Preprints
There are 7779 Preprints listed.
Annual 30 m leaf-on daytime land surface temperature composites across China from 2000 to 2024
Published: 2026-10-06
Subjects: Geography, Remote Sensing
Long-term, spatially detailed land surface temperature (LST) records are needed to compare thermal environments across heterogeneous landscapes, but combining fine spatial detail with nationwide coverage over decades remains challenging. We present Chinatherm30, annual 30 m leaf-on daytime LST composites across China for 2000--2024. Quality-screened Terra MODIS thermal targets were combined with [...]
A vertical vegetation structure of the Earth
Published: 2026-10-06
Subjects: Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Forest Biology, Forest Management, Forest Sciences, Other Forestry and Forest Sciences, Research Methods in Life Sciences, Wood Science and Pulp, Paper Technology
Knowing the global distribution of vegetation structure is an essential prerequisite to better quantify, model, and manage carbon, water, energy, and biodiversity in the Earth system. Despite its recognized importance, vertical structure measurements remain sparse at global scales, limiting our understanding of the links between structure and ecosystem functions and resilience. Here we present [...]
Impact of Soil Data Representation on Streamflow Modelling: A Contiguous-Object Connectivity Approach Case Study in Switzerland
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Hydrology, Water Resource Management
Hydrological models often rely on soil data to represent water partitioning, storage and release within a catchment. However, differences in soil data representation may be obscured by calibration when performance is evaluated primarily against streamflow. This study investigates how alternative soil datasets influence streamflow performance, internal hydrological processes, and parameter [...]
Separating measurement from definition: an object-based workflow for national forest mapping
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Engineering, Life Sciences
Forest is defined rather than observed, and definitions are written to serve different management objectives. In Norway, four authoritative datasets place forest between 35 and 43% of the mainland because each encodes a different rule. Categorical forest maps inherit this problem, since each serves only the definition it was built on. We present a documented object-based workflow that separates [...]
Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Hydrology and Water Resources: A Systematic Bibliometric Analysis
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Civil and Environmental Engineering
This study presents a systematic bibliometric review of Physics-Informed Machine Learning (PIML) research in hydrology and water resources, examining the field's evolution in response to the limitations of traditional process-based models and data-driven approaches. Using a PRISMA-guided framework and a curated dataset from the Scopus database, the analysis evaluated publication trends, leading [...]
Hydrogen gas (H₂) artificially generated during soil-gas sampling - Technical report
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Surface gas geochemistry methods, including soil gas measurements, are widely used for natural hydrogen (H₂) exploration. It is known that H₂ can be artificially generated by mechanical friction during installation of soil-gas probes. However, it is frequently considered that artificial H₂ is produced only by drill bit rotation, although there are no systematic studies about its generation during [...]
COVID-19 Emission Reductions Reveal the Efficiency and Warming Impact of Short-Lived Greenhouse Gases
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The COVID-19 response provided a natural experiment to quantify the climate forcing efficiency of short-lived pollutants. Using satellite-constrained reanalysis and chemistry-climate simulations, we isolate the radiative impacts of anthropogenic NOₓ reductions through two modes: a rapid ozone decrease and a slower methane-driven adjustment that dominates the net effect. Globally, these responses [...]
A Stable Column ΔXCH₄/ΔXCO₂ Ratio over Los Angeles (2011–2025): An Inventory-Independent Test of Urban Methane Policy
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
We extend the column-averaged CH₄ and CO₂ (XCH₄, XCO₂) record from the California Laboratory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (CLARS) through July 2025, spanning 15 years over the Los Angeles megacity. CLARS retrievals show persistent enhancements of both gases above the free-tropospheric background, with a strong excess correlation (R = 0.93) and an emission ratio ΔXCH₄/ΔXCO₂ ≈ 5.1 ppb ppm⁻¹ that [...]
Natural aerosol variability can reverse the apparent air-quality response to abrupt emission reductions
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Abrupt societal disruptions, including economic shocks, pandemic lockdowns, and armed conflicts, are widely used as natural experiments for attributing changes in air quality to changes in emissions. Such attribution commonly rests on observed concentrations: combustion tracers fall, and the resulting improvement is credited to reduced emissions. Here we show that coincident natural aerosol [...]
Bulk iron-sulfur ratio (Fe/S) conditional proxy for sulfurized, TOC-rich sediments: insights and comparison of compositional model with real data utilizing the Pyrite-TOC-Fe-S compositional space
Published: 2026-10-05
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Geology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Bulk iron-sulfur (Fe/S) ratio can be a proxy for sulfurized organic matter in organic-rich shales, particularly those prone to be siliceous or carbonate. First part uses a theoretical model of a compositional system consisting solely of iron, sulfur, TOC, and pyrite to demonstrate how the Fe/S ratio can indicate the presence of sulfurized organic matter using the model’s assumption of sulfur [...]
Carbon dioxide removal capacity of converting harmful macroalgal blooms in South Korea to biochar: a Monte Carlo assessment
Published: 2026-10-04
Subjects: Engineering, Environmental Engineering
Blooms of the drifting brown alga Sargassum horneri (golden tides) and of green-tide Ulva spp. strand on the coasts of South Korea every year and are collected by local governments. Pyrolysing this biomass to biochar has been proposed as a way to store carbon, but its carbon dioxide removal (CDR) capacity has not been quantified. We built a Monte Carlo model (100,000 draws) of the technical [...]
Parcel-Level Deforestation Hazard Rates in the Paraguayan Chaco: A Multi-Scale Empirical Analysis of Annual Clearing Dynamics on Large Cattle Ranches
Published: 2026-10-04
Subjects: Geographic Information Sciences, Natural Resources and Conservation, Natural Resources Management and Policy, Other Environmental Sciences, Physical and Environmental Geography, Remote Sensing
Cattle ranch expansion across the Paraguayan Chaco generates parcel-level clearing rates that appear inconsistent with regional deforestation statistics, raising concerns that REDD+ baselines constructed from proxy parcels overstate forest loss (a baseline over-crediting debate that turns on denominator consistency between parcel hazard and regional flows). Because parcels undergoing active [...]
Human health impacts of PFAS exposure: A second-order meta-analysis
Published: 2026-10-04
Subjects: Environmental Public Health, Public Health
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly persistent synthetic chemicals with pervasive human exposure. Numerous meta-analyses have synthesised results on the association between PFAS exposure and human health, yet findings remain fragmented and often inconsistent across compounds, outcomes, and studies. We assessed the magnitude and consistency of associations between PFAS exposure [...]
Climate resilience from long-term low till adoption in US farms
Published: 2026-10-04
Subjects: Agriculture, Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Sustainability
Low-intensity tillage (low till) has expanded rapidly in the United States since 2000. Evidence on its yield impacts has come mainly from field experiments and has been limited to short time horizons. Using satellite-based observations from more than 40 million field-year pairs across the U.S. Corn Belt from 1999-2023, we demonstrate that yield gains continue to accrue with longer duration of [...]
Improvement of Daily Temperature Forecasts from a Prediction Market
Published: 2026-10-03
Subjects: Applied Statistics, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate, Meteorology, Natural Resource Economics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Probability, Statistical Methodology, Statistical Models, Statistics and Probability
Prediction markets aggregate and distill the collective views of participants who have a financial stake in being correct. They have been shown to produce more accurate forecasts in realms like election results, which are not easily amenable to mechanistic modeling because they entail forecasting human behavior. It is far less clear that prediction markets should improve the accuracy of [...]