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  1. 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
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  3. 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 Published on:

  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
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  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  14. 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
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  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
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  18. 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
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:71

  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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 Published on:

  22. 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 Published on:

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

  23. 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
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  28. 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
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  29. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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
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  35. 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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  36. 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 Published on:

  37. 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
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  38. 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
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  39. 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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  40. 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
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  41. 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
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  42. The hybrid dynamical-statistical downscaling approach is an effort to combine the ability of dynamical downscaling to resolve fine-scale climate changes with the low computational cost of statistical downscali...

    Authors: Quan Tran Anh and Kenji Taniguchi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:28
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  43. This short paper presents the statistics of spread-F occurrence at four low-mid latitude locations (17.0° N, 21.2° N, 26.5° N and 36.5° N mag. lat.) in Japan longitude sector (~ 135° E) in March to April 2002,...

    Authors: N. Balan, T. Maruyama, A. K. Patra and V. L. Narayanan
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:27
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  44. The relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and the neutral atmosphere is studied. This study is based on the previous study in which the GPS scintillation index and the...

    Authors: Mamoru Yamamoto, Yuichi Otsuka, Hidekatsu Jin and Yasunobu Miyoshi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:26
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  47. Establishment of sedimentary sequence is essential for the interpretation of the sedimentary records. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition (Exp.) 346 drilled high-quality sediment archives with ...

    Authors: Tomohisa Irino, Ryuji Tada, Ken Ikehara, Takuya Sagawa, Akinori Karasuda, Shunsuke Kurokawa, Arisa Seki and Song Lu
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:23
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  48. According to the so-called upwelling paradigm, development of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) involves (1) appearance of an upwelling (i.e., local uplift with a zonal width of ~ 400 km) in the bottomside of t...

    Authors: Roland T. Tsunoda, Susumu Saito and Trang T. Nguyen
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:22
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. During the Monsoon Asian Hydro−Atmosphere Scientific Research and Prediction Initiative (MAHASRI; 2006–16), we carried out two projects over the Indonesian maritime continent (IMC), constructing the Hydrometeo...

    Authors: Manabu D. Yamanaka, Shin-Ya Ogino, Pei-Ming Wu, Hamada Jun-Ichi, Shuichi Mori, Jun Matsumoto and Fadli Syamsudin
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:21
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  50. This study investigates the seasonal march patterns of rainfall in the Philippines from 1951 to 2012 and their long-term variability. In order to clarify the dominant patterns in the seasonal march of rainfall...

    Authors: Ikumi Akasaka, Hisayuki Kubota, Jun Matsumoto, Esperanza O. Cayanan, Rosalina G. de Guzman and Flaviana D. Hilario
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2018 5:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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