Earth Surface Dynamics
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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.
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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
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Led by Helena Vallicrosa & Cesar Terrer
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
July 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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
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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🚨 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...
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...
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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July 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🚨 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...
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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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/...
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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October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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/...
New ESurf Preprint: Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Lead to Contrasting Headwater Slope Evolutions egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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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May 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New ESurf Preprint: Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Lead to Contrasting Headwater Slope Evolutions egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
New ESurf preprint: Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic patterns on a mid-channel intertidal bar in an estuary egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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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May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New ESurf preprint: Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic patterns on a mid-channel intertidal bar in an estuary egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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/...
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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May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Great to see this out out! 👍🙌 well done @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social 👏
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
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...
egusphere.copernicus.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Great to see this out out! 👍🙌 well done @joshwolstenholme.bsky.social 👏
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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.
New preprint for discussion: Morphological response to climate-induced flood event variability in a sub-arctic river egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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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February 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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.
Apologies for the glut of new paper posts thanks for your patience 👏👍
May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Apologies for the glut of new paper posts thanks for your patience 👏👍
New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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 ...
esurf.copernicus.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New ESurf article: Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
New ESurf preprint: Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes
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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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May 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New ESurf preprint: Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes
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New ESurf article: Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New ESurf article: Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
New ESurf preprint: Three-stage evolution of particle shape in headwater streams egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New ESurf preprint: Three-stage evolution of particle shape in headwater streams egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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...
New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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...
esurf.copernicus.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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...
New Article: Formational Conditions of Ribbed Moraine in Norway: A Distribution Analysis and Ribbed Moraine Inventory egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New Article: Formational Conditions of Ribbed Moraine in Norway: A Distribution Analysis and Ribbed Moraine Inventory egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
New Article: Geometric constraints on tributary fluvial network junction angles esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New Article: Geometric constraints on tributary fluvial network junction angles esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
New Article: Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New Article: Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
New Article: Investigating uncertainty and parameter sensitivity in bedform analysis by using a Monte Carlo approach esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New Article: Investigating uncertainty and parameter sensitivity in bedform analysis by using a Monte Carlo approach esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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/...
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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May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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/...