https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19567-2
Without a doubt the paper I studied the closest this year. It gives exciting insight how and where loops can be expected to form in complex networks.
Why was it cool? It served as an inspiration. It was well written. It is a scientific frontier.
From: John Shaw
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0022-3727/42/4/045201
Beautiful work on streamer discharges. The authors were able to study in detail loop creation in discharge channels thanks to the innovative capturing technique. And it captured exactly the effect that I was looking for đ
Why was it awesome? It was helpful! It was surprising!
From: StanisĆaw Ć»ukowski, s.zukowski@uw.edu.pl
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.042218
Solicitation: This paper is one of the few out there to really get a handle on loops. The approach is so clever. It’s been a building block for me.
What was awesome? It was a building a block for me.
From: John Shaw
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007GC001809
Salutation: This served as a critical paper for trying to connect the volcanoes and Atlantic multidecadal variability to tropical cyclone precipitation in my reconstruction. I genuinely could not stop thinking about this paper, and I think it set the stage for future collaborations.
What was awesome? It was helpful, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and it made a key connection for me.
From: Josh Bregy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379118307339
Salutation: This helped me develop a conceptual dynamic setting for the impact that local/regional volcanic eruptionsâparticularly the ash plumesâmay have on tropical cyclones (TC) and TC precipitation.
What was awesome? It had excellent figures and documentation, it was helpful, and it made a key connection for me.
From: Josh Bregy
Salutation: This paper gave me the idea to explore the connections between volcanoes and tropical cyclone rainfall in tree rings. The authors use d18O in tree rings to look at changes tropical cyclone activity in response to volcanoes. Given that d18O is a precipitation signal, I decided it would be worthwhile looking at my ring-width-derived TC precipitation record with respect to volcanoes. It worked!
What was awesome? Excellent figures and documentation, It was helpful!, and It made a key connection for me.
From: Josh Bregy
Salutation: It provides a comprehensive cross-field borehole based lithofacies interpretation, which indicates the complex lava-sediment interactions. This work deepened our understanding of volcanism and magmatism influences on the rift margin evolution.
What was awesome? It’s a scientific frontier!
From Hehe Chen
Salutation: It is an amazing database for detrital zircon geochronological studies. With the database growing, it will provide us with a very convenient way to trace sediments from source to sink.
What was awesome? Excellent figures and documentation, Helpful!, Surprising, Couldn’t stop thinking about it, It’s a scientific frontier! It made a key connection for me.
From Hehe Chen
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JF003960
Salutation: We read this paper in a graduate discussion seminar, and I was impressed and delighted by their multi-scale approach to modeling glacial erosion by quarrying. It’s such a nice demonstration of how one can derive a “geologic scale” erosion law from process mechanics. Bravo!
What was awesome? It’s a scientific frontier! It made a key connection for me.
From: Greg Tucker
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9649
Salutation: This study demonstrates impacts of modern climate change on sediment fluxes from high-mountain source areas, as warming and deglaciation generally increase sediment transport and change some of the source areas. It’s important work for understanding physical climate-change impacts on landscapes; their work is some of the clearest in a field where it’s often difficult to separate (and attribute) signal relative to noise.
Why was it awesome? It’s a scientific frontier!
From: Amy East
Shaw Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Laboratory at the University of Arkansas 