Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience articles for United States of America (USA)

Time frame: 1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026
Count: 211

Article ‘Count’ for Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience.

Journal Count Share
1 0.80
Biomass-Based Nanoengineered Cooling Geotextile for Permafrost Thawing Prevention 0.80
14 5.13
Width-dependent acceleration of meander migration in unvegetated rivers 0.25
Spatial variability and mechanics in aeolian ripples: A case study in Chilean Patagonia 0.25
Coral reef terrace age deduced from retreating knickpoints 0.17
Climatic controls on erosional efficiency vary with lithology across the Himalaya 1.00
Enhanced weathering by multiscale destabilization of volcanic islands 0.25
Tectonic modulation of caldera volcanism on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc 0.33
Sedimentation and deformation in oblique continental rifts: The role of climate-tectonic interactions 1.00
An abrupt change in source materials for Chinese loess deposits at the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary: Insights from K isotopes and modeling 0.08
Novel apatite provenance analysis reveals erosion of moraines as primary sediment source during glacial retreat 0.17
Disentangling topographic and climatic controls on glacier length: A case study in the tropical Colombian Andes 1.00
Surface airflow patterns at a barchan dune field in Hellespontus Montes, Mars 0.25
Phanerozoic orbital-scale glacio-eustatic variability 0.17
Spatial biases in oxygen-based Phanerozoic seawater temperature reconstructions 0.08
Crustal response to heavy snowfalls in Hokkaido, Japan, 2018-2022 0.14
2 0.42
Applicability of sustainable energy-driven and permafrost-friendly embankment designs from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Siberian Arctic 0.09
Morphology-dependent sublimation dynamics of ice droplets under light irradiation 0.33
4 2.73
Molecular-Specific Aromatic Compounds Absorption Drives Divergent Radiative Forcing in High-Altitude Air and Snow over the Tibetan Plateau 0.23
Laboratory Study on Fate and Transport of Water-Borne eDNA: A Tale of Tempered Tails and Parafluvial Processes 1.00
Three-Dimensional Settling Dynamics of Environmental Microplastics 0.50
Supra-Permafrost Groundwater is a Source of Highly Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Matter to the Arctic Ocean 1.00
11 3.15
Clay mineral-driven fractionation of Sr stable isotopes in saprolites 0.25
Large impact of light on alkenone-inferred temperatures from continuous cultures of the coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa (Emiliania) huxleyi under nutrient limitation 1.00
Lithological influence on Li isotope fractionation during silicate weathering 0.44
Lithogenic control on zinc stable isotopes in riverine systems: The importance of carbonate dissolution 0.07
Intertwined weathering and metamorphic controls on river dissolved inorganic carbon in the interior of a mountain belt 0.06
Zinc isotope fractionation during granite weathering: contrasting roles of mineral dissolution and Fe-Zn coprecipitation 0.20
Near-congruent Li isotope signature from weathering and erosion of a tectonically active mountain range 0.13
Climate warming and strengthened hydrologic cycle accelerate CO2 release from rock weathering 0.13
Distinct pathways of Mg isotope fractionation during biotite weathering in granitoid weathering profiles 0.38
Gallium isotope fractionation during granite weathering: Insights from two profiles in contrasting climatic conditions 0.09
Radon and radium isotope signatures on a massive ice- and permafrost-rich coastline 0.40
9 7.18
Temporal linkages of explosive activity of Kolumbo and Santorini Volcanoes (Greece) 0.25
Global distribution, hierarchical clustering classification, and significance of Holocene braid deltas 1.00
Mantle-driven, climatically modulated landscape evolution in Southern Patagonia 0.07
The Tibetan Plateau is covered in wind-blown sand: Implications for detrital provenance studies 1.00
The unexpected global distribution of Earth’s sediment sources and sinks 1.00
The sediment budget of Great Bahama Bank—Earth’s largest modern carbonate platform 0.86
Dip angle controls on plucking susceptibility and knickpoint evolution in bedrock rivers 1.00
Postglacial canyon incision primes ice-cored hillslopes for thaw slumping in the western Canadian Arctic 1.00
Lingering beneath crumbling walls: The origin of Holocene rock glaciers 1.00
60 40.55
Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice Retrieval Using a Synergy of Sentinel-3's Active and Passive Microwave Instruments 0.03
Deep-Seated Landslide Stability on Curved Basal Surfaces With and Without Glacier Buttressing 0.83
Tracking the Trajectory of Alluvial Channel Adjustment Reveals Along-River Shifts in Sediment Mobility 1.00
Predicting Head Loss and Hydraulic Roughness of Channel-Spanning Large Wood Jams 1.00
Hump-Shaped Enhancement of Coarse-Grain Transport in Sediment Mixtures Induced by Fine Grains of Different Sizes 0.10
Adsorption Preceding Wetting Front Controls Seismic Velocity 0.08
Observed Drivers of Rapid Sea‐Ice Melt Events in the Arctic During Summer 1.00
Weak Influence of Surface Pressure on Arctic Radiative States From Winter to Spring Over the Sea-Ice 0.33
Self-Affine Scaling of Earth's Islands 0.80
A Within Canopy Deposition Model Capturing the Influence of Microplastic Size, Biological Cohesion, and Vegetation‐Generated Turbulence 0.75
Spatiotemporal Variations in the Interplate Slip Rate Around Kodiak Island, Alaska 0.33
A Brighter Arctic Ocean: Trends in Solar Partitioning in the Arctic Sea Ice - Ocean System From 1984 to 2024 1.00
Mass Addition to Timpanogos Rock Glacier: Debris‐Covered Snow and the Importance of Interannual Variability in Headwall Erosion and Climate 1.00
Observations of Coherence Changes in C‐Band SAR Linked to Snow Thermodynamics and Wind Redistribution on First‐Year Sea Ice 0.11
Insights From Two Decades of Seismicity at Columbia Glacier 1.00
Drivers of Changing Interannual Variability in Autumn‐Early Winter Arctic Sea Ice (1950–2024) 0.33
From Spinning Sea Ice Floes to Ocean Enstrophy Spectra in the Marginal Ice Zone 0.92
Extremes in Southern Hemispheric Zonal Wave-3 and Their Impact on Antarctic Sea-Ice Thickness 0.67
Glacier Retreat Amplifies Interannual Variability in Watershed Runoff, Organic Carbon and Nutrient Yields 1.00
Why Firn Quakes 1.00
High‐Resolution Channel Geometry Reveals Contrasting Styles of Gravel River Adjustment 1.00
Pleistocene Smoothing and Resurfacing of Appalachian Ridgelines by Periglaciation 1.00
Detecting Water-Surface Superelevation in Meandering Rivers Using Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite Data 1.00
Characteristic Geometry of Keels in Arctic Sea Ice Ridges 1.00
Mackenzie River Freshwater Controls Early Sea Ice Formation in the Eastern Beaufort Sea 1.00
Thinking Outside the Rocks: Subsurface Water Storage, Topography, and Land Cover Are Key Modulators of Large-Scale Riverine Dissolved Silicon Dynamics 1.00
Inhibition of Arctic Soil Dissolved Organic Carbon Export by the Retention Capacity of Thawing Permafrost 0.69
Are Trends of Gulf Stream Transport Uniform Along the Florida Shelf? 1.00
Multiscale Bedform Reorganization at the Onset of Substantial Suspended Sediment Transport 1.00
When Barchan Dunes Move Over Craters 0.25
Seasonal Freezing Enhances Groundwater–Lake Connectivity and Nutrient Delivery in Saline Basins 0.67
Climate Oscillation and Fault Slip Rate Control Sediment Aggradation and Channel Morphology Along Strike‐Slip Faults 0.75
Flood-Driven Turbidite Deposition in a Highstand-Detached Submarine Canyon 1.00
Maturation of Silicate Weathering Pathways Revealed by Germanium‐Silicon Ratios 0.57
Experimental Insights Into Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Fine‐Grained Sediment Rheology Under Thermokarst Development 1.00
Unraveling the Connection Between Subsurface Stress and Geomorphic Features 1.00
Multi‐Year Prediction of Accelerated Sea Level Rise Along the Gulf of Mexico Coast During 2010–2020 1.00
Thermohaline Preconditioning for Sea Ice Formation in the Beaufort Sea 0.92
Glacially Enhanced Silicate Weathering Revealed by Holocene Lake Records 0.57
Interplay of Loading and Adsorption Controls Elastic Deformation of Clastic and Crystalline Rocks 0.09
Unveiling Coseismic Deformation From Differenced Legacy Aerial Photography and Modern Lidar Topography: The 1983 M6.9 Borah Peak Earthquake, Idaho, USA 0.67
Gradual Warming of Western Pacific Warm Pool Due To Weakening of Indonesian Throughflow During the Late Mid‐Pleistocene Transition 0.04
Slowdown of Dune Migration in East Asia's Inland Deserts: A 35‐Year Response to Wind Stilling 0.13
Warm Equatorial Upper Ocean Thermal Structure During the Mid‐Pliocene Warm Period: A Data‐Model Comparison 0.85
Attention‐Based Reconstruction of Full‐Field Tsunami Waves From Sparse Tsunameter Networks 0.90
Deep Ocean Steric Sea Level Change in the Subtropical Northwest Atlantic Ocean 0.33
Synchronous Formation and Consistent Provenance Across Different Particle Sizes in Loess Deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau 0.25
Resultant Force on Grains of a Real Sand Dune: How to Measure It? 0.20
Seismic Tremors From Sea‐Landfast Ice Interactions Near Utqiaġvik, Alaska 1.00
Connecting Tibetan Plateau Snow Change With Arctic Sea‐Ice 0.25
Implications of the 9 July 1956 MsubS/sub ∼ 7.2 Amorgos Earthquake for Tsunami Hazard in the Aegean 0.10
Seasonal COsub2/sub Cycle at the Martian Poles Revealed by Sounding Radar 1.00
Ku‐ and Ka‐Band Polarimetric Radar Waveforms and Snow Depth Estimation Over Multi‐Year Antarctic Sea Ice in the Weddell Sea 0.06
Leveraging Weekly Snow Cover Time Series for Improved Glacier Monitoring and Modeling 1.00
Glaciers in Western Canada‐Conterminous US and Switzerland Experience Unprecedented Mass Loss Over the Last Four Years (2021–2024) 0.25
Morphological and Sediment Supply Controls on Lateral Bedrock Channel Erosion 0.33
Uranium and Lithium Isotope Ratios of River Solutes Clarify the Role of Bedrock Properties in Landscape Denudation 1.00
Multidirectional Dune Dynamics Under Seasonal Winds on Mars 0.40
A Rapid Deterioration of the Transmissive Atmospheric Radiative Regime in the Western Arctic 1.00
The Widths of Rivers and Streams Across Spatial Scales: A Framework for Improving River‐Atmosphere Biogeochemical Exchange Estimates 1.00
14 9.75
Light Absorbing Particles Are Retained in Snow During Springtime Snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada, CA 1.00
On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru) 1.00
Dissolved Black Carbon in North Cascades Snow, Meltwater and a Downstream River 1.00
Volcanic Ash Affected by Lightning During the Hunga 2022 Eruption 0.71
What Factors Explain the Current Arctic Albedo and Its Future Change? 1.00
Unexpectedly High Accumulation Rates in the 2022 Mt. Logan Ice Core Reveal Warm-Season Drivers of Precipitation Variability 0.64
Variations in Low-Level Temperature Inversions Over the Marginal Ice Zone During Cyclone Passing: Effects of Abrupt Sea Ice Transitions 0.20
Impacts of Socio‐Economic Development Scenarios on Long‐Term Oceanic Emissions and Abundances of Atmospheric Bromoform and Dibromomethane 0.70
Haboobs on Slopes 1.00
Observational Impacts of Extreme Rainfall on Active Layer Hydrothermal Properties in China's Upper Heihe River Basin 0.11
ICESat‐2 Observations of Blowing Snow Over Arctic Sea Ice During the 2019–2020 MOSAiC Expedition 0.83
Instantaneous Radiative Effect of Surface Longwave Spectral Emissivity in a Snowball Earth Simulation 0.60
Constraining Future Projections of Freezing Level Height and Equilibrium‐Line Altitudes in the Tropical Andes Based on CMIP6 0.67
Autonomous Year‐Round Measurements of O3, CO, CH4 and N2O in the High Arctic With the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer 0.29
5 3.37
Stress and Rock Failure Near Salt Bodies: Insights From Field Observations, Kinematic Modeling, and Mechanical Analysis Near Arches National Park, Paradox Basin, Utah 1.00
Brittle and Crystal‐Plastic Defect Dynamics of Calcite Single Crystals 1.00
Inferring Long‐Term Tectonic Uplift Patterns From Bayesian Inversion of Fluvially‐Incised Landscapes 0.20
Tracking Intragranular Stress Evolution in Deforming Sandstone Using X‐Rays 0.17
Timescales of Surface Faulting Preservation in Low‐Strain Intraplate Regions From Landscape Evolution Modeling and the Geomorphic and Historical Record 1.00
6 2.69
Global subsidence of river deltas 0.58
The contribution of rock strength to soil production 1.00
Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China 0.35
Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo 0.12
Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake  0.51
Warming accelerates global drought severity 0.12
5 2.06
Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions 0.22
Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers 1.00
Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century 0.20
Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century 0.11
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes 0.53
29 12.11
Large stocks of permafrost soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Arctic river deltas 0.14
Revealing the Antarctic marginal ice zone with a decade-long wave-in-ice climatology 0.06
Subsidence more than doubles sea-level rise today along densely populated coasts 0.20
Global glacier-free topography reveals a large potential for future lakes in presently ice-covered terrain 0.30
Persistent organic carbon storage in river floodplains over millennia 1.00
Changing drivers of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt from physical forcing to ecological control 0.86
Equatorward upper-ocean heat transport from the Southern Ocean boosted interglacial warming 0.08
Föhn-induced melting over Larsen C modulated by atmospheric river shape, direction and landfall location 0.60
Climate’s influence on topography encoded in stream network topology and geometry 0.26
Extreme rainfall reshapes permafrost thermal regimes across the Northern Hemisphere 0.17
Earthquakes act as a capacitor for terrestrial organic carbon 0.13
Population ecology and biogeochemical implications of ssDNA and dsDNA viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient 0.89
Coccolith clumped isotopes reveal modest rather than extreme northern high latitude amplification during the Miocene 0.11
Concurrent warming, freshening and cessation of deep convection in the Labrador Sea raised its sea level to a record high 0.50
Interannual wave-driven shoreline change on the California coast 0.78
Controls on the southwest USA hydroclimate over the last six glacial-interglacial cycles 0.39
Tidewater cycle drives alpine glacial sediment plume geochemistry 1.00
Global geo-hazard risk assessment of long-span bridges enhanced with InSAR availability 0.13
An 85-year record of glacier change and refined projections for Kennicott and Root Glaciers, Alaska 1.00
Major sea level fall during the Pliocene M2 glaciation 0.13
Non-temperature environmental drivers modulate warming-induced 21st-century permafrost degradation on the Tibetan Plateau 0.13
Spatiotemporal patterns of methane fluxes across alpine permafrost region on the Tibetan Plateau 0.08
Volumetric quantifications and dynamics of areas undergoing retrogressive thaw slumping in the Northern Hemisphere 0.70
South Pacific sea surface temperature and global ocean circulation changes since the late Miocene 0.11
Millennial pulses of African dust and ITCZ shifts in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific 1.00
Arctic speleothems reveal nearly permafrost-free Northern Hemisphere in the late Miocene 0.09
Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica 0.50
Regime shift to extensive valley glaciations over High Mountain Asia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene 0.11
Aerodynamic roughness of rippled beds under active saltation at Earth-to-Mars atmospheric pressures 0.67
11 4.42
Diminished Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet during Last Interglacial warming 0.78
Increasing river sediment concentration and flux across the pan-Arctic 0.29
Entrained debris records regrowth of the Greenland Ice Sheet after the last interglacial 0.88
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires 0.61
Amplified Arctic–boreal fire regimes from permafrost thaw feedbacks 0.18
Canadian net forest CO2 uptake enhanced by heat drought via reduced respiration 0.13
Late Miocene Arctic warmth and terrestrial climate recorded by North Greenland speleothems 0.07
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets 0.56
Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 0.63
Progressive decline in soil nitrogen stocks with warming in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem 0.06
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates 0.25
1 0.33
Water scarcity and infrastructure risk of amplified seasonal sediment transport 0.33
1 0.50
Monitored Fluctuating Hydrodynamics 0.50
10 7.16
Hydraulic geometry hypothesis allows reverse engineering of 3D quasi-equilibrium landscapes from 2D channel networks: Earth, Mars, Titan 0.67
Deep critical zone controls on shallow landslides 0.63
Coevolving topography, patchy soils, and forest structure 1.00
Rapid ice-marginal lake growth in Alaska driven by glacier retreat through bed overdeepenings 1.00
Topography influences megadune distribution and morphology 0.29
Evolution of Pliocene-Pleistocene tropical terrestrial Andean temperature amplification 0.71
Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming 0.83
Impact of extreme weather events on the US domestic supply chain of food manufacturing 1.00
Late Cenozoic river reorganization related to tectonic extrusion formed the modern drainage system in southeastern Tibet 0.04
The sediment transport mechanics driving lateral accretion in muddy meanders 1.00
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Role of tectonic rock damage in erosional processes: A global analysis 0.83
Accelerated Himalayan river meandering and dynamics due to climate change 0.08
A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord 0.63
SWOT detects dispersive tsunami tied to a near-trench source in the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake 0.64
Drought-induced peatland carbon loss exacerbated by elevated CO2 and warming 0.86
Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years 0.71
Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene 0.52
A clearer view of the current phase of unrest at Campi Flegrei caldera 0.50
Single- and multithread rivers originate from (im)balance between lateral erosion and accretion 1.00
19 8.84
Floodplain slope organizes chute and neck meander cutoffs across rivers in the Amazon basin 1.00
Improved closure of the global mean sea level budget from observational advances since 1960 0.44
Land subsidence on Java Island and its contributions to relative sea level change 0.70
Role of Atlantic multidecadal variability in modulating Arctic sea ice loss and wetting 0.15
Refined chronologies of magnetochron M0r reveal asynchronous terrestrial and marine carbon isotope responses to Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a 0.05
Mapping pan-Arctic riverine particulate organic carbon from space (1985 to 2022) 0.11
Quantifying the impacts of rainfall and evaporation on Lake Bonneville 0.79
Advancing global sea ice prediction capabilities using a fully coupled climate model with integrated machine learning 1.00
Western North Pacific influences on the interannual to decadal variability of Barents-Kara Sea ice during spring 0.14
Reconstructing Eocene Antarctic river drainage from provenance analysis of Amundsen Sea embayment sediments 0.25
High variability in flood discharge and stage accelerates river mobility 0.69
ENSO’s changing grip on Bering Sea ice: The emerging control of the North Pacific meridional mode 0.13
A quantitative definition of accommodation: Implications for understanding and prediction of strata 0.50
Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene 1.00
Climate-carbon feedback tradeoff between Arctic and alpine permafrost under warming 0.17
Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption 0.32
Headward incision of large rivers in response to glacial sea level fall 0.17
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition 0.57
Episodic reef growth in the Last Interglacial driven by competing influence of polar ice sheets to sea level rise 0.67

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