Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

A Murray, LJ Arnold, JP Buylaert, G Guérin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

Anthropogenic stresses on the world's big rivers

J Best - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
The world's big rivers and their floodplains were central to development of civilization and
are now home to c. 2.7 billion people. They are economically vital whilst also constituting …

Automated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data

HA Orengo, FC Conesa… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
This paper presents an innovative multisensor, multitemporal machine-learning approach
using remote sensing big data for the detection of archaeological mounds in Cholistan …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing groundwater recharge sources in the northwestern Indian alluvial aquifer using water isotopes (δ18O, δ2H and 3H)

SK Joshi, SP Rai, R Sinha, S Gupta, AL Densmore… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rapid groundwater depletion from the northwestern Indian aquifer system in the western
Indo-Gangetic basin has raised serious concerns over the sustainability of groundwater and …

Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt

H Sembhi, M Wooster, T Zhang… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The past decade has seen episodes of increasingly severe air pollution across much of the
highly populated Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), particularly during the post-monsoon season …

[HTML][HTML] Strongly heterogeneous patterns of groundwater depletion in Northwestern India

SK Joshi, S Gupta, R Sinha, AL Densmore, SP Rai… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Northwestern India has been identified as a significant hotspot of groundwater depletion,
with major implications for groundwater sustainability caused by excessive abstraction. We …

Modelling water levels of northwestern India in response to improved irrigation use efficiency

S Shekhar, S Kumar, AL Densmore, WM Van Dijk… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The groundwater crisis in northwestern India is the result of over-exploitation of groundwater
resources for irrigation. The Government of India has targeted a 20 percent improvement in …

A diverse array of fluvial depositional systems in Arabia Terra: Evidence for mid‐Noachian to early Hesperian rivers on Mars

JM Davis, S Gupta, M Balme… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Branching to sinuous ridges systems, hundreds of kilometers in length and comprising
layered strata, are present across much of Arabia Terra, Mars. These ridges are interpreted …

26Al and 10Be concentrations from alluvial drill cores across the Indo-Gangetic plain reveal multimillion-year sediment-transport lag times

S Bhattacharjee, B Bookhagen, R Sinha… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sediment burial can lead to significant lag times during sediment transport and is an
important component of the sediment cycle. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is a large …