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Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf): EGU OA Journal for the physical, chemical & biological processes shaping Earth's surface and their interactions at all scales. earth-surface-dynamics.net/imprint.html

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manudelbaq.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New in the @BioFunLab! Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems @egu-esurf.bsky.social esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... Led by Helena Vallicrosa & Cesar Terrer
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Josh Wolstenholme @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨 New paper out now in @egu-esurf.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore the geomorphic response of two river reaches to leaky dams, focusing on bathymetric change, planform evolution, water levels, and grain size distribution—helping to address the gap in field studies 📝 doi.org/10.5194/esur...
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Localised geomorphic response to channel-spanning leaky wooden dams
Abstract. The introduction of leaky wooden dams (or engineered log jams or LDs) into river corridors in low-order steams in upper catchments has recently become a popular form of natural flood managem...
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Katy Burrows @katyburrows.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our new paper @egu-esurf.bsky.social is now online! We used Sentinel-1 SAR to detect landslide activity during an earthquake sequence, demonstrating that InSAR coherence can be used to detect not only new failures but also reactivations and precursory movement. esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Detection of landslide timing, reactivation and precursory motion during the 2018, Lombok, Indonesia earthquake sequence with Sentinel-1
Abstract. Earthquake-triggered landslides can be mapped using optical satellite images, but assessing how they evolve during earthquake sequences is difficult due to cloud cover in these data. This in...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New ESurf Preprint: Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Lead to Contrasting Headwater Slope Evolutions egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Lead to Contrasting Headwater Slope Evolutions
Abstract. Landscapes evolve through the coupled effects of tectonics and surface processes. Previous studies have shown that uplift rate changes generate upstream-migrating erosion waves, altering dow...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic patterns on a mid-channel intertidal bar in an estuary egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic patterns on a mid-channel intertidal bar in an estuary
Abstract. Many estuaries have mid-channel bars that emerge during low tide. In contrast to fringing tidal flats, these bars are fully surrounded by channels. This may lead to different hydrodynamics a...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New ESurf article: Decadal in situ hydrological observations and empirical modeling of pressure head in a high-alpine, fractured calcareous rock slope esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Decadal in situ hydrological observations and empirical modeling of pressure head in a high-alpine, fractured calcareous rock slope
Abstract. In peri- and paraglacial regions, water plays a critical role in the hydrological cycle and slope stability. However, hydrological models often overlook water infiltration into bedrock due t...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids
Abstract. Calculating contributing area (often used as a proxy for surface water discharge) within a digital elevation model (DEM) or landscape evolution model (LEM) is a fundamental operation in geom...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models
Abstract. The streampower (SP) fluvial erosion model is the basis for many landscape evolution simulations and analyses. It assumes that river incision into bedrock depends only on flow intensity and ...
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Prof Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Great to see this out out! 👍🙌 well done @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social 👏
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hydrology Paper of the Day @egu-esurf.bsky.social on how climate affects river flooding, sediment transport and geomorphology: the subarctic-nival Pulmanki River; decades of hydrograph analyses and event classification; sediment modelling and transport; and increases in double-peaking flood events.
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Apologies for the glut of new paper posts thanks for your patience 👏👍
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models
Abstract. The streampower (SP) fluvial erosion model is the basis for many landscape evolution simulations and analyses. It assumes that river incision into bedrock depends only on flow intensity and ...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes
Abstract. Accurate segmentation of pebbles in complex 3D scenes is essential to understand sediment transport and river dynamics. In this study, we present a curvature-based instance segmentation appr...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf article: Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges
Abstract. While the formation of periglacial wedges and polygonal patterned grounds has been extensively studied and many of the processes involved have been understood, knowledge on the formation of ...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Improving a multi-grain size total sediment load model through a new standardized reference shear stress for incipient motion and an adjusted saltation height description egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Improving a multi-grain size total sediment load model through a new standardized reference shear stress for incipient motion and an adjusted saltation height description
Abstract. Modelling sediment transport is important to understand how fluvial systems respond to climatic change or other transient conditions such as catastrophic sediment release. In natural rivers,...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Three-stage evolution of particle shape in headwater streams egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Three-stage evolution of particle shape in headwater streams
Abstract. Given the importance of sediments in fluvial morphodynamics, studying how sediment particle shapes change during mass loss is important for understanding the morphology and change rates of f...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Progressive destabilization of a freestanding rock pillar in permafrost on the Matterhorn (Swiss Alps): Field observations, laboratory experiments and mechanical modeling egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Progressive destabilization of a freestanding rock pillar in permafrost on the Matterhorn (Swiss Alps): Field observations, laboratory experiments and mechanical modeling
Abstract. Permafrost rock slopes have been extensively studied, yet the thermal and mechanical dynamics of the transition zone between the permafrost and overlying seasonally frozen layers warrant fur...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids
Abstract. Calculating contributing area (often used as a proxy for surface water discharge) within a digital elevation model (DEM) or landscape evolution model (LEM) is a fundamental operation in geom...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New ESurf preprint: Integrating smartrock and seismic monitoring to investigate bedload transport dynamics during rapid increase of stages in ephemeral streams egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Integrating smartrock and seismic monitoring to investigate bedload transport dynamics during rapid increase of stages in ephemeral streams
Abstract. Bedload transport dynamics during rapid increases of stage remain poorly constrained, particularly in ephemeral streams where such conditions are common. We combined two cutting-edge monitor...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New Article: Formational Conditions of Ribbed Moraine in Norway: A Distribution Analysis and Ribbed Moraine Inventory egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Formational Conditions of Ribbed Moraine in Norway: A Distribution Analysis and Ribbed Moraine Inventory
Abstract. Ribbed moraines are common landforms in regions formerly glaciated by the Fennoscandian, British and Laurentide ice sheets. Their process of formation is disputed, as formation conditions ar...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New Article: Geometric constraints on tributary fluvial network junction angles esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Geometric constraints on tributary fluvial network junction angles
Abstract. The intersection of two non-parallel planes is a line. Howard (1990), following Horton (1932), proposed that the orientation and slope of a fluvial valley bottom within a tributary network a...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New Article: Effect of grain-sorting waves on alternate bar dynamics: Implications of the breakdown of the hydrograph boundary layer egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Effect of grain-sorting waves on alternate bar dynamics: Implications of the breakdown of the hydrograph boundary layer
Abstract. Understanding the morphological responses of gravel-bed rivers to changes in external forces (e.g. water and sediment supply conditions) is a critical concern in river science and engineerin...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New Article: Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning
Abstract. Instream large wood (i.e. downed trees, branches, and roots larger than 1m in length and 10 cm in diameter) performs essential geomorphological and ecological functions that support the heal...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New Article: Investigating uncertainty and parameter sensitivity in bedform analysis by using a Monte Carlo approach esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Investigating uncertainty and parameter sensitivity in bedform analysis by using a Monte Carlo approach
Abstract. Precise and reliable information about bedforms regarding geometry and dynamics is relevant for many applications – such as ensuring safe conditions for navigation along the waterways, param...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New article: Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas
Abstract. The interaction of tectonics, surface processes, and climate extremes impacts how the landscape responds to extreme hydrological events. In 2022, an anomalous precipitation event occurred du...
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BSG Geomorphology @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Are you going to @egu.eu next week? Tell us about your presentations and we’ll reshare! @egu-esurf.bsky.social #geomorphology
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨 new preprint for discussion: Short communication: Learning How Landscapes Evolve with Neural Operators egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Short communication: Learning How Landscapes Evolve with Neural Operators
Abstract. The use of Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) to learn how landscapes evolve is introduced. The approach makes use of recent developments in deep learning to learn the processes involved in evo...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We have now left X/twitter. The account has not been deleted (to prevent someone else taking over) but no new material will be posted there. This has happened (today) for all @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals 🙌
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New preprint for discussion: Morphological response to climate-induced flood event variability in a sub-arctic river egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Morphological response to climate-induced flood event variability in a sub-arctic river
Abstract. This study examined the effects of climate-induced flood event variability and peak sequencing on the morphological response of a sub-arctic river. We classified 32 years of discharge hydrog...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New research article: Examination of analytical shear stress predictions for coastal dune evolution esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Examination of analytical shear stress predictions for coastal dune evolution
Abstract. Existing process-based models for simulating coastal foredune evolution largely use the same analytical approach for estimating wind-induced surface shear stress distributions over spatially...
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Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
What a giant review. Sebastian Gnann from the @uni-freiburg.de (and formerly @unipotsdamwater.bsky.social) together with numerous coauthors (including myself) review how #topography affects to global terrestrial water cycle. doi.org/10.1029/2023... #hydrology #geomorphology
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The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle
Topography influences water and energy provided by the atmosphere, and the fate of water at and below the land surface Topography is associated with gradients and contrasts, whose interactions ex...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy new year! 🚨 new preprint for discussion: Slow-moving rock glaciers in marginal periglacial environment of Southern Carpathians egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Slow-moving rock glaciers in marginal periglacial environment of Southern Carpathians
Abstract. Rock glaciers, composed of debris and ice, are widely distributed across cold mountain regions worldwide. Although research on rock glaciers is gaining momentum, the distinct behaviour of ro...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New preprint for discussion 🚨 Localised geomorphic response to channel-spanning leaky wooden dams egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social @floodskinner.games @bedforms.bsky.social
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Localised geomorphic response to channel-spanning leaky wooden dams
Abstract. The introduction of leaky wooden dams (or engineered log jams) into river corridors in low order steams in upper catchments has recently become a popular form of natural flood management, pa...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New article 🚨 Post-fire evolution of ravel transport regimes in the Diablo Range, CA esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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Post-fire evolution of ravel transport regimes in the Diablo Range, CA
Abstract. Post-fire changes to the transport regime of dry ravel, which describes the gravity-driven transport of individual particles downslope, are poorly constrained but critical to understand as r...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New article 🚨 Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern central Andes esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern central Andes
Abstract. Theory suggests that the response time of alluvial channel long profiles to perturbations in climate is related to the magnitude of the forcing and the length of the system. Shorter systems ...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New paper 🚨 The Aare main overdeepening on the northern margin of the European Alps: basins, riegels, and slot canyons esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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The Aare main overdeepening on the northern margin of the European Alps: basins, riegels, and slot canyons
Abstract. This work summarizes the results of an interdisciplinary project where we aimed to explore the origin of overdeepenings through a combination of a gravimetry survey, drillings, and dating. T...
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Luca Malatesta @geoluca.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Liran Goren just presented her recent work with Eitan Shelef on the links between channel concavity and drainage planform network. This is really elegant and captures the non-recoverable reorganization from wet➡️arid➡️wet climate cycles. esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks
Abstract. The planform geometry of branching drainage networks controls the topography of landscapes and their geomorphic, hydrologic, and ecologic functionality. The complexity of networks' geometry ...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New preprint for discussion: Modeling memory in gravel-bed rivers: A flow history-dependent relation for evolving thresholds of motion egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Modeling memory in gravel-bed rivers: A flow history-dependent relation for evolving thresholds of motion
Abstract. Thresholds of motion (τ*c) strongly control bedload transport in gravel-bed rivers. Uncertainty in τ*c limits the accuracy of predictions of transport and morphologic change. To improve our ...
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Jörg Robl @joergrobl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How does relief evolve in intracontinental mountains, how quickly do they erode and what role does lithology play? Old orogen – young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... @egu-esurf.bsky.social
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Discussion open for comments: Old orogen - young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Old orogen – young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif
Abstract. In several low mountain ranges throughout Europe, high-grade metamorphic and granitic rocks of the Variscan orogen are exposed – even though the topography of this Paleozoic mountain range w...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New #EGUhighlights: Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks
Abstract. The planform geometry of branching drainage networks controls the topography of landscapes and their geomorphic, hydrologic, and ecologic functionality. The complexity of networks' geometry ...
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Katy Burrows @katyburrows.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our new study of how InSAR coherence can be used to detect multi-stage landslide activity during an earthquake sequence is now open for discussion at ESurf!
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Discussion open for comments: Detection of landslide timing, reactivation and precursory motion during the 2018, Lombok, Indonesia earthquake sequence with Sentinel-1 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Detection of landslide timing, reactivation and precursory motion during the 2018, Lombok, Indonesia earthquake sequence with Sentinel-1
Abstract. Earthquake-triggered landslides can be mapped using optical satellite images, but assessing how they evolve through time during sequences of earthquakes is difficult with such data due to cl...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Discussion open for: Surface grain-size mapping of braided channels from SfM photogrammetry egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Surface grain-size mapping of braided channels from SfM photogrammetry
Abstract. Braided channels are known as fluvial systems with a high heterogeneity of physical conditions, resulting from particularly active interacting processes of coarse sediment sorting and transp...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New research article: Knickpoints and fixed points: the evolution of fluvial morphology under the combined effect of fault uplift and dam obstruction on a soft bedrock river esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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Knickpoints and fixed points: the evolution of fluvial morphology under the combined effect of fault uplift and dam obstruction on a soft bedrock river
Abstract. Rapid changes in river geomorphology can occur after being disturbed by external factors like earthquakes or large dam obstructions. Studies documenting the evolution of river morphology und...
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A simple model for faceted topographies at normal faults based on an extended stream-power law esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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A simple model for faceted topographies at normal faults based on an extended stream-power law
Abstract. Mountain fronts at normal faults are often faceted in the sense that they contain strikingly planar surface elements that follow the surface trace of the fault. Since the dip angle of the fa...
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Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@egu-esurf.bsky.social's 2025-onward APCs are listed here: www.earth-surface-dynamics.net/about/articl...
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ESurf - Article processing charges
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Wolfgang Schwanghart @topotoolbox.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
From 2025 on, #EGU journals will have new article processing charges (APCs) www.egu.eu/news/1203/ch... Per-article charges will be more transparent for authors, and there will APC discounts for EED countries and waiwers for R4L www.research4life.org/access/eligi... countries. @egu-esurf.bsky.social
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Changes to EGU journal article processing charges
EGU are pleased to announce a new clarification of the way the Union and our publishing partner Copernicus handle the Article Processing Charges in our 19 open access journals. These changes, which wi...
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Fiona Clubb @drfionaclubb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our new paper in discussion in @egu-esurf.bsky.social publishes the results of Scotland's Big Sediment Survey - a citizen science project to document the grain size of Scottish rivers led by Anya Towers during her PhD. Find out more here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Gravel bar along a river in Scotland
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Earth Surface Dynamics @egu-esurf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models
Abstract. Computing hydrological fluxes at the Earth's surface is crucial for landscape evolution models, topographic analysis, and geographic information systems. However, existing formalisms, like s...
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