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Top 100 in Earth Science

Explore our most highly accessed Earth science articles in 2017. Featuring authors from around the World, these papers highlight valuable research within Earth science from an international community.

1-25

Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life on Earth: the low probability of mass extinction
- Kunio Kaiho
- Naga Oshima
ArticleOpen Access9 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
India Is Overtaking China as the World’s Largest Emitter of Anthropogenic Sulfur Dioxide
- Can Li
- Chris McLinden
- Russell R. Dickerson
ArticleOpen Access9 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
A real-time Global Warming Index
- K. Haustein
- M. R. Allen
- D. J. Frame
ArticleOpen Access13 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Changes in regional heatwave characteristics as a function of increasing global temperature
- S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick
- P. B. Gibson
ArticleOpen Access25 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
New insights into earthquake precursors from InSAR
- Marco Moro
- Michele Saroli
- Urs Wegmüller
ArticleOpen Access20 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Source and dynamics of a volcanic caldera unrest: Campi Flegrei, 1983–84
- Luca De Siena
- Giovanni Chiodini
- Guido Ventura
ArticleOpen Access14 Aug 2017 Scientific Reports
Climate induced human demographic and cultural change in northern Europe during the mid-Holocene
- L. Warden
- M. Moros
- J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
ArticleOpen Access10 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Impact-related microspherules in Late Pleistocene Alaskan and Yukon “muck” deposits signify recurrent episodes of catastrophic emplacement
- Jonathan T. Hagstrum
- Richard B. Firestone
- Ted E. Bunch
ArticleOpen Access30 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability
- R. Iestyn Woolway
- Christopher J. Merchant
ArticleOpen Access23 Jun 2017 Scientific Reports
Climate of doubt: A re-evaluation of Büntgen and Di Cosmo’s environmental hypothesis for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary, 1242 CE
- Zsolt Pinke
- László Ferenczi
- Stephen Pow
ArticleOpen Access5 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Global nickel anomaly links Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian mass extinction
- Michael R. Rampino
- Sedelia Rodriguez
- Yue Cai
ArticleOpen Access29 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Nuisance Flooding and Relative Sea-Level Rise: the Importance of Present-Day Land Motion
- Makan A. Karegar
- Timothy H. Dixon
- Simon E. Engelhart
ArticleOpen Access11 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Hydrogeochemical changes before and during the 2016 Amatrice-Norcia seismic sequence (central Italy)
- Marino Domenico Barberio
- Maurizio Barbieri
- Marco Petitta
ArticleOpen Access15 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India
- Rahul Kumar
- Vimal Mishra
- Matthew Huber
ArticleOpen Access25 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Doubling of coastal flooding frequency within decades due to sea-level rise
- Sean Vitousek
- Patrick L. Barnard
- Curt D. Storlazzi
ArticleOpen Access18 May 2017 Scientific Reports
High levels of ammonia do not raise fine particle pH sufficiently to yield nitrogen oxide-dominated sulfate production
- Hongyu Guo
- Rodney J. Weber
- Athanasios Nenes
ArticleOpen Access21 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Observed drought indices show increasing divergence across Europe
- James H. Stagge
- Daniel G. Kingston
- David M. Hannah
ArticleOpen Access25 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Severe Pollution in China Amplified by Atmospheric Moisture
- Xuexi Tie
- Ru-Jin Huang
- Colin D. O’Dowd
ArticleOpen Access17 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Survey of Subsidence in Hampton Roads, Virginia (USA)
- D. P. S. Bekaert
- B. D. Hamlington
- C. E. Jones
ArticleOpen Access7 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Role of Oceanic and Terrestrial Atmospheric Moisture Sources in Intraseasonal Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall
- Amey Pathak
- Subimal Ghosh
- Raghu Murtugudde
ArticleOpen Access6 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city
- Jordi Díaz
- Mario Ruiz
- Paula Romero
ArticleOpen Access10 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Evidence of local and regional freshening of Northeast Greenland coastal waters
- Mikael K. Sejr
- Colin A. Stedmon
- Søren Rysgaard
ArticleOpen Access13 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
New Zealand supereruption provides time marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in Antarctica
- Nelia W. Dunbar
- Nels A. Iverson
- Colin J. N. Wilson
ArticleOpen Access25 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
A solar radiation database for Chile
- Alejandra Molina
- Mark Falvey
- Roberto Rondanelli
ArticleOpen Access1 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Evidence of long-term NAO influence on East-Central Europe winter precipitation from a guano-derived δ¹⁵N record
- Daniel M. Cleary
- Jonathan G. Wynn
- Bogdan P. Onac
ArticleOpen Access26 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports

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Humid heat waves at different warming levels
- Simone Russo
- Jana Sillmann
- Andreas Sterl
ArticleOpen Access7 Aug 2017 Scientific Reports
Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Seismic Monitoring of The Near Surface: A Traffic-Noise Interferometry Case Study
- Shan Dou
- Nate Lindsey
- Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin
ArticleOpen Access14 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Declining pre-monsoon dust loading over South Asia: Signature of a changing regional climate
- Satyendra K. Pandey
- V. Vinoj
- S. Suresh Babu
ArticleOpen Access22 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
The first physical evidence of subglacial volcanism under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Nels A. Iverson
- Ross Lieb-Lappen
- Ellyn Golden
ArticleOpen Access13 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
8000-year monsoonal record from Himalaya revealing reinforcement of tropical and global climate systems since mid-Holocene
- Pradeep Srivastava
- Rajesh Agnihotri
- R. Jayangondaperumal
ArticleOpen Access6 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Extreme weather caused by concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences
- Andrew J. Dowdy
- Jennifer L. Catto
ArticleOpen Access11 Jan 2017 Scientific Reports
Drift-dependent changes in iceberg size-frequency distributions
- James D. Kirkham
- Nick J. Rosser
- Witold Szczuciński
ArticleOpen Access22 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Exceptional 20^th century glaciological regime of a major SE Greenland outlet glacier
- Camilla S. Andresen
- Ulla Kokfelt
- David Wangner
ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Contrasting glacier responses to recent climate change in high-mountain Asia
- Akiko Sakai
- Koji Fujita
ArticleOpen Access20 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
The impact of extreme El Niño events on modern sediment transport along the western Peruvian Andes (1968–2012)
- Sergio B. Morera
- Thomas Condom
- Jean L. Guyot
ArticleOpen Access25 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Indian Ocean corals reveal crucial role of World War II bias for twentieth century warming estimates
- M. Pfeiffer
- J. Zinke
- M. E. Weber
ArticleOpen Access31 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
The signs of Antarctic ozone hole recovery
- Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath
- Prijitha J. Nair
ArticleOpen Access3 Apr 2017 Scientific Reports
Tracing the Vedic Saraswati River in the Great Rann of Kachchh
- Nitesh Khonde
- Sunil Kumar Singh
- Liviu Giosan
ArticleOpen Access14 Jul 2017 Scientific Reports
Droughts in India from 1981 to 2013 and Implications to Wheat Production
- Xiang Zhang
- Renee Obringer
- Dev Niyogi
ArticleOpen Access15 Mar 2017 Scientific Reports
Half a century of coastal temperature records reveal complex warming trends in western boundary currents
- Nick T. Shears
- Melissa M. Bowen
ArticleOpen Access6 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
US Power Production at Risk from Water Stress in a Changing Climate
- Poulomi Ganguli
- Devashish Kumar
- Auroop R. Ganguly
ArticleOpen Access20 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Effect of a positive Sea Surface Temperature anomaly on a Mediterranean tornadic supercell
- Mario Marcello Miglietta
- Jordi Mazon
- Antonello Pasini
ArticleOpen Access9 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Monitoring ground water storage at mesoscale using seismic noise: 30 years of continuous observation and thermo-elastic and hydrological modeling
- Thomas Lecocq
- Laurent Longuevergne
- Klaus Stammler
ArticleOpen Access27 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2–3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014–2016 El Niño
- Prabir K. Patra
- David Crisp
- Kentaro Ishijima
ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Changes in land use alter soil quality and aggregate stability in the highlands of northern Ethiopia
- Yoseph T. Delelegn
- Witoon Purahong
- Douglas L. Godbold
ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Zebra rocks: compaction waves create ore deposits
- Ulrich Kelka
- Manolis Veveakis
- Nicolas Beaudoin
ArticleOpen Access27 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Distributed optical fibre sensing for early detection of shallow landslides triggering
- Luca Schenato
- Luca Palmieri
- Paolo Simonini
ArticleOpen Access31 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island
- Bin Zhou
- Diego Rybski
- Jürgen P. Kropp
ArticleOpen Access6 Jul 2017 Scientific Reports
Wind-generated Electricity in China: Decreasing Potential, Inter-annual Variability and Association with Changing Climate
- Peter Sherman
- Xinyu Chen
- Michael B. McElroy
ArticleOpen Access24 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteorite
- Toshiki Koga
- Hiroshi Naraoka
ArticleOpen Access4 Apr 2017 Scientific Reports

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Minimal Holocene retreat of large tidewater glaciers in Køge Bugt, southeast Greenland
- Laurence M. Dyke
- Camilla S. Andresen
- Flor Vermassen
ArticleOpen Access26 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Magmatic tempo of Earth’s youngest exposed plutons as revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology
- Hisatoshi Ito
- Christopher J. Spencer
- Carl W. Hoiland
ArticleOpen Access29 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Impact of Ocean Warming on Tropical Cyclone Size and Its Destructiveness
- Yuan Sun
- Zhong Zhong
- Qihua Li
ArticleOpen Access15 Aug 2017 Scientific Reports
Long-term climate change in the D-region
- Mark A. Clilverd
- Roger Duthie
- Keith H. Yearby
ArticleOpen Access30 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Direct Formation of Structural Components Using a Martian Soil Simulant
- Brian J. Chow
- Tzehan Chen
- Yu Qiao
ArticleOpen Access27 Apr 2017 Scientific Reports
Surge-type and surge-modified glaciers in the Karakoram
- R. Bhambri
- K. Hewitt
- B. Pratap
ArticleOpen Access13 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
A robust empirical seasonal prediction of winter NAO and surface climate
- L. Wang
- M. Ting
- P. J. Kushner
ArticleOpen Access21 Mar 2017 Scientific Reports
Enhanced Arctic Amplification Began at the Mid-Brunhes Event ~400,000 years ago
- T. M. Cronin
- G. S. Dwyer
- L. Gemery
ArticleOpen Access3 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Peatland Ecosystem Processes in the Maritime Antarctic During Warm Climates
- Julie Loisel
- Zicheng Yu
- Ivan Parnikoza
ArticleOpen Access27 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Salinity stratification controlled productivity variation over 300 ky in the Bay of Bengal
- R. Da Silva
- A. Mazumdar
- S. K. Molletti
ArticleOpen Access31 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Climate variability and trends at a national scale
- Zhenci Xu
- Ying Tang
- Jianguo Liu
ArticleOpen Access12 Jun 2017 Scientific Reports
Nonuniform subduction of the Indian crust beneath the Himalayas
- Xiaoyu Guo
- Wenhui Li
- Simon L. Klemperer
ArticleOpen Access2 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Origin of methane-rich natural gas at the West Pacific convergent plate boundary
- Yuji Sano
- Naoya Kinoshita
- Daniele L. Pinti
ArticleOpen Access15 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Prediction of Indian Summer-Monsoon Onset Variability: A Season in Advance
- Maheswar Pradhan
- A. Suryachandra Rao
- K. S. Shameera
ArticleOpen Access27 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Evaluating the importance of metamorphism in the foundering of continental crust
- Timothy Chapman
- Geoffrey L. Clarke
- Nathan R. Daczko
ArticleOpen Access12 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Identification of the driving forces of climate change using the longest instrumental temperature record
- Geli Wang
- Peicai Yang
- Xiuji Zhou
ArticleOpen Access7 Apr 2017 Scientific Reports
Advancement of magma fragmentation by inhomogeneous bubble distribution
- M. Kameda
- M. Ichihara
- K. Uesugi
ArticleOpen Access1 Dec 2017 Scientific Reports
Himalayan glaciers experienced significant mass loss during later phases of little ice age
- Mayank Shekhar
- Anshuman Bhardwaj
- María-Paz Zorzano
ArticleOpen Access4 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Fatty Acid Surfactant Photochemistry Results in New Particle Formation
- Peter A. Alpert
- Raluca Ciuraru
- Christian George
ArticleOpen Access4 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Mantle hydration along outer-rise faults inferred from serpentinite permeability
- Kohei Hatakeyama
- Ikuo Katayama
- Katsuyoshi Michibayashi
ArticleOpen Access24 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Silica precipitation potentially controls earthquake recurrence in seismogenic zones
- Hanae Saishu
- Atsushi Okamoto
- Makoto Otsubo
ArticleOpen Access17 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Patterns of change in high frequency precipitation variability over North America
- Susana Roque-Malo
- Praveen Kumar
ArticleOpen Access18 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Marine self-potential survey for exploring seafloor hydrothermal ore deposits
- Yoshifumi Kawada
- Takafumi Kasaya
ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Hydrothermal activity, functional diversity and chemoautotrophy are major drivers of seafloor carbon cycling
- James B. Bell
- Clare Woulds
- Dick van Oevelen
ArticleOpen Access20 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
A decade of global volcanic SO₂ emissions measured from space
- S. A. Carn
- V. E. Fioletov
- N. A. Krotkov
ArticleOpen Access9 Mar 2017 Scientific Reports

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South Atlantic paleobathymetry since early Cretaceous
- Lucía Pérez-Díaz
- Graeme Eagles
ArticleOpen Access18 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions
- Suraj D. Polade
- Alexander Gershunov
- David W. Pierce
ArticleOpen Access7 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Penultimate deglacial warming across the Mediterranean Sea revealed by clumped isotopes in foraminifera
- L. Rodríguez-Sanz
- S. M. Bernasconi
- E. J. Rohling
ArticleOpen Access29 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Emerging negative Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation index in spite of warm subtropics
- Eleanor Frajka-Williams
- Claudie Beaulieu
- Aurelie Duchez
ArticleOpen Access11 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Attribution of recent temperature behaviour reassessed by a neural-network method
- Antonello Pasini
- Paolo Racca
- Claudio Cassardo
ArticleOpen Access15 Dec 2017 Scientific Reports
Disentangling physical and biological drivers of phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal system
- Daniela Cianelli
- Domenico D’Alelio
- Maurizio Ribera d’Alcalà
ArticleOpen Access20 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Extreme coastal erosion enhanced by anomalous extratropical storm wave direction
- Mitchell D. Harley
- Ian L. Turner
- Andrew D. Short
ArticleOpen Access20 Jul 2017 Scientific Reports
India plate angular velocity and contemporary deformation rates from continuous GPS measurements from 1996 to 2015
- Sridevi Jade
- T. S. Shrungeshwara
- Harsh Bhu
ArticleOpen Access12 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Multi-year predictability of climate, drought, and wildfire in southwestern North America
- Yoshimitsu Chikamoto
- Axel Timmermann
- Lowell Stott
ArticleOpen Access26 Jul 2017 Scientific Reports
Climate and permafrost effects on the chemistry and ecosystems of High Arctic Lakes
- K. E. Roberts
- S. F. Lamoureux
- A. Normandeau
ArticleOpen Access16 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Sensing coral reef connectivity pathways from space
- Dionysios E. Raitsos
- Robert J. W. Brewin
- Ibrahim Hoteit
ArticleOpen Access24 Aug 2017 Scientific Reports
Potential ash impact from Antarctic volcanoes: Insights from Deception Island’s most recent eruption
- A. Geyer
- A. Marti
- A. Folch
ArticleOpen Access28 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Causes and Predictability of the Negative Indian Ocean Dipole and Its Impact on La Niña During 2016
- Eun-Pa Lim
- Harry H. Hendon
ArticleOpen Access3 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Induced seismicity closed-form traffic light system for actuarial decision-making during deep fluid injections
- A. Mignan
- M. Broccardo
- D. Giardini
ArticleOpen Access19 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
On the consistency of seismically imaged lower mantle slabs
- G. E. Shephard
- K. J. Matthews
- M. Domeier
ArticleOpen Access8 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Volcanic influence on centennial to millennial Holocene Greenland temperature change
- Takuro Kobashi
- Laurie Menviel
- Atsumu Ohmura
ArticleOpen Access3 May 2017 Scientific Reports
Increasing frequency and spatial extent of concurrent meteorological droughts and heatwaves in India
- Shailza Sharma
- Pradeep Mujumdar
ArticleOpen Access14 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
New Late Permian tectonic model for South Africa’s Karoo Basin: foreland tectonics and climate change before the end-Permian crisis
- Pia A. Viglietti
- Bruce S. Rubidge
- Roger M. H. Smith
ArticleOpen Access7 Sep 2017 Scientific Reports
Vegetation morphologic and aerodynamic characteristics reduce aeolian erosion
- Abbas Miri
- Deirdre Dragovich
- Zhibao Dong
ArticleOpen Access9 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Evidence for ice-ocean albedo feedback in the Arctic Ocean shifting to a seasonal ice zone
- Haruhiko Kashiwase
- Kay I. Ohshima
- Hajo Eicken
ArticleOpen Access15 Aug 2017 Scientific Reports
Arctic cryosphere and Milankovitch forcing of Great Basin paleoclimate
- Matthew Lachniet
- Yemane Asmerom
- Rhawn Denniston
ArticleOpen Access11 Oct 2017 Scientific Reports
Recognition of a likely two phased extinction at the K-Pg boundary in Antarctica
- Thomas S. Tobin
ArticleOpen Access24 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Birth of an oceanic spreading center at a magma-poor rift system
- Morgane Gillard
- Daniel Sauter
- Gianreto Manatschal
ArticleOpen Access8 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports
Impact of Multidecadal Climate Variability on United Kingdom Rickets Rates
- Haris Majeed
- G. W. K. Moore
ArticleOpen Access17 Nov 2017 Scientific Reports

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