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Top 5 Weekly Downloads (Across all Journals)

(1662) Two- and three-dimensional thermal modeling of a low-angle detachment: Exhumation history of the Simplon Fault Zone, central Alps

(1562) Comparison of bulk sea surface and mixed layer temperatures

(784) Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

(668) Precursory seismic anomalies and transient crustal deformation prior to the 2008 Mw = 6.9 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku, Japan, earthquake

(621) Spatial variation of the crustal stress field along the Ryukyu-Taiwan-Luzon convergent boundary

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

(101) Ocean carbon cycling in the Indian Ocean: 1. Spatiotemporal variability of inorganic carbon and air-sea CO2 gas exchange

(48) Ongoing transients in carbonate compensation

(46) Nitrogen and carbon interactions between boreal soils and lakes

(40) Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components along a 3000 m altitudinal tropical forest gradient

(39) Impact of climate change and variability on the global oceanic sink of CO2

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

(66) Synthetic aperture radar interferometry observations of the M = 6.0 Orta earthquake of 6 June 2000 (NW Turkey): Reactivation of a listric fault

(42) Seismic tremor at the 9°50′N East Pacific Rise eruption site

(36) Nonlinear attenuation and rock damage during strong seismic ground motions

(33) Real contacts and evolution laws for rate and state friction

(32) Effects of normal stress perturbations on the frictional properties of simulated faults

Geophysical Research Letters

(129) On the control of glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 variations by the Southern Hemisphere westerlies

(102) Cryo-hydrologic warming: A potential mechanism for rapid thermal response of ice sheets

(96) Consistency of global satellite-derived aerosol and cloud data sets with recent brightening observations

(87) Land-atmosphere coupling explains the link between pan evaporation and actual evapotranspiration trends in a changing climate

(82) Global depletion of groundwater resources

Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres

(784) Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

(82) Primary and secondary organic aerosols in urban air masses intercepted at a rural site

(80) Chemistry-climate model simulations of spring Antarctic ozone

(63) Evolution of individual snowflakes during metamorphism

(60) Decline and recovery of total column ozone using a multimodel time series analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research — Biogeosciences

(60) Carbon cycle data assimilation with a generic phenology model

(42) A validation of heat and carbon fluxes from high-resolution land surface and regional models

(36) A dynamic organic soil biogeochemical model for simulating the effects of wildfire on soil environmental conditions and carbon dynamics of black spruce forests

(20) The arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts

(16) Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

Journal of Geophysical Research — Earth Surface

(49) The perfect debris flow? Aggregated results from 28 large-scale experiments

(44) Inception of stream incision by seepage erosion

(33) Turbulence characteristics of flow over a series of 2-D bed forms in the presence of surface waves

(21) Constraining MODIS snow albedo at large solar zenith angles: Implications for the surface energy budget in Greenland

(18) Tectonics, fracturing of rock, and erosion

Journal of Geophysical Research — Oceans

(1562) Comparison of bulk sea surface and mixed layer temperatures

(461) Satellite-based high-resolution global optimum interpolation sea surface temperature data

(238) A diurnal-cycle resolving sea surface temperature product for the tropical Atlantic

(196) Evaluation of in situ sea surface temperatures for use in the calibration and validation of satellite retrievals

(142) Observations of near-inertial current variability on the New England shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research — Solid Earth

(1662) Two- and three-dimensional thermal modeling of a low-angle detachment: Exhumation history of the Simplon Fault Zone, central Alps

(668) Precursory seismic anomalies and transient crustal deformation prior to the 2008 Mw = 6.9 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku, Japan, earthquake

(621) Spatial variation of the crustal stress field along the Ryukyu-Taiwan-Luzon convergent boundary

(591) Evaluation and optimization of seismic networks and algorithms for earthquake early warning – the case of Istanbul (Turkey)

(407) Crustal thicknesses and Poisson's ratios in the eastern Tibetan Plateau and their tectonic implications

Journal of Geophysical Research — Planets

(41) Sinuous gullies on Mars: Frequency, distribution, and implications for flow properties

(30) Numerical modeling of Martian gully sediment transport: Testing the fluvial hypothesis

(25) Event and conditions that produced the iron meteorite Block Island on Mars

(21) Geologic context of proposed chloride-bearing materials on Mars

(16) Saturn's emitted power

Journal of Geophysical Research — Space Physics

(53) Solar wind driving of magnetospheric ULF waves: Field line resonances driven by dynamic pressure fluctuations

(43) Seasonal and hemispheric variations of the total auroral precipitation energy flux from TIMED/GUVI

(39) Observations of prolific transient luminous event production above a mesoscale convective system in Argentina during the Sprite2006 Campaign in Brazil

(38) Long-term change in thermospheric temperature above Saint Santin

(32) Correlation between the ionospheric WN4 signature and the upper atmospheric DE3 tide

Paleoceanography

(41) South Pacific intermediate water oxygen depletion at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum as depicted in New Zealand margin sections

(38) Pleistocene water cycle and eastern boundary current processes along the California continental margin

(36) Sensitivity of Red Sea circulation to monsoonal variability during the Holocene: An integrated data and modeling study

(30) Ensemble, water isotope–enabled, coupled general circulation modeling insights into the 8.2 ka event

(27) Orbital-scale timing and mechanisms driving Late Pleistocene Indo-Asian summer monsoons: Reinterpreting cave speleothem δ18O

Radio Science

(28) Characteristics of the equatorial ionization anomaly in relation to the day-to-day variability of ionospheric irregularities around the postsunset period

(12) Numerical and experimental study of the voltage excited along a slotline by a current source

(11) Trends in the incidence of rain rates associated with outages on fixed links operating above 10 GHz in the southern United Kingdom

(10) A new technique for absolute total electron content determination using the CITRIS instrument on STPSat1 and the CERTO beacons on COSMIC

(9) An FFT-based Kirchhoff integral technique for the simulation of radio waves in complex environments

Reviews of Geophysics

(43) A comprehensive approach to monitoring volcano deformation as a window on the eruption cycle

(15) Subduction zones

(13) Atmospheric bridge, oceanic tunnel, and global climatic teleconnections

(12) Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

(9) WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES

Space Weather

(30) Space Weather in Focus: A Decade in Review

(17) Forecasting Solar Cycle 24 using the relationship between cycle length and maximum sunspot number

(16) Spacecraft Charging and Mitigation

(9) An anatomy of space weather's electricity market impact: Case of the PJM power grid and the performance of its 500 kV transformers

(9) Proposed U.S. Space Weather Budget for Fiscal Year 2011 Would Fund Key Programs

Tectonics

(36) The M

(28) Late Miocene high and rapid surface uplift and its erosional response in the Andes of central Chile (33°–35°S)

(23) Grenville Front zone, Gagnon terrane, southwestern Labrador: Configuration of a midcrustal foreland fold-thrust belt

(21) Lithospheric structure of the Gorringe Bank: Insights into its origin and tectonic evolution

(21) Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the timing of extension along the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province and distribution of dextral fault slip rates across the eastern California shear zone

Water Resources Research

(92) Hydrodynamic factors affecting the persistence of the Exxon Valdez oil in a shallow bedrock beach

(68) Modeling hydrologic and water quality extremes in a changing climate: A statistical approach based on extreme value theory

(53) Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: A new model incorporating mobile and immobile water

(52) Determination of pore size distribution and hydraulic properties using nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry: A comparative study of laboratory methods

(50) HYPROM hydrology surface-runoff prognostic model