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Earth, Volume 2, Issue 1

2021 March - 11 articles

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Articles (11)

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,258 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2021

Machine learning (ML), as an artificial intelligence tool, has acquired significant progress in data-driven research in Earth sciences. Land Surface Models (LSMs) are important components of the climate models, which help to capture the water, energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
13,633 Views
23 Pages

6 March 2021

In recent years, rainfall-induced waterlogging has become a common hazard in the highly urbanized coastal city of Chattogram, Bangladesh, resulting in a high magnitude of property damage and economic loss. Therefore, the primary objective of this res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
31,747 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2021

Environmental pollution has a great impact on human health, ecosystems, and financial development. This paper depicts the recent studies on the severity of environmental pollution in developing countries. Its remedial measures were based on a questio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,742 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2021

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease and the most common form of dementia in older adults. Treatment of AD symptoms is very challenging and expensive. Appropriate diet as well as mental and physical activity may delay or re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,392 Views
13 Pages

26 February 2021

The growing impact of CO2 and other greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions on the socio-climate system in the Western Cape, South Africa, urgently calls for the need for better climate adaptation and emissions-reduction strategies. While the consensus has be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,882 Views
25 Pages

Evaluation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Using Satellite Images in Densely Populated Cities of South Asia

  • Manisha Maharjan,
  • Anil Aryal,
  • Bijay Man Shakya,
  • Rocky Talchabhadel,
  • Bhesh Raj Thapa and
  • Saurav Kumar

9 February 2021

Rapid Urbanization, and other anthropogenic activities, have amplified the change in land-use transition from green space to heat emission in built-up areas globally. As a result, there has been an increase in the land surface temperature (LST) causi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,521 Views
20 Pages

Mapping Susceptibility to Debris Flows Triggered by Tropical Storms: A Case Study of the San Vicente Volcano Area (El Salvador, CA)

  • Claudio Mercurio,
  • Chiara Martinello,
  • Edoardo Rotigliano,
  • Abel Alexei Argueta-Platero,
  • Mario Ernesto Reyes-Martínez,
  • Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera-Ayala and
  • Christian Conoscenti

31 January 2021

In this study, an inventory of storm-triggered debris flows performed in the area of the San Vicente volcano (El Salvador, CA) was used to calibrate predictive models and prepare a landslide susceptibility map. The storm event struck the area in Nove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,783 Views
15 Pages

29 January 2021

This study uses modern and historic spatial data to analyze land use around 13th Century AD Bulgarian fortified settlements to examine the current state of these features and how changes in land use over the past two centuries have affected these fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,336 Views
19 Pages

Insights on the Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes and Anthropogenic Activities on Sediment Yield of a River Basin

  • Rocky Talchabhadel,
  • Jeeban Panthi,
  • Sanjib Sharma,
  • Ganesh R. Ghimire,
  • Rupesh Baniya,
  • Piyush Dahal,
  • Mahendra B. Baniya,
  • Shivaram K.C.,
  • Biswo Jha and
  • Saurav Kumar
  • + 4 authors

21 January 2021

Streamflow and sediment flux variations in a mountain river basin directly affect the downstream biodiversity and ecological processes. Precipitation is expected to be one of the main drivers of these variations in the Himalayas. However, such relati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,578 Views
15 Pages

23 December 2020

The transportation sector of Senegal is dominated by the road subsector, which relies on fossil fuels: gasoline and diesel. Their combustion generates substances such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and many others responsible for climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,079 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of Trace Metals in Sediments from Khnifiss Lagoon (Tarfaya, Morocco)

  • Ali Tnoumi,
  • Massimo Angelone,
  • Giovanna Armiento,
  • Raffaela Caprioli,
  • Cinzia Crovato,
  • Maurizio De Cassan,
  • Maria Rita Montereali,
  • Elisa Nardi,
  • Luisa Parrella and
  • Bendahhou Zourarah
  • + 2 authors

23 December 2020

Surface sediments from Khnifiss lagoon (Morocco) were analyzed to evaluate the contamination degree of the area. Concentrations of V, Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Hg, and Pb were determined on samples taken during the summer and the autumn of 2016. On...

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