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Editors’ Highlights

Figure 1 from the paper, showing the depiction of a multiple-reservoir system and the system that is used in the computation of the index.
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A New Index to Assess Multiple-Reservoir Effects on Peak Floods

by Georgia Destouni 11 April 202220 May 2022

A simple, yet quantitative, index is demonstrated to quantify reductions in the peak flood resulting from multiple reservoirs, arranged in series along the same river reach.

Dynamic topography in the Banda arc and Weber Deep.
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Transient Mantle Flow Triggers Morphotectonic Activity in Asia

by Claudio Faccenna 8 April 20224 August 2023

Changes in mantle dynamics following the Australian collision in southeast Asia triggered fast and intense morphotectonic activity at the surface.

Two figures from the paper, showing the orbit path of Ice in the Mesosphere and graph showing the agreement of the daily PMC occurrence rates of the simultaneous observations from Himawari-8/AHI and AIM/Cloud Imaging and Particle Size data..
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New Technique Improves Polar Mesospheric Cloud Data Set

by Astrid Maute 7 April 202213 March 2023

A new two-step Polar Mesospheric Cloud detection technique is applied towards the Himawari-8/Advanced Himawari Imager full-disk images leading to a new high-quality dataset.

Maps of debris flow similarity index (DFSI) and the corresponding lengths of those debris flow channel segments.
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Debris Flows Keep the Landscape on the Straight and Narrow

by Adam Booth 6 April 20223 May 2022

New methods for identifying debris flow-shaped channels improve hazard quantification and highlight how high uplift rates and fractured bedrock facilitate debris flow-dominated landscape evolution.

Images showing sediment remobilized after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China.
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Moving Earthquake-Generated Sediment Through a Landscape

by Amy E. East 30 March 202229 June 2022

Ten years after the Wenchuan earthquake, most of the new sediment it produced remained on the landscape, indicating a long recovery time.

Map of the central-eastern Nepal Himalaya showing the locations of more than 12,800 landslides over a 30-year period.
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History Matters When Gauging Hillslope Susceptibility to Failure

by Matthew Brain 24 March 202212 April 2022

Using susceptibility models to forecast the potential locations of landslides is a key tool in mitigating landslide hazard, but are existing approaches appropriate in dynamic mountainous settings?

Conceptual diagram showing hydrological processes and biogeochemical and mineralogical reactions control mine-drainage behavior from a waste-rock pile.
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Predicting Discharge Chemistry in Mine-Waste Rocks

by Kamini Singha 23 March 202224 March 2022

Quantifying integrated hydrological processes, biogeochemical reactions, and mineralogical characteristics can help predict water quality and quantity for mine-waste rock piles.

Plot showing how the height of melting layer is higher than that of the freezing level in cyclones.
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Melting Layer Characteristics of Cyclones

by Jonathan H. Jiang 22 March 202213 March 2023

Dual‐frequency Precipitation Radar observations reveal the characteristics and microphysical processes of the melting layer in cyclone precipitation over the western North Pacific.

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Ice Begets Ice in the Clouds of the Southern Ocean

by Bjorn Stevens 17 March 202217 August 2022

Poorly understood ice multiplication processes, not aerosols, may determine the microphysical properties of climatologically important clouds over the Southern Ocean.

Plot showing results of using the new fingerprint analysis for global land mean near-surface air temperature for 6 CMIP6 models and the multi-model mean.
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Framework for Fingerprinting Human Influence on Climate

by Suzana Camargo 15 March 20221 June 2023

An optimal approach for detection and attribution studies using the CMIP6 Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP).

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