Communications Earth & Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Communications Earth & Environment is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979587
Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia326
Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts185
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat146
The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude139
Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere131
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to monthly temperature and precipitation extremes111
Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production106
Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites99
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch97
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints97
Country-based rate of emissions reductions should increase by 80% beyond nationally determined contributions to meet the 2 °C target96
Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness89
Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization78
More meteorological events that drive compound coastal flooding are projected under climate change74
Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis71
Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria70
Microplastics distribution in the Eurasian Arctic is affected by Atlantic waters and Siberian rivers68
The global carbon sink potential of terrestrial vegetation can be increased substantially by optimal land management65
An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes65
Stop blaming the climate for disasters65
Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth’s surface64
Successful ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill should address uncertainties in krill recruitment, behaviour and ecological adaptation62
Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship57
Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading55
Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased54
Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf52
Success of coastal wetlands restoration is driven by sediment availability52
Provinces with transitions in industrial structure and energy mix performed best in climate change mitigation in China52
An integrated approach to quantifying uncertainties in the remaining carbon budget50
Surface rupture and shallow fault reactivation during the 2019 Mw 4.9 Le Teil earthquake, France50
Ice dynamics will remain a primary driver of Greenland ice sheet mass loss over the next century50
Deforestation and climate change are projected to increase heat stress risk in the Brazilian Amazon50
Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes47
Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales47
Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea47
Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula46
Distinct influences of large-scale circulation and regional feedbacks in two exceptional 2019 European heatwaves45
Acceleration of ocean warming, salinification, deoxygenation and acidification in the surface subtropical North Atlantic Ocean44
The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 202243
Training machine learning models on climate model output yields skillful interpretable seasonal precipitation forecasts43
Global urban growth between 1870 and 2100 from integrated high resolution mapped data and urban dynamic modeling43
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario43
Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts42
Increase in sea level variability with ocean warming associated with the nonlinear thermal expansion of seawater41
Assessing seafood nutritional diversity together with climate impacts informs more comprehensive dietary advice40
Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal39
Carboxyl-richness controls organic carbon preservation during coprecipitation with iron (oxyhydr)oxides in the natural environment39
Transformation of abundant magnesium silicate minerals for enhanced CO2 sequestration38
Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production37
Projections of salt intrusion in a mega-delta under climatic and anthropogenic stressors37
Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils37
Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas37
Extent of impact of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds37
Complex rupture dynamics on an immature fault during the 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake, Turkey37
Advanced analysis of satellite data reveals ground deformation precursors to the Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse36
Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions35
The vulnerability of lakes to climate change along an altitudinal gradient35
Extended life cycle assessment reveals the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint of a lithium-ion battery storage35
Extreme precipitation in the tropics is closely associated with long-lived convective systems35
Reductions in the deposition of sulfur and selenium to agricultural soils pose risk of future nutrient deficiencies35
Increased extreme precipitation challenges nitrogen load management to the Gulf of Mexico35
Climate warming amplified the 2020 record-breaking heatwave in the Antarctic Peninsula34
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption33
An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives32
Towards a business case for CO2 mineralisation in the cement industry32
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption32
Near-complete loss of fire-resistant primary tropical forest cover in Sumatra and Kalimantan32
Soil texture and environmental conditions influence the biogeochemical responses of soils to drought and flooding31
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals widespread soil phosphorus limitation to microbial metabolism across Chinese forests31
Probabilistic projections of increased heat stress driven by climate change31
Chemical transport models often underestimate inorganic aerosol acidity in remote regions of the atmosphere31
Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal30
Future changes in the frequency of temperature extremes may be underestimated in tropical and subtropical regions30
Record high solar irradiance in Western Europe during first COVID-19 lockdown largely due to unusual weather30
Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased30
Atmospheric convection, dynamics and topography shape the scaling pattern of hourly rainfall extremes with temperature globally30
Accounting for tropical cyclones more than doubles the global population exposed to low-probability coastal flooding29
Environmentally persistent free radicals are ubiquitous in wildfire charcoals and remain stable for years29
The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate29
The other side of sea level change28
Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change28
Rewetting strategies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from European peatlands28
Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation28
A shift in the ocean circulation has warmed the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since 201628
Ocean warming and acidification uncouple calcification from calcifier biomass which accelerates coral reef decline27
Transport and coarsening of gold nanoparticles in an orogenic deposit by dissolution–reprecipitation and Ostwald ripening26
Natural variability is a large source of uncertainty in future projections of hypoxia in the Baltic Sea26
El Niño/Southern Oscillation response to low-latitude volcanic eruptions depends on ocean pre-conditions and eruption timing26
Observation-based selection of climate models projects Arctic ice-free summers around 203526
Reduced resilience of terrestrial ecosystems locally is not reflected on a global scale26
Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 210026
Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill26
Reduced methane recovery at high pressure due to methane trapping in shale nanopores26
A multi-model assessment of the Global Warming Potential of hydrogen25
Volatile metal emissions from volcanic degassing and lava–seawater interactions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i25
A framework for quantifying hydrologic effects of soil structure across scales25
The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on carbon emissions25
Exceptional ground motion during the shallow Mw 4.9 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France25
Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study24
Climate benefit of a future hydrogen economy24
Sedimentation strategies provide effective but limited mitigation of relative sea-level rise in the Mekong delta24
Amazon methane budget derived from multi-year airborne observations highlights regional variations in emissions24
Trans-lithospheric diapirism explains the presence of ultra-high pressure rocks in the European Variscides24
A case for transparent net-zero carbon targets24
Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction24
Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean23
Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event23
Single extreme storm sequence can offset decades of shoreline retreat projected to result from sea-level rise23
Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration23
Responsibility of major emitters for country-level warming and extreme hot years22
Absolute seasonal temperature estimates from clumped isotopes in bivalve shells suggest warm and variable greenhouse climate22
Weak orogenic lithosphere guides the pattern of plume-triggered supercontinent break-up22
Thresholds in aridity and soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio govern the accumulation of soil microbial residues22
An anomalous warm-season trans-Pacific atmospheric river linked to the 2021 western North America heatwave22
Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities22
Diverse climate actors show limited coordination in a large-scale text analysis of strategy documents22
Sustainability of emerging energy and transportation technologies is impacted by the coexistence of minerals in nature22
Distinct response of gross primary productivity in five terrestrial biomes to precipitation variability21
Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty21
Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state21
Exceptional warmth and climate instability occurred in the European Alps during the Last Interglacial period21
Offshore wind farms are projected to impact primary production and bottom water deoxygenation in the North Sea21
An increase in food production in Europe could dramatically affect farmland biodiversity21
Poirierite, a dense metastable polymorph of magnesium iron silicate in shocked meteorites21
Permafrost degradation increases risk and large future costs of infrastructure on the Third Pole21
A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes21
Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation21
Decision support systems halve fungicide use compared to calendar-based strategies without increasing disease risk20
Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change20
Effects of natural and experimental drought on soil fungi and biogeochemistry in an Amazon rain forest20
Accelerated sea ice loss in the Wandel Sea points to a change in the Arctic’s Last Ice Area20
Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality20
Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands20
Arsenic mobilization by anaerobic iron-dependent methane oxidation20
Interannual oxygen isotope variability in Indian summer monsoon precipitation reflects changes in moisture sources20
Direct measurements of atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere using terahertz heterodyne spectroscopy20
Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change20
Active microbial sulfate reduction in fluids of serpentinizing peridotites of the continental subsurface19
Photoacclimation by phytoplankton determines the distribution of global subsurface chlorophyll maxima in the ocean19
Patterns and frequency of projected future tropical cyclone genesis are governed by dynamic effects19
A chemical threshold controls nanocrystallization and degassing behaviour in basalt magmas19
Variability in historical emissions trends suggests a need for a wide range of global scenarios and regional analyses19
Bacteria-plant interactions synergistically enhance biodegradation of diesel fuel hydrocarbons19
ENSO diversity shows robust decadal variations that must be captured for accurate future projections19
Global warming at near-constant tropospheric relative humidity is supported by observations18
Surprising chiral composition changes over the Amazon rainforest with height, time and season18
Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision18
Seismic evidence for a thermochemical mantle plume underplating the lithosphere of the Ontong Java Plateau18
Summertime low clouds mediate the impact of the large-scale circulation on Arctic sea ice18
Regional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events18
Airborne geophysical surveys of the lower Mississippi Valley demonstrate system-scale mapping of subsurface architecture18
Fracture dolomite as an archive of continental palaeo-environmental conditions18
Conservation agriculture increases the soil resilience and cotton yield stability in climate extremes of the southeast US18
Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble18
Inspiration, inoculation, and introductions are all critical to successful mentorship for undergraduate women pursuing geoscience careers17
A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction17
The influence of emissions scenarios on future Antarctic ice loss is unlikely to emerge this century17
Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams17
Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events17
Fractional crystallization causes the iron isotope contrast between mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites17
A big data approach to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goals for cities of varying sizes17
Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming17
The rebirth and evolution of Bezymianny volcano, Kamchatka after the 1956 sector collapse17
Ice viscosity is more sensitive to stress than commonly assumed17
Country-level conditions like prosperity, democracy, and regulatory culture predict individual climate change belief17
Manure amendment can reduce rice yield loss under extreme temperatures17
Process-oriented analysis of aircraft soot-cirrus interactions constrains the climate impact of aviation17
Large-scale variation in seismic anisotropy in the crust and upper mantle beneath Anatolia, Turkey17
The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust17
Modest flooding can trigger catastrophic road network collapse due to compound failure17
The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion17
Liquid-liquid phase separation reduces radiative absorption by aged black carbon aerosols17
Positive, global, and health or environment framing bolsters public support for climate policies16
Sea level along the world’s coastlines can be measured by a network of virtual altimetry stations16
Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed16
Environmental and health impacts of atmospheric CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering depend on nations’ energy mix16
Seasonal sea ice persisted through the Holocene Thermal Maximum at 80°N16
The stop-start control of seismicity by fault bends along the Main Himalayan Thrust16
Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA16
Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean16
The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario16
Direct measurements reveal instabilities and turbulence within large amplitude internal solitary waves beneath the ocean16
A globally robust relationship between water table decline, subsidence rate, and carbon release from peatlands16
A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States16
Eruption chronology of the December 2021 to January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption sequence16
Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 202016
Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events16
Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse16
Varying influence of phytoplankton biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity on bulk particulate stoichiometry across ocean basins16
Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll16
Global coral reef ecosystems exhibit declining calcification and increasing primary productivity16
Interactions between snow cover and evaporation lead to higher sensitivity of streamflow to temperature15
Japanese carbon emissions patterns shifted following the 2008 financial crisis and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake15
Ground vibrations recorded by fiber-optic cables reveal traffic response to COVID-19 lockdown measures in Pasadena, California15
Arctic riparian shrub expansion indicates a shift from streams gaining water to those that lose flow15
Statistically bias-corrected and downscaled climate models underestimate the adverse effects of extreme heat on U.S. maize yields15
Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago15
Havre 2012 pink pumice is evidence of a short-lived, deep-sea, magnetite nanolite-driven explosive eruption15
Large diatom bloom off the Antarctic Peninsula during cool conditions associated with the 2015/2016 El Niño15
Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling15
Mafic magma feeds degassing unrest at Vulcano Island, Italy15
Modulation of ocean acidification by decadal climate variability in the Gulf of Alaska15
Enhanced Arctic warming amplification revealed in a low-emission scenario15
Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods15
Massive earthquake swarm driven by magmatic intrusion at the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica15
Climate variability and multi-decadal diatom abundance in the Northeast Atlantic15
Nuclear Niño response observed in simulations of nuclear war scenarios15
Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change15
Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources15
Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk15
Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases15
Observation-based trajectory of future sea level for the coastal United States tracks near high-end model projections14
Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates14
Conjugate faulting and structural complexity on the young fault system associated with the 2000 Tottori earthquake14
Planetary limits to soil degradation14
Elastic deformation plays a non-negligible role in Greenland’s outlet glacier flow14
Success of post-fire plant recovery strategies varies with shifting fire seasonality14
Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia14
Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom14
The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean14
Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kīlauea, Hawai’i14
Feasibility of gasifying mixed plastic waste for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage14
Arrival and magnetization of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt before 4562 million years ago14
Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia14
Black carbon emissions from traffic contribute substantially to air pollution in Nairobi, Kenya14
Poleward eddy-induced warm water transport across a shelf break off Totten Ice Shelf, East Antarctica14
Wildfire activity enhanced during phases of maximum orbital eccentricity and precessional forcing in the Early Jurassic14
Dust arriving in the Amazon basin over the past 7,500 years came from diverse sources14
Skilful prediction of cod stocks in the North and Barents Sea a decade in advance14
Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic14
Southern Ocean convection amplified past Antarctic warming and atmospheric CO2 rise during Heinrich Stadial 413
Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe13
Highlighting altruism in geoscience careers aligns with diverse US student ideals better than emphasizing working outdoors13
Winter seal-based observations reveal glacial meltwater surfacing in the southeastern Amundsen Sea13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of giant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits by superimposed, episodic hydrothermal pulses13
Amplified warming from physiological responses to carbon dioxide reduces the potential of vegetation for climate change mitigation13
Long-term national climate strategies bet on forests and soils to reach net-zero13
Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pleistocene Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua13
Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans13
Micro-slips in an experimental granular shear band replicate the spatiotemporal characteristics of natural earthquakes13
Nature-based solutions in mountain catchments reduce impact of anthropogenic climate change on drought streamflow13
The radius of the umbrella cloud helps characterize large explosive volcanic eruptions13
Onset and termination of Heinrich Stadial 4 and the underlying climate dynamics13
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been slowed by indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic13
Precession cycles of the El Niño/Southern oscillation-like system controlled by Pacific upper-ocean stratification13
The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–202113
Nontarget mass spectrometry and in silico molecular characterization of air pollution from the Indian subcontinent13
Recycled calcium carbonate is an efficient oxidation agent under deep upper mantle conditions13
Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios13
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