Assessing inter-basin groundwater input to the Verlorenvlei estuarine lake using stable isotopes and hydrochemistry by A. Welham, J. van Rooyen, A. Watson, J. Miller, R. Chow

“…Furthermore, Verlorenvlei experiences high evaporation (evaporation best fit line: δ2H = 12.49 x δ18O - 47.68, average δ2H value of 47.1 ‰ and average δ18O value of 7.64 ‰) compared to its feeding rivers. …”
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Training systems affect spatial distribution of Korla fragrant pear (Pyrus sinkiangensis Yu) fruits by altering canopy structure and light distribution by Pan Yan, Yonghui Deng, Shi-jie An, Ling Ma, Tianle Li, Qi-ling Chen, Qiangqing Zheng

“…Thinning, however, increased the proportion of long branches, total branch length and average branch length, led to significant expansion in canopy diameter, surface area, and volume. (2) Light Distribution: Reduction increased average light interception (ALI) by 15%, while thinning improved ALI by 11% significantly, enhanced light availability across different canopy aspects, falling head notably improved light penetration in the middle and lower canopy layers. …”
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Trends and Variability of PM2.5 at Different Time Scales over Delhi: Long-term Analysis 2007–2021 by Chetna, Surendra K. Dhaka, Gagandeep Longiany, Vivek Panwar, Vinay Kumar, Shristy Malik, A. S. Rao, Narendra Singh, A. P. Dimri, Yutaka Matsumi, Tomoki Nakayama, Sachiko Hayashida

“…Minimum of the monthly averaged PM2.5 concentration was observed in August, while maximum is November. …”
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Research on Multifunctional Rotating Target Device by HU Yinqiu, CHEN Hongtao, ZHANG Kun, SONG Yingmin, LIU Xingyu, GONG Xinbao, SUN Qi, LI Yankun

“…The vacuum degree, target surface temperature load, and neutron yield stability of the rotating target device were tested. …”
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Long-term Variation of Sensible Heat Flux over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau from 1984 to 2020 by Runzhi LEI, Ye YU, Guobin ZHOU, Jianglin LI, Yanfei LIU

“…Sensible heat flux （SH） is one of the main physical quantities characterizing the thermal effect of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau， which is affected by the surface temperature， air temperature， heat exchange coefficient and wind speed.However， different heat exchange coefficient （CH）calculation methods give SH with different values.To solve this， in this study， three CH calculation methods are used to calculate the SH using the conventional meteorological observation data from 89 stations on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau for 1984 -2020.The SHs obtained by different CH algorithms are verified using in situ SH observations from 5 flux stations.The results indicate that the SH calculated by Chen and Weng （1984） （CH-CW） scheme is the best in terms of the smallest bias between the caculations and observaitons.The long-term trend of SH calculated with CH-CW scheme and the characteristics and causes of the long-term change over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau are analyzed using PLFIM piecewise linear fitting model.The results show that the trend of the annual SH over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau have turning points at 1999 and 2009.The SH decreased from 1984 to 1999， increased significantly from 1999 to 2009， and showed a weak downward trend from 2009 to 2020.The turning points of SH trend in summer are 2000 and 2010， respectively.The turning points of SH trend in other seasons are the same as the annual SH.The overall trend of SH in spring， summer and autumn is consistent with the annual trend， characterized by "weakened - strengthened - weakened".The SH in winter continued to increase from 2009 to 2020， but with a much weaker trend compared with that from 1999 to 2009.Attribution analysis shows that the decrease of annual SH from 1984 to 1999 is mainly attributed to the decrease of wind speed； the increase of annual SH from 1999 to 2009 was mainly due to the increase of surface-air temperature difference caused by the significant increase of surface temperature， and less to the slow down of wind speed increase.From 2009 to 2020， the significant increase of wind speed led to a decrease of CH， and the relative faster increase of air temperature compared to the increase of the surface temperature lead to a decrease in the surface-air temperature difference， both of which contributed to the decrease of the annual average SH during this period， with the negative contribution from the surface-air temperature difference much lager than that from the CH change.…”
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Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Hardness and Thickness of Aeolian Sandy Soil Crust at Sandy Area of Yellow River Floodplain by Li Xinhao, Cao Wenhua, Niu Yong, Lü Qingxia, Yuan Li, Zhao Lei

“…Crust thickness and hardness were significantly affected by vegetation, temperature, and wind speed near the ground surface. Aeolian sandy soil crust thickness, hardness change trend, and surface water content showed the characteristics of synchronous change, while the response of soil crust hardness exhibited some hysteresis. …”
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Hillslope flow paths in snowmelt and rainfall seasons in permafrost-underlain areas, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Investigation based on hydrochemical tracers and end-member mixin... by Xiong Xiao, Fan Zhang, Fengjing Liu, Xiaoyan Li, Xiaonan Shi, Chen Zeng, Tao Che

“…Specifically, the spring Binggou stream water had 61 % surface runoff, 22 % shallow groundwater, and 17 % near-surface runoff. …”
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PCA Weight Determination-Based InSAR Baseline Optimization Method: A Case Study of the HaiKou Phosphate Mining Area in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China by Weimeng Xu, Jingchun Zhou, Jinliang Wang, Huihui Mei, Xianjun Ou, Baixuan Li

“…However, in multi-temporal InSAR processing, the quality of interferometric pairs is constrained by spatiotemporal baseline parameters and surface scattering characteristics. Traditional selection methods, such as those based on average coherence thresholding, consider only a single factor and do not account for the interactions among multiple factors. …”
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Developing N, S-doped hierarchical porous carbon-supported Pt catalysts for hydrothermal gasification of woody biomass to hydrogen by Shahbaz Hussain, Sibel Irmak, Muhammad Usman Farid

“…On the other hand, the HPC prepared in the absence of NaHCO3 had 2900 m2/g surface area and 1.8 nm average pore size. The hydrogen production activity of HPC-with NaHCO3/Pt catalyst was found to be 23.81 ml H2/mg Pt, which was the highest activity among the catalysts tested. …”
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Winter air temperature in Holocene reconstructed from the ice wedges stable water isotopes near Anadyr town by N. A. Budantseva, Yu. A. Vasil'chuk

“…Radiocarbon dating had shown that accumulation of peat on surface of the first marine terrace started in early Holocene (about 8 ka BP). …”
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Adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution with green synthesized silver nanoparticle using Justicia schimperiana leaf extract by Muluemebet Aboye Balcha, Abraha Gebrekidan Asgedom, Ermiyas Haile Mulugeta, Selam Niguse, Ephrem Tsegay Asfaw, Alem Halefom Gebregiyorgis, Kebede Nigussie Mekonnen

“…The synthesized nanoparticle using Justicia schimperiana extract is promising for Cr(VI) removal from an aqueous solution with a high surface area and green method.…”
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A novel strategy of water-based synthesis method of zeolitic-imidazolate framework-14 (ZIF-14) by Kiki Maesaroh, Ghefira Iftina Zahra, Apang Djafar Shieddieque, Muhamad Diki Permana, Irkham, Rudiawan Edwin, Joddy Arya Laksmono, Diana Rakhmawaty Eddy, Iman Rahayu

“…In addition, thermal and surface analysis showed that ZIF-14 has a specific surface area of 429.518 m2/g, an average pore volume of 0.5676 cm3/g, and an average pore radius of 26.43 Å, with a thermal stability of up to 440 °C. …”
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USING ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE RGB COLOR MODEL TO SEPARATE ERGOT SCLEROTIA (CLAVICEPS PURPUREA) FROM THE IMPORTED WHEAT by Tarek FOUDA, Amina ALBEBANY

“…Also surface area ranged from 0.66 to 78.02mm2. On the other hand, the average dimensions of the different varieties of Russian Ukrainian and French wheat were: length 5.24, 5.24, 5.17 mm, width 1.92, 1.92, 2.35 mm, thickness 162, 161, 186 mm, volume 8.81, 8.75, 12.1 mm3, arithmetic mean diameter 2.52, 2.52, 2.82 mm2, geometric mean diameter 2.92, 2.92, 3.13 mm2, sphericity 48.2, 48.1, 57.8%, aspect ratio 36.7, 36.7, 45.9, and surface area 20.3, 20.2, 25.2 mm2respectively. …”
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Freezing desert soil changes the wind–sand movement pattern by Zhaoen Han, Jinrong Li, Pengcheng Qu, Shaoqi Chai, Yue Liu, Zhenyu Zhao

“…Abstract In the Ulan Buh Desert, which is located in a seasonally frozen region, a frozen soil layer can appear in the winter after the wind erosion of dry sand from the surface of a mobile sand dune, thus altering the wind–sand transport process. …”
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Impact of Biomass Burning on Air Quality in Temuco City, Chile by Felipe Reyes, Sofía Ahumada, Francisca Rojas, Pedro Oyola, Yeanice Vásquez, Claudio Aguilera, Andres Henriquez, Ernesto Gramsch, Choong-Min Kang, Sanna Saarikoski, Kimmo Teinilä, Minna Aurela, Hilkka Timonen

“…Chemical composition of submicron PM was dominated by organics (average 87%) followed by inorganic ions (10–30%) and a minor contribution of black carbon (< 5%). …”
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Modeling Tidal Streams and Tidal Tails around Galaxies Using Deep Wendelstein Imaging Data by Jan-Niklas Pippert, Matthias Kluge, Ralf Bender

“…Mean stream width precision, which also translates to the mean R _e along the feature is on average within 3% uncertainty. The measured streams have on average a surface brightness of $\sim 26.25\,g^{\prime} $ mag arcsec ^−2 and are dimmer than the tails in our sample ( $\sim 25.14\,g^{\prime} $ mag arcsec ^−2 ). …”
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Features of erosion processes manifestation during snowmelt and heavy rainfall in the south of Russia by Evgeniy V. Poluektov, Georgiy T. Balakay

“…The purpose of the study was to determine the features of erosion processes during surface snowmelt and rainwater runoff. Materials and methods. …”
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A New Customized Measurement System for a Non-Contact, Enhanced Thermometric Method by Luca Evangelisti, Edoardo De Cristo, Salvatore Monteleone, Claudia Guattari, Paola Gori, Ivan Pini, Tullio de Rubeis, Dario Ambrosini

“…Small differences were observed between the values measured by the air temperature sensors (0.10 °C on average), as well as by the contact and non-contact surface temperature sensors (0.12 °C on average). …”
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Correlation of spectroscopic and structural properties of indocyanine green j-aggregates by D. S. Farrakhova, I. D. Romanishkin, D. V. Yakovlev, Yu. S. Maklygina, V. A. Oleinikov, P. V. Fedotov, M. V. Kravchik, L. Bezdetnaya, V. B. Loschenov

“…In the work, the aggregation degree and the average size of nanoparticles depending on the concentration of a colloidal solution of indocyanine green (ICG NPs) in the form of J-aggregates were investigated by various methods based on light scattering. …”
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Hydrologic response of groundwater and streamflow to natural and anthropogenic drivers of change in headwaters of the upper Colorado River basin during recent wet (1982–1999) and d... by Fred D Tillman, Melissa D. Masbruch, Jacob E. Knight, John A. Engott, Samuel F. Lopez, Casey J. Jones, Jesse E. Dickinson, Matthew P. Miller

“…Like streamflow, average surface runoff was statistically less during the drought than the wet period, with decreases from 24–31 % in the headwaters. …”
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