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An elongated, flat-floored basin, located in the northern part of Terra Sirenum on Mars, holds numerous enigmatic mounds (100 m wide) on the surface of its floor. We investigated their geological context, spat...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:26
Published on: 11 September 2017
Methodology
This paper describes a remotely operated investigation system developed by combining a modern leisure-use fish finder and an unmanned watercraft to survey water bottom topography and other data related to bott...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:25
Published on: 8 September 2017
Review
This review summarizes the knowledge of Mars’ interior structure, its inferred composition, and the anticipated seismological properties arising from its composition with particular focus on Mars’ core. The em...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:24
Published on: 6 September 2017
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The study used a 5 km-resolution regional climate model, the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model, to quantify the potential impact of sea surface temperature (SST) west of the Philippines ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:23
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Crustal magnetization of rocks in regions of Mars surface testifies to an era of dynamo activity. I examine the possibility that the dynamo that operated then, in the first 400–600 Ma after Mars formed, was po...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:21
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Instrumental and proxy records indicate remarkable global climate variability over the last millennium, influenced by solar irradiance, Earth’s orbital parameters, volcanic eruptions and human activities. Nume...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:22
Published on: 4 August 2017
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Submarine landslides are major agents of sediment mass transfer from the shallow to deep sea. Due to their rapid emplacement and tsunamigenic potential, such landslides are significant geohazards for society a...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:20
Published on: 25 July 2017
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The Shigaraki unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-Radar Experiment (ShUREX) is an international (USA-Japan-France) observational campaign, whose overarching goal is to demonstrate the utility of small, lightweight, ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:19
Published on: 17 July 2017
Review
The transfer (accretion) of materials from a subducting oceanic plate to a subduction-accretionary complex has produced rock assemblages recording the history of the subducted oceanic plate from formation to a...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:18
Published on: 7 July 2017
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We investigated the influence of slight thinning (percentage of woods: 16.6%, basal area: 9.3%) on landscape appreciation and the psychological restorative effect of an on-site setting by exposing respondents ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:17
Published on: 28 June 2017
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Dust and water vapor are important constituents in the Martian atmosphere, exerting significant influence on the heat balance of the atmosphere and surface. We have developed a method to retrieve optical and p...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:16
Published on: 21 June 2017
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The dips of boundaries in faults and caldera walls play an important role in understanding their formation mechanisms. The fault dip is a particularly important parameter in numerical simulations for hazard ma...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:15
Published on: 2 June 2017
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:14
Published on: 9 May 2017
Review
This article reviews the major outcomes of a 5-year (2011–2016) project using the K computer to perform global numerical atmospheric simulations based on the non-hydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICA...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:13
Published on: 28 April 2017
Review
We review studies of intermediate-depth seismicity and seismic imaging of the interior of subducting slabs in relation to slab metamorphism and their implications for the genesis of intermediate-depth earthqua...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:12
Published on: 10 April 2017
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The phase and melting relations in the Fe–S–Si system were determined up to 60 GPa by using a double-sided laser-heated diamond anvil cell combined with X-ray diffraction. On the basis of the X-ray diffraction...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:10
Published on: 31 March 2017
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For mid-latitude Rossby waves (RWs) in the atmosphere, the expression for the energy flux for use in a model diagnosis, and without relying on a Fourier analysis or a ray theory, has previously been derived us...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:11
Published on: 31 March 2017
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:9
Published on: 29 March 2017
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Gravity currents with various contrasting densities play a role in mass transport in a number of geophysical situations. The ratio of the density of the current, ρ c, to the density of the...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:8
Published on: 28 March 2017
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The coastal areas of the Sea of Japan are a well-known hotspot of winter lightning activity. This study distinguishes between three common types of winter lightning in that region (types A–C), based on their f...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:7
Published on: 27 March 2017
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High-resolution mapping along the coast and time-series measurements of the radon-222 (222Rn) concentrations in the shallow zone in a semi-enclosed sea, Obama Bay, Japan, were undertaken in 2013. The temporal and...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:6
Published on: 24 March 2017
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) account for a large part of modern climate variability. Over the last decades, understanding of these modes of climate variabil...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:5
Published on: 22 March 2017
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The Asian summer monsoon exerts a strong influence on the hydrologic cycle in East Asia. Moreover, the distribution of heavy precipitation in the Yangtze River basin, which covers a large area of South China, ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:4
Published on: 22 February 2017
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A small mud volcano in Murono, Niigata Prefecture, north-central Japan, shows active ground surface displacements, not only when large earthquakes occur in the region but also during quiescent periods between ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:3
Published on: 7 February 2017
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In this study, a new method is proposed for the depiction of the atmospheric transportation of the 137Cs emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. This method employs a combination of the...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:2
Published on: 23 January 2017
