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  1. Methane emission in South Asia is poorly understood due to a lack of observations, despite being a major contributor to methane emissions globally. We present the first results of atmospheric CH4 inversions using...

    Authors: Dmitry A. Belikov, Prabir K. Patra, Yukio Terao, Manish Naja, Md. Kawser Ahmed and Naoko Saitoh
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:36
  2. Carbonaceous material (CM) undergoes progressive changes that reflect its thermal history. These changes are in general irreversible and provide valuable information for understanding diagenetic and metamorphi...

    Authors: Shunya Kaneki, Yui Kouketsu, Mutsuki Aoya, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Simon R. Wallis, Yusuke Shimura and Ken Yamaoka
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:35
  3. Lithologic heterogeneity and the presence of fluids have been linked to seamount subduction and collocated with slow earthquakes. However, the deformation mechanisms and fluid conditions associated with seamou...

    Authors: Madison Frank, Kohtaro Ujiie, Ginta Motohashi and Takayoshi Nagaya
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:34
  4. Earthquakes (mainshocks) trigger sequences of aftershocks, the frequency of which diminishes following a power-law decay, while the spatial domain of these aftershocks extends logarithmically over time. The de...

    Authors: Yuta Mitsui, Yuya Utagawa and Ayaka Miyamoto
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:33
  5. A notable decrease of groundwater Na/K ratios was observed several months before the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (M6.7) at a site approximately 20 km west of the earthquake’s epicenter. To investiga...

    Authors: Zahra Zandvakili, Yoshiro Nishio and Yuji Sano
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:32
  6. The Shuiluo River Catchment (SRC) is the front zone of the southeast compression and uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, with intense tectonic activity. In the basin, a series of regional large NW–SE trending activ...

    Authors: Wei Yao, Xiaoxi Lyu, Dongning Lei and Peng Wu
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:31
  7. The mid-Brunhes dissolution interval (MBDI; Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 13 to 7; ~ 533–191 ka) is characterized by various paleoclimatic/paleoceanographic events in the world. We investigated fossil deep-sea be...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Takata, Minoru Ikehara, Koji Seto, Hirofumi Asahi, Hyoun Soo Lim, Sangmin Hyun and Boo-Keun Khim
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:30
  8. The dynamics of waves and eddies in the upper ocean plays an important role in the climate variation of tropical and subtropical regions. Previous diagnoses for annual Rossby waves in oceanic model outputs man...

    Authors: Kaiwen Ye and Hidenori Aiki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:29
  9. The 1771 Meiwa tsunami which struck the southern Ryukyu Islands (Sakishima Islands) had greater than 22 m run-up height, leaving about 12,000 casualties in its wake. At many places, the tsunami inundation or l...

    Authors: Koki Nakata, Kazuhisa Goto and Hideaki Yanagisawa
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:28
  10. During their formation, terrestrial planets underwent a magma ocean phase during which their metallic cores segregated from their silicate mantles and their early atmospheres formed. These planetary formation ...

    Authors: Celia Dalou, Terry-Ann Suer, Laurent Tissandier, Weronika L. Ofierska, Alice Girani and Paolo A. Sossi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:27
  11. From 1998 to 2017, neutron monitors located at an altitude of 4300 m on the Tibetan plateau detected 127 long-duration bursts of high-energy radiation in association with thunderclouds. These bursts typically ...

    Authors: Harufumi Tsuchiya, Kinya Hibino, Kazumasa Kawata, Munehiro Ohnishi, Masato Takita, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Susumu Shimoda, Quanqi Shi, Shuo Wang, Chenyao Han and Liuming Zhai
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:26
  12. Using horizontal and vertical GNSS time series data from the GSI in sotheastern Kyushu from January 1, 2017 to June 30, 2022, we detected a recent long-term slow slip event (L-SSE) that occurred in the Hyuga-n...

    Authors: Hiroki Kawabata, Yukinari Seshimo, Shoichi Yoshioka and Francisco Ortega-Culaciati
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:24
  13. Observations over the last few decades from a number of orogenic systems have highlighted the possible importance of tectonic exhumation, i.e., ductile thinning and normal faulting, in exhuming rocks once buri...

    Authors: Timothy Byrne, Michael Chojnacki, Jonathan Lewis, Jian-Cheng Lee, Gong-Ruei Ho, En-Chao Yeh, Yuan-Hsi Lee, Chin-Ho Tsai, Mark Evans and Laura Webb
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:23
  14. We studied chromophoric (CDOM) and fluorescent (FDOM) dissolved organic matter (DOM) and dissolved organic carbon in surface waters to determine the factors controlling the geographical distribution of DOM alo...

    Authors: M. Shigemitsu, K. Sasaoka, M. Wakita, T. Yokokawa, T. Hashioka, K. Arulananthan and A. Murata
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:22
  15. Mangrove forests have unquestionably high environmental and ecological value. Mangrove trees are believed to have habitat zonation that is controlled mainly by the relative sea level. However, earlier discussi...

    Authors: Katsumi Kasai, Hideaki Yanagisawa and Kazuhisa Goto
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:21
  16. The analysis of eukaryotic environmental DNA (eDNA) in sediment has the potential for understanding past ecosystems, even for taxa lacking skeletons or preserved only as a part of necromass. Despite the paleoe...

    Authors: Tatsuhiko Hoshino and Fumio Inagaki
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:19

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  17. The Cardigan Bay Basin (UK) may have functioned as a deep and narrow strait, and thereby influenced Early Jurassic oceanic circulation through the northern and southern Laurasian Seaway, and between Boreal and...

    Authors: Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Alfred Uchman, Krzysztof Ninard, Kevin N. Page and Stephen P. Hesselbo
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:18
  18. Primary production in the Sea of Okhotsk is largely supported by dissolved iron (dFe) transported by the Amur river, indicating the importance of dFe discharge from terrestrial environments. However, little is...

    Authors: Yuto Tashiro, Tetsuya Hiyama, Hironari Kanamori and Masayuki Kondo
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:17
  19. Emerging large ensemble climate datasets produced by multiple general circulation models and their downscaling products challenge the limits of hydrodynamic models because of the immense data size. To overcome...

    Authors: Jiachao Chen, Takahiro Sayama, Masafumi Yamada and Yoshito Sugawara
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:16
  20. The determination of the temperature in and above the slab in subduction zones, using models where the top of the slab is precisely known, is important to test hypotheses regarding the causes of arc volcanism ...

    Authors: Nathan Sime, Cian R. Wilson and Peter E. van Keken
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:14
  21. Snow is the most important component of the Arctic climatic and hydrological system and is directly vulnerable to climate change. In recent decades, observations have indicated significant decreases in the Arc...

    Authors: Hotaek Park, Youngwook Kim, Kazuyoshi Suzuki and Tetsuya Hiyama
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:13
  22. The Strytan Hydrothermal Field (SHF) in basaltic terrain in Iceland is one of the extant alkaline submarine hydrothermal vent systems favoured as analogues for where life on Earth may have begun. To test this ...

    Authors: Carlos Gutiérrez-Ariza, Laura M. Barge, Yang Ding, Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Shawn Erin McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamura, Donato Giovanelli, Roy Price, Hye Eun Lee, F. Javier Huertas, C. Ignacio Sainz-Díaz and Julyan H. E. Cartwright
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:11
  23. Water is transported into the deep mantle by subducting slabs, playing important roles in mantle dynamics and evolution. An aluminous hydrous mineral, phase δ with a main component of AlOOH, has been considere...

    Authors: Takayuki Ishii, Giacomo Criniti, Narangoo Purevjav, Tomoo Katsura and Eiji Ohtani
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:10
  24. As a result of climate change, the pan-Arctic region has seen greater temperature increases than other geographical regions on the Earth’s surface. This has led to substantial changes in terrestrial ecosystems...

    Authors: Hiroki Mizuochi, Taiga Sasagawa, Akihiko Ito, Yoshihiro Iijima, Hotaek Park, Hirohiko Nagano, Kazuhito Ichii and Tetsuya Hiyama
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:9
  25. The Osaka Bay is situated at a seismically active region north of the Median Tectonic Line and east of Awaji Island in western Japan, known as part of the Kinki Triangle and the Niigata–Kobe Tectonic Zone. Den...

    Authors: Mari Hamahashi, Hironori Otsuka, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Jun Arimoto, Tetsuo Matsuno, Nobukazu Seama, Yuzuru Yamamoto, Hiroko Sugioka, Stephen A. Bowden, Satoshi Shimizu, Hikaru Iwamaru, Mamoru Sano, Keita Suzuki, Katsuya Kaneko, Kazuo Nakahigashi and Yoshiyuki Tatsumi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:8
  26. GRACE and GRACE Follow-On (FO) missions provide time-variable gravity field models of unprecedented quality that allow for the hydrological, oceanic, and ice mass change studies on a global scale. However, the...

    Authors: Filip Gałdyn and Krzysztof Sośnica
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:7
  27. Abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbon-bearing fluids during geological processes has a significant impact on the evolution of both the Earth's biosphere and the solid Earth. Aqueous alteration of ultramafic rocks, ...

    Authors: Hironobu Harada and Tatsuki Tsujimori
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:6
  28. Thermokarst development is a topographic change in the landscape that is commonly associated with permafrost degradation in ice-rich permafrost regions. The Lena-Aldan interfluvial area in Central Yakutia in e...

    Authors: Takahiro Abe and Yoshihiro Iijima
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:5
  29. Seismic techniques using earthquakes are powerful tools for exploring the Earth’s internal structure. However, the earthquake distribution limits the spatial resolution. In recent years, ambient noise surface ...

    Authors: Kiwamu Nishida, Ryota Takagi and Akiko Takeo
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:4
  30. Evaluating the mechanical properties of gas (primarily methane) hydrate-bearing sediments is essential for commercial production as a next-generation resource and understanding the global carbon cycle. Triaxia...

    Authors: Jun Yoneda, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Motoi Oshima, Michihiro Muraoka and Yusuke Jin
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:3
  31. The occurrence of earthquakes is now understood as brittle shear fracture releasing the elastic potential energy stored in the earth. Since the 1950s, many studies on the energy balance in earthquake faulting ...

    Authors: Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:2
  32. The purpose of this study is to clarify the vertical prokaryotic distribution in groundwater in a terrestrial subsurface sedimentary environment with a geological complex. Six groundwater samples were collecte...

    Authors: Ayumi Sugiyama, Tetsuo Ibara, Kazuyo Nagaosa, Atsunao Marui and Kenji Kato
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:1
  33. Polymodal particle size distributions are generally analyzed by separating them into lognormal distributions, but estimating the precise number of lognormal components required remains a considerable problem. ...

    Authors: Naofumi Yamaguchi
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:70
  34. In August 2021, rain front stagnation in Japan resulted in prolonged and disastrous rainfall across the entire country. During the heavy rainfall period, the large-scale atmospheric field over the East Asian–w...

    Authors: Masaya Kuramochi, Hiroaki Ueda, Tomoshige Inoue, Meiji Honda and Koutarou Takaya
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:69
  35. The thermal structure of subduction zones is fundamental to our understanding of the physical and chemical processes that occur at active convergent plate margins. These include magma generation and related ar...

    Authors: Cian R. Wilson and Peter E. van Keken
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:68
  36. InSAR time series analysis has become a major tool for nationwide land deformation monitoring. Sentinel-1 SAR data have enabled us to measure and monitor ground deformation globally with high accuracy and reso...

    Authors: Yu Morishita, Ryu Sugimoto, Ryosuke Nakamura, Chiaki Tsutsumi, Ryo Natsuaki and Masanobu Shimada
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:66
  37. A technique is developed to quantify the ultra-trace 231Pa (35–3904 ag) concentration in seawater using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). The method is a modification of th...

    Authors: Pu Zhang, Yanbin Lu, Zhe Zhang, Richard Lawrence Edwards, Robert Anderson and Phoebe Lam
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:65
  38. Understanding the provenance and sediment surface processes of the Mu Us sandy land (MU) is critical for comprehending aeolian deposits and dust transportation in inland Asia and the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP...

    Authors: Mengying He, Wanying Zhang, Bin Wang and Hongbo Zheng
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:63
  39. Igneous rocks associated with the Cretaceous to Paleogene volcanic arc in SW Japan show ages that young from west to east in a direction parallel to the Median Tectonic Line suggesting corresponding translatio...

    Authors: Ken Yamaoka and Simon R. Wallis
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:62
  40. This study examined the performance of an explicit bulk lightning model coupled with a meteorological model for forecasting lightning by numerical weather prediction over Japan. The evaluation was conducted by...

    Authors: Takumi Tomioka, Yousuke Sato, Syugo Hayashi, Satoru Yoshida and Takeshi Iwashita
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:60
  41. Together with rapid Arctic warming and sea ice decline, especially over the Barents–Kara seas (BKS), extreme cold winters have occurred frequently in mid-latitudes, particularly in Central Eurasia. A pattern w...

    Authors: Xiling Zhou, Tomonori Sato and Shixue Li
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:59
  42. The thermal structure of subduction zones is fundamental to our understanding of the physical and chemical processes that occur at active convergent plate margins. These include magma generation and related ar...

    Authors: Peter E. van Keken and Cian R. Wilson
    Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:57