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Open AccessEffectiveness of Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Projects in restoration of forests in Pakistan
The history of forest cover dynamics in Pakistan reveals an unsatisfactory environmental situation. In the past 5 decades, particularly during the period between 1990 and 2010, the country lost an average of 4...
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Open AccessHigh-resolution temporal gravity field data products: Monthly mass grids and spherical harmonics from 1994 to 2021
Since April 2002, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE-FO (FollowOn) satellite gravimetry missions have provided precious data for monitoring mass variations within the hydrosphere, cryosp...
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On the harmonic correction in the gravity field determination
The “non-harmonicity” problem in residual terrain modelling (RTM) is a challenging issue, causing errors exceeding 200 mGal in the RTM gravity anomaly in rugged areas. Although various methods have been propos...
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Interannual variability of vertical land motion over High Mountain Central Asia from GPS and GRACE/GRACE-FO observations
Vertical land motion (VLM) involves complex nonlinear geophysical signals, including periodic oscillations and long-term trend. Analyzing the spatial variation characteristics of VLM at different timescales is...
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Open AccessA triaxial reference ellipsoid for the Earth
We present a new, physically motivated triaxial reference ellipsoid for the Earth. It is an equipotential surface in the gravity field and closely approximates the geoid, akin to the conventional reference ell...
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Altimeter-derived marine gravity variations reveal the magma mass motions within the subaqueous Nishinoshima volcano, Izu–Bonin Arc, Japan
Variations of marine gravity reflect mass changes in Earth’s interior, including magma motions during volcanic eruption, which manifest in submarine mass transports. Absolute gravimeters have been used to dete...
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Quality assessment of global gravity field models in coastal zones: A case study using astrogeodetic vertical deflections in Istanbul, Turkey
We present the first high-precision astrogeodetic vertical deflection (VD) observations collected in Istanbul, Turkey, using a novel lightweight total station integrated with a charge-coupled device (CCD) came...
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Satellite altimetry for measuring river stages in remote regions
The advent in satellite altimetry with the most accurate satellite radar altimeter since 1992 and its successive missions have enabled the routine global monitoring of water-level (or stage) for surface waters...
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Open AccessDevelo** a Complex Independent Component Analysis (CICA) Technique to Extract Non-stationary Patterns from Geophysical Time Series
In recent decades, decomposition techniques have enabled increasingly more applications for dimension reduction, as well as extraction of additional information from geophysical time series. Traditionally, the...
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Open AccessRecent high-resolution Antarctic ice velocity maps reveal increased mass loss in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
We constructed Antarctic ice velocity maps from Landsat 8 images for the years 2014 and 2015 at a high spatial resolution (100 m). These maps were assembled from 10,690 scenes of displacement vectors inferred ...
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Synthesis of Material Interception Networks with P-Graph
A P-graph model was recently developed for direct reuse/recycle scheme for both in-plant resource conservation networks (RCNs) and inter-plant RCNs (IPRCNs). The proposed P-graph model allows visualization which ...
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Synthesis of Resource Conservation Networks with P-Graph Approach—Direct Reuse/Recycle
The need for climate change adaptation in industry has led to intensified research in industrial resource conservation, as well as waste reduction, to enable sustainable operations to be achieved even under co...
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Open AccessTime-varying land subsidence detected by radar altimetry: California, Taiwan and north China
Contemporary applications of radar altimetry include sea-level rise, ocean circulation, marine gravity and icesheet elevation change. Unlike InSAR and GNSS, which are widely used to map surface deformation, al...
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Open AccessMoho topography, ranges and folds of Tibet by analysis of global gravity models and GOCE data
The determination of the crustal structure is essential in geophysics, as it gives insight into the geohistory, tectonic environment, geohazard mitigation, etc. Here we present the latest advance on three-dime...
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Tidal river management in Bangladesh
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On the energy integral formulation of gravitational potential differences from satellite-to-satellite tracking
Two approaches have been formulated to compute the gravitational potential difference using low–low satellite-to-satellite tracking data based on energy integral: one in the geocentric inertial reference syste...
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Gravity Changes over Russian River Basins from GRACE
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) twin satellites have been observing the mass transports of the Earth inferred by the monthly gravity field solutions in terms of spherical harmonic coefficients ...
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Multivariate Prediction of Total Water Storage Changes Over West Africa from Multi-Satellite Data
West African countries have been exposed to changes in rainfall patterns over the last decades, including a significant negative trend. This causes adverse effects on water resources of the region, for instanc...
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Erratum to: Assessing consistency of Chang’E-1 and SELENE reference frames using nearly-colocated laser altimetry footprint positions
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Assessing consistency of Chang’E-1 and SELENE reference frames using nearly-colocated laser altimetry footprint positions
The consistency of the Chang’E-1 and SELENE reference frames as realized by the footprint positions of laser altimetry measurements of the lunar surface during both missions was analyzed using a global 12-para...
