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Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:25
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Detection of a recent large Hyuga-nada long-term slow slip event and estimation of its spatiotemporal slip distributions
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:24 -
Tectonic exhumation of a metamorphic core in an arc-continent collision during oblique convergence, Taiwan
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:23 -
Controlling factors of latitudinal distribution of dissolved organic matter in the upper layers of the Indian Ocean
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:22 -
Quantification of the spatial distribution of individual mangrove tree species derived from LiDAR point clouds
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:21 -
Phase diagram and density of SiO2–H2O fluid across critical conditions
The SiO2–H2O binary system serves as a basis for understanding complex silicate-water systems. In this study, based on limited existing experimental data of solubility, we propose a new thermodynamic model for Si...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:20 -
Distribution of eukaryotic environmental DNA in global subseafloor sediments
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:19 -
Early Jurassic extrinsic solar system dynamics versus intrinsic Earth processes: Toarcian sedimentation and benthic life in deep-sea contourite drift facies, Cardigan Bay Basin, UK
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:18 -
Impact of permafrost degradation on the extreme increase of dissolved iron concentration in the Amur river during 1995–1997
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:17 -
Regional event-based flood quantile estimation method for large climate projection ensembles
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:16 -
Impact of the Kuroshio large meander on local atmospheric circulation and precipitation in winter
The Kuroshio, which flows to the south of Japan, typically takes two paths on decadal timescales; the straight path and the large meander path, or the so-called Kuroshio large meander. This phenomenon is chara...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:15 -
Thermal modeling of subduction zones with prescribed and evolving 2D and 3D slab geometries
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 ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:14 -
Influence of snowmelt on increasing Arctic river discharge: numerical evaluation
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:13 -
Troposphere delay modeling in SLR based on PMF, VMF3o, and meteorological data
Satellite laser ranging (SLR) requires accurate troposphere delay models to properly correct the observed distances to satellites and derive fundamental geodetic and geodynamic parameters. The currently used m...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:12 -
Magnesium silicate chimneys at the Strytan hydrothermal field, Iceland, as analogues for prebiotic chemistry at alkaline submarine hydrothermal vents on the early Earth
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 ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:11 -
Hydrogen partitioning between stishovite and hydrous phase δ: implications for water cycle and distribution in the lower mantle
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:10 -
Creation and environmental applications of 15-year daily inundation and vegetation maps for Siberia by integrating satellite and meteorological datasets
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:9 -
Shallow structure and late quaternary slip rate of the Osaka Bay fault, western Japan
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:8 -
Impact of the combination and replacement of SLR-based low-degree gravity field coefficients in GRACE solutions
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:7 -
Methane genesis within olivine-hosted fluid inclusions in dolomitic marble of the Hida Belt, Japan
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, ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:6 -
Ground subsidence and polygon development due to thermokarst in the Lena-Aldan interfluve, eastern Siberia, revealed by satellite remote sensing data
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:5 -
Ambient noise multimode surface wave tomography
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 ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:4 -
Empirical evaluation of the strength and deformation characteristics of natural and synthetic gas hydrate-bearing sediments with different ranges of porosity, hydrate saturation, effective stress, and strain rate
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:3 -
Reconsideration of the energy balance in earthquake faulting
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 ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:2 -
A unique prokaryotic vertical distribution in the groundwaters of deep sedimentary geological settings in Hokkaido, Japan
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2024 11:1 -
Validation of appropriate estimation criteria for the number of components for separating a polymodal grain-size distribution into lognormal distributions
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. ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:70 -
Coherent amplification of the Okhotsk high, Korean trough, and northwestern Pacific subtropical high during heavy rainfall over Japan in August 2021
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:69 -
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: II—numerical approach and validation
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:68 -
Comparison of the LBM snowdrift model output with the observation results
In this work, snowdrift experiments which are equivalent to one drifting snow event are performed by the snowdrift model. The model consisted of the computational fluid dynamics part of the large-eddy simulati...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:67 -
Nationwide urban ground deformation in Japan for 15 years detected by ALOS and Sentinel-1
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:66 -
Improvements in the determination of attogram-sized 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater via multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:65 -
Ancient slabs beneath Arctic and surroundings: Izanagi, Farallon, and in-betweens
A detailed 3-D tomographic model of the whole mantle beneath the northern hemisphere (north of ~ 30°N latitude) is obtained by inverting a large amount of P-wave arrival time data (P, pP, and PP) to investigate t...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:64 -
Provenance differentiation and earth surface process of the Mu Us sandy land constrained by detrital zircon U–Pb dating
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:63 -
Clockwise rotation of SW Japan and timing of Izanagi–Pacific ridge subduction revealed by arc migration
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:62 -
Recent progress in research on source processes of great earthquakes using tsunami data
This paper provides an overview of inverse studies that estimate earthquake source processes using tsunami-related data. Methods and techniques developed with those data associated with the 2004 Sumatra and 20...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:61 -
Advantage of bulk lightning models for predicting lightning frequency over Japan
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:60 -
Interannual variation of the Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasia pattern modulated by Ural blocking and the North Atlantic Oscillation under changing sea ice conditions
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:59 -
Rhenium solubility and speciation in aqueous fluids at high temperature and pressure
In order to characterize rhenium transport via infiltration of fluids in the Earth's interior, the solubility and solution mechanisms of ReO2 in aqueous fluids were determined to 900 °C and about 1710 MPa by usin...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:58 -
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: III—Comparison between models and observations
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...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:57 -
Seismic noise between 0.003 Hz and 1.0 Hz and its classification
It is now established that the primary microseism, the secondary microseisms, and the hum are the three main components of seismic noise in the frequency band from about 0.003 Hz to 1.0 Hz. Monthly averages of...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:56 -
Integrated impact assessment of climate change and hydropower operation on streamflow and inundation in the lower Mekong Basin
Water resources are key to economic development of the Mekong River Basin, but are threatened by climate change and affected by hydropower development. Knowledge of these drivers’ integrated impact on future h...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:55 -
Assessing the impact of climate change on sediment discharge using a large ensemble rainfall dataset in Pekerebetsu River basin, Hokkaido
Increased rainfall associated with climate change can increase sediment discharge. The supply of fine sediment from slope failures inhibits bed armoring of mountain rivers and increases sediment discharge to t...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:54 -
Space and atmospheric physics on Svalbard: a case for continued incoherent scatter radar measurements under the cusp and in the polar cap boundary region
Incoherent scatter radars (ISRs) represent the only instrument (both ground and space based) capable of making high temporal and spatial resolution measurements of multiple atmospheric parameters—such as dens...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:53 -
Sensitivity of slip distribution on tsunami trace heights and geological evidences: a case study of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
We examined whether it is possible to estimate the tsunami source model of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from a comparison of numerical simulations of tsunami propagation and sediment transport, the measured ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:52 -
Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications
This study estimates the timing of unconformity between marine–continental transitional sequence of the Kuldana Formation and continental sequence of the Murree Formation for the first time across the Hazara-K...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:51 -
The nature of the Pacific plate as subduction inputs to the northeastern Japan arc and its implication for subduction zone processes
Devastating megathrust earthquakes and slow earthquakes both occur along subducting plate interfaces. These interplate seismic activities are strongly dependent on the nature of the plate interface, such as th...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:50 -
Marine inundation history during the last 3000 years at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan
Sediment cores collected at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan, record the marine inundation history during the last 3000 years. The sediments consist mainly of organic mud, ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:49 -
Recent global nonhydrostatic modeling approach without using a cumulus parameterization to understand the mechanisms underlying cloud changes due to global warming
Clouds are the primary source of uncertainty in the prediction of climate change. To reduce the uncertainty of cloud simulations and overcome this difficulty in prediction, many climate modeling centers are no...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:48 -
K-feldspar enrichment in the Pacific pelagic sediments before Miocene
The mineralogy of atmospheric silicate dust controls its interaction with clouds. K-feldspar has a remarkably high ice-nucleating activity, and its distribution may have influenced the global climate throughou...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:47 -
Features of the Earth’s seasonal hydroclimate: characterizations and comparisons across the Köppen–Geiger climates and across continents
Detailed investigations of time series features across climates, continents and variable types can progress our understanding and modelling ability of the Earth’s hydroclimate and its dynamics. They can also i...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:46