Preprints
There are 5729 Preprints listed.
HydroLang: An Open-Source Web-Based Programming Framework for Hydrological Sciences
Published: 2021-07-03
Subjects: Engineering
This paper presents HydroLang, an open-source and integrated community-driven computational web framework to support research and education in hydrology and water resources. HydroLang uses client-side web technologies and standards to perform different routines which aim towards the acquisition, management, transformation, analysis and visualization of hydrological datasets. HydroLang is [...]
Excitation of back-arc tsunamis from megathrust ruptures: The underdog hazard in the Sea of Japan
Published: 2021-07-02
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake created a moderate tsunami in the back-arc Sea of Japan basin. This tsunami went largely unnoticed due to its small size and the significant coverage of the large fore-arc waves. We present a physical dislocation model for the excitation of back-arc tsunamis and identify fault dip as the main geometrical contributor to the propagation of back-arc tsunamis. Using [...]
A Model Workflow for GeoDeepDive: Locating Pliocene and Pleistocene Ice-Rafted Debris
Published: 2021-07-02
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Glaciology, Sedimentology
Machine learning technology promises a more efficient and scalable approach to locating and aggregating data and information from the burgeoning scientific literature. Realizing this promise requires provision of applications, data resources, and the documentation of analytic workflows. GeoDeepDive provides a digital library comprising over 13 million peer-reviewed documents and the computing [...]
Reconstructing Aerosols Vertical Profiles with Aggregate Output Learning
Published: 2021-07-02
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Aerosol-cloud interactions constitute the largest source of uncertainty in assessments of anthropogenic climate change. This uncertainty arises in part from the inability to observe aerosol amounts at the cloud formation levels, and, more broadly, the vertical distribution of aerosols. Hence, we often have to settle for less informative two-dimensional proxies, i.e. vertically aggregated data. [...]
C:N:P stoichiometry in six distinct habitats of a glacier terminus in the Yangtze River Source Area
Published: 2021-07-01
Subjects: Biogeochemistry, Earth Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Sciences, Glaciology, Life Sciences, Other Environmental Sciences, Sustainability
Glaciers are among the least explored environments on Earth, especially from a perspective of nutrient stoichiometry. In this study, we documented and compared the nutrient availabilities (concentrations) and composition (stoichiometric ratios) of nutrients (C, N, and P) in six distinct habitats of a glacier terminus in the Yangtze River Source area, including surface ice (SI), basal ice (BI), [...]
Subduction earthquakes controlled by incoming plate geometry: The 2020 M>7.5 Shumagin, Alaska, earthquake doublet
Published: 2021-07-01
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
In 2020, an earthquake doublet, a M7.8 on July 22nd and a M7.6 on October 19th, struck the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone beneath the Shumagin Islands. This is the first documented earthquake doublet involving a megathrust event and a strike-slip event. The first event partially ruptured a seismic gap, which has not hosted large earthquakes since 1917, and the second event was unusual as it [...]
A CMIP6 ensemble for downscaled monthly climate normals over North America
Published: 2021-07-01
Subjects: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Use of downscaled global climate model projections is expanding rapidly as climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning become mainstream in many sectors. Many climate change impact analyses use climate model projections downscaled at very high spatial resolution (~1km) but very low temporal resolution (20- to 30-year normals). These applications have model selection [...]
Using sedimentological priors to improve 14C calibration of bioturbated sediment archives.
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Probability, Statistics and Probability
Radiocarbon (14C) dating is often carried out upon multi-specimen samples sourced from bioturbated sediment archives, such as deep-sea sediment. These samples are inherently heterogeneous in age, but current 14C calibration techniques applied to such age heterogenous samples were originally developed for age homogeneous material. A lack of information about age heterogeneity leads to a systematic [...]
Onset of runaway fragmentation of salt marshes
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geomorphology, Hydrology, Sustainability
Salt marshes are valuable but vulnerable coastal ecosystems that adapt to relative sea level rise (RSLR) by accumulating organic matter and inorganic sediment. The natural limit of these processes defines a threshold rate of RSLR beyond which marshes drown, resulting in ponding and conversion to open waters. We develop a simplified formulation for sediment transport across marshes to show that [...]
TEMPERATURE, SALINITY AND OXYGEN CLIMATOLOGY OF AFRICAN CONTINENTAL SHELF WATER, SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR, AND CHANGES SINCE 1945
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The first temperature, salinity and oxygen climatologies for waters of the continuous southern African continental shelf is presented. It is based on oceanographic data collected since 1945, sub-sampled at depths of 5, 50 and 100 m on a mixed-spatial grid with 0.25° to 0.5° resolution. The climatologies capture spatial heterogeneities and seasonal variability in key ocean variables for the [...]
Multidimensional simulation of PFAS transport and leaching in the vadose zone: impact of surfactant-induced flow and soil heterogeneities
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Environmental Health and Protection, Hydrology, Soil Science
PFAS are emergent contaminants of which fate and transport in the environment remain poorly understood. As surfactants, adsorption at air-water interfaces and solid surfaces in soils complicates the retention and leaching of PFAS in the vadose zone. Recent modeling studies accounting for the PFAS-specific nonlinear adsorption processes predicted that the majority of long-chain PFAS remain in the [...]
Interplay of seismic and a-seismic deformation during the 2020 sequence of Atacama, Chile.
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
An earthquake sequence occurred in the Atacama region of Chile throughout September 2020. The sequence initiated by a mainshock of magnitude Mw6.9, followed 17 hours later by a Mw6.4 aftershock. The sequence lasted several weeks, during which more than a thousand events larger than Ml 1 occurred, including several larger earthquakes of magnitudes between 5.5 and 6.4. Using a dense network that [...]
The late Paleozoic paired metamorphic belt of southern Central Chile: Consequence of a near-trench thermal anomaly?
Published: 2021-06-30
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The hypothesis of a subduction-related Miyashiro-type paired metamorphic belt for the origin of the late Paleozoic igneous and metamorphic complex in the Andean Coastal Cordillera has remained unquestioned since its proposal in the early seventies. A synthesis of the advances in the study of these metamorphic rocks between 33°S and 42°S, revising field relations among geological units, and [...]
Knowing the whole world from the top of a mountain: from orderly systematization to complex explanatory systems
Published: 2021-06-29
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Physical and Environmental Geography, Systems Biology
Fast and fascinating changes in views on nature and systems occurred around 1800, for example in the works of Alexander von Humboldt. While Humboldt rarely used the word system, he searched for the pattern-forming forces of nature by gruesome experiments on animals, including himself, and then drew a map of a mountain that became the basis of biogeography. What did ‘system’ mean then and now, how [...]
Paleoenvironmental change recorded in submarine fans: the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Alpine foreland basin
Published: 2021-06-29
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Sedimentology
The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) was a period of considerable environmental change, signifying the transition from Paleocene greenhouse to Oligocene icehouse conditions. Preservation of the sedimentary signal of such an environmental change is most likely in net-depositional environments, such as submarine fans, which are the terminal parts of sedimentary systems. Here, using sedimentary and [...]