The ocean stores 60 times as much carbon as the atmosphere, and the ocean carbon cycle has a critical role in controlling atmospheric CO2 concentration. The concept of ocean carbon pump is widely used for describ...
Authors: Akira Oka
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:25
Content type: MethodologyPublished on: 11 June 2020
Fluctuations in sediment storage arising from sediment discharge and recharge in headwater channels are an important factor influencing changes in landforms in mountainous areas, but the frequency of surveys i...
Authors: Haruka Tsunetaka, Norifumi Hotta, Yuichi S. Hayakawa and Fumitoshi Imaizumi
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:24
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 8 June 2020
The longitudinal sound velocity (VP) and the density (ρ) of wüstite, FeO, were measured at pressures of up to 112.3 GPa and temperatures of up to 1700 K using both inelastic X-ray scattering and X-ray diffraction...
Authors: Ryosuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Eiji Ohtani, Hiroshi Fukui, Seiji Kamada, Akio Suzuki, Satoshi Tsutsui, Hiroshi Uchiyama and Alfred Q. R. Baron
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:23
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 8 June 2020
We investigated an alkenone-based sea surface temperature (SST) and the hydrographic change records of the subarctic Northwestern (NW) Pacific from the last glacial to interglacial. The core we investigated is...
Authors: Pai-Sen Yu, Chia-Ju Liao, Min-Te Chen, Jian-Jun Zou, Xuefa Shi, A. A. Bosin, Sergey A. Gorbarenko and Yusuke Yokoyama
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:22
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 4 June 2020
Using Global Navigation Satellite System–Acoustic (GNSS-A) technique, we have been developing observation system on a moored buoy for continuous monitoring of seafloor crustal deformation. The sound speed stru...
Authors: Natsuki Kinugasa, Keiichi Tadokoro, Teruyuki Kato and Yukihiro Terada
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:21
Content type: MethodologyPublished on: 3 June 2020
The Indonesian sea is the only low-latitude pathway connecting two tropical oceans, which plays an important role in the coupled ocean-atmosphere mode in the Indo-Pacific sector. A small change in the sea surf...
For geochemical analysis such as stable isotope ratio, radiocarbon dating and minor element analysis for a single species of microfossils, a large number of specimens, is required. Collecting specimens one by ...
Retrieval of the properties of the middle and upper atmosphere can be performed using several different interferometric and photometric methods. The emission-shape and Doppler shift of both atomic and molecula...
Authors: Chihoko Y. Cullens, Thomas J. Immel, Colin C. Triplett, Yen-Jung Wu, Scott L. England, Jeffrey M. Forbes and Guiping Liu
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:18
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 22 May 2020
Mantle tomography reveals the existence of two large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the mantle. We examine here the hypothesis that they are piles of oceanic crust that have steadily accu...
Authors: Timothy D. Jones, Ross R. Maguire, Peter E. van Keken, Jeroen Ritsema and Paula Koelemeijer
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:17
Content type: Research ArticlePublished on: 21 May 2020
Lithogenic grain-size, geochemical elements of core sediments from the central Bay of Bengal (BoB) were analyzed to identify sediment provenance and explore the regional “source-sink” processes since 25 ka. Ba...
The geochemistry of the calcium carbonates of marine organisms is an excellent proxy for reconstruction of the paleoceanographic history. However, previous studies of hypercalcified demosponges (sclerosponges)...
An understanding of the mechanisms of Ti is incorporation into silicate glasses and melts is critical for the field of petrology. Trace-element thermobarometry, high-field-strength element partitioning, and th...
Authors: Michael R. Ackerson, George D. Cody and Bjorn O. Mysen
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:14
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 18 March 2020
The three large volcanoes in the Tharsis region of Mars: Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus Montes all have fan-shaped deposits (FSDs) on their northern or western flanks consisting of a combination of parallel ridg...
Authors: Reid A. Parsons, Tomohiro Kanzaki, Ryodo Hemmi and Hideaki Miyamoto
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:13
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 12 March 2020
To investigate future changes in snow cover and snowfall over mountainous areas in central Japan, we conducted regional climate projections using a high-resolution non-hydrostatic regional climate model (NHRCM...
An igneous clast from the Northwest Africa 773 (NWA 773) clan of lunar meteorites formed by silicic volcanism on the Moon. The clast was identified in Northwest Africa 2727 (NWA 2727), which is included in the...
Authors: Hiroshi Nagaoka, Timothy J. Fagan, Masahiro Kayama, Yuzuru Karouji, Nobuyuki Hasebe and Mitsuru Ebihara
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:12
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 2 March 2020
The evolution of regional arid/humid patterns caused by global climate change deserves attention. We investigated the changes in the area of arid/humid climate regions over Asia under the aegis of national-com...
Authors: Fang Wang and Jintao Zhang
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:11
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 2 March 2020
Analyses of large ensemble data on future climate are significantly useful for the probabilistic future projection of climate change in various interdisciplinary fields. However, the data volume of the Databas...
The intensification of tropical cyclones (TCs) and wind-induced ocean waves is expected to be amplified under global warming conditions. In 2010, strong TC Tomas approached the Fiji Islands and caused severe d...
Authors: Kenji Taniguchi and Yoshimitsu Tajima
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:8
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 18 February 2020
Sedimentary processes and spatial distributions of tsunami deposits in valleys have poorly been understood despite many paleo-tsunami deposits have recently been discovered from sedimentary sequences in valley...
Authors: Tomoya Abe, Kazuhisa Goto and Daisuke Sugawara
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:7
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 8 February 2020
In this paper, we describe the design of the coupling library, Jcup, and report its various applications, including the coupling between global atmospheric and oceanic models of different grid systems. Jcup is...
Authors: Takashi Arakawa, Takahiro Inoue, Hisashi Yashiro and Masaki Satoh
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:6
The inner shelf sediments of the East China Sea (ECS) preserve valuable information regarding climatic changes on land through detrital material discharged from large rivers, particularly the Yangtze River. In...
Authors: Ke Wang, Ryuji Tada, Hongbo Zheng, Tomohisa Irino, Bin Zhou and Keita Saito
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:5
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 2 February 2020
This study investigated the representation of surface winds in complex terrain during the passage of Typhoon Sondga (2004) in downscaling simulations with the horizontal grid spacing of 200 m. The mountainous ...
Authors: Tetsuya Takemi and Rui Ito
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:4
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 9 January 2020
We here examined the sedimentation process of falling ash particles during a short-lived Vulcanian eruption at Sakurajima volcano, Japan, using high-speed camera imaging of airborne ash particles, as well as g...
Authors: T. Miwa, Y. Iriyama, M. Nagai and F. Nanayama
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:3
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 9 January 2020
The scientific community has widely discussed the role of abiotic and biotic forces in reshaping the Earth’s surface. Currently, the literature is debating whether humans are leaving a topographic signature on...
Authors: Wenfang Cao, Giulia Sofia and Paolo Tarolli
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2020
7:2
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 8 January 2020
Salinity intrusion is a pressing issue in the coastal areas worldwide. It affects the natural environment and causes massive economic loss due to its impacts on the agricultural productivity and food safety. H...
On December 7, 2012, an earthquake occurred within the Pacific Plate near the Japan Trench, which was composed of deep reverse- and shallow normal-faulting subevents (Mw 7.2 and 7.1, respectively) with a time ...
Authors: Tatsuya Kubota, Ryota Hino, Daisuke Inazu and Syuichi Suzuki
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:67
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 26 December 2019
Mercury, the Solar System’s innermost planet, has an unusually massive core prompting speculation that the planet lost silicate after it formed. Using the unusually high sulfur and low iron composition of its ...
Authors: George Helffrich, Ramon Brasser and Anat Shahar
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:66
Content type: Research ArticlePublished on: 11 December 2019
The global ocean monitoring system would benefit from improvements in the efficiency of Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth Device (CTD) sensor screening. Here, we describe the development of a new screening ...
This paper presents the first detailed geologic map of in situ lower ocean crust; the product of six surveys of Atlantis Bank on the SW Indian Ridge. This combined with major and trace element compositions of ...
Authors: Henry J. B. Dick, Astri J. S. Kvassnes, Paul T. Robinson, Christopher J. MacLeod and Hajimu Kinoshita
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:64
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 14 November 2019
The Jōmon period/culture corresponds to the Neolithic period/culture in Japanese prehistory. The Sannai-Maruyama site (5.9–4.2 cal. kyr BP), the most famous, the largest, and the well-studied mid-Holocene (mid...
Authors: Hodaka Kawahata
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:63
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 31 October 2019
The impacts of aerosols on the charge distribution of hydrometeors and lightning flash density in a tropical cyclone (TC) were investigated using a meteorological model coupled with an explicit lightning model...
Authors: Yousuke Sato, Yoshiaki Miyamoto and Hirofumi Tomita
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:62
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 26 October 2019
A review of the experimental protocol and motivation for DYAMOND, the first intercomparison project of global storm-resolving models, is presented. Nine models submitted simulation output for a 40-day (1 Augus...
Authors: Bjorn Stevens, Masaki Satoh, Ludovic Auger, Joachim Biercamp, Christopher S. Bretherton, Xi Chen, Peter Düben, Falko Judt, Marat Khairoutdinov, Daniel Klocke, Chihiro Kodama, Luis Kornblueh, Shian-Jiann Lin, Philipp Neumann, William M. Putman, Niklas Röber…
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:61
Content type: ReviewPublished on: 30 September 2019
The evaporites of the Realmonte salt mine (Sicily, Italy) are important archives recording the most extreme conditions of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). However, geochemical approach on these evaporitic ...
Authors: Yuta Isaji, Toshihiro Yoshimura, Junichiro Kuroda, Yusuke Tamenori, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Stefano Lugli, Vinicio Manzi, Marco Roveri, Hodaka Kawahata and Naohiko Ohkouchi
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:60
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 30 August 2019
The northward shrinkage of the North Pacific western subarctic gyre (WSAG) in the early 2000s is associated with a sea surface height (SSH) elevation and is correlated to sea surface wind stress change. By usi...
Authors: Akira Nagano and Masahide Wakita
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:59
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 30 August 2019
The performance of the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation data Microwave-Infrared Combined Reanalysis Product (GSMaP RNL), version 6, was evaluated, using northern Vietnam as the test area. The Vietnam ...
Authors: Masato I. Nodzu, Jun Matsumoto, Long Trinh-Tuan and Thanh Ngo-Duc
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:58
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 26 August 2019
Megathrust earthquakes of magnitude ~ 8 and ensuing large tsunamis occur along the Nankai and Suruga troughs, central Japan, with a recurrence interval of 90–270 years since an AD 684 Hakuho earthquake. Histor...
We assessed the positioning accuracy of GNSS-Acoustic (GNSS-A) measurement using a slackly moored buoy. A key feature of real-time buoy-based GNSS-A measurement is that positioning must be performed via single...
Electrical conductivity in minerals is sensitive to hydrogen content, and therefore, it is a potentially important property from which one can infer hydrogen (water) distribution in the mantle. However, there ...
Authors: Shun-ichiro Karato
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:55
A comprehensive validation of three satellite precipitation datasets (SPDs), including (1) the Climate Prediction Center Morphing algorithm (CMORPH), (2) Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Reana...
Authors: Long Trinh-Tuan, Jun Matsumoto, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Masato I. Nodzu and Tomoshige Inoue
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:54
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 31 July 2019
After publication of this article (Nishitani et al. 2019), it was brought to our attention that the figure 5 is incorrect, where the positions of DCE and SPS were misplaced. The correct figure 5 is as below, t...
Authors: Nozomu Nishitani, John Michael Ruohoniemi, Mark Lester, Joseph Benjamin Harold Baker, Alexandre Vasilyevich Koustov, Simon G. Shepherd, Gareth Chisham, Tomoaki Hori, Evan G. Thomas, Roman A. Makarevich, Aurélie Marchaudon, Pavlo Ponomarenko, James A. Wild, Stephen E. Milan, William A. Bristow, John Devlin…
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:53
Content type: CorrectionPublished on: 30 July 2019
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original article was published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:27
This paper discusses the cloud/clear discrimination algorithm (CLAUDIA) and the cloud microphysical properties algorithm (CAPCOM), which are used by the Second-generation GLobal Imager (SGLI) aboard the GCOM-C...
Authors: Takashi Y. Nakajima, Haruma Ishida, Takashi M. Nagao, Masahiro Hori, Husi Letu, Riko Higuchi, Naoya Tamaru, Naritoshi Imoto and Akihiro Yamazaki
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:52
Content type: MethodologyPublished on: 26 July 2019
Ancient Mars likely hosted oceans similar to those on Earth; however, such water is not presently observed on Mars. One possible explanation for the lack of present-day oceans is that surface water was transpo...
Authors: Ikuo Katayama, Yuhki Matsuoka and Shintaro Azuma
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:51
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 22 July 2019
The depth extent of the crustal seismogenic zone is closely related to the size of earthquakes. The mechanisms that control the depth of the lower transition of the seismogenic zone are important issues in sei...
Authors: Koji Masuda, Takashi Arai and Miki Takahashi
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:50
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 19 July 2019
An important component of the seismic wavefield at moderate epicentral distances from deep earthquakes comes from seismic waves that are radiated upwards from the source. For very deep events, there is a range...
Authors: B. L. N. Kennett and T. Furumura
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:49
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 9 July 2019
We have investigated the influence of thin thermally opaque dust layers on the thermal emission of rocks and regolith and determined the thermal response of these dust-covered surfaces to diurnal insolation cy...
Authors: Jens Biele, Ekkehard Kührt, Hiroki Senshu, Naoya Sakatani, Kazunori Ogawa, Maximilian Hamm, Matthias Grott, Tatsuaki Okada and Takehiko Arai
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:48
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 8 July 2019
Middle Triassic carbonates extend from the North-Central Coast region of Vietnam to northern Laos. We conducted sedimentological, paleontological, and geochemical analyses on the carbonates of the Hoang Mai Fo...
Authors: Thuy Thi Nhu Ha, Hideko Takayanagi, Katsumi Ueno, Yoshihiro Asahara, Koshi Yamamoto and Yasufumi Iryu
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:47
Content type: Paper with full data attachedPublished on: 8 July 2019
Earth system models (ESMs) consist of parameterization schemes based on one’s perception of how the Earth system functions. A typical ESM contains a large number of parameters (i.e., the constants and exponent...
Authors: Yuhan Shi, Wei Gong, Qingyun Duan, Jackson Charles, Cunde Xiao and Heng Wang
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:46
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 26 June 2019
Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen isotope (δ18O) compositions of fossil brachiopod shells can be used to interpret paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic conditions. However, the initial isotopic composition of the li...
Authors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Hideko Takayanagi, Koshi Yamamoto and Yasufumi Iryu
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:45
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 14 June 2019
As geomorphological processes operate at various spatial scales, their morphological expressions, i.e., land-surface variables (LSVs) should be scaled accordingly. Most approaches on landslide susceptibility m...
Authors: Flavius Sîrbu, Lucian Drăguț, Takashi Oguchi, Yuichi Hayakawa and Mihai Micu
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:44
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 13 June 2019
The mineral quartz is highly resistant to weathering, and various surface microtextures are formed and preserved on quartz grains. These microtextures are considered to reflect the sedimentary history of quart...
Authors: Hiromi Itamiya, Ritsuko Sugita and Toshihiko Sugai
Citation:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
2019
6:43
Content type: Research articlePublished on: 11 June 2019