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  1. Ocean drilling in the Nankai Trough forearc suggests a new scenario for the evolution of the Nankai subduction zone. Continuous subduction since the Late Cretaceous has been a common tectonic scenario, althoug...

    Authors: Gaku Kimura, Hiroaki Koge and Takeshi Tsuji

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:78

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Water isotopic composition (δ18O and δD) in terrestrial proxies of past precipitation enable us to better understand and interpret variation in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). Previous studies have suggested tha...

    Authors: Masahiro Tanoue, Kimpei Ichiyanagi, Kei Yoshimura, Masashi Kiguchi, Toru Terao and Taiichi Hayashi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:77

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Submarine cyclic steps have a significant impact on the evolution of the ocean floor on Earth. These upper-flow regime bedforms should be even more common in Martian reduced-gravity environments. We postulate ...

    Authors: Svetlana Kostic and Isaac B. Smith

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:76

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  4. Salt crystallization is a major agent of deterioration in buildings, especially important when belonging to a city’s cultural heritage. The study of this process is therefore essential to understand the decay ...

    Authors: Patricia Vazquez, Lucas Sartor and Céline Thomachot-Schneider

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:75

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  5. South Chamorro Seamount (SCS) is a blueschist-bearing serpentinite mud volcano in the Mariana forearc. Previous scientific drilling conducted at SCS revealed highly alkaline, sulfate-rich formation fluids resu...

    Authors: Shinsuke Kawagucci, Junichi Miyazaki, Yuki Morono, Jeff S. Seewald, C. Geoff Wheat and Ken Takai

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:74

    Content type: Research article

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  6. The dusty regolith covering the surfaces of asteroids and planetary satellites differs in size, shape, and composition from terrestrial soil particles and is subject to environmental conditions very different ...

    Authors: Julie Brisset, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, Sumayya Abukhalil, Christopher Cox and Nadia Mohammed

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:73

    Content type: Research article

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  7. As a rule, usually only one face of the building stones of a monument is exposed to climatic variations. Penetration of temperature and humidity stress is unidirectional from the external surface while capilla...

    Authors: Celine Thomachot-Schneider, Emilie Huby, Kevin Chalons, Xavier Drothière and Patricia Vazquez

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:72

    Content type: Research article

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  8. In the publication of this article (Nagaashi et al., 2018), there was an error in eqs. (7) and (10).

    Authors: Yuuya Nagaashi, Tomomi Omura, Masato Kiuchi, Akiko M. Nakamura, Koji Wada and Sunao Hasegawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:71

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:52

  9. The study investigates the in-situ strength of sediments across a plate boundary décollement using drilling parameters recorded when a 1180-m-deep borehole was established during International Ocean Discovery ...

    Authors: Yohei Hamada, Takehiro Hirose, Akira Ijiri, Yasuhiro Yamada, Yoshinori Sanada, Saneatsu Saito, Noriaki Sakurai, Takamitsu Sugihara, Takahiro Yokoyama, Tomokazu Saruhashi, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Nana Kamiya, Stephen Bowden, Margaret Cramm, Susann Henkel, Kira Homola…

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:70

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake unexpectedly ruptured to the shallowest portion of the plate boundary fault and triggered a large tsunami. The shallow portion had generally been regarded as a seismically stable...

    Authors: Hiroaki Koge, Yasuhiro Yamada, Akihiro Ohde, Arthur Bauville, Asuka Yamaguchi and Juichiro Ashi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:69

    Content type: Research article

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  12. In estimates of climate sensitivity obtained from global models, the need to represent clouds introduces a great deal of uncertainty. To address this issue, approaches using a high-resolution global non-hydros...

    Authors: Masaki Satoh, Akira T. Noda, Tatsuya Seiki, Ying-Wen Chen, Chihiro Kodama, Yohei Yamada, Naomi Kuba and Yousuke Sato

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:67

    Content type: Review

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  13. Using 630 nm airglow data observed by an airglow imager on the International Space Station (ISS), the occurrence of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) is studied. In order to examine the physical mechanisms in t...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Nakata, Akira Takahashi, Toshiaki Takano, Akinori Saito and Takeshi Sakanoi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:66

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Three-dimensional (3D) seismic data from the southern Kumano Basin of southwest Japan image a nested series of moderately sized mass transport deposits (MTDs) that slid from a slope along the seaward side of t...

    Authors: Jason Lackey, Gregory Moore and Michael Strasser

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:65

    Content type: Research article

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  15. This study investigates the nature and mechanisms of the diurnal precipitation system over a coastal area of the Maritime Continent (MC) by utilizing the data from a field campaign, HARIMAU2010. During the 1-m...

    Authors: Masaki Katsumata, Shuichi Mori, Jun-Ichi Hamada, Miki Hattori, Fadli Syamsudin and Manabu D. Yamanaka

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:64

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The Nankai subduction zone off the Kii Peninsula, Japan, has a large potential to generate megathrust earthquakes in the near future. To investigate the temporal variation of stress or strain in the Nankai sub...

    Authors: Tatsunori Ikeda and Takeshi Tsuji

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:62

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Azerbaijan, located on the western edge of the Caspian Sea in Central Asia, has one of the highest populations of mud volcanoes in the world. We used satellite-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images deriv...

    Authors: Kento Iio and Masato Furuya

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:61

    Content type: Research article

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  19. An unseasonal development of Equatorial Plasma Bubble (EPB)/Equatorial Spread-F (ESF) activity in a wide longitudinal sector over India and Southeast Asia during the post-sunset hours of 28 July 2014 has been ...

    Authors: K. K. Ajith, S. Tulasi Ram, B. A. Carter, S. Sathish Kumar, M. Yamamoto, T. Yokoyama, S. Gurubaran, S. Sripathi, K. Hozumi, K. Groves and R. G. Caton

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:60

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  20. We examined the temporal changes in the internal stresses and pore fluid pressures of a submarine mass transport deposit (MTD) in the Akkeshi Formation of the Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene Nemuro Group, eastern H...

    Authors: Makoto Otsubo, Hajime Naruse and Ayumu Miyakawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:59

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  21. To understand the ability of microbial life to inhabit a deep subseafloor coalbed sedimentary basin, the correlation between fluid transport properties and the abundance of microbial cells was investigated bas...

    Authors: Wataru Tanikawa, Osamu Tadai, Yuki Morono, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs and Fumio Inagaki

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:58

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  23. The total column ozone (TCO) amount varies with latitude, in part due to the difference in tropopause height between the tropics and midlatitudes. This dependency of TCO on latitude has been used to identify t...

    Authors: Sean M. Davis, Birgit Hassler and Karen H. Rosenlof

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:56

    Content type: Research article

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  24. This study assessed historical changes in emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone-depleting substance, from the soils of East Asia to the atmosphere. A process-based terr...

    Authors: Akihiko Ito, Kazuya Nishina, Kentaro Ishijima, Shoji Hashimoto and Motoko Inatomi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:55

    Content type: Research article

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  25. Previous studies showed that the evolution of the Japan Sea paleoceanography since the Miocene has been influenced by the regional tectonism (e.g., opening/closing of the connecting seaways) and regional/globa...

    Authors: Kenji M. Matsuzaki, Takuya Itaki, Ryuji Tada and Shin-ichi Kamikuri

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:54

    Content type: Research article

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  26. The burning of trees and grasses produces charred particles, such as charcoal and soot, that can be transported over long distances via winds and rivers to coastal, deltaic, and ocean environments, where they ...

    Authors: Song Lu, Tomohisa Irino and Yaeko Igarashi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:53

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Inelastic collisions occur among regolith particles, such as those in the ejecta curtain from a crater, and may cause clustering or agglomeration of particles and thus produce discrete patterns of ejecta depos...

    Authors: Yuuya Nagaashi, Tomomi Omura, Masato Kiuchi, Akiko M. Nakamura, Koji Wada and Sunao Hasegawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:52

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:71

  28. Here, we investigate a possible scenario of surface seawater evolution in the numerical simulations of surface plate motion driven by mantle dynamics, including thermo-chemical convection and water migration, ...

    Authors: Takashi Nakagawa, Hikaru Iwamori, Ryunosuke Yanagi and Atsushi Nakao

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:51

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  29. Glacial recession in Alpine Valleys uncorks low-altitude tributary valleys that spill trapped sediments in the sediment cascade, in turn generating sediment-related hazards and flood hazards. Within this compl...

    Authors: Christopher Gomez and Heather Purdie

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:50

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  30. To estimate strong ground motions caused by future earthquakes in Japan and to more accurately predict seismic hazards and tsunamis, it is necessary to accurately model the geometry of the subducting plate and...

    Authors: Yasuko Yamagishi, Ayako Nakanishi, Seiichi Miura, Shuichi Kodaira and Hide Sakaguchi

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:49

    Content type: Methodology

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  31. An error in computing the spectral level from time series data from UAV-borne sensors was discovered after this article (Kantha et al. 2017) was published.

    Authors: Lakshmi Kantha, Dale Lawrence, Hubert Luce, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Toshitaka Tsuda, Richard Wilson, Tyler Mixa and Masanori Yabuki

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:48

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:19

  32. This paper presents an overview of the HARIMAU2010 campaign focusing on convective activity with the diurnal rainfall meridional march (DRMM) over Jakarta, which is located on the northern coast of Jawa Island...

    Authors: Shuichi Mori, Jun-Ichi Hamada, Miki Hattori, Pei-Ming Wu, Masaki Katsumata, Nobuhiko Endo, Kimpei Ichiyanagi, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Ardhi A. Arbain, Reni Sulistyowati, Sopia Lestari, Fadli Syamsudin, Timbul Manik and Manabu D. Yamanaka

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:47

    Content type: Research article

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  34. In this study, which was conducted to investigate present-day geological deformations occurring off the central Ryukyu Arc along the Ryukyu Trench (Okinawa-jima) in the vicinity of Japan, we obtained and exami...

    Authors: Kohsaku Arai, Takahiko Inoue and Tomoyuki Sato

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:45

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  35. This study investigates the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on the atmospheric hydrological cycle over the tropical Asian monsoon region (South Asian, Southeast Asian, and western North Pacific monsoons), usi...

    Authors: Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Shingo Watanabe, Makiko Nakata and Toshihiko Takemura

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:44

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  37. In 2014, a sediment trap mooring was deployed adjacent to station Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO)’s National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) surface mooring. These data, from July 2014 to July ...

    Authors: Makio C. Honda, Yoshikazu Sasai, Eko Siswanto, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida, Hidenori Aiki and Meghan F. Cronin

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:42

    Content type: Research article

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  38. Four ancient tsunami deposits were identified in a trench excavated on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan. Three of the tsunami deposits (T-I, T-II, and T-IV) consist of calcareous sand beds, whereas the other (T...

    Authors: Akihisa Kitamura, Mami Ito, Ryoya Ikuta and Masayuki Ikeda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:41

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  40. We analyze the hourly rainfall data of 30 rain gauges in Cambodia from 2010 to 2015 to focus on the diurnal pattern of rainfall and its regional characteristics, with the underlying mechanisms inferred from th...

    Authors: Kumiko Tsujimoto, Tetsu Ohta, Kentaro Aida, Katsunori Tamakawa and Monichoth So Im

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:39

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  41. We investigated ship navigation records known as Automatic Identification System (AIS) data near the source region of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, tsunami. The AIS data of 16 ships in the offshore navigation could ...

    Authors: Daisuke Inazu, Tsuyoshi Ikeya, Takuji Waseda, Toshiyuki Hibiya and Yoshinori Shigihara

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:38

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  42. In summer 2002, abnormally high-temperature events and associated low soil moisture conditions were observed in Northeast Eurasia. In this study, two regional climate model experiments, one with and the other ...

    Authors: Enkhbat Erdenebat and Tomonori Sato

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:37

    Content type: Research article

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  44. The drastic thickening of the barrier layer in the marginal sea off the western coast of Sumatra during the passage of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) observed during December 2015 is investigated. Before ...

    Authors: Qoosaku Moteki, Masaki Katsumata, Kunio Yoneyama, Kentaro Ando and Takuya Hasegawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:35

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  45. Claimed detections and nondetections of lightning and related electromagnetic emissions on Venus are qualitatively contradictory. Here, motivated by the commencement of observations by the Akatsuki spacecraft ...

    Authors: Ralph D. Lorenz

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:34

    Content type: Review

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  46. We conducted topographic measurements using unmanned aerial vehicles and by terrestrial laser scanning at inaccessible sea cliffs with an overhanging complex shape in eastern Japan. From the repeated measureme...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Obanawa and Yuichi S. Hayakawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:33

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Occurrences of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs) were studied using GPS satellite data-based total electron content mapping, ionograms, and 630 nm al...

    Authors: Hisao Takahashi, Cristiano Max Wrasse, Cosme Alexandre Oliveira Barros Figueiredo, Diego Barros, Mangalathayil Ali Abdu, Yuichi Otsuka and Kazuo Shiokawa

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:32

    Content type: Research article

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  48. A major goal in volcanology is to be able to constrain the physical properties of a volcanic system using surface observations. The behaviour of a volcanic system following an eruption can provide powerful con...

    Authors: Joanna Hamlyn, Tim Wright, Richard Walters, Carolina Pagli, Eugenio Sansosti, Francesco Casu, Susi Pepe, Marie Edmonds, Brendan McCormick Kilbride, Derek Keir, Jürgen Neuberg and Clive Oppenheimer

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:31

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  49. Megathrust earthquakes have occurred repeatedly at intervals of 100 to 150 years along the Nankai Trough, situated in the southwest of Japan. Given that it has been 70 years since the last event, the occurrenc...

    Authors: Masaru Nakano, Mamoru Hyodo, Ayako Nakanishi, Mikiya Yamashita, Takane Hori, Shin-ichiro Kamiya, Kensuke Suzuki, Takashi Tonegawa, Shuichi Kodaira, Narumi Takahashi and Yoshiyuki Kaneda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:30

    Content type: Research article

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  50. The ShUREX (Shigaraki UAV Radar Experiment) 2015 campaign carried out at the Shigaraki Middle and Upper atmosphere (MU) observatory (Japan) in June 2015 provided a unique opportunity to compare vertical profil...

    Authors: Hubert Luce, Lakshmi Kantha, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Dale Lawrence, Tyler Mixa, Masanori Yabuki and Toshitaka Tsuda

    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:29

    Content type: Research article

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