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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Shilong Piao, Yue He, Xuhui Wang, Fahu Chen
Summary: The article reviews the principles, frameworks and methods of estimating carbon sink in China's terrestrial ecosystems, as well as identifying key issues for improving accuracy and precision in order to serve more realistic policy making towards achieving carbon neutrality in China.
SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Javid Moosavi, Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard, Maxim A. Dulebenets
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted supply chains worldwide. This study utilizes bibliometric, network, and thematic analyses to identify influential contributors, research streams, and disruption management strategies related to supply chain performance in the context of COVID-19. The primary themes identified are resilience and sustainability, with major research areas focused on food, health-related supply chains, and technology-aided tools such as AI, IoT, and blockchains.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
David R. Themens, Chris Watson, Nedjeljka Zagar, Sergiy Vasylkevych, Sean Elvidge, Anthony McCaffrey, Paul Prikryl, Ben Reid, Alan Wood, P. T. Jayachandran
Summary: This study uses measurements from globally distributed Global Navigation Satellite System receivers to track the progression of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) associated with the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano. The results demonstrate the global impact of the Tonga eruption on the ionospheric state.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Lin Ding, Paul Kapp, Fulong Cai, Carmala N. Garzione, Zhongyu Xiong, Houqi Wang, Chao Wang
Summary: This review discusses the temporal and spatial distribution of surface uplift in the Tibetan Plateau and the geodynamic mechanisms behind it. The initial collision between India and Asia and the subsequent formation of the high Tibetan Plateau are still not well understood, but the uplift is primarily controlled by delamination and break-off of the subducted Indian and Asian lithosphere.
NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Libo Wang, Rui Li, Ce Zhang, Shenghui Fang, Chenxi Duan, Xiaoliang Meng, Peter M. Atkinson
Summary: This paper discusses the importance of semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images in practical applications, and highlights the advantages of using Transformer and the proposed UNetFormer model for real-time segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that UNetFormer achieves faster inference speed and higher accuracy compared to state-of-the-art lightweight models.
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Yi Xue, Jia Liu, P. G. Ranjith, Zhizhen Zhang, Feng Gao, Songhe Wang
Summary: This study conducted triaxial compression tests on coal under different gas pressure conditions to explore the influence mechanism of gas pressure on coal deformation, failure, and energy evolution. The mechanical properties, acoustic emission energy characteristics, and nonlinear characteristics of coal containing gas were obtained based on the test data. A theoretical formula for analyzing energy evolution was introduced and verified by test data. The research results indicate that energy rate can be used as a new effective mechanical parameter to analyze and predict the damage and failure characteristics of coal. The findings on energy dissipation characteristics and the defined ratio of dissipative energy rate and input energy rate provide insights for understanding the fracturing evolution and energy driving mechanism of coal.
BULLETIN OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Geological
Jincheng Fang, Gangqiang Kong, Qing Yang
Summary: Energy piles, a type of dual-purpose heat exchanger, have gained attention due to increasing energy demand and carbon emissions. Cyclic and variable thermal loadings can affect the stress and settlement of energy pile groups.
JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Angel Amores, Sebastian Monserrat, Marta Marcos, Daniel Argueso, Joan Villalonga, Gabriel Jorda, Damia Gomis
Summary: On 15 January 2022, the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano in the South Pacific Ocean resulted in a violent underwater explosion, causing tsunami waves and atmospheric pressure disturbances. Numerical simulation shows an excellent agreement between the simulated wave arrival time and observations.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Xin Zhao, Xiaowei Ma, Yuping Shang, Zhenhuang Yang, Umer Shahzad
Summary: This study measures and analyzes the green economic growth of 286 prefecture-level cities in China using a newly constructed DEA model, and the results show the most significant improvement in the northeast and eastern coastal cities. The study finds that the innovation effect is the primary factor driving growth.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Romain Millan, Jeremie Mouginot, Antoine Rabatel, Mathieu Morlighem
Summary: This study provides high-resolution mapping of ice motion and thickness for glaciers worldwide, and estimates the global ice volume. The results show that the contribution of world's glaciers to sea-level rise is 20% less than previously thought. Additionally, there are notable changes in ice resources in low latitude regions, with an increase of 37% in the Himalayas and a decrease of 27% in the tropical Andes of South America, which affects water availability for local populations.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Junqiang Yao, Yaning Chen, Xuefeng Guan, Yong Zhao, Jing Chen, Weiyi Mao
Summary: Xinjiang, China, has experienced significant warming and moistening climate changes, leading to increases in precipitation and warm extremes, as well as decreases in cold extremes. These climate changes have resulted in glacier shrinkage, decreased snow cover, increased river runoff, and potential adverse ecological effects.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Geological
Huajin Li, Yusen He, Qiang Xu, Jiahao Deng, Weile Li, Yong Wei
Summary: Landslides are catastrophic natural hazards that can cause loss of life, property damage, and economic disruption. In this study, an image-based two-phase data-driven framework is proposed for detecting and segmenting landslide regions using satellite images. This framework outperforms other benchmarking algorithms in accurately segmenting landslides.
Article
Engineering, Geological
Dan Ma, Hongyu Duan, Jixiong Zhang, Xianwei Liu, Zhenhua Li
Summary: A one-dimensional radial three-phase flow model of water-rock-silt was established to investigate the hydraulic characteristics of fault rock during water-silt inrush. The accuracy of the proposed model was verified through laboratory tests and the temporal-spatial distribution of hydraulic properties was obtained.
ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Deonie Allen, Steve Allen, Sajjad Abbasi, Alex Baker, Melanie Bergmann, Janice Brahney, Tim Butler, Robert A. Duce, Sabine Eckhardt, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Tim Jickells, Maria Kanakidou, Peter Kershaw, Paolo Laj, Joseph Levermore, Daoji Li, Peter Liss, Kai Liu, Natalie Mahowald, Pere Masque, Dusan Materic, Andrew G. Mayes, Paul McGinnity, Iolanda Osvath, Kimberly A. Prather, Joseph M. Prospero, Laura E. Revell, Sylvia G. Sander, Won Joon Shim, Jonathan Slade, Ariel Stein, Oksana Tarasova, Stephanie Wright
Summary: The study analyzes the processes and fluxes of the marine-atmospheric micro(nano)plastic cycle and highlights the limited observations. A global observation strategy for marine-atmospheric micro(nano)plastics is proposed to address the uncertainties and knowledge gaps.
NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Amirhosein Mosavi, Mohammad Golshan, Saeid Janizadeh, Bahram Choubin, Assefa M. Melesse, Adrienn A. Dineva
Summary: This study proposes novel predictive models for flood and erosion susceptibility mapping in mountainous watersheds. The study also prioritizes the existing sub-basins based on their susceptibility to erosion and flood. A comparative analysis of different models and their ensemble is performed to determine the best model for predicting susceptibility. The results show that the ensemble model has the highest predictive performance and the sub-basins SW3 and SW5 are identified as highly sensitive to flood and soil erosion, respectively.
GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
James L. Carr, Akos Horvath, Dong L. Wu, Mariel D. Friberg
Summary: Stereo methods using GOES-17 and Himawari-8 satellites revealed that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic plume reached a record altitude of 50-55 km on January 15, 2022. This information is crucial for understanding plume height, dispersion, transport in the stratosphere, and climate impacts.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Diego M. Botin-Sanabria, Adriana-Simona Mihaita, Rodrigo E. Peimbert-Garcia, Mauricio A. Ramirez-Moreno, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza, Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos
Summary: A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object or process that collects information from the real environment to validate and simulate its present and future behavior. It plays a crucial role in data-driven decision making, complex systems monitoring, product validation and simulation, and object lifecycle management.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Matias Carvajal, Ignacio Sepulveda, Alejandra Gubler, Rene Garreaud
Summary: The 2022 Tonga tsunami, triggered by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, was characterized by small leading waves arriving earlier than expected, while the largest waves were concentrated in the Pacific region and their timing coincided with tsunami propagation times from the volcano.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Muhammad Ali, Nilesh Kumar Jha, Nilanjan Pal, Alireza Keshavarz, Hussein Hoteit, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Summary: The oxidation of fossil fuels leads to significant CO2 emissions, contributing to global warming. Storing CO2 in underground formations is a potential solution, but the presence of organic material in geological formations affects storage potential. Studying the wetting characteristics and the impact of organic material is crucial for understanding CO2 behavior and enhancing storage capacity.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Miaogen Shen, Shiping Wang, Nan Jiang, Jianping Sun, Ruyin Cao, Xiaofang Ling, Bo Fang, Lei Zhang, Lihao Zhang, Xiyan Xu, Wangwang Lv, Baolin Li, Qingling Sun, Fandong Meng, Yuhao Jiang, Tsechoe Dorji, Yongshuo Fu, Amy Iler, Yann Vitasse, Heidi Steltzer, Zhenming Ji, Wenwu Zhao, Shilong Piao, Bojie Fu
Summary: Warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are causing changes in vegetation phenology, with the start of the growing season advancing and the end of season delaying. These changes could impact land surface and atmospheric processes, species interactions, and regional climate patterns.
NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
