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Enhancement of carbon monoxide concentration in atmosphere due to large scale forest fire of Uttarakhand
"This study analyzed transport characteristics of carbon monoxide (CO) from richly forested region of Uttarakhand in the spring by integrating available satellite retrieval and Lagrangian dispersion model. The long range transport of CO due to forest fire was observed and led to an enhancement in CO concentration at high altitudes. This work provides strong evidences to the impact of India biomass burning on the air pollution in Southeast Asia with integreted tools, and therefore contributed to the relevant community."
Xinfeng Wang, Handling Editor
Comparison of shallow-water seston among biogenic habitats on tidal flats
"This is an interesting contribution to processes on tidal flats, still not too much investigated in the oceanographic field."
Georg Umgiesser, Handling Editor
Some methods to improve the utility of conditioned Latin hypercube sampling
"Nice piece of work with improvements of a sampling strategy usually applied in the fields of Earth and environmental sciences"
Paolo Giordani, Handling Editor
Potential ecotoxicological effects of antimicrobial surface coatings: a literature survey backed up by analysis of market reports
"The review gives a comprehensive overview of application areas of antimicrobial coatings (AMCs) and potential ecotoxicological hazards associated with the use of such materials. The authors also highlight the existing data gaps in the release of antimicrobial compounds from coatings, which impedes risk-benefit evaluation of AMCs."
Monika Mortimer, Handling Editor
Use of open mobile mapping tool to assess human mobility traceability in rural offline populations with contrasting malaria dynamics
"Understanding human movements is critical for understanding disease movement and to predict possible targeted areas for intervention. This paper works toward mapping rural populations, which represent frequently under surveyed groups and populations difficult to provide appropriate intervention."
Jason Blackburn, Handling Editor
Forest floor temperature and greenness link significantly to canopy attributes in South Africa’s fragmented coastal forests
"I believe that besides the difficulties encountered in the specific location, the paper is well done and methodologically relevant. I would recommend its approach to a wide range of scientific sectors related to the physical interaction between plants, animals and possibly humans."
Leonardo Montagnani, Handling Editor
An index of non-sampling error in area frame sampling based on remote sensing data
"This is an interesting work, which may be of value to a wide range of applications."
Bo Huang, Handling Editor
Modelling the dynamics of a large rock landslide in the Dolomites (eastern Italian Alps) using multi-temporal DEMs
"The use of multi-time LiDAR with a GIS for landslide model calibration is interesting"
Lei Wang, Handling Editor
Random forest as a generic framework for predictive modeling of spatial and spatio-temporal variables
"Comparison between machine learning tools and geostatistics are in the front of geosciences"
Tal Svoray, Handling Editor
Effects of mesoscale eddies on behavior of an oil spill resulting from an accidental deepwater blowout in the Black Sea: an assessment of the environmental impacts
"The deep oil spill is still an open issue in operational oceanography and this job can be considered a further step forward in understanding this phenomenon."
Andrea Cucco, Handling Editor

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