Earth

Groundwater beneath the seafloor in many of the world’s continental shelves has salinities well below that of seawater. Increasingly, there is pressure to tap into…
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One of the key problems related to safety and human life is the emissions of hazardous substances into the atmosphere from point sources, which are…
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The Great Lakes are an important resource to the population living in the US and Canada. They provide drinking water and feed the agricultural lands….
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A worldwide, increasing trend of intense precipitation events under the influence of global warming has been indicated by scientists, exerting devastating effects on human beings….
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Several studies have found that both hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) are occurring more often and are becoming more intense in some regions of the…
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Rainfall is the main driver of the hydrological cycle. Its estimation is fundamental in many applications like climate monitoring, extreme weather prediction, and weather forecasting….
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A natural river often forms as a meandering channel to maintain a balance between bed erosion and sediment deposition. On both sides of a river,…
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The Hurst phenomenon is a behavior observed in geophysical processes in which wet or dry years are clustered during long time periods. A common practice for…
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Temperature anomalies, especially temperature extremes, have received increasing attention due to their potentially severe impacts on ecosystems, economy, and human health. The impacts of historical…
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Global warming enables atmosphere to hold more water and accelerates the global water cycle. The warmer air provides more moisture to rainfall events and leads…
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Atmospheric aerosols, both scattering and absorbing types, arising from different natural and anthropogenic emission sources are known to influence the Earth’s radiation budget through direct…
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