnerable to non-point source pollution. Small systems (<10,000 consumers) often exhibit episodic spikes in nitrate, often during spring and early summer, coinciding with fertilizer use and rainfall-driven leaching. Shallow and pre-1990 wells were disproportionately affected. Geospatial mapping analysis identified nitrate hotspots in agriculturally intensive regions. A future MCL based on an annual average of 5 mg/L-N would only affect ~25 CWS annually, far fewer than those impacted under a scenario where any instance above 5 mg/L-N would be a violation. These data-driven findings support future policy for nitrate regulation and drinking water protection.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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This study comprehensively evaluates the Mamba architecture, which utilizes State Space Models for efficient sequence processing, for 120-hour hourly generalized streamflow prediction across 125 diverse Iowa watersheds using 72-hour historical inputs. Performance was benchmarked against Persistence, LSTM, GRU, Seq2Seq, and Transformer models employing NSE, KGE, Pearson's r, and NRMSE. Results demonstrate that Mamba architecture achieves predictive accuracy comparable to, and in several aspects marginally exceeding, the robust Transformer baseline, with both models significantly outperforming other established methods. Critically, Explainable AI (XAI) using SHAP values provided insights into tested models’ decision-making, revealing distinct feature utilization patterns and enhancing model transparency. This research highlights Mamba's potential as an efficient, accurate, and interpretable alternative for advancing operational long-range hydrological forecasting.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Although SWAT+ is a powerful hydrological\nmodeling tool, its reservoir module cannot represent dynamic changes in demand, land use, or external water inflow. To\naddress these limitations, we developed resv_dyn, a Python algorithm that integrates: (i) annual land use changes derived\nfrom Dinamica EGO, (ii) progressive demand growth, and (iii) operation with pumped inflows from non-tributary rivers.\nThe validation of resv_dyn was conducted using the Riogrande II Reservoir as a case study, comparing its performance\nwith the SWAT+ reservoir module. The results show that resv_dyn effectively simulates the operational conditions of the\nreservoir, achieving outcomes comparable to those of SWAT+. Application to La Fe Reservoir under three climate scenarios\nshows that increased extreme rainfall temporarily boosts natural inflows, but these isolated peaks cannot be effectively stored\ndue to reservoir capacity constraints. As a result, the system remains continuously dependent on pumping, and supply\ndeficits are not substantially reduced. The proposed approach improves the representation of reservoir behaviour and\nprovides a transferable tool for assessing reservoir resilience under combined climatic and anthropogenic pressures.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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This study quantifies night-sky brightness across Gurgaon using a low-cost, Arduino-based Sky Quality Meter (SQM) and integrates these measurements with perception surveys from 91 residents. A total of 62 ground-based data points were collected, revealing distinct spatial variations: highly commercial and densely populated zones recorded the brightest skies (16–17 mag/arcsec²), while peripheral and semi-rural areas such as Sultanpur National Park showed comparatively darker skies (18-19mag/arcsec²). Survey results indicated that most residents underestimate the role of artificial lighting, often attributing poor sky visibility to air pollution, although 62% reported sleep disturbances due to excessive outdoor lighting. Together, these findings highlight a mismatch between public awareness and measurable light pollution levels. The study advocates practical mitigation strategies, including shielded fixtures, adaptive lighting policies, and citizen-led monitoring. By providing localized evidence, this work contributes to the limited body of light pollution research in India and offers a foundation for community-driven initiatives and policy intervention.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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We perform 3D dynamic rupture simulations that couple thermal pressurization of pore fluids within a finite shear zone with geodetically derived slip deficit models, unraveling the potential mechanisms governing deep coseismic ruptures in a fluid-rich subduction environment. Our simulations account for 3D slab geometry, regional subsurface material properties, fault slip deficit models, fast velocity-weakening rate-and-state friction, and thermally activated weakening mechanisms. Array- and frequency-dependent back-projection analyses validate the key kinematic source characteristics in the preferred model, highlighting the role of fault shear zone heterogeneities in rupture initiation, propagation, and arrest. Our results reveal a smoothly expanding rupture, which initiates on the deep slab close to the brittle-ductile transition and dynamically propagates across multiple locked asperities, driven by rising temperature and pore fluids at increasing slip rates. Our study demonstrates that the enhanced weakening resulting from thermal pressurization of pore fluid could promote the rupture of a large, partially locked region of the fault interface. We find that along-strike variations in pore fluid evolution, frictional properties and long-term slip deficit patterns collectively influence rupture dynamics and its termination at shallower depths.These data-integrated models provide insight into the mechanical conditions in the Semidi gap with important implications for regional seismic and tsunami hazards.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"megathrust earthquake"},{"word":"dynamic rupture model"},{"word":"seismic hazard"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-03T02:23:02.370000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-03T23:22:31.509000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-03T23:22:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5PB2T","authors":[{"pk":3399,"first_name":"Duo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0002-8641-337X"},{"pk":119238,"first_name":"Bo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":48774,"first_name":"Alice-Agnes","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gabriel","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":4178,"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ulrich","salutation":"Dr","orcid":"0000-0002-4164-8933"},{"pk":119239,"first_name":"Kang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":37141,"first_name":"Shihao","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yuan","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":7853,"first_name":"Roland","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bürgmann","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Earth Sciences"},{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Alaska2021_preprint.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10116/download/18717/"}],"supplementary_files":[{"url":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fR2KQcTCP7Frr9YQx9svUEzaMH-MOdU6/view?usp=sharing","label":"Supplementary File"}]},{"pk":10118,"title":"A HORIZONTAL VECTOR APPROACH TO 3D ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY","abstract":"Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is commonly implemented with collinear electrode arrays that measure only electric field components along the survey line, neglecting horizontal variations in other directions. This limitation is acceptable in two-dimensional (2D) ERT but can be significant in three-dimensional (3D) settings with complex geometry and strong resistivity contrasts. We propose measuring horizontal vector components of electric field variations, allowing determination of both magnitude and direction of surface electric field changes. Although full inversion tests are not included, incorporating such measurements into inversion frameworks may improve the resolution and reliability of 3D ERT. This concept may provide a new perspective on data acquisition and inversion parameterization.
","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"3D ERT"},{"word":"Inversion"},{"word":"collinear array"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-03T06:12:16.879000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-03T15:59:56.286000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-03T15:59:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X52J0J","authors":[{"pk":119240,"first_name":"Churl Hyun","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jo","salutation":"Dr","orcid":"0009-0003-0871-7225"}],"subject":[{"name":"Engineering"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"3DERT(H field Measure))-EarthArXiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10118/download/18723/"},{"original_filename":"3derth-field-measure-eartharxiv1.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10118/download/18730/"},{"original_filename":"3DERT(H field Measure))rev1-EarthArXiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10118/download/19017/"},{"original_filename":"3DERT(H field Measure)rev2-EarthArXiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10118/download/19038/"},{"original_filename":"3DERT(H field Measure)rev2-EarthArXiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10118/download/19039/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10120,"title":"An assessment of the agronomic benefits of silicate rock powders in Brazil in the context of a novel classification","abstract":"The sustainable intensification of tropical agriculture requires innovative approaches to restore soil health, reduce dependency on imported fertilizers, and increase crop productivity. Brazil has emerged as a global leader in the use of silicate agrominerals (ASi), silicate rich rock powders that supply plant nutrients and improve soil properties. These materials could advance low-cost soil sustaining crop production, particularly in the deeply weathered and nutrient-depleted soils of the tropics. However, the research landscape remains fragmented, and there is currently no synthesis of tropical ASi experiments. This article integrates findings from 54 Brazilian crop trials using a novel classification system for ASi based on lithochemistry and practical agricultural considerations. It evaluates the effects of ASi on soil health parameters, plant growth, and nutrient uptake across a range of crops and tropical soil types. The results demonstrate that ASi can significantly improve soil pH, cation exchange capacity, and base saturation, while enhancing yield and nutrient availability. Furthermore, a consistent trend emerged indicating that ASi can indirectly increase soil phosphorus availability. We recommend minimum requirements for standardized methodologies and suggest real-world research designs to support broader ASi adoption. Brazil's pioneering role offers valuable insights for scaling the usage of silicate agrominerals across tropical agricultural systems worldwide, contributing to sustainable food production and climate resilience.
","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"agrominerals"},{"word":" soil remineralizers"},{"word":" enhanced rock weathering"},{"word":" rock powder"},{"word":" soil health"},{"word":" Agriculture"},{"word":" fertilizer"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-03T13:24:16.209000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-03T23:31:33.999000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-03T04:53:00+02:00","doi":"https://doi.org/10.31223/X5JJ18","preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5JJ18","authors":[{"pk":35484,"first_name":"Philipp","middle_name":"","last_name":"Swoboda","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119260,"first_name":"Eder","middle_name":"de Souza","last_name":"Martins","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119261,"first_name":"Gisele","middle_name":"Freitas","last_name":"Vilela","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119263,"first_name":"Luis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ferreira","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119262,"first_name":"Carlos","middle_name":"Augusto","last_name":"Posser Silveira","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119266,"first_name":"Giuliano","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marchi","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119267,"first_name":"Mariane","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chiapini","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119265,"first_name":"Marcella","middle_name":"","last_name":"Daubermann","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119264,"first_name":"Mayra","middle_name":"Maniero","last_name":"Rodrigues","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":35479,"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"Oliver","last_name":"Clarkson","salutation":"Dr","orcid":null},{"pk":119268,"first_name":"Junyao","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kang","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119269,"first_name":"Veronica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Furey","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":106640,"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Manning","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":35483,"first_name":"Christina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Larkin","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Agriculture"},{"name":"Food Science"},{"name":"Plant Sciences"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"EarthArXiv_Swoboda_2025_Silicate rock powders in Brazil_1.2.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10120/download/18726/"},{"original_filename":"EarthArXiv_Swoboda_Silicate rock powders_v1.2.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10120/download/18913/"}],"supplementary_files":[{"url":"https://zenodo.org/records/17046176","label":"Supplementary File"}]},{"pk":10122,"title":"Assessment of Natural Gas Pipeline Construction on Stream Temperature and Turbidity in Southwestern Virginia, 2017—25","abstract":"The natural gas pipeline network in the United States is extensive and often intersects streams and other sensitive habitats, yet there are limited case studies utilizing a comparative upstream-downstream approach to evaluate potential short- and long-term effects of pipeline stream crossing construction from pre-construction to post-site restoration. In 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), deployed real-time continuous stream monitoring stations upstream and downstream of six proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) stream crossings in southwestern Virginia. Water temperature and turbidity data collected at the upstream and downstream sites were compared across three periods – before crossing construction, during crossing construction, and after crossing construction – to elucidate potential impacts from the stream crossing construction. Additionally, the monitoring network was utilized to notify regulators of potentially anomalous conditions throughout the entire monitoring period.\n\nResults of this study indicate (1) at all six monitored streams, pipeline stream crossing construction did not affect long-term or short-term upstream-to-downstream water temperature conditions; (2) pipeline stream crossing construction did not affect long-term upstream-to-downstream turbidity conditions in all six monitored streams. Some short-term anomalously elevated turbidity conditions were observed and attributable to pipeline stream crossing construction; however, the duration and magnitude were not sufficient to alter the long-term turbidity regime of the streams in which they were observed; and (3) the application of the monitoring network as a real-time alert system successfully alerted regulators to potentially anomalous conditions.","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[],"date_submitted":"2025-09-03T15:43:03.561000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-03T16:00:30.552000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-03T15:59:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5XT9G","authors":[{"pk":110631,"first_name":"Brendan","middle_name":"Michael","last_name":"Foster","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119273,"first_name":"Carly","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Maas","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119274,"first_name":"Alejandra","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Flota","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Life Sciences"},{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"PrePrint_Pipeline_SIRManuscript_02Sept2025.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10122/download/18729/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10125,"title":"Assessing the Predictive Skill of Global Climate Models for Long and Short Rains in the Greater Horn of Africa","abstract":"Seasonal forecasts play a crucial role in delivering early warnings to various sectors, particularly the agricultural sector. The Greater Horn of Africa region depends on rainfed agriculture, hence the need for accurate forecasts. This study uses Global Climate Models (GCMs) and satellite precipitation observations to assess the predictability of observed precipitation by deploying traditional machine learning algorithms and deep learning models. We compare the predictability of long and short rainy seasons in the region. The results highlight the challenges of forecasting the long rains season, with traditional machine learning algorithms showing low feature importance. In contrast, short rains can be predicted and achieved with high accuracy using both traditional machine learning models and deep learning architectures, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. In this study, we used ten Global Climate Models as input features for seasonal climatological forecasts, with a single output feature derived from observations of the Global Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC) over a 30-year period (1990-2019). We measured the level of explained variance of this set of GCMs. Regardless of the method, high explainable variability was achieved in short rains, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) was the best predictor in the region for long rains. On the other hand, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was the most significant contributor to the predictions for short rains.
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Shear-wave splitting is a passive measurement which can be used to passively monitor changes in the in situ stress field. We combine borehole stress and passive seismic data, primarily from microseismicity, across Great Britain to assess the potential of shear-wave splitting to be used to monitor the in situ stress field with several in-depth case studies. At Preston New Road, Lancashire, the measured shear-wave splitting fast polarisations (ϕf) have a circular mean of −14° and are consistent with the regional Sₕmax. At Newdigate, Surrey, the measured shear-wave splitting is best explained by stress-controlled seismic anisotropy, with fast polarisations consistent with regional Sₕmax (ϕ̄f = −51°) to the north of the Newdigate fault. However, we observed a consistent 90° polarisation flip (ϕ̄f = 40°) at a station to the south of the fault, which is likely due to overpressured pore fluids. In South Wales, there is structure-controlled anisotropy from the Neath Disturbance, with ϕf measurements near the fault parallel to the fault strike. These examples demonstrate the potential of shear-wave splitting as a passive measure of in situ stress and the challenges that remain. We find that shear-wave splitting, measured from microseismicity, could be used to monitor the in situ stress field with sufficient monitoring infrastructure and geological context to constrain interpretations. For CO₂ storage projects, incorporating shear-wave splitting into the design of microseismic monitoring networks will enable valuable additional data to be collected.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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(2023). After examination of a number of satellite and meteorological data, it is concluded in agreement with Prata et al. (2024) that this claim results from a misinterpretation of satellite imagery.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Understanding the impact of these structures on streamflow through groundwater capture is crucial for managing surface-water resources in this watershed. In this study we constructed the Strawberry Creek integrated hydrological model (SCIHM) to increase this understanding. The SCIHM is an integrated surface runoff and groundwater model that uses the coupled groundwater and surface-water flow model (GSFLOW), which is based on the integration of the precipitation-runoff modeling system (PRMS) and the modular groundwater flow model commonly called MODFLOW, version MODFLOW-2005 software to simulate surface runoff and infiltration and groundwater flow. The model has three layers, 263 rows, and 176 columns. The model area includes the Strawberry Creek and four adjacent watersheds. The PRMS model was calibrated using two streamflow gaging stations and the GSFLOW model was calibrated to reported spring diversion discharge and a sparse number of groundwater-level measurements. The SCIHM was run with and without diversions active and simulated streamflow was compared, finding that in the headwaters of Strawberry Creek about 35 percent of the diversion flow was captured from base flow.
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Notably, no wind vector information is needed, as gas transport is derived from cross-correlations between sensor stations and subsequently integrated using Gauss’ divergence theorem. The method is applied to an existing low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site near the Black Forest in Germany, for which no comprehensive estimate of the total emissions exists yet. For validation, we use previous bottom-up measurements of individual mofette degassing and a Gaussian puff approach. Over a period of one and a half months around August 2022, we determine an average CO2 emission rate of 3266kgd−1±42% over a 400m2 area. This result is larger than expected and suggests that diffuse degassing plays a more important role at site than previously assumed. The method could also be applied for real-time monitoring of leaky Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) sites, for which the Starzach site is a natural analog.
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The study focuses on both Lower Secondary Education (Gymnasium, grades 7–9) and Upper Secondary Education, including General and Vocational Education (grades 10–12). Previous research has shown that students entering Lower Secondary Education or High School often possess several misconceptions about geological concepts. These misconceptions result in a fragmented or incorrect understanding, which may arise from intuitive perceptions of how the natural world evolves that are incorrect, or from stereotypes and assumptions acquired from the family environment or inadequacies in the school curriculum. Despite teachers’ efforts to clarify these concepts, a significant percentage of students continue to hold misconceptions, mainly related to minerals and rocks. A total of 1065 secondary students completed an online closed-ended questionnaire that was designed and validated based on previous research findings to highlight their misconceptions. This study results showed a clear differentiation between students from urban and rural areas, while demographic characteristics (such as gender, age, parents’ occupation, and parents’ marital status) did not appear to play a significant role. In addition, the responses to specific sets of questions varied depending on the student’s grade level. Identifying students’ misconceptions can support the development of appropriate educational tools and/or inform targeted interventions that aim to clarify these concepts and correct any incorrect assumptions.\n","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"misconceptions"},{"word":"minerals"},{"word":"rocks"},{"word":"conceptions"},{"word":"mineralstraits"},{"word":"pupils"},{"word":"secondaryeducation"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-04T20:14:10.420000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-06T15:06:55.448000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-06T15:06:00+02:00","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15090338","preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5HN0M","authors":[{"pk":119366,"first_name":"Georgios","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giotopoulos","salutation":"Dr","orcid":"0000-0003-2151-0774"}],"subject":[{"name":"Education"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"geosciences-15-00338-with-cover (1).pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10143/download/18757/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10145,"title":"INTEGRATED DUAL-SOURCING PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK: COMBINING WASTEWATER REUSE AND DESALINATION IN A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH FOR RESILIENT URBAN WATER SECURITY IN TAIZ, YEMEN.","abstract":"This study proposes a novel paradigm integrating wastewater reuse and desalination for Taiz's water security in Yemen. This hydrological circuit of multiple stages transforms wastewater streams into value-added products, establishing a robust dual-sourcing matrix that mitigates the linear exploitation of resources. The proposed framework strives to generate 0.8 kWh of electricity with 1 m³ of treated wastewater, supplementing Taiz's energy demands. The design includes a solar-powered reverse osmosis plant in Mocha, a GIS-optimized pipeline, and decentralized DEWATS for greywater reuse in Taiz. The closed-circuit system transforms resources, encouraging redundancy and flexibility. It is also integrating GIS and AI-driven for real-time resilience and efficiency, providing critical, sustainable solutions that reduces dependence upon single sources and contribute toward a replicable framework for conflict-affected regions and water-scarce regions. Our system, as a model for conflict regions, can save Yemen roughly $2.3 million every month in imported energy cost.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Regarding global agriculture, laboratory experiments suggest that early crop exposure to heat may either confer tolerance or enhance vulnerability to subsequent heat during the critical crop flowering stage. We show that warm early-seasons improve crop yield potential, particularly for soybean and maize, but also increase the impacts of subsequent heat by 5% to 55% compared to years with average early-season temperatures. The impacts of this increased yield sensitivity outweigh the benefits of early season heat when mid-season temperature anomalies exceed 0.7–5°C (depending on the crop). Analyzing projected temperatures under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 3-7.0, we find a tenfold increase in the likelihood of experiencing sequential heat in early and mid-season crop growth stages, defined as a joint 90th percentile event. Accounting for the interactive effects of early and mid-season warming increases projected temperature-related crop yield losses by 2–44%, depending on crop and region. These results underline the emerging nonlinear risks from sequential heat extremes to food systems, which can largely be avoided when limiting warming to 1.5°C globally.","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"compound events"},{"word":"Food production"},{"word":"Heat Extremes"},{"word":"climate change"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-05T13:04:32.048000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-06T15:03:58.724000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-06T15:03:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5NB2H","authors":[{"pk":110578,"first_name":"Raed","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hamed","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":24999,"first_name":"Carmen","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Steinmann","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119387,"first_name":"Qiyun","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ma","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119388,"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Balanzategui","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119389,"first_name":"Ellie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Broadman","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":94368,"first_name":"Corey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lesk","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":3615,"first_name":"Kai","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kornhuber","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0001-5466-2059"}],"subject":[{"name":"Agriculture"},{"name":"Climate"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"sequential_heat_ERL_preprint.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10146/download/18765/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10147,"title":"Shear-wave splitting measured for permanent reservoir monitoring systems: an example from the Snorre field","abstract":"Microseismic monitoring of offshore CO2 storage projects is likely to include some deployment of offshore sensors. To improve the value proposition of this monitoring infrastructure, it is important to consider what other information can be gained about the CO2 storage complex and the surrounding region. Shear-wave splitting is one potential source of added value to microseismic monitoring of CO2 storage operations at minimal additional cost, if factored in during network design. Shear-wave splitting provides a means to passively monitor the in situ horizontal maximum stress azimuth and potentially the magnitude of differential horizontal stresses. We demonstrate this for offshore monitoring of reservoirs using data recorded by the permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) network at the Snorre field. We measure shear-wave splitting for the MW 5.1 Tampen Spur earthquake and subsequent microseismic aftershocks. Our results show that high-quality shear-wave splitting measurements can be made for microseismicity, with ML ≥ 0.7, recorded by seafloor instruments. At Snorre, the average shear-wave splitting fast polarisation direction φf = 92±15◦ and percentage anisotropy ξ = 2.68 ± 0.26. This is consistent with microcracks preferentially aligned with the maximum horizontal stress azimuth. At Snorre we estimate this as 108 ± 4◦ using data from the World Stress Map. The shear-wave splitting results contain two groups of fast polarisation directions. The four westernmost stations cluster around φf = 68 ± 13◦ with the remaining clustering around φf = 113 ± 4◦. This variation may be due to the depletion history of the reservoir. Incorporating shear-wave splitting into microseismic monitoring plans potentially allows for semi-continuous measurements of the changes to the stress field in the storage complex and surrounding region, provided there is sufficient microseismicity. This demonstrates that shear-wave splitting is a valuable dataset for monitoring the offshore subsurface stress field, which should be considered when planning offshore passive seismic monitoring.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Both of these settings are typically composed of sub-horizontal layered strata, in which individual layers may possess variable mechanical properties and strengths. Previous models on sill intrusion have commonly invoked sill development, where intruding melts advance sub-horizontally through relatively weak layers and cut upwards through stronger ones at relatively steep angles (ramp-flat geometries), while other models point to gradual and continuous sill climbing irrespective of mechanical properties in layered host-rocks. \nPrecursor melts to most known mafic sills worldwide stem from extension-related melting within the upper mantle. As long as extensional environments are maintained within the upper crust, ascending melts will advance to the Earth’s surface via sub-vertical dykes. Once extension cease to affect areas of intrusion, ascending melts may pool in various magma chambers, or they may be intruded as sills within the uppermost crust. Various researchers have previously attributed intrusion of inclined and/or saucer-shaped sills to regional far-field shortening/compression within actual intrusion areas, while others point to sill emplacement in more neutral environments, when it comes to principal stress axes.\nThe model presented in this contribution strongly suggests that emplacement of saucer-shaped sills of the Faroe Islands not only caused uplifts of their overburdens following ultimate inflation, but did also impose compression/shortening on surrounding host rocks so as to trigger faulting and displacement within some of these. In turn, compression/stresses built up in surrounding host-rocks in response to ultimate sill inflation did not un-commonly trigger post-magmatic faulting within the actual solidified sills themselves.\n","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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The Niño-3.4 index has long been used to characterize ENSO. However, new ENSO indices have been proposed in recent years. Here, in the context of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity, we compared Niño-3.4 to three modern ENSO indices: the relative Niño-3.4 index, the ENSO Longitudinal Index (ELI), and a Pacific sea surface temperature zonal gradient index. We examined the association of their August–October values with central Pacific convection, tropical cyclone-related variables in the Atlantic (e.g., vertical wind shear and potential intensity), and Atlantic tropical cyclone activity. We also assessed the skill of seasonal forecasts of the ENSO indices and the skill of index-based forecasts of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity. We found that the modern ENSO indices outperform the traditional Niño-3.4 index in nearly all aspects, with the relative Niño-3.4 index showing statistically significant advantages in many cases.
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However, current knowledge of diatom diversity and community dynamics during this interval relies mainly on biostratigraphic compilations, which largely document common species and thus likely underestimate true diversity. This study provides a more complete picture of Southern Ocean diatom communities across the EOT by using comprehensive, quantitative surveys from four sites spanning the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sectors. Results reveal a consistent pattern across sites, with two major shifts in community composition around 37–36 Ma and 34 Ma, linked to major environmental change. Following a prolonged interval of diversification without substantial extinction in the late Eocene, we identify a pronounced extinction event approximately 1 Myr after the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary (E/O, ~33.9 Ma). This suggests that significant changes in surface ocean conditions lagged the boundary and varied across the Southern Ocean. These findings highlight the interplay between global climate changes and local environmental factors in shaping diatom communities. By capturing detailed patterns of diatom diversity and extinction, our study improves understanding of past ecological responses.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.\r\nThe disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.\r\nSection 6 – Term and Termination.\r\n\r\nThis Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.\r\nWhere Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:\r\n\r\nautomatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or\r\nupon express reinstatement by the Licensor.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.\r\nSections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.\r\nSection 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.\r\n\r\nThe Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.\r\nAny arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nSection 8 – Interpretation.\r\n\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. 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We assess crop relocation—switching which crops are grown where—as an adaptation strategy. Using the Mink crop model, we simulate six major crops under three nuclear winter scenarios (16, 47, and 150 Tg of soot). Without adaptation, global caloric production falls 23%, 53%, and 85% respectively during the worst year of each scenario. We find that mild cooling scenarios favor expanding high-calorie warm-season crops like rice and maize, while severe scenarios require extensive conversion to cold-tolerant crops like rapeseed. In the extreme 150 Tg scenario, crop relocation could double food production compared to current planting patterns. While insufficient to prevent widespread famine in severe scenarios, crop relocation has the potential to save billions of lives.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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In particular, the influence of loading parameters on hardness, elastic modulus, fracture toughness, and time-dependent deformation of individual clay minerals remains insufficiently explored. This study addresses this gap through systematic nanoindentation experiments on ripidolite and illite, evaluating the effects of peak load, holding time, and loading rate on their mechanical response. Load-displacement curves revealed distinct behaviors: ripidolite frequently displayed pop-in events associated with localized plasticity, whereas illite deformed more smoothly. Across all conditions, illite showed shallower indentation depths, higher hardness, and higher elastic modulus, consistent with its stiffer microstructure and harder mineral inclusions. Ripidolite demonstrated a stronger indentation size effect in hardness and generally higher fracture toughness, indicating a greater ability to dissipate energy before crack propagation. Post-indentation imaging confirmed contrasting deformation modes, with ripidolite producing pronounced pile-up without visible cracking and illite showing limited pile-up but radial and lateral cracks. Creep tests revealed a two-stage response in both minerals; however, illite displayed higher creep ratios despite its greater strength, suggesting enhanced time-dependent deformation. Overall, these results highlight a fundamental trade-off: illite offers superior short-term resistance but is more vulnerable to brittle fracture and viscous strain, while ripidolite better resists crack growth but is more prone to immediate plastic deformation. Understanding such parameter-dependent behaviors improves predictions of caprock sealing performance under variable stress histories, informing risk assessments for subsurface energy storage operations.","license":{"name":"CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Nanoindentation"},{"word":"Subsurface energy storage"},{"word":"Clay-rich caprock integrity"},{"word":"Hardness"},{"word":"Elastic modulus"},{"word":"fracture toughness"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-10T15:54:35.772000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T16:10:31.336000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T16:10:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5BT96","authors":[{"pk":119627,"first_name":"Peng","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cheng","salutation":"","orcid":"0009-0009-4605-9204"},{"pk":119629,"first_name":"Tanmaya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mishra","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119630,"first_name":"Chengpeng","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhang","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":4678,"first_name":"Johannes","middle_name":"","last_name":"Miocic","salutation":"Dr","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Engineering"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"PeerStatus.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10190/download/18836/"},{"original_filename":"merged_manuscript.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10190/download/18837/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10193,"title":"Moist adiabatic scaling explains mean and fast upper-level jet stream wind response to climate change","abstract":"The upper-level jet stream exhibits a robust increase in strength and shear under climate change. Previous work also noted a fast-get-faster response and connected it diagnostically to the Clausius-Clapeyron relation. Here we derive a moist adiabatic scaling that explains the upper-level jet stream wind response. Given the daily surface air temperature distribution and assuming a moist adiabatic atmosphere, the upper-level mean and fast jet stream wind increase by ∼2%/K and the jet stream shear increases by ∼4%/K across a climate model hierarchy. The scaling shows the increase of the surface moisture gradient following the Clausius-Clapeyron relation dominates the response. The scaling connects the increasing surface moisture gradient to the upper-level temperature gradient thereby reconciling dry and moist perspectives. The results show record-breaking upper-level jet stream wind and increased clear-air turbulence are tied to the Clausius-Clapeyron relation and are therefore robust and well-understood consequences of climate change.","license":{"name":"CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-SA 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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In this case study of coastal British Columbia, we prepare and\nevaluate two sets of climate data - a priori bias corrected and non bias corrected\ndynamically downscaled historical projections of Community Earth System Model 2\nsimulations. We compare these datasets with downscaled ERA5 reanalysis focusing on\ncommonly used inputs to species distribution models (SDM), namely, bioclimatic\n(BIOCLIM) variables and climate extreme indices. Our results show improvements for\nmean BIOCLIM variables when a priori bias correction is applied. However, modest\nimprovements are observed in terms of variability and extreme indices. Overall, our\nfindings suggest that a priori bias corrected dynamically downscaled climate projections\nprovide more accurate input to SDMs, and thus can improve the reliability of these\nimportant ecological models.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"bias correction"},{"word":" Climate downscaling"},{"word":" species distribution models"},{"word":" WRF"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-10T23:00:18.661000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T14:59:36.784000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T14:59:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5R444","authors":[{"pk":119648,"first_name":"Dipti","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hingmire","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0002-5691-7796"},{"pk":119649,"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"McHenry","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119650,"first_name":"Julia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Velletta","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119651,"first_name":"Vanessa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Valenti","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119652,"first_name":"Julia K.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Baum","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0002-9827-1612"}],"subject":[{"name":"Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"PCLM-D-25-00319.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10194/download/18846/"}],"supplementary_files":[{"url":"The data and code used for this study have been made avilable in the borealis data repository at https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/DOTC2M","label":"Public data"}]},{"pk":10195,"title":"Reconciling remote sensing and reanalysis land surface temperatures: How surface conditions shape bias between GOES-16 and MERRA-2 across the contiguous US","abstract":"Land surface temperature is a key variable governing land–atmosphere energy and water exchanges. Despite its importance, satellite observations and reanalysis products often differ in how they define the effective depth of land surface temperature and in the assumptions underlying their estimates, making comparisons and interpretation challenging. In this study, we present a detailed comparison of land surface temperature from GOES-16 (satellite) and MERRA-2 (reanalysis) across the contiguous United States for 2022 and 2023. The results reveal systematic diurnal and seasonal biases: GOES-16 tends to be warmer than MERRA-2 in the afternoon and at night, but cooler in the morning. The magnitude of these biases varies by season. At night, GOES-16 is warmest relative to MERRA-2 for forests; in the morning, it is coolest for croplands and grasslands; and in the afternoon, it is warmest for barren and shrublands. Within individual land cover types, variability in surface conditions—such as soil moisture and elevation—modulates the bias at night and in the morning, with GOES-16 LST being warmer at night and cooler in the morning for wetter soils and at higher elevations. Our analysis also indicates that Leaf Area Index plays a role in bias patterns during spring and autumn, likely due to the association of temperature with leaf emergence and senescence. These findings provide new insights into the mechanisms underlying land surface temperature bias patterns and highlight the importance of accounting for surface condition variability in bias correction and data assimilation workflows.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Most of these traits can be effectively derived from leaf reflectance measurements across the visible to shortwave infrared range using various empirical and physical methods. Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR) is a popular empirical approach due to its simplicity and computational efficiency; however, it has notable limitations. These include the need for transforming spectra into latent components, challenges in uncertainty quantification, optimal selection of the number of components, and difficulty in extending to more complex models. In this study, we present a Bayesian approach for predicting leaf traits from leaf reflectance data—ranging from 400 to 2400 nm in 1 nm spectral—that addresses these limitations. The method eliminates the need for spectral transformation while enabling rigorous uncertainty quantification. We applied the Bayesian algorithm to predict three key traits: carotenoid content (Car A ), nitrogen percentage mass (N M ), and Leaf Mass per Area (LMA). On an independent validation dataset, we find that the Bayesian approach performs comparably to PLSR but with added flexibility and robust uncertainty quantification. To enhance computational efficiency, we project the full Bayesian model to a reduced model that relies on a select subset of wavelengths: 14 for Car A , 28 for N M , and 30 for LMA. This reduced model maintains predictive performance like the full model while offering faster predictions and insights into trait-specific wavelength sensitivity. The Bayesian method is highly adaptable, providing a framework for future development of non-linear, hierarchical, and multivariate trait prediction models with rigorous uncertainty quantification.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Bayesian"},{"word":"dimension reduction"},{"word":"hyperspectral reflectance"},{"word":"Partial Least Squares Regression"},{"word":"plant functional traits"},{"word":"trait-spectra relationship"},{"word":"Uncertainty quantification"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T01:59:33.125000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T16:20:17.895000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T16:20:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X53B3X","authors":[{"pk":110252,"first_name":"Dhruva","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kathuria","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0001-8112-6235"},{"pk":119660,"first_name":"Yoseline","middle_name":"","last_name":"Angel","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119661,"first_name":"Evan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lang","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119659,"first_name":"Alexey","middle_name":"N","last_name":"Shiklomanov","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Life Sciences"},{"name":"Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Trait_paper_file_for_eartharxiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10196/download/18851/"},{"original_filename":"Binder1.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10196/download/18864/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10197,"title":"A Superflare and Geomagnetic Excursion as the Triggers for the Younger Dryas Climatic Event and Terminal Pleistocene Extinctions","abstract":"The onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) stadial at ~12,850 cal. yr BP remains one of the most abrupt climatic transitions in the geologic record, coinciding with megafaunal extinctions and human cultural shifts. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes a cosmic event but struggles to explain the absence of a crater, terrestrial isotopic signatures of key proxies, and the hemispheric bias of cooling. We propose an alternative, comprehensive mechanism: a solar superflare, occurring during the Gothenburg geomagnetic excursion, which dramatically weakened Earth's magnetosphere. This event induced a hemispheric-scale lightning superstorm, igniting atmospheric methane and terrestrial biomass. This led to a cascade of effects: the production of nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) and ozone depletion; the formation of nanodiamonds (including lonsdaleite) via plasma deposition; the mobilization of terrestrial platinum and microspherules; and the injection of massive quantities of combustion aerosols into the atmosphere. The subsequent climatic feedbacks—including ice-sheet destabilization, ocean circulation changes, and UV stress—provide a parsimonious explanation for the YD onset, the extinction event, and the full suite of geochemical proxies recorded in ice cores and terrestrial sediments, without invoking an extraterrestrial impact.\n","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"Younger Dryas"},{"word":"Superflare"},{"word":"Geomagnetic Excursion"},{"word":"Nanodiamonds"},{"word":"Megafaunal Extinction"},{"word":"Plasma Discharges"},{"word":"biomass burning"},{"word":"Pleistocene"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T04:04:18.771000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T16:23:31.988000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T16:23:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5ZM9Q","authors":[{"pk":119667,"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"Van","last_name":"Smith III","salutation":"Mr","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Younger Dryus trigger.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10197/download/18853/"},{"original_filename":"Binder1.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10197/download/18865/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10205,"title":"Tropical cyclone risk to global electricity supply","abstract":"To analyse the risks from Tropical Cyclones (TC) to electricity supply, we have combined a large ensemble of TC simulations with a spatial model of power networks and people served, for the entire TC belt globally. The model of electricity power failure, measured in terms of population disrupted, was calibrated against nighttime lights satellite imagery of historic TC events. Use of spatially coherent TC simulations enabled the calculation of electricity supply losses at national, regional and global scales for a range of return periods. We estimate that between 65 and 80 million people lose electric power with a return period of 1 in 100 years, depending on the TC model. Most regions show a worsening of TC-induced outages under climate change (RCP8.5 2050), except for the North Indian Ocean, where there is disagreement between TC models. Climate model uncertainty (across four GCMs) influences the estimated global population at risk by a factor of 0.91-1.05 in 2050.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"tropical cyclone"},{"word":"electricity disruption"},{"word":"Risk Analysis"},{"word":"network analysis"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T11:51:39.950000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T15:13:12.636000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T15:13:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5MB26","authors":[{"pk":119687,"first_name":"Fred","middle_name":"","last_name":"Thomas","salutation":"Dr","orcid":"0000-0002-8441-5638"},{"pk":119688,"first_name":"Yu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mo","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119689,"first_name":"Jianan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rui","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119690,"first_name":"Tom","middle_name":"","last_name":"Russell","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119691,"first_name":"Max","middle_name":"","last_name":"Robertson","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119692,"first_name":"Jasper","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verschuur","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119693,"first_name":"Raghav","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pant","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119694,"first_name":"Jim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hall","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"name":"Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology"},{"name":"Physical and Environmental Geography"},{"name":"Power and Energy"},{"name":"Risk Analysis"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"tropical_cyclone_electricity_disruption_earth-arxiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10205/download/18861/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10206,"title":"Stream acidification and metal mobilization linked to permafrost degradation","abstract":"We document rapid, climate-driven intensification of sulfide-mineral oxidation in permafrost-underlain headwater catchments of the Yukon and Mackenzie river basins—the two largest (sub)Arctic rivers in North America. Over the past decade, acidic (pH ~3) seepages have appeared in these headwaters that mobilize metals at acutely toxic concentrations and degrade water quality and chemistry in receiving waterbodies. These headwater processes drive multi-decadal increases in sulfate concentrations in major downstream (sub)Arctic rivers (Ogilvie, Klondike, Peel). This major perturbation in mineral weathering linked to permafrost thaw is an emergent climate–geosphere feedback with far-reaching consequences water resources, ecosystem health, and Earth’s biogeochemical future.","license":{"name":"CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.\r\nWhere Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:\r\n\r\nautomatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or\r\nupon express reinstatement by the Licensor.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.\r\nSections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.\r\nSection 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.\r\n\r\nThe Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.\r\nAny arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nSection 8 – Interpretation.\r\n\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"permafrost; metals; sulfide mineral oxidation; climate change; acid-rock drainage"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T17:07:28.065000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T17:28:10.008000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T17:28:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5Q44T","authors":[{"pk":119695,"first_name":"Elliott","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Skierszkan","salutation":"Dr","orcid":"0000-0002-6178-9493"},{"pk":119697,"first_name":"Andras","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Szeitz","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":34517,"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lindsay","salutation":"Prof.","orcid":"0000-0001-9123-3261"},{"pk":6541,"first_name":"Sean","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carey","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0002-3316-228X"}],"subject":[{"name":"Environmental Sciences"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"24-1_TWO_ARD_20250828_SI_included_EarthArxiv Version.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10206/download/18866/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10208,"title":"Impact of the easternmost category-5 Hurricane Lorenzo on North Atlantic sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a concentrations","abstract":"","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T17:25:37.701000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-11T17:27:10.283000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-11T17:27:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5TX6F","authors":[{"pk":119686,"first_name":"Sergio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Muacho","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0003-4135-2400"},{"pk":119853,"first_name":"Andre","middle_name":"","last_name":"Valente","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":119823,"first_name":"Manoa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Postec","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Life Sciences"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Muacho et al 2025 Submission.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10208/download/18869/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10210,"title":"Stress interactions between earthquakes and volcanoes in South Iceland: Application to Eyjafjallajökull and Katla","abstract":"South Iceland contains some of Iceland´s best-known volcanoes (Hekla, Katla, and Eyjafjallajökull) as well as one of its two main seismic zones, namely the South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ). The part of the SISZ that produces continuous microseismicity is a 70-km-long and 10-20-km wide zone, located between the active volcanic zones referred to as the West Volcanic Zone and East Volcanic Zones. The largest earthquakes in the SISZ, however, exceed M7, during which the N-S extension of the SISZ may be as wide as 60 km. The SISZ is partly covered with Holocene lava flows where the seismogenic faults occur as dextral NNE-trending and sinistral ENE-trending conjugate arrays. The same fault-segment trends occur in the Pleistocene rocks north of the Holocene lava flows. There are three main stratovolcanoes/central volcanoes located at lateral ends of the SISZ. These are Hekla, which is located in a quadrant of transtension, and Hengill and Eyjafjallajökull, which are located in quadrants of transpression. In the past decades, all these volcanoes have been subject to unrest and two have erupted, namely Hekla in 2000 and Eyjafjallajökull in 2010. The fourth volcano discussed here, Katla, is located just east of Eyjafjallajökull. Here we analyse the stress interaction between the SISZ and these four volcanoes. We provide new numerical models of the effects of seismogenic faulting in the SISZ on the state of stress in the volcanoes, with a particular focus on Eyjafjallajökull and Katla. The results indicate that the general stress transfer from the SISZ to the volcanoes Hengill, Eyjafjallajökull and Katla was primarily compressive and unfavourable for volcanic eruptions prior to the two June 2000 in the SISZ. Magma intrusions into Eyjafjallajökull in the 1990s thus resulted in sill formation and no eruption. There may also have been magma intrusion into Hengill in the 1990s, but no eruption occurred. Prior to the June 2000 earthquakes Hekla was subject to large tensile stress and had frequent eruptions, but the earthquakes resulted in the stress field becoming less tensile and Heklas has not erupted. By contrast, the stress field in Eyjafjallajökull became more tensile following the June 2000 earthquakes so as to favour dike propagation to the surface. Thus, renewed magma intrusion into the volcano in 2009 and early 2010 resulted in two eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull: an effusive eruption in March, and an explosive eruption in April 2010. ","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Screenhouse farming demonstrates superior yield, cost-efficiency, and sustainability, producing up to 90% more saleable output than rainfed systems and using over 95% less water per kilogram of produce. Although initial investment is higher over 600% more than rainfed farming screenhouse systems emit less than 5% of the greenhouse gases associated with conventional open-field production. Rainfed farming, while low-cost, suffers from poor resource efficiency and low productivity. Irrigated systems offer moisture stability but require substantial water and energy inputs. These findings highlight the potential of screenhouse farming and the importance of adopting sustainable irrigation strategies such as drip systems, fertigation, and rainwater harvesting to enhance long-term resilience and efficiency in vegetable production.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.\r\nTo the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.\r\nThe disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.\r\nSection 6 – Term and Termination.\r\n\r\nThis Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.\r\nWhere Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:\r\n\r\nautomatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or\r\nupon express reinstatement by the Licensor.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate this Public License.\r\nSections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.\r\nSection 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.\r\n\r\nThe Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.\r\nAny arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nSection 8 – Interpretation.\r\n\r\nFor the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made without permission under this Public License.\r\nTo the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"Screenhouse Farming"},{"word":" Open Field Farming"},{"word":" Economic Efficiency"},{"word":" environmental impact"},{"word":" Green House Gas Emissions"},{"word":" Vegetable Production"},{"word":" Northwest Nigeria"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-11T23:00:14.309000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-12T19:10:03.201000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-12T19:09:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5XN0B","authors":[{"pk":109640,"first_name":"Taiwo Bintu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ayinde","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0002-8250-8806"},{"pk":109641,"first_name":"Charles F.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nicholson","salutation":"","orcid":"0000-0001-8245-8864"},{"pk":109642,"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ahmed","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Agriculture"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"PCLM-D-25-00158.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10211/download/18875/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10215,"title":"Sudden freshening and cooling of western North Atlantic slope water at the onset of the Little Ice Age based on Magnesium-to-Calcium ratio and oxygen stable isotope record.","abstract":"The Little Ice Age (LIA), a period from ~1400 CE to 1850 CE, was characterized by colder winters and more frequent extreme weather events, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. While the exact causes of the LIA remain a topic of ongoing research, evidence suggests that changes in ocean circulation likely contributed to the observed global cooling, although the specific mechanisms and drivers of these changes are not yet fully understood. Here, we aim to generate new knowledge to help us better understand how ocean circulation changed before, during, and after this climatic event. More specifically, using marine cores collected at the head of the Laurentian Channel in the Lower Estuary of the St. Lawrence, we investigated variations in the temperature and seawater oxygen isotopic signal of western North Atlantic slope waters to assess the relative strength of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream. First, we established a Mg/Ca-temperature calibration curve for Globobulimina auriculata from the bottom water of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary based on instrumental temperature data and geochemical analysis from a short, century-old sediment box core. Then, using a longer piston core, we produced new downcore measurements of Mg/Ca in Globobulimina auriculata for the LIA. We then coupled this new temperature reconstruction with existing oxygen isotope data (d18Ocalcite) to disentangle the influence of temperature on the d18Ocalcite. The resulting d18Oseawater record is interpreted in terms of changes in in their isotopic composition due to changes in freshwater input, and relative strength and position of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream. Our interpretation suggests dominance of fresh Labrador Sea-derived waters around 1500 CE, and during most of the LIA. In the later stage of the LIA, after 1800 CE, our data indicate a steep increase in the influence of Atlantic-derived waters, consistent with a northward shift of the Gulf Stream. The record of the ~1800-1950 CE interval exhibits high-amplitude variability, with a sudden freshening event at the end of the LIA. The upper part of the record, after 1950 CE, is characterized by a regional warming trend that has been widely documented in previous studies conducted in this area.
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Over 6,700 cyclones were identified from ERA5 reanalysis (1979–2020), and LEC components were computed and averaged across four objectively defined life cycle phases: incipient, intensification, mature, and decay. Results reveal a coherent energy transfer structure: baroclinic conversions dominate during intensification, while barotropic conversions peak during the mature phase and reach magnitudes 2–3 times larger than baroclinic counterparts. Diabatic generation of eddy available potential energy plays a secondary but relevant role, particularly during intensification, occasionally surpassing baroclinic contributions. Eddy kinetic energy imports are most significant during the early phases, reinforcing development. Despite substantial variability among systems, an EOF analysis shows that most cyclones share a common energy structure, with variability manifesting as amplification or suppression of specific pathways. The leading EOFs are linked to differences in cyclone intensity, genesis region, and seasonality. Among the most intense systems, distinct clusters emerge with varying energetic configurations, some dominated by baroclinic processes, others by barotropic conversions or enhanced diabatic generation. These findings demonstrate that South Atlantic cyclones encompass a spectrum of dynamical behaviors and can be classified based on their energy cycle characteristics. This study provides the first large-sample application of the Semi-Lagrangian LEC to extratropical cyclones in the South Atlantic and highlights the importance of barotropic processes in their development. The results offer a robust framework for interpreting cyclone energetics and establish a comprehensive baseline for classifying these systems.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-ND 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Here, we study a drainage basin in the Central Oregon High Cascades in which Holocene lava flows dammed streams, creating seasonal lakes that fill with the spring snowmelt, and drain completely over the summer. The filling and draining of these lakes depends both on the volume of snowmelt and the permeability of their porous lava dams, providing a natural experiment for disentangling multiscale hydraulic properties from climate. We measure the drainage of two seasonal lakes in the watershed of permanent Clear Lake (the highest elevation permanent source of the McKenzie River) with in situ sensors and satellite remote sensing, and compare this with the larger scale summer recession of the McKenzie river at the outlet of Clear Lake. Clear Lake recession is modeled with 2 parallel linear reservoirs, which are linked to aquifer properties and imply watershed scale transmissivity that varies with spatial scale of the aquifer. We also find, using remote sensing-derived timeseries, that all three systems, but particularly the draining lakes, have responded to declining snowpack since 1990. These results suggest that seasonal variations in surface water storage encode the structure of volcanic aquifers generally, and can be used to infer groundwater dynamics in the Cascade Range.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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The central hypothesis is that the primary driver of global warming and biospheric stress is the degradation of Earth’s magnetic shielding—most clearly manifested in the progressive enlargement of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), expanding ~5% per two decades within a broader ~5% per century global field decline. The collapse of the Van Allen belts permits deeper penetration of energetic solar and cosmic particles, triggering atmospheric ionization, ozone disruption, stratospheric thermal imbalance, and jet-stream perturbation. A secondary mechanism involves volcanism and tectonic variability, modulated by changes in the composition and convection of Earth’s molten core. These shifts influence aerosol loading, ocean circulation, and carbon fluxes—potentially pacing climate epochs and amplifying external variability. Third, solar variability interacts with the weakened geomagnetic field. Orbital proximity, solar cycles, flares, and coronal mass ejections now exert amplified climatic impacts under diminished shielding. Together, these processes suggest that human contributions to climate forcing may be overstated, and that mainstream attribution frameworks rest on incomplete foundations. This hypothesis yields falsifiable predictions: (1) SAA drift correlates with jet-stream anomalies, (2) mesospheric ozone depletion events cluster in SAA longitudes, (3) geomagnetic variation co-varies with volcanic/tectonic markers, and (4) solar event signatures amplify in surface climate records. The goal is to reframe global warming as the emergent outcome of deep planetary processes interacting with solar forcing—not merely a byproduct of anthropogenic emissions.
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Exomorphic catalysis investigates catalytic processes and energy disequilibria in planetary systems without assuming biology as the outcome, focusing instead on the conditions that enable or amplify self-sustaining chemical activation. The framework rests on three pillars: catalytic activation as a universal planetary driver, thermodynamic disequilibria as a measure of habitability potential, and a non-inoculative ethic for exploration. Comparative analysis of icy moons—including Enceladus, Europa, Titan, and Ganymede—demonstrates diverse activation pathways and their implications for both biotic and abiotic futures. Falsifiable hypotheses are advanced, ranging from the persistence of abiotic disequilibria to scaling laws of catalytic activation across planetary bodies. Exomorphic catalysis thus offers a unifying lens for evaluating planetary systems, with implications for astrobiology, geophysics, exoplanetary science, and climate studies. This paper aims to establish the discipline’s conceptual boundaries and invite cross-disciplinary research into the catalytic conditions shaping worlds, whether or not life arises within them.","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"Exoplanets"},{"word":"Planetary habitability"},{"word":"catalytic processes"},{"word":"Thermodynamics"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-14T12:51:52.098000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-17T16:39:10.556000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-17T16:39:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5DN12","authors":[{"pk":120250,"first_name":"Kandice","middle_name":"Kristine","last_name":"Lloyd","salutation":"Mrs","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2937-5058"}],"subject":[{"name":"Physical Sciences and Mathematics"},{"name":"Planetary Sciences"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Exomorphic Catalysis.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10225/download/18895/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10226,"title":"Massive High-Fidelity Focal Mechanisms Reveal Detailed Structure of Re-Activated Faults During Hydraulic Fracturing in Western Canada","abstract":"Microseismic focal mechanism solutions (FMSs) are essential for understanding reservoir stress changes and rock fracturing during hydraulic fracturing. While machine learning has shown strong performance in seismic data processing tasks, including phase picking and magnitude estimation, as well as identifying P-wave first-motion polarity for moderate to large earthquakes to invert FMSs, its application to microseismic events remains limited. This limitation arises from the distinct characteristics of microseismicity, such as lower signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and different rupture mechanisms, which challenge the effectiveness of existing polarity pickers. At the same time, the increasing deployment of dense seismic arrays has generated vast amounts of data, creating both the need and opportunity to develop AI models specifically tailored to microseismic events. In response to the challenges of determining the P-wave first-motion polarity for microseismic events, we propose Micro-EQpolarity, a fine-tuned model based on the EQpolarity framework. The model combines convolutional blocks for feature extraction, transformer blocks for feature enhancement, and an MLP network for classification. Utilizing transfer learning, the model is pre-trained on the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) dataset and fine-tuned with 19,724 manually selected waveforms from the Tony Creek Dual Microseismic Experiment (ToC2ME) dataset, achieving an accuracy of 99.20%. Applied to seismic data from Western Canada, Micro-EQpolarity successfully inverted 2,519 high-quality focal mechanism solutions, creating a comprehensive catalog that extends analysis to events with magnitudes as low as -1.4. The model identified four distinct FMS types, revealing fine-scale fault structures and detailed patterns of fault reactivation. These findings provide new insights into fault reactivation mechanisms in the NS-Fault cluster and fluid diffusion processes in the NE-Fault cluster. In the NS-Fault cluster, our analysis reveals two possible reactivation mechanisms: higher friction coefficients and enhanced cohesion, with fault reactivation driven by the combined effects of Coulomb static stress and pore-fluid pressure. In the NE-Fault cluster, two-stage hydraulic fracturing facilitated fluid propagation, initially reaching the southwestern part of Fault 1 before spreading to Faults 2-6, with Fault 3 acting as a \"transfer station\" directing fluid diffusion both eastward and westward through low-dip fault conduits.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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To bridge dilution between \nenvironments, we specify mobile “holding pens” (green-rust/iron flocs, silica mats, pumice \nrafts, and sea-surface microlayer/foam) that concentrate, shuttle, and release prebiotic cargo \ninto shoreline pools. We present an energy ledger that couples geologic gradients and \nFe(III)–citrate photoredox to activation currencies (thioesters, condensed P), enabling \nshort-oligomer copying under citrate-buffered Mg²⁺ and protocell membranes compatible \nwith wet–dry cycles. The model makes falsifiable predictions across geology, chemistry, and \nmissions: laminated silica–iron–phosphorus–organic microfacies in Archean analogs; specific \nrover-detectable co-occurrences on Mars; and plume-analyte patterns on ocean worlds. We \nprovide transport budgets achieving ≥10³ concentration gain per day, ΔG signposts for \nkeystone steps, autonomous-reactor pass/fail metrics, and an early evolution error-threshold \nbox that motivates short, selectable motifs. The framework paints the big picture while \ncodifying zoomable, lab- and mission-ready tests that can confirm or falsify each link.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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However, the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake (Mw 8.8--8.9) ruptured nearly the same area as the 1952 Mw 9.0 event, as shown by the aftershock distribution. This unusually short recurrence interval challenges conventional seismic-cycle models used for hazard forecasting. Using a cutting-edge source inversion technique, we analyze seismic data to estimate the spatiotemporal slip-rate evolution of the 2025 event. The results show that the 2025 rupture involved fault slips exceeding 9 m across a broad region from southern Kamchatka to the northern Kuril Islands, which is significantly greater than the plate convergence of about 6 m since 1952, matching the large-slip area of the 1952 event. Slip rates in the large-slip area accelerated twice, probably due to dynamic stress perturbations and complex frictional behaviour, and were followed by low-angle normal-faulting aftershocks suggesting dynamic overshoot. The results indicate that the 2025 earthquake released a substantial amount of the slip deficit that had not been released during the 1952 event. This finding offers important clues to how great earthquakes release slip deficits and may help develop more physically based long-term forecasts.
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While new observing technologies are in development, their deployment and calibration often span years before becoming fully operational. This study evaluates one such system: SMART (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) Subsea Cables, which provide high-frequency, seafloor-based observations. We conduct Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to quantify the potential of constraining the ocean circulation using simulated SMART sensor data. Within the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) framework, we apply adjoint-based state and parameter estimation to constrain a Subpolar North Atlantic regional ocean model using synthetic ocean bottom pressure anomaly observations from a high-resolution global “nature run.” Model skill is quantified using a score reflecting error reduction between the regional model trajectory and the nature run. Model gradients capture sensitivity information, revealing the significant role of atmospheric surface forcing uncertainty in bottom pressure variations. The forcing adjustments obtained through gradient-based optimization are validated for their dynamical relevance. Atmospheric pressure, followed by zonal and meridional surface winds, are identified as the primary control variables driving bottom pressure anomaly correction—consistent with physical oceanography theory. Assimilation of bottom pressure anomaly also improves estimates of barotropic (depth-integrated) transport and Arctic freshwater export, demonstrating the SMART system’s\npotential to constrain basin-scale ocean circulation. These results underscore the value of highfrequency seafloor pressure data in reducing uncertainty in dynamically important ocean processes that lack constraint from sufficient observational infrastructure. SMART cables complement satellite altimetry and promise to enhance the spatiotemporal resolution of the global ocean observing system.","license":{"name":"CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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We amplify IPCC author voices through lived-experience narratives that reveal how systemic barriers limited participation of Global South authors, people of colour, non-native English speakers, early-career scientists, women, and those outside academia during the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), particularly in Working Group II. These experiences expose the \"meritocracy myth\" in academia, where privileged individuals claim recognition while ignoring structural advantages, thereby perpetuating power imbalances and limiting equity. We focus on overarching issues that perpetuate exclusion within global scientific assessment reports, some costs if these remain unaddressed, and key considerations toward more inclusive future collaborations. We stress that an effective collaborative culture requires moving beyond diversity metrics: the scientific community must actively dismantle colonial knowledge hierarchies that are silencing diverse perspectives and instead embody the very transformations that we call for in our reports. Alternative forms of knowledge are often only accepted when verified through reductionist, positivist methods of Western science, and are therefore downplayed. Unless these deeper dynamics—and the value systems that sustain them—are confronted and addressed, well-intentioned reforms risk sliding into tokenism, treating symptoms rather than causes. We cannot continue with business as usual, celebrating diversity statistics while power structures remain unchanged.
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Manual interpretation of well-log data, the conventional approach, is not only labor-intensive but also susceptible to human errors. To address these challenges of lithology identification and petrophysical parameter estimation in the Athabasca Oil Sands area, this study introduces an AutoRegressive Vision Transformer (ARViT) model for lithology and petrophysical parameter prediction. The effectiveness of ARViT lies in its self-attention mechanism and its ability to handle data sequentially, allowing the model to capture important spatial dependencies within the well-log data. This mechanism enables the model to identify subtle spatial and temporal relationships among various geophysical measurements. The model is also interpretable and can serve as an assistive tool for geoscientists, enabling faster interpretation while reducing human bias. The interpretable nature of the model should assist geoscientists in conducting faster quality checks of the predictions, ensuring that errors are not propagated to subsequent stages. This study adopts a multitask learning approach, jointly optimising the model's performance across multiple tasks simultaneously. To evaluate the effectiveness of the ARViT model, we conducted series of experiments and comparisions, testing it against traditional artificial neural networks (ANN), Long Short- Term Memory (LSTM), and Vision Transformer (ViT) models. To showcase the versatility of ARViT, we apply Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to a different smaller dataset, showing its potential to adapt to different geological contexts. LoRA not only helps in model adaptability but also helps to reduce the number of trainable parameters. Our findings demonstrate that ARViT outperforms ANN, LSTM, and ViT in estimating lithological and petrophysical parameters. While lithology prediction has been a well-explored field, ARViT's unique blend of features, including its self-attention mechanism, autoregression, and multitask approach along with efficient fine tuning using LoRA, sets it apart as a valuable tool for the complex task of lithology prediction and petrophysical parameter estimation.","license":{"name":"CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For lake deposits, it is generally accepted that water depth is a primary control on the spatial distribution of total organic carbon (TOC) accumulation because the deeper part of a lake potentially has a higher organic population to be settled. However, lake TOC distribution is often spatially variable regardless of water depth, and an exact mechanistic explanation of TOC hotspots that do not align with the deepest water depth remaines unsolved. We suggest that flocculation significantly influences the lake TOC distribution pattern. The flocculation of fine sediment is possibly a major contributor to the occurrence of high TOC in deposits, as organic material aggregates with flocculated sediment during settling. The process of flocculation positively correlates with water salinity and thus potentially enriches TOC in deposits under a high saline condition. Furthermore, depending on the extent of flocculation, a lake entering plume type is different, leading to different run-out distances. Therefore, to investigate the role of flocculation associated with the TOC pattern in a lake, we design settling and gravity flow experiments with varying salinity and sediment concentration. Considering the flocculated grain size is seldom recorded in deposits, the current study provides a possible mechanism for why sediments with similar grain size deposited at similar water depths could have varying TOC content. This leads to a better understanding of the spatial distribution of carbon storage and the formation of source rocks associated with hydrocarbon reservoirs. 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Climate change and altered disturbance regimes are threatening the future of forests around the globe. Many countries are coming together to support and implement conservation and monitoring initiatives to improve future prospects for the restoration and persistence of resilient forest ecosystems. Policies and regulations pertaining to forest conservation require reliable and informative measures of condition and management effectiveness to sustain investments and show progress. Composite indicators provide a promising approach for quantifying forest resilience across scales, yet their development is often inconsistent, lacking theoretical rigor and sensitivity to ecological context. This study presents two transparent, scalable pathways for constructing composite indicators of ecosystem resilience, with a focus on forest resilience in California’s Sierra Nevada. We operationalize the Ten Pillars of Resilience (TPOR) framework and apply two core metric selection methods: Real Core Metrics (RCM) via hierarchical clustering and Synthetic Core Metrics (SCM) via factor analysis, both combined with climate-based ecological stratification, fuzzy logic-based normalization, and optimized metric weighting. Composite indicators were developed using both compensatory and non-compensatory aggregation techniques. Results show that stratified, optimized approaches (RCM and SCM) outperformed a traditional, landscape-wide theoretical model by better capturing ecological variability and avoiding bias from outliers. The SCM approach produced more symmetric and statistically elegant indicators, while RCM indicators retained interpretability through direct ties to tangible forest attributes. We introduce an Information Retention Index (IRI) to quantify the amount of information preserved by the composite indicators and conduct a Monte Carlo-based sensitivity analysis to assess the stability of indicator outputs across methodological choices. Our pathways advance the rigor, transparency, and ecological relevance of composite indicator development, providing a robust foundation for spatially explicit resilience assessments that support adaptive management and conservation investments.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"forest resilience"},{"word":"Composite indicator"},{"word":"Ecosystem condition metrics"},{"word":"Optimized weighting"},{"word":"Socio-ecological resilience"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-17T19:33:04.899000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-18T11:46:11.495000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-18T11:46:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5VQ9T","authors":[{"pk":120325,"first_name":"Bryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fuentes","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":120513,"first_name":"Patricia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Manley","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":120514,"first_name":"Nicholas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Povak","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment"},{"name":"Forest Management"},{"name":"Natural Resources and Conservation"},{"name":"Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Fuentes_et_al_2025_EarthArXiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10272/download/18965/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10268,"title":"The Shapes and Sizes of Macroplastics and Other Litter in Rivers","abstract":"Limited data exists on physical and geometric properties of river litter. To resolve this, we reveal the physical-structural relationships of river litter, using two of the most comprehensive datasets generated to date. First, we dissect the properties of river litter using a detailed dataset of over 14,052 riverbank items, for which their dimensions (longest L₁, intermediate L₂, shortest L₃) and physical characteristics (mass, volume, density) are determined. These properties are mapped onto a dataset of 239,290 River-OSPAR collected from 22 river and riverbank sites across four continents, using multivariate statistics and database density estimates. We then identify the most persistent River-OSPAR litter categories, together with kernel density estimations of their principal dimensions and geometries. Results show that only 25 River-OSPAR categories account for 80% of all river and riverbank litter, with soft plastic pieces/films and candy, snack, and crisps packaging being the most abundant. Flat, 2D shaped macrolitter are the most persistent litter items, with 48% of the top 25 items sharing similar geometric properties: L₁ between 1 - 10 cm, and a flatness ratio (L₃ / L₂) of less than 0.4. In practice, these are flat objects with two larger dimensions and a third that is at least one order of magnitude smaller. This large, physically based dataset enables prioritisation of which shapes, sizes, and densities should be targeted by future plastic transport models, informing what plastics may be missing in current monitoring protocols, and the design of river clean-up technologies.
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To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.\r\n\r\nSection 1 – Definitions.\r\n\r\nAdapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.\r\nSection 2 – Scope.\r\n\r\nLicense grant.\r\nSubject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:\r\nreproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and\r\nproduce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.\r\nExceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.\r\nTerm. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).\r\nMedia and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. 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Our modelling of degassing shows this occurs for magmas that are both reduced (i.e., S is present predominantly as H2S in the vapor and dissolved sulfide in the melt) and oxidised (i.e., SO2 in the vapor and dissolved sulfate in the melt). Even deeper degassing occurs for silicate melts containing both dissolved sulfide and sulfate due to the sulfur solubility minimum. Additionally, deep degassing of a fictive, inert, and ideal gas species that behaves like a noble gas but with a similar solubility to S occurs in hydrous magmas. We show that dilution by additional gas species (i.e., H2O and CO2) in the vapor phase is the main driver of deep degassing of S, which can be further enhanced for magmas at the sulfur solubility minimum. Dilution is the same effect that drives deeper degassing of H2O and CO2 in melts containing both compared to pure-H2O or -CO2; deep degassing of H2O or He in CO2-rich systems; and reduces the S content in gases during hydrous degassing. This mechanism does not require a direct effect of H2O (or CO2) on the solubility of S, although H2O does decrease the solubility of S, contributing to the deep degassing of S. The dilution effect impacts all volatile species, with its magnitude depending on the relative solubilities and concentrations of the different volatiles present.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For example, accurate predictability of permeability is essential for optimizing fluid flow processes in applications such as hydrocarbon recovery, groundwater management, and carbon or energy storage. The Kozeny-Carman equation has long served as a fundamental tool for predicting permeability based on porosity and specific surface area, with an empirical adjusted constant for different types of materials. Modifications to the equation have been introduced to improve the predictability on selected materials, but they become more specific and introduce new parameters. In this study, we explore an alternative analytical formulation that links permeability directly to Minkowski functionals (MFs), which are known to be more general systematic descriptors of porous media microstructure. Utilizing a database of simulated granular and cemented microstructures, we evaluate permeability predictions based on this MF-based formulation. We show a strong correlation between the functionals and the hydraulic properties, based on very simple assumptions. Despite the motion invariant limitation of the MFs that we confirm in our anisotropic case study, this contribution highlights the potential of MFs as a generalisation of rock typing for permeability prediction.\n","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Many such depressions globally are today submerged by crater lakes or seawater, rendering them less accessible to scientific scrutiny, and hence more complicated to monitor during unrest. One of such systems is the restless, partly submerged Campi Flegrei caldera (CFc) near Naples in Italy, where escalating hydrothermal activity during ongoing unrest demands for an improved understanding of the caldera offshore. Here, we present a high-resolution, system-wide mapping of CO2 degassing encompassing the caldera offshore and onshore sectors. Combining vertical seawater profiles with groundwater composition results, we obtain a refined delimitation of the anomalous CO2 degassing zones, finding an overall structural control on volatile transport and surface/seafloor discharge. Intense CO2 degassing on the seafloor also causes ocean acidification, sustains diverse chemolithotrophic communities near the hydrothermal emissions, and influences the near-vent environment, as demonstrated by taxonomic and functional diversity data. Submerged caldera sectors are extremely dynamic environments whose volcanological significance and biogeochemistry may have been overlooked. ","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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To address this gap, we apply machine learning (ML) models to forecast streamflow drought 1-13 weeks into the future at > 3,000 streamgage locations across the conterminous United States (CONUS). We applied two ML methods (Long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks; Light Gradient-Boosting Machine - LightGBM) and two benchmark model approaches (persistence; Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average - ARIMA) to predict weekly streamflow percentiles with independent models for each forecast horizon. To explore whether a training focus on dry weeks improved performance, both ML models were trained using all percentiles (LSTM-all, LightGBM-all) and only percentiles below 30% (LSTM<30, LightGBM<30). We evaluated model performance regionally and nationally for drought occurrence (the classification performance for a future date) and for drought onset/termination (performance identifying drought starts and ends). ML models generally performed worse than the persistence model for discrete classification (moderate, severe, extreme drought) of drought occurrence but exceeded the benchmark models for onset/termination. ML models outperformed benchmarks in predicting continuous streamflow percentiles below 30%. Occurrence performance was better for less intense droughts and shorter forecast horizons, with the ML models having predictive power at 1-4 week horizons for severe droughts (10th percentile threshold). All models struggled to forecast onset, though the best ML model was the LSTM<30 (sensitivity of 22%). Termination performance was greater, with the drought termination performance greatest for the LightGBM-all model. When estimating model uncertainty, the LSTM<30 model had the narrowest 90% percentile interval with closest to optimal capture. This work highlights the challenges and opportunities to further advance hydrological drought forecasting and supports an experimental operational streamflow drought assessment and forecast tool.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.\r\n\r\nSection 1 – Definitions.\r\n\r\nAdapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. 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This study evaluates a commercially available, low-cost triboelectric-based sensor that is marketed for real-time detection of E. coli in drinking and environmental waters. A result of 0 indicates contaminated water, whereas a result of 99 indicates “safe” water. A total of 199 water samples were prepared by serial dilution of raw wastewater influent into deionized water to produce a range of E. coli concentrations from <1 to >100 CFU/100 mL in evaluating the triboelectric sensor. Sensor readings were collected using three settings on each of five devices, generating nearly 9,000 individual readings to compare against Membrane Filtration taken in triplicate as the true E. coli concentration. Spearman’s rank correlation revealed no statistical significance between the sensor score and E. coli concentrations (ρ = -0.1493, p = 0.0603). When sensor readings were taken in aggregate, a moderate predictive capacity was observed as a presence/absence classification (AUC = 0.77), though this requires 15 measurements per sample, which is beyond the guidelines of the technology. The sensor frequently misclassified both known-negative and known-positive samples, with a high rate (64%) of score clustering at the extremes (0 or 99). These findings indicate that the sensor in its current form is not suitable for public health evaluation of microbial contamination in drinking water. The lack of predictive ability, which contradicts the marketed capacities and user expectations, is likely not unique to the evaluated sensor. This study highlights the importance of rigorous validation of novel WQM technologies before deployment to identify the appropriate application of sensors, which may remain beneficial, even if not for immediate public health use.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Using decades of detailed data from 30 countries, we revisit and synthesize key findings from this literature. We confirm that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for a remarkable 5-12% of total deaths across countries in our sample, or hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the US and EU. In all contexts we consider, cold kills more than heat, though the temperature of minimum risk rises with age, making younger individuals more vulnerable to heat and older individuals more vulnerable to cold. We find evidence for adaptation to the local climate, with hotter places experiencing the least risk at higher temperatures, but still more overall mortality from heat. Within countries, higher income is not associated with uniformly lower vulnerability to ambient temperature, and the overall burden of mortality from ambient temperature is not falling over time. Clinically, deaths from ambient temperature manifest in a wide variety of ways, are not often coded as temperature-related, and represent a large fraction of murders, suicides, accidents, and sudden or otherwise unexplained mortality, especially for those ages 5 to 44. Finally, we systematically summarize the limited set of studies that rigorously evaluate interventions that can reduce the impact of heat and cold on health. We find that many proposed and implemented policy interventions lack empirical support and do not target temperature exposures that generate the highest health burden, and that some of the most beneficial interventions for reducing the health impacts of cold or heat have little explicit to do with climate. We highlight remaining research gaps.
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To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.\r\n\r\nSection 1 – Definitions.\r\n\r\nAdapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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The inversion is constrained by multidisciplinary surface deformation data, including fault-parallel offsets from satellite imagery, high-rate GNSS time series, and static GNSS displacements, and is enabled by more than four million CPU hours of 3D dynamic rupture simulations. Our realistic rupture models incorporate strong velocity-weakening rate-and-state friction and off-fault plasticity. We find a strong correlation between on-fault frictional weakening and off-fault plasticity: increased inelastic deformation can compensate for more prominent velocity-weakening friction in the northwestern part of the fault. The preferred dynamic rupture models reduce velocity weakening from northwest to southeast along the main fault. \nThis improves the fit with observed fault-parallel surface offsets, consistent with along-strike variations in fault maturity. The inversion favors low off-fault plastic cohesion, which improves the fit to observed surface offsets and is consistent with shallow damage zones imaged geophysically.\nWe infer a shallow slip deficit (SSD) of 13.1% with a standard deviation of 5.1%. Notably, 55% of the models fall within the 8–32% SSD range estimated from previous kinematic inversions, implying that co-seismic off-fault inelasticity is crucial to explain the observed SSD. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of integrating 3D dynamic rupture simulations with multilevel Bayesian inversion to constrain nonlinear dynamic rupture processes and off-fault properties, toward probabilistic, physics-based earthquake source characterization and uncertainty quantification grounded in observational constraints.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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This paper presents an AI-powered flood risk assessment framework for Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, a high-mountain region prone to flash floods and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). Multi-source satellite datasets—including CHIRPS precipitation, JRC Global Surface Water occurrence, ERA5-Land soil moisture, SRTM elevation, and MODIS land surface temperature—were integrated within Google Earth Engine and analyzed using a Random Forest classifier. District-level risk classes (high, medium, low) were derived using historical flood records and validated through Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation, achieving 88.9% accuracy. Results consistently identified Astore, Diamer, and Nagar as high-risk districts, with precipitation and water occurrence as dominant predictors. Unlike many flood studies in lowland regions, elevation and slope were secondary yet important drivers in this mountainous context. The study demonstrates that even with limited ground data, satellite-driven AI models can deliver actionable insights for disaster management. The framework is scalable to other mountain regions globally and provides a step toward operational early warning and climate adaptation systems.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.\r\nAdapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.\r\nCopyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights closely related to copyright including, without limitation, performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized. For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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This study aims to analyze Cd contamination levels in soil, leachate, and air, and assess the potential health and environmental risks. Soil samples were randomly collected from three points at depths of 10 cm, 20 cm, and 30 cm. Leachate sampling followed the grab sampling technique in accordance with SNI 6989.59:2008, while air samples were collected from four cardinal directions using a High Volume Air Sampler (HVAS), based on the SNI 7119-4:2017 standard. Cd concentrations were analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS). Results showed that Cd levels in soil at all locations exceeded the quality standard (0.06 mg/kg), with the highest concentration recorded at Location 3 (1.52 mg/kg at 20 cm depth). Leachate samples at several points also exceeded environmental thresholds, while Cd concentrations in air remained within safe limits. These findings indicate a potential Cd contamination risk around the landfill, posing possible health hazards, particularly to workers and nearby residents. Improved waste management and regular monitoring are essential to minimize the environmental impact of heavy metal contamination at the Sukawinatan Landfill.","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"Cadmium (Cd)"},{"word":"Soil contamination"},{"word":"Leachate"},{"word":"air quality"},{"word":"Sukawinatan Landfill"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-20T09:01:16.096000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-20T18:11:31.446000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-20T18:11:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5616W","authors":[{"pk":120686,"first_name":"Yunita","middle_name":"Panca","last_name":"Putri","salutation":"Mrs","orcid":null},{"pk":120688,"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Saputra","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":120689,"first_name":"Suheryanto","middle_name":"","last_name":"Suheryanto","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":120690,"first_name":"Irfannuddin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Irfannuddin","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Medicine and Health Sciences"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"manuscript yunita.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10299/download/19006/"},{"original_filename":"Yunita mannuscript edit.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10299/download/19010/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10301,"title":"The Structure, Composition, and Health of Remnant Forest Vegetation of West Timor, Indonesia","abstract":"Aims: The forest of West Timor has been cleared for different purposes for decades, leaving only small patches of remnant forest vegetation. Understanding tree-shrub composition and structure of this remnant forest vegetation is a vital instrument in assessing the sustainability of forest, species conservation, and management of forest ecosystems. This research was therefore conducted to investigate the current structure and composition pattern of tree-shrub species in such remnant forest vegetation.\n\nStudy Design: This research project was designed using a vegetation survey employing the Point Centered Quarter Method.\n\nPlace and Duration of Study: The research project was conducted in five sample stands of remnant forest vegetation, namely Oliana, Tablolong, Fatukoa, Oenesu, and Alak, the District of Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia, between April to July 2020.\n\nMethodology: In each sample stand, the tree-shrub vegetation was surveyed using Point Centered Quarter Method by placing three 100-m-long transects. The first transect was placed at random and the second and third transects were placed parallel to the first, with a distance of 100 m between two transects. Sample points were then determined in an interval of 10 m along each transect to construct four quarters. In each quarter, the nearest tree or shrub (≥ 1 m height) to the sample point was identified and the distance measured. For each tree or shrub species, number of individual, dominance, frequency, Importance Value Index (IVI), stem diameter at 0.5 m height, and average value of plant height for each species were determined. Index Similarity (IS) between stands were also calculated using Sørensen Coefficient.\n\nResults: Of the 600 invidual tree and shrub measured in a total of about 1,500-m-long line transect, about 28 tree-shrub species of 16 families were identified. The number of plant/hectare was 833 and the mean number of species/stand was 9.60 (sd = 1.94). Generally, the number of species and families found in the remnant vegetation community was relatively low compared to that of commonly found in rain forests. The IS between stand was 28.21 (sd = 14.40)%. The highest IS were between stand 1-2 (IS 55.56%) and between stand 1-4 (IS 47.62%). The lowest IS were between stand 3-4 and 3-5 (IS 10.53%). Based on the number of species, the five stands of remnant vegetation was dominated by families of Fabaceae, Arecaceae, and Anacardiaceae, but based on the IVI, they were dominated by families of Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, and Sapindaceae. On the basis of plant height, about 6.15% of the total individual was within the category of small plant (≤2 m) and 3.32% was of big tree (>14 m). However, on the basis of stem diameter, about 27.86% of the total individual was on the category of small plant (≤10 cm) and about 2.99% was of big tree (>130 cm). Most existing species were within the category of small and very small IVI, only about 14.26% of the existing species were within the category of very high IVI (>20%) and 71.43 were within the category of low and very low IVI (<10%). Four most prominent species, namely Tectona grandis Linn., Schleichera oleosa (Lour.), Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb., and Spondias pinnata (L.f.) Kurz contributed to more than 50% IVI in the five stands of remnant vegetation. Among all species found, Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit, Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw., Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poiret, Syzygium cumini (L.), Pterocarpus indicus Willd., Pinus mercusii Jungh. & de Vriese, and Acacia auriculiformis A.Cunn. ex Benth. were present in very small IVI. In general, the contribution of invasive species in the stands of remnant vegetation was relatively high (total IVI 56.96%), about a quarter of which were invasive weedy shrub species.\n\nConclusion: Based on this result it can be concluded that the five stands of remnant forest were in the state of poor health as indicated by the low number of species and families, the low species diversity, the heterogeneous floristic composition as most of species present were in the category of low occurrence, and the dominance of invasive non-native tree and shrub species. Therefore, the forest needs immediate intervention by taking conservation and restoration action to prevent further destruction.\n\n","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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This paper presents a comprehensive critical review of integrated strategies designed to enhance the resilience of these vital socio-ecological systems. It synthesizes the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of Nature-based Solutions (NbS), Sustainable Land Management (SLM), and Integrated Watershed Management (IWM), arguing that their synergy with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) offers the most robust pathway toward sustainability. The review meticulously examines a portfolio of proven best practices for critical interventions—including multi-zoned riparian buffers and bio-engineering for streamside protection; green drainage channels and bio-stabilized slopes for road management; and systematic, cascade-level rehabilitation of traditional water storage systems. Through a detailed analysis of design considerations, ecosystem services, and suitability criteria, the paper demonstrates that these are not isolated technical fixes but interconnected components of a holistic strategy. The review concludes that successful implementation is fundamentally contingent on a suite of non-negotiable prerequisites: strong and empowered community institutions, participatory governance, cross-sectoral policy integration, and the adaptation of global scientific principles to unique local ecological and cultural contexts.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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However, GHF distribution under polar\nice-sheets remains poorly constrained, with few direct borehole-derived\nestimates and large discrepancies between glaciological and geophysical\nmodels caused by methodological differences and data limitations. As a result,\nmany ice-sheet models rely on uniform GHF estimates, ensemble averages, or\noutdated fields that oversimplify reality. The choice of GHF product can lead to\nsignificantly different thermal conditions simulated at the ice-bed interface, which\naffects the projected evolution of ice-sheets under climate warming.\nTherefore, we conduct an expert elicitation survey to identify the most suitable\nGHF fields for use as basal boundary conditions in ice-sheet modelling,\nparticularly for the Ice-Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project for CMIP7\n(ISMIP7). GHF fields generally fall into three categories: (1) outdated due to\nimproved data availability, (2) overly simplified parameterizations, and (3)\ncurrent and preferred. For GHF fields that rank highly in the survey, we discuss\nuncertainty, data dependency and guide their use in different applications.\nFinally, we recommend two Antarctic and one Greenlandic GHF field(s) for\nISMIP7.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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As a result, several Earth system tipping elements could, at least temporarily, have their tipping points surpassed, posing risks of large-scale and profound structural change. Tipping does not always occur immediately upon crossing such a critical threshold. If, in the following decades, global mean temperatures can be reduced below such long-term critical levels, tipping could still be avoided. An improved understanding is therefore needed of whether tipping remains avoidable, for which systems, and under what conditions. Here, we review how minimising the magnitude and duration of any temperature overshoot beyond 1.5°C is vital to minimising tipping risks. Limiting both the magnitude and duration of any overshoot beyond 1.5 °C is vital for reducing tipping risks. Tipping elements with fast response times, such as warm-water coral reefs, are especially vulnerable to overshoot. In contrast, those with slow response times, such as polar ice sheets, may be less sensitive to temporary overshoot. Potential interactions between tipping elements and additional human pressures, such as deforestation in the Amazon or pollution and disruption of coral reef habitats, may further lower tipping points, narrowing the range of overshoot trajectories that can still avoid it. The vulnerability of many tipping elements, even under shorter overshoot conditions, underscores that global warming must peak below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, return to below 1.5 °C as quickly as possible (i.e., within this century), and to around 1 °C thereafter.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section 2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.\r\nEffective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international agreements.\r\nExceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.\r\nLicensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.\r\nLicensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.\r\nLicensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under this Public License.\r\nShare means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.\r\nSui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.\r\nYou means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. 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Contemporary coral reefs preserve ecological signals that offer valuable insights into past climate dynamics. Here, we examine the fossil reefs of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao to reconstruct wind and wave conditions during this period. While modern reefs across all three islands are confined predominantly to leeward coasts, paleo reefs flourished on both windward and leeward coasts during the Last Interglacial—raising questions as to what mechanisms underlie the spatial asymmetry in reef development through time. Using quantitative analyses of hard coral cover and changes in coral community composition across the Last Interglacial, we document a transition from a well-developed reef dominated by large colonies of Orbicella spp. and Acropora palmata to a less structurally complex system characterized by smaller Orbicella spp. and Diploria spp. colonies, mirroring a ∼20% reduction in hard coral cover by the end of the Last Interglacial. Despite this decline, coral cover remained substantial and did not resemble the Sargassum-dominated nearshore environment observed today. Atmospheric circulation and hydrodynamic models indicate that substantially weaker easterly trade winds and reduced significant wave height at 127 ka initiated robust reef development, which still persisted despite a dramatic increase in wave energy at 124 ka. By highlighting how variations in wave and wind regimes have shaped coral reef growth and resilience in the past, these findings underscore the value of integrating paleoecology and hydrodynamics to advance our understanding of reef stability under future climate change.
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So, understanding how LULC changes influence ESs is critical for sustainable land management and conservation planning, especially in rapidly urbanizing watersheds. Despite studies examining individual ecosystem services, there remains a notable research gap in comprehensive, spatially explicit analyses integrating multiple ESs across historical and projected timelines. This study addresses this gap by assessing the impacts of historical and projected LULC changes on multiple ESs in the Hillsborough River Watershed in Florida, USA, from 2000 through projected scenarios to 2050. Using a combination of remote sensing data, the Land Change Modeler (LCM) within TerrSet software, and the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model, we quantified and projected changes in six ESs: annual water yields, flood mitigation, carbon storage, nutrient retention, sediment export, and recreational visitation. Additionally, ecosystem service values (ESVs) were economically assessed using inflation-adjusted global valuation coefficients. Results revealed that from 2000 to 2023, urban land expanded by over 30%, primarily replacing croplands, wetlands, and forests. This urbanization reduced carbon storage by 11.8% and runoff retention by 4.6%, while sediment export increased by 9.4%. The total ESV declined by approximately $450 million, highlighting substantial ecological and economic losses. Projected scenarios indicated continued urban growth by 2050, with urban areas potentially occupying nearly half of the watershed. This expansion would further reduce carbon storage by an additional 11.1%, runoff retention by 2.9%, and sediment export 10.9%. Consequently, cumulative ESV losses are projected to surpass $1 billion by 2050. These findings underscore the urgent need for integrating ecosystem-based conservation strategies into urban policy frameworks. By adopting proactive measures that prioritize high-value natural areas and promote ecological restoration, stakeholders can better balance urban growth with environmental sustainability ensuring long-term resilience for both natural and human communities.","license":{"name":"No Creative Commons license","short_name":"No CC license","text":"This option allows you to opt out of adding a Creative Commons license to your submission.","url":"https://escholarship.org"},"keywords":[{"word":"Land use/land cover change"},{"word":"Urban expansion"},{"word":"Ecosystem Service"},{"word":"InVEST model"},{"word":"Land Change Modeler"},{"word":"watershed management"}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-23T22:30:54.824000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-09-24T19:58:06.353000+02:00","date_published":"2025-09-24T00:57:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5P167","authors":[{"pk":120834,"first_name":"Fahad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hasan","salutation":"","orcid":"0009-0009-7824-5538"},{"pk":120835,"first_name":"Yashar","middle_name":"","last_name":"Makhtoumi","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":120836,"first_name":"Gang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chen","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Environmental Engineering"},{"name":"Environmental Studies"},{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences"},{"name":"Hydraulic Engineering"},{"name":"Nature and Society Relations"},{"name":"Remote Sensing"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Preprint_Eartharxiv.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10322/download/19048/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10327,"title":"Satellite-Derived Approaches for Coal Mine Methane Estimation: A Re-view","abstract":"Methane emissions from coal mines, especially surface operations, are spatially diffuse, presenting signif-icant challenges for accurate quantification. Satellites such as TROPOMI, GHGSat, PRISMA, Gaofen-5, and GOSAT have been extensively used for detecting methane emissions at various scales, from individual point sources to regional and global assessments. Despite various advancements, methane quantification via sat-ellite observations remains subject to several challenges. Various quantification methods for the same ob-servation can produce variable results. Also, meteorological conditions, terrain complexity, and surface heterogeneity introduce uncertainties in emission estimates. The selection of wind speed and direction, along with retrieval algorithm limitations, can lead to significant discrepancies in reported emissions. Ad-ditionally, satellite-based observations capture emissions only at specific overpass times, which may in-troduce temporal uncertainties compared to inventories derived from continuous emission estimations. This study provides a comprehensive review of satellite-based coal mine methane monitoring, evaluating current methodologies, their limitations, and recent technological advancements. We discussed the potential of emerging machine learning techniques, improved atmospheric modelling, and integrated observational approaches to enhance methane emission quantification. By refining satellite-based monitoring techniques and addressing existing challenges, this research will support the development of more accurate emission inventories and effective mitigation strategies for the coal mining sector.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Planetary analog sites are extreme environments on Earth that exhibit one or more environmental, geological, geochemical, or biological characteristics that are analogous to conditions expected on other planetary bodies. Understanding how life persists in planetary analog sites is essential for advancing our knowledge of extraterrestrial habitability. They provide valuable opportunities to study life's resilience and to test life-detection instruments in realistic settings. In this review, we present the first comprehensive synthesis of over 30 planetary analog field sites located across the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding Indian Ocean region. These include high-altitude glaciers, alkaline lakes, hypersaline basins, hot springs, and cold desert ecosystems. Although these environments remain largely underexplored in the context of astrobiology, they exhibit strong environmental parallels to planetary conditions and offer significant potential for advancing microbial ecology, biosignature detection, and geobiological research. As the scientific community prepares for the next generation of deep space missions focused on the search for life beyond Earth, we call for a broader geographical and conceptual inclusion of analog sites. By highlighting the environmental diversity and scientific value of these under-characterized regions in South Asia and their marine periphery, this review contributes a vital and previously underrepresented perspective to planetary analog research. This review fills a critical gap in the global planetary analog landscape and aims to stimulate interdisciplinary investigations across planetary science, microbiology, and life-detection technology development.
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The growing influence of human development and intervention on estuaries and coastal area evolution has led to a global sediment crisis, particularly in tropical or low-lying deltas (for example, Niger, Senegal, Nile, and Mekong), in contrast to the emerging international sand market. Paradoxically, the economic valuation of sand within the context of ecosystem services is limited, despite the global impact of coastal erosion, particularly on the West African coast. Among these, the transboundary Senegal estuary coast has been experiencing erosional trends coupled with coastal engineering developments in Saint-Louis (Senegal) and along the Ndiago Port (Mauritania) over the past 10 years. Using high-resolution elevation datasets (DeltaDTM and LiDAR) and imagery (Landsat), this study examines sand volumes lost/gained between 2013 and 2023 along the Senegal-Mauritania coast and assesses the economic value of sand as sediment reservoirs/stocks and as an ecosystem regulator (sand transport/redistribution). Results indicate that the Senegal-Mauritania coast accumulated a net sand volume of 1.515 x 106 m³, equivalent to 10,527,000 USD in the market and 5,150,500 USD in production costs between 2013 and 2023. Coastal engineering infrastructure in Ndiago Port (Mauritania) and along the Goxxu-Mbacc-Ndar Toute also significantly impacted sand trapping, causing downdrift erosion. Findings also contribute to the unexplored field of coastal ecosystem services economic valuation in West Africa, offering new insights into the intrinsic value of sand as a reservoir and a vital ecosystem regulator.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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We analyze tsunami observations from SWOT together with three nearby DART buoys to resolve the source of the event. SWOT provided the first high-resolution spaceborne track of a great subduction-zone tsunami, capturing waveforms that reveal complex propagation, dispersion, and scattering. Inversion of DART time series using Gaussian unit sources shows that the rupture extended ~400 km along strike, with peak uplift of ~4 m, significantly different from published finite-fault model. A blended source that combines the DART-inverted uplift with subsidence from the seismic–geodetic model best matches both datasets and reproduces the SWOT observations. Comparison with reconstructions of the 1952 Mw 9.0 Kamchatka earthquake indicates that the 2025 rupture likely re-activated significant portions of the megathrust that broke in 1952 but occurred farther downdip and with little to no near-trench slip, consistent with its smaller tsunami impact. These findings highlight the hazard implications of short recurrence intervals of great earthquakes and show how rupture style governs tsunami severity. They also demonstrate the value of satellite altimetry for improving tsunami source characterization, post-event forecasting, and understanding of hydrodynamic processes.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Laser scans are however highly affected by occlusion (where objects block laser pulses), resulting in data gaps within the 3D representation of the forest. Although occlusion is a well-known and frequently discussed challenge for estimating forest structural information from laser scanning data, it is rarely quantified. Here, we describe the concept of occlusion and distinguish different types. We examine the primary causes of occlusion, discuss the role of forest structure, viewpoint arrangement, and laser system properties along with platform-specific challenges. We further present comprehensive strategies to mitigate and recent tools for detecting occlusion in laser scanning acquisitions. Finally, we highlight a broad range of research avenues for occlusion mapping ranging from uncertainty quantification, data completion, and intelligent autonomous laser scanning acquisition. By raising awareness of occlusion and showcasing its methodological and practical implications, this work aims to inspire new advances in the assessment of forest structure through laser scanning.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Kinematic geodetic coupling models, which identify regions of the plate interface where interseismic strain accumulates, are essential for seismic and tsunami hazard assessment. Yet their reliability remains debated: geodetic records are short, offshore resolution remains poor, and earthquake ruptures may propagate dynamically across both creeping and locked slab portions. This uncertainty has limited our ability to assess whether large earthquakes release strain where coupling is strongest or rupture independently of interseismic coupling. Here we present the first systematic global analysis of slip-coupling relationships, compiling 61 earthquake slip models (moment magnitude Mw 6.7–9.1) across 12 subduction zones. We show that large earthquakes (Mw ≥ 7.5) consistently concentrate slip in highly coupled regions, whereas smaller events rupture more variably, almost entirely in weakly coupled areas. These results indicate that major earthquakes predominantly release long-term accumulated strain, while smaller events reflect shorter-term heterogeneity, such as transient asperities, motivating time-dependent coupling models that capture evolving fault strength. Our findings reconcile apparent inconsistencies between kinematic coupling models and seismic slip and establish magnitude-dependent controls on earthquake rupture, with direct implications for seismic hazard assessment.
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Mamatena and Kanguil Uku are two water sources, and for approximately 40 years, there has been a pipeline for domestic and irrigation use. The main objectives were to identify the water recharge areas, characterize the groundwater flow lines, and determine the percentage of losses due to leaks in the existing conduction infrastructure. In addition, a Climography was prepared, and the quantity and quality of surface water were evaluated. Through vertical electrical soundings, geostatistics, and standardized laboratory methods, the physical and chemical parameters of the water are determined. Recharge was manifested to the southwest of the Ilaló at coordinates 787,348.39 and 9,970,679.33 at an altitude of 3170.95 masl with 20.5Ω.m resistivity, being the lowest and classified as saturated sand at depths of 3.25m to 8.67m. The Climography reported insufficient rainfall. The percentage of water leakage was 25.93% and the SbN showed that the soil is saturating with more water, preventing degradation and enhancing water storage.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Similar relationships for metal-ligand entropy of association were also obtained which facilitate computation of stability constants from 0 to 125°C for over 6000 metal-ligand complexes. Our inventory for monovalent oxygen-bearing ligands includes carboxylic acids, phenols, alkyl alcohols, substituted alcohols and inorganic ligands with a special emphasis on geobiologically prevalent ligands like lactate, pyruvate, ascorbate and borate. Methods were also devised to estimate metal-ligand stability constants and complexation entropy if only the pKa of the ligand were known. The slopes and intercepts of these linear free energy relations can be explained by ligand denticity and metal ionic radius, as well as inductive and steric effects, thus providing chemical foundations for these estimation strategies. The stability constant estimates derived from this work were applied to model the speciation of metals and hexanoic acid in two hypothetical hydrothermal mixing fluids representative of the Rainbow and Lau vent fields. This enabled prediction of the distribution of biologically relevant chemical species across key state variables of the chemical system, including temperature, pH, and chemical composition when no stability constant information is available. We further explore the implications of these findings in the areas of metal transport in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial aqueous systems, deep-sea biology, origin and evolution of life, and environmental chemistry and biology. 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In this study, we compare three distinct approaches—W2W (a Python package integrating WUDAPT LCZ data), WRFUP (a Python package leveraging global high-resolution datasets), and a LiDAR-based parameterization—during the August, 2023 heatwave in Grenoble, France. Our analysis demonstrates that WRFUP improves upon W2W by capturing finer-scale urban morphology, thereby reducing nighttime temperature overestimation and more accurately representing the spatial structure of the UHI. LiDAR-based parameterization remains the most precise for depicting detailed urban geometries, however its high computational cost and limited availability hinder large-scale applications and replicability. Systematic biases are identified, indicating that model deficiencies extend beyond the accuracy of urban data alone. These findings underscore the benefits of high-resolution urban datasets in WRF simulations, while also highlighting the need for further advancements in urban sur- face energy modeling.","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Generally, we are interested in travel time associated with coarse-scale structures; however, fine-scale structures also influence the amplitude and travel time for all phases. The distribution of fine-scale heterogeneities not only affects travel times but also impacts how we observe subsurface properties via these travel times. For instance, fine-scale isotropic heterogeneities in the medium, that may not be resolved in seismic imaging can induce extrinsic anisotropy on a coarser scale. Further, simulating seismic wavefield in a medium with all scales of heterogeneities requires a huge amount of computation, posing a significant challenge. To address these challenges, we propose an upscaling technique based on the Renormalization Group theory for the 2D elastic wave equation. It is helpful to understand how seismic waves propagate through a medium containing fine-scale structures and how their response is manifested on the seismogram. This approach aims to generate more cost-effective wave simulations by reducing the required number of grid points and providing effective properties at a coarser scale while preserving wavefield accuracy. To validate our approach, we tested different models for different levels of upscaling. The waveforms and wavefields for both original and coarse-scale models matched well, demonstrating that the Renormalization Group theory-based upscaled medium effectively represents the fine-scale medium over a surface-seismic frequency band. ","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Using surrogate values from pristine peatlands, some studies have indicated long-lasting warming effect of restoration especially of nutrient-poor FDPs, while studies considering realized conditions and data from restored sites are missing. Objectives: This study aims at estimation of climate mitigation potential of restoration of FDPs based on post-restoration development of vegetation and hydrology. Methods: Dynamic trajectories of GHG-fluxes were calculated with process-based models informed by published studies of FDPs and restored peatlands. The model was applied to a sample of 12 restoration sites in Finland with data of carbon sequestration and water-table depth trends. The impact of restoration on global climate forcing was modelled against reference scenario of continued drainage. Results: Hypothetical restoration scenarios resulted in initial warming effect, but a hummock-level scenario (deep WTD) shifted to a climate cooling effect already after 15 years of restoration. In contrast, a flark-level scenario (shallow WTD) showed increasing warming over the 100-year assessment period. In the empirical data, climate cooling impact was predicted in half of cases already after 10 years, and in most cases within 100 years. Restoration resulted in an average reduction of cumulative absolute global forcing by -1.78 (SD 1.74) t CO2-equivalent ha-1 yr-1 over 100 years. Incorporating historical inference from peat inventories and forest management in the drainage scenario indicated even higher mitigation potential for restoration. Conclusions: The results predict considerably better climate mitigation potential for restoration of oligotrophic FDPs than suggested by previous modelling studies. Implications for Practice: Climate mitigation by restoration of nutrient-poor FDPs can be improved with temporarily high CO2 sequestration and potential dampening of CH4 emissions by optimizing growth of new Sphagnum moss layer. Oligotrophic FDPs have higher mitigation potential than mesotrophic FDPs due to higher moss growth above water level. Drainage scenarios should be considered with alternative management options for climate impact assessment of restoration.
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The development of precise susceptibility mapping is essential to inform prevention strategies, optimize resource allocation, and promote sustainable forest management by increasing fire pressure. This study employed and compared four machine learning classifiers—Random Forest, Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Gradient Boosting, and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)—to model wildfire susceptibility across Portugal. Six environmental and anthropogenic predictors were utilized: vegetation indices, land use/land cover, slope, elevation, wind speed, and distance to settlements. The results indicated that vegetation-related variables, particularly NDVI and land cover, were the most significant determinants of fire occurrence, followed by slope and wind speed, thus underscoring the role of biophysical conditions in shaping fire regimes. Among the evaluated models, XGBoost demonstrated the highest predictive performance (overall accuracy = 92.98%, AUC = 0.98), surpassing or equalling the other ensemble methods. The resulting susceptibility maps identified the northern and central interior regions as the most fire-prone, consistent with historical fire records. Our findings underscore the efficacy of ensemble machine learning techniques in capturing complex fire–environment interactions and provide spatially explicit information that can enhance fire prevention planning, support conservation priorities, and guide adaptive forest management in Mediterranean landscapes.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Here we demonstrate an approach for predicting future summertime temperature extremes on decadal timescales by first identifying an abrupt jump in average summertime temperature as a covariate of extreme summertime temperatures, and then showing that these jumps can be predictable. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) on historical and future global climate simulations to predict a confidence that future five-year mean summertime temperatures will jump above a hot threshold given maps of recent sea surface temperature variability and the global warming level. We show that in most land regions, the CNN outperforms a classifier that relies solely on the forced temperature response, implying that information about the prior 10-year SST variability improves the CNN's prediction skill and confidence. We input the observational record into the CNN as independent unseen data and observe some skill, with investigation revealing that this skill is driven by the CNN learning conditions that best suppress summertime temperature jumps. Our study emphasizes the importance of targeted methodology for diagnosing extreme event predictability, and demonstrates that future predictions of extremes can be improved by considering the prior 10-year SST variability, rather than just the forced response to global warming.
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To do so, we created and standardized asset and network data across all transport modes, including inter-modal connections, attributes of road and rail corridors and estimated annual statistics for airports and ports. The African Transport Systems Database includes 234 airports including their airline routes, 179 maritime ports and their connections with each other, 132 inland ports and docking sites with river and lake connections, 6,057 railway stations connected across 99,373 kilometers of rail lines, and 1,004,512 kilometers of roads mainly comprised of all motorways, trunk roads, primary and secondary routes across Africa and some local roads that connect to other transport modes. The AfTS-Db provides key information for transport planning, resilience assessments, asset management and development of transport models and applications. Furthermore, we expect the data will also be of relevance for environmental, health, social and economic studies. 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Achieving a balance between agricultural productivity and sustainable groundwater use requires decision-support tools that are both practical and robust. This study develops an accessible farm-level hydro-economic model that integrates groundwater dynamics with economic outcomes to evaluate irrigation strategies under regulatory and physical constraints. The model estimates land value over time while incorporating uncertain precipitation, irrigation practices, and regulatory limits. This research presents a novel application of Conditional Value-at-Risk to assess economic risk of groundwater irrigation by focusing on the tail of the probability curve, emphasizing potential extreme adverse outcomes rather than average performance. Applied to a representative High Plains Aquifer site, the model shows that more pumping does not guarantee greater profitability, as diminishing returns and aquifer depletion can undermine long-term benefits. Instead, irrigation strategies aligned with site-specific aquifer properties and regulatory thresholds improve both economic performance and sustainability. This scalable approach provides a practical framework to inform irrigation policy, support farmer decision-making, and promote sustainable groundwater under growing uncertainty.","license":{"name":"CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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Conventional remediation strategies, such as Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation (EICP), typically rely on commercial urease and a multi-step extraction process, which increases energy demand, generates ammonium byproducts, and requires significant chemical inputs. In this study, we introduce a streamlined EICP approach employing crude soybean urease extract to treat a range of nine ecotoxic metals (As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Li, Ni, Pb, Zn) in aqueous solutions. Crystallographic and morphological analyses revealed calcite as a recurring phase across all treatments, with element-specific carbonate minerals, such as otavite and cerussite, detected in the corresponding systems. The method integrates low-power juicing, single-step filtration, and minimal reagent use, delivering effective removal, while only arsenic and copper exhibited notable enzymatic inhibition. Compared with conventional protocols, the proposed adaptive optimisation workflow lowered energy demand, reduced chemical inputs, and mitigated greenhouse gas emissions. By incorporating waste-derived calcium and urea, the process establishes a closed-loop cycle, offering pathways for application in engineered treatment plants, active dosing systems, or passive remediation schemes. Future work should focus on mixed-metal systems and molecular-scale mechanisms to strengthen the foundation for the field-scale deployment of this sustainable strategy.
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Here, we use 2D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) thermo-chemical simulations to unveil how such dripping process occurs by modulating the thermal convection in Earth’s mantle. Our simulations incorporate the following variables: lithospheric buoyancy contrasts (B), metamorphic transformation of gabbroic crust into denser eclogite, mantle-to-lithosphere viscosity ratios, and mid-mantle phase transitions (olivine-wadsleyite, coesite-stishovite, and eclogitization). We recognize three distinct mechanisms; each of them gives rise to characteristic drip evolution that critically governs the layered versus whole-mantle convection dynamics. For buoyancy number B ≥ 0.29, the initial viscosity ratio M = 10 and the density change due to eclogitization at mantle transition zone ∆ρ_MM ≥ 150 kg/m3, lithospheric drips cluster into a train of superdrip structures (Mechanism 1), forming downwelling zones on a wavelength of 2800 km. The sinking superdrips eventually cross the 660 km barrier to penetrate lower mantle, fostering whole-mantle circulations. This drip mechanism undergoes a transition when ∆ρ_MM falls below 150 kg/m3 and also when 0.29 ≥ B ≥ 0.16 with M = 10, leading to stagnation of lithospheric drips at the 660 km boundary (Mechanism 2). We show that Mechanism 2 transforms the whole-mantle to layered convection styles, characterized by contrasting circulation patterns in the upper and lower mantle. In geodynamic conditions: B≤0.16 and 1000≥ M ≥10, drips grow into asymmetric keel-like structures at the lithospheric base (Mechanism 3), occurring as proto-subduction analogues. This mechanism restores whole-mantle convective circulations, but with their wavelengths approximately 4200 km, significantly larger than that produced by Mechanism 1. Finally, based on observational datasets, our drip models provide a unified framework of drip-mediated lithospheric recycling mechanisms and stagnant-lid to modern plate tectonic transitions. ","license":{"name":"CC BY Attribution 4.0 International","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License\r\n\r\nBy exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (\"Public License\"). 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If the provision cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and conditions.\r\nNo term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.\r\nNothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of any jurisdiction or authority.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"keywords":[{"word":"eclogitization"},{"word":"Superdrips"},{"word":"Lithospheric keel"},{"word":"Gravity-driven dripping"},{"word":"Whole-mantle to layered convection"}],"date_submitted":"2025-10-01T05:49:06.081000+02:00","date_accepted":"2025-10-01T16:47:05.159000+02:00","date_published":"2025-10-01T16:46:00+02:00","doi":null,"preprint_doi":"10.31223/X5317B","authors":[{"pk":121189,"first_name":"Soham","middle_name":"","last_name":"Banerjee","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":22366,"first_name":"Dip","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ghosh","salutation":"","orcid":null},{"pk":16912,"first_name":"Nibir","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mandal","salutation":"","orcid":null}],"subject":[{"name":"Earth Sciences"},{"name":"Tectonics and Structure"}],"files":[{"original_filename":"Drip MS Archive Version_Final.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10377/download/19138/"},{"original_filename":"Drip MS Archive Version_Final.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10377/download/19141/"},{"original_filename":"Drip MS Archive Version_Final_2.pdf","mime_type":"application/pdf","download_url":"/repository/object/10377/download/19147/"}],"supplementary_files":[]},{"pk":10378,"title":"From Complex SDG Systems to Network Models: an Ontology-Based Eight-Step Framework","abstract":"With only 18% of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on track for 2030, systems-based approaches to understanding their interdependencies are essential. Network science can reveal leverage points and guide prioritisation, yet it is often applied without sufficient domain integration, obscuring rather than clarifying sustainability dynamics.\nWe present an eight-step framework for evaluating network science applications in SDG research, applied to 25 studies. The analysis reveals two dominant patterns: semantic/expert-based approaches (11 studies) and indicator/statistical approaches (12 studies). Beyond these, one study implements a multiplex design and one a heterogeneous multilayer architecture. Critically, 96% focus on formal SDG structures rather than the actors, processes, and mechanisms through which targets are achieved, limiting practical utility.\nThe framework makes explicit how modelling choices encode theoretical assumptions and supports like-with-like comparison, meta-analysis and evidence synthesis. 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