2465 papers
This study integrates numerical simulations, theoretical analysis, and laboratory experiments to reveal that thermal damage, horizontal in-situ stress, and drilling fluid pressure collectively govern the evolution and morphology of borehole wall fractures in deep granite drilling, providing a theoretical basis for enhancing wellbore stability and optimizing drilling fluid technologies.
By integrating human behavioral responses into climate models, this study reveals that factors like action confidence and climate anxiety can dynamically reshape future warming trajectories by up to ±1°C, demonstrating that human behavior is an active component of the climate system capable of either amplifying or mitigating climate change depending on the specific emissions pathway.
This study demonstrates that integrating citizen science data with existing European monitoring programs, particularly for soil pH, can effectively enhance large-scale soil monitoring by improving digital soil mapping accuracy and expanding coverage to underrepresented environments like urban soils.
This study utilizes a first-order Markov chain analysis of ERA5 reanalysis data (2000–2025) to characterize the pronounced spatiotemporal heterogeneity of daily rainfall persistence across the Maluku Archipelago, revealing how the interplay between monsoonal circulation and complex island topography governs dry–wet spell dynamics and extreme rainfall thresholds in this data-sparse tropical region.
This study utilizes Dar–Zarrouk parameters derived from Vertical Electrical Sounding data to characterize the heterogeneous aquifer properties and evaluate groundwater potential in the complex Himalayan foothills of the Tanakpur area, Uttarakhand, India.
This study analyzes 45 years of daily extreme rainfall in Thailand using 75 rain gauges and three gridded datasets to reveal that while MSWEP best reproduces event occurrence, all gridded products tend to underestimate extreme thresholds and overestimate spatial scales, and while ERA5 captures the observed long-term intensification of extreme rainfall frequency, MSWEP fails to do so.
This study empirically evaluates the hydrological performance of retrofit planters as nature-based solutions for urban stormwater management at both individual and network scales in the UK, demonstrating significant peak flow reduction and delay while highlighting design uncertainties related to roof catchment contributions.
This study demonstrates that while battery electric vehicles consistently offer the lowest life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions across 20 U.S. cities, small and midsize models often achieve negative carbon abatement costs by being both cheaper to own and cleaner than conventional alternatives, making electrification a cost-effective strategy for emissions reduction even for larger vehicles.
This study demonstrates that CMIP6 models exhibit significant improvements over CMIP5 in simulating Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall, its spatial structure, and associated Indian Ocean teleconnections, evidenced by higher correlation coefficients, better variance capture, and more realistic representation of large-scale circulation features.
This study utilizes a statistical framework and iterative traceback algorithm on 20,693 earthquake records from 1960–2026 to demonstrate that four-point relay seismicity chains occur with a significantly non-random 41.30% completion probability within a 168-hour window, revealing distinct regional susceptibilities and energy attenuation patterns that offer new insights into stress transfer and intermediate-term seismic hazard assessment.