Listed are all scientific papers resulting from an ISSI activity written or co-authored by ISSI Team members, Working Group members, Workshop participants, visitors or staff members.
Trends of essential climate variables are often estimated from climate data records to quantify changes in the Earth system. An understanding of the uncertainty in a trend is essential for accurately determining the significance of a trend and attributing its causes. Despite this importance, trend-uncertainty estimates rarely account for all known sources of uncertainty.
Water and land surfaces on a planet interact in particular ways with gases in the atmosphere and with radiation from the star. These interactions define the environments that prevail on the planet, some of which may be more amenable to prebiotic chemistry, some to the evolution of more complex life.
This article reviews the emerging field of exo-geoscience, focusing on the geological and geophysical processes thought to influence the evolution and (eu)habitability of rocky exoplanets. We examine the possible roles of planetary interiors, tectonic regimes, continental coverage, volatile cycling, magnetic fields, and atmospheric composition and evolution in shaping long-term climate stability and biospheric potential.
Three substorm events in which Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft are geomagnetically co‐located with substorm onset locations in IMAGE far ultraviolet auroral images are analyzed. A Hilbert‐Huang Transform is used to decompose the DMSP B⊥ ${B}_{perp }$ in the ionosphere to its intrinsic mode functions.
Using deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the Blue Jay survey, we performed the first systematic investigation of neutral gas content in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon based on the Ca II H, K absorption lines. We analyzed a sample of nine galaxies at 1.8 < z < 2.8 with log M*/M⊙ > 10.6, for which we detected neutral gas absorption both in Ca II and in Na I.
The emission of volatiles from the surface and subsurface of planetary bodies can provide fundamental knowledge concerning their formation, evolution, and structure. There are a variety of physical processes that shape the structural, kinematic and thermal behavior of the released material.
In satellite remote sensing of land surface Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) using optical sensors, an atmospheric correction step is typically required to convert top-of-atmosphere (TOA) bi-directional reflectances into top-of-canopy (TOC) bi-directional reflectances. We analyse the error covariance structure of TOC reflectances that arises specifically from uncertainties in atmospheric correction.
We present a sample of 1956 individual stellar clumps at redshift $0.7lt zlt 10$, detected with JWST/NIRCam in 476 galaxies lensed by the galaxy cluster Abell2744. The lensed clumps present magnifications ranging between $mu$ = 1.8 and $mu$ = 300. We perform simultaneous size-photometry estimates in 20 JWST/NIRCam median and broad-band filters from 0.7 to 5 $mu$m. Spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting analyses enable us to recover the physical properties of the clumps.
One of the most striking manifestations of orderly behavior emerging out of complex interactions in any astrophysical system is the 11 yr cycle of sunspots. However, direct sunspot observations and reconstructions of long-term solar activity clearly exhibit amplitude fluctuations beyond the decadal timescale, which may be termed as supradecadal modulation.
Context. The localised formation of planetesimals can be triggered with the help of streaming instability when the local pebble density is high. This can happen at various locations in the disc, and it leads to the formation of local planetesimal rings. The planetesimals in these rings subsequently grow from mutual collisions and by pebble accretion. Aims.
