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earth_science

2416 papers

📄 earth science

Separating secular depletion from drought: a detrended storage-deficit characterization of groundwater across Arizona’s Active Management Areas from GRACE observations (2002–2023)

This study utilizes GRACE satellite data to develop a detrended storage-deficit index that effectively separates Arizona's long-term groundwater depletion from temporary drought conditions, revealing distinct regional patterns across its six Active Management Areas to improve water management strategies.

Md Rayhan2026-09-10
📄 earth science

Storms Under Water: Wind-driven impacts on a north temperate deep stratified lake

This study analyzes high-frequency temperature data from Lake Champlain (2016–2025) to characterize the frequency, intensity, and dynamics of wind-driven storms that disrupt summer stratification, revealing that severe events can temporarily collapse the metalimnion and that subsurface impacts often persist beyond the duration of surface wind forcing.

Miranda S. Rummell, Eric M. Leibensperger, Grayson P. Huston, Danielle E. Garneau, Timothy B. Mihuc2026-09-10
📄 earth science

Enset (Ensete ventricosum) as a Nature-Based Hydrological Intervention: A Process-Based Framework for Rainfall Partitioning, Direct-Runoff Regulation, and Flood Mitigation in the Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia.

This study develops a process-based ecohydrological framework that explicitly models the unique hydraulic architecture of Enset (Ensete ventricosum) to demonstrate its significant potential for reducing direct runoff and mitigating floods in the Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia, by enhancing rainfall interception, stemflow concentration, and infiltration.

Nigatu Chala Kuke, Yenesew Mengiste Yihun, Yohannes Zerihun Negussie2026-09-10
📄 earth science

A novel atmospheric lidar technology: From monitoring climate change over meteorological data at spaceports to the impact of space debris

This paper introduces a novel autonomous atmospheric lidar technology capable of providing continuous, high-resolution 3D wind and temperature data up to 120 km, thereby addressing critical gaps in monitoring climate change, improving weather forecasting, ensuring safe spaceport operations, and assessing the atmospheric impact of space debris.

Michael Strotkamp, Josef Höffner, Alexander Munk, Jan Froh, Thorben Lüke-Mense, Sarah Scheuer, Pablo Saavedra Garfias, F (…)2026-09-10
📄 earth science

Tree-cover expansion on former cropland increases connectivity but homogenizes European landscapes

This study reveals that while tree-cover expansion on former European croplands since 2001 has increased landscape connectivity, it has simultaneously reduced structural heterogeneity, creating a trade-off between benefits for carbon and forest species and potential costs for those dependent on open or diverse habitats.

Wanben Wu, Jens-Christian Svenning, Tobias Kuemmerle, Alexander Prishchepov, Matthias Baumann, Robert Buitenwerf2026-09-10
📄 earth science

Ice-core d-excess reveals a shift to wind-driven control of oceanic evaporation in warm climates

By reframing deuterium-excess in Antarctic ice cores as a proxy for oceanic evaporation rates, this study reveals an 800,000-year history where the control of evaporation shifts from thermodynamic temperature dependence in cold glacial periods to wind-driven dynamics in warm climates, suggesting future water cycle responses will be equally governed by atmospheric circulation.

Ajay Ajay, Alexandre Cauquoin, Kei Yoshimura, Jeffrey Welker, Prasanta Sanyal2026-09-09
📄 earth science

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Heatwave Vulnerability and Maternal–Child Health Risk in Zambia

This study analyzes Zambia's spatiotemporal heatwave patterns from 1980 to 2024, revealing that agro-ecological regions I and IIb are primary hotspots for heat exposure and maternal-child health vulnerability, with El Niño events significantly increasing heatwave frequency and duration.

Moses N. Chisola, Sisay E. Debele, Magarate Chapa, Chitalu M. Chama-Chiliba, Bridget Bwalya, Chris Mweemba, Richard Bwal (…)2026-09-09
📄 earth science

Marine heatwave exposure alters metabolism and behavioral strategies in juvenile ectotherm crustacean Maja squinado

This study demonstrates that simulated marine heatwaves induce a critical shift in juvenile *Maja squinado* from energy-conserving to high-risk, high-expenditure behaviors during warming, leading to significant mortality and persistent physiological exhaustion that decouples behavioral recovery from metabolic restoration.

Marie-Catherine Raffalli, Émilie Favaro, Jean-José Filippi, Jérémy Bracconi, Ambre Crescioni, Nicolas Gattacceca, Jean-B (…)2026-09-09
📄 earth science

A 10,000-Year Global Stochastic Tropical Cyclone Catalog with Wind-Dependent Track Transitions (WHITS)

The paper introduces WHITS, a non-parametric semi-Markov model that generates a 10,000-year global synthetic tropical cyclone catalog by resampling historical track segments conditioned on wind speed and storm dynamics, thereby providing a low-bias, physically plausible dataset essential for accurate climate risk analysis and insurance loss estimation.

Jennifer Nakamura, Upmanu Lall2026-09-09
📄 earth science

The settlement patterns of the Beixin Culture and its influencing factors in the Xue River Basin, Southwest Shandong

By integrating systematic survey records with GIS-based spatial analysis, this study reconstructs the settlement patterns of the Beixin Culture in the Xue River Basin, revealing a preference for stable fluvial terraces driven by favorable environmental conditions and a trend toward increasing clustering from the early to middle phases that offers new insights into the emergence of social complexity in the Haidai region.

Ziyu Fang, Ling Dai, Qiong Chen, Hao Wu2026-09-09