A multi-decadal field dataset combined with reduced-complexity modeling approach highlights the importance of shoreline change in controlling alongshore variability of dune evolution.
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The Magnetic Face of Plasma Irregularities on Mars
Plasma density irregularity is nothing new on Mars, but the accompanying magnetic field irregularity observed on NASA’s MAVEN satellite is.
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Measuring What Matters: Farmer-Driven Sustainability Metrics
Working with farmers produces agricultural sustainability indicators that are more comprehensive, easier to use, and better for making decisions.
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Tectonics and Deglaciation Govern Eastern-Southern Alps at Slow Rates
Transnational, multiproxy, and interdisciplinary datasets locate seismic hazard and show that slow-rate tectonic and deglaciation deformation overrate mantle processes in the Southern-Eastern Alps.
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Why Channel Steepness Might Not Always Be What You Think it to Be
Channel steepness is a popular metric in most studies of tectonic geomorphology, but the simple and convenient method of defining channels in the first place may have overlooked a serious pitfall.
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Drought Extremes are Intensifying More Rapidly Than in the Past
Twenty ensemble members from a 600-year climate simulation reveal that drought extremes are intensifying more rapidly than in the past with respect to moderate droughts.
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How Fluid Mixing due to Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities Really Works
Physical oceanographers might have a misconception about the anatomy of mixing at realistic Reynolds numbers in this important type of shear instability.
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Streamflow From Generative AI
The trifecta of predicting, assimilating, and downscaling streamflow has arrived with generative diffusion AI models.
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Participation Challenges May Limit Conservation Incentive Programs
Landowners in North Carolina are interested in adopting conservation practices that reduce flood risk but are discouraged by time-consuming conservation programs that are difficult to navigate.
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Late Campanian Arabia-Eastern Anatolia Collision
New sediment-provenance data date the closure of the southern Neotethys and the Arabia–Eastern Anatolia collision to 74–71 million years ago, at least 25 million years earlier than previously estimated.