Although a major region with strong urbanization, there is not yet a systematic and comprehensive understanding of urban expansion during the last 20 years for China’s coastal zone. In this paper, based on remote sensing techniques, and using i...
Coastal Trapped Waves (CTWs) represent an important class of mesoscale fluctuations in nearshore shelf regions and play a crucial role in modulating coastal circulation. The South China Sea (SCS), the largest semi-enclosed marginal sea in the western...
The rapid expansion in shipping traffic, oil tankers, and oil field exploration in coastal and marine areas has, inevitably, resulted in the occurrence of many oil spill accidents. Oil spill accidents, which cause serious socio-economic, health, and...
Urbanization transforms urban-rural landscape and profoundly affects ecological processes. To maintain a sustainable urbanization, two important issues of land-use need to be quantified: the comprehensive variation of urban-rural construction land an...
Tourism has emerged as a pivotal element of China’s economic development, particularly within its coastal cities. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of China’s coastal city tourism economic development, focusing on 53 coastal ci...
Historical districts are the mark of the continuity of urban history and are non-renewable. Typhoon disasters rank among the most serious and frequent natural threats to China’s coastal regions. Improving the wind resilience of China’s co...
Ensuring nutrient adequacy for all is a common goal of the international community, but spatial difference is one of the barriers to its development. Exploring nutrient adequacy in coastal areas of China can help regions where food production systems...
High-resolution (2 km) high-frequency (hourly) SST data from 2015 to 2021 provided by the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 geostationary satellite were used to study spatial and temporal variability of the China Coastal...
Land degradation and development (LDD) is one of the important ecological issues in coastal China. This study analyzed the temporal and spatial changes of the LDD process in coastal China from 1982 to 2015 using the LDD index constructed from normali...
China plays a significant role in the global fishing industry. The small-scale fisheries (SSFs) operating along its coast have made noteworthy and invaluable contributions in the areas of poverty alleviation, protein provision, social equity, and ove...
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Recently released hourly particular matter (PM:PM2.5 and PM10) and gaseous pollutants (SO2, NO2, CO, and O3) data observed in Qingdao, Hangzhou, and Xiamen from 2015 to 2019 were utilized to reveal the current situation of air pollution over eastern...
Social vulnerability assessment has been recognized as a reliable and effective measure for informing coastal hazard management. Although significant advances have been made in the study of social vulnerability for over two decades, China’s soc...
A tropical cyclone dataset is an important data source for tropical cyclone disaster research, and the evaluation of its applicability is a necessary prerequisite. The Global Synthetic Tropical Cyclone Hazard (GSTCH) dataset is a dataset of global tr...
Photovoltaic (PV) panels convert sunlight into electricity, and play a crucial role in energy decarbonization, and in promoting urban resources and environmental sustainability. The area of PV panels in China’s coastal regions is rapidly increa...
Invasive plants, like Spartina alterniflora (SA), have a competitive advantage over native flora due to their rapid utilization of vital soil nutrients. This results in the depletion of resources for native plant species, significantly impacting ecos...
This study scrutinizes interannual (2003–2023) variations in coastal upwelling along the Guangdong Province during summers (June–August) in the northeastern South China Sea (NESCS) by comprehensively applying the moderate-resolution imagi...
Aquaculture has enormous potential for ensuring global food security and has experienced rapid growth globally. Thus, the accurate monitoring and mapping of coastal aquaculture ponds is necessary for the sustainable development and efficient manageme...
High-resolution (2 km) high-frequency (hourly) SST data from 2015–2020 provided by the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 geostationary satellite positioned over 140.7°E were used to study spatial and temporal va...
In response to the widespread decline in ecosystem service value (ESV) caused by rapid industrialization and urbanization-driven land-use transitions in Coastal China—characterized by shrinking farmland and expanding built-up land and crystalli...
With the rapid development of urbanization, coastal cities of China have made significant achievements in economic development. However, the eco-environment of these cities has been under tremendous pressure due to the interference of human activitie...
From 2000 to 2020, storm surges occurred 397 times in China, resulting in direct economic losses of up to CNY 220.64 billion. Storm surges not only threaten safety but also cause property damage; hence, it is necessary to assess the changes in vulner...
China’s sinuous coastline is increasingly threatened by land subsidence driven by complex geological conditions and intensive human activity. Using year-round Sentinel-1A acquisitions for 2023 and SBAS-InSAR processing, we generated the first m...
Under increasingly stringent global policies aimed at reducing emissions from shipping, the impact of maritime activities on air quality has garnered significant attention. However, the absence of comprehensive macro-evaluation methods and a limited...
Multiple datasets related to pond and marine aquaculture have been published using diverse remote sensing technologies, yet a comprehensive dataset detailing spatial distribution on both land and sea sides is lacking. Firstly, a meticulous comparison...
The frequency and severity of extreme hydroclimatic events in humid southeastern China have increased in the past half century, which is a serious concern. In this research, we used wood samples from 134 trees growing in the southeast coastal region...
Land use/land cover (LULC) is one of the core driving factors affecting terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and exacerbating global warming. As an area with the most intense land–sea interactions, China’s coastal zone has experienced dra...
Seasonal cycle and interannual variability in coastal circulations in the northern South China Sea (NSCS) are investigated using satellite altimeter data from March 1993 to September 2016. Altimeter-derived velocity anomalies are in good agreement wi...
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems (traditional types such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows; emerging types such as tidal flats and mariculture) play pivotal roles in capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Reliable assessment o...
Based on Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data and the semi-automatic Topographic Position Index (TPI)-based mapping method, this study maps the significant coastal upwelling in the northern South China Sea (NSCS). The results show that the M...
China is one of the countries that suffers severe damage from storm surges. Assessing the vulnerability to storm surges holds great significance for promoting sustainable development and minimizing disaster losses in coastal areas. This study first d...
As a marine ichthyotoxic dinoflagellate, Margalefidinium polykrikoides, previously named Cochlodinium polykrikoides, have caused mass mortalities of fish worldwide during blooms. Rapid detection of target species is a prerequisite for the timely moni...
The superimposed effects of sea level rise caused by global warming and land subsidence seriously threaten the sustainable development of coastal cities. In recent years, an important coastal city in China, Zhuhai, has been suffering from severe and...
The oceans are a crucial source of natural resources for human development, as productive terrestrial resources increasingly reach their limits of economic and ecological exploitation. With increasing human impact on oceans, it is vital to maintain a...
A year-long study was performed to comprehensively investigate the mass concentration, water-soluble ions, organic and elemental carbons, and elemental components of atmospheric fine particles from March 2006 to February 2007 in Qingdao. The results...
Sustainable low-carbon logistics serves as a key driver for economic development in China’s eastern coastal regions. This study evaluates the efficiency of low-carbon logistics across 12 provinces from 2013 to 2022, incorporating both environme...
In this paper, we applied the re-analysis data cobe-SST (cobe-sea surface temperature) and Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) surface soil moisture (SM) data from 1961 to 2011 by using regional correlation analysis and time series causality...
Measurements of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) and the Ångström exponent were retrieved from level 1.5 data obtained by the CE318 sun photometer at Dalian monitoring station from April 2007 to April 2012 to characterize the aerosol spatial and tempo...
With climate change and rising sea levels, the residents and assets in low-elevation coastal zones (LECZ) are at increasing risk. The application of high-resolution gridded population datasets in recent years has highlighted the threats faced by peop...
The characteristics of the synoptic situation and the evolution of the organized warm-sector rainfalls (OWSRs) in the coastal region of South China in the pre-summer rainy season were investigated, using a period (2011–2016) of high-resolution...
In order to ascertain the taxonomic status of the Ariake Sea population of Japanese grenadier anchovy, Coilia nasus, and assess the contemporary possible genetic barrier between the west and east coastal waters of the East China Sea, we used amplifie...
Analyzing vegetation coverage and land-use and land cover (LULC) characteristics helps to understand the interaction between human activities and the natural environment. The coastal regions of the Guangdong Province are economically active areas wit...
Runoff simulation is of fundamental importance for hydrological research. This study evaluated the applicability of multiple hydrological models and their ensembles for simulating runoff in small and medium-sized river basins of southeastern coastal...
Accurate prediction of near-surface meteorological variables is important for weather services and coastal risk management. However, the station-level performance of global artificial intelligence (AI) weather models remains insufficiently characteri...
As a traditional method, passive seismic exploration is used to construct the body-wave velocity structure of the upper crust, but it is cost-ineffective and depth-limited when applied to large areas. In this study, we use another more economical met...
10 March 2014
Understanding the spatial point pattern of human settlements and their geographical associations are important for understanding the drivers of land use and land cover change and the relationship between environmental and ecological processes on one...
East and south coastal China is made up of a cluster of six developed provinces whose CO2 emissions account for one third of the total CO2 emissions in China. As such, it is meaningful to predict carbon emissions in this region to assess whether Chin...
Different diurnal rainfall cycles occur over the offshore and inland regions of the South China coastal area (SCCA). Inspired by these findings, in this study, we investigated the diurnal evolution features of cloud systems and cloud properties insid...
Groundwater quality and availability in coastal aquifers have become a serious concern in recent times due to increased abstraction for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes. (1) Background: Zhuhai city is selected as a representative coasta...
Ground-level ozone (O3) has become a major air pollutant in China following PM2.5, particularly in the southeastern coastal region, where the frequent interaction of typhoons and the subtropical high complicates pollution control. In this paper, spat...
Coastal areas are among the most densely populated areas globally and are crucial components of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Investigating the interplay between population distribution and the ecosystem service value (ESV) in coastal regions, a...
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