Abstracts

Recent global nonhydrostatic modeling approach without using a cumulus parameterization to understand the mechanisms underlying cloud changes due to global warming

Akira T. Noda, Tomoki Ohno, Chihiro Kodama, Ying-Wen Chen, Naomi Kuba, Tatsuya Seiki, Yohei Yamada, Masaki Satoh

K-feldspar enrichment in the Pacific pelagic sediments before Miocene

Yoichi Usui, Toshitsugu Yamazaki

Features of the Earth’s seasonal hydroclimate: characterizations and comparisons across the Köppen–Geiger climates and across continents

Georgia Papacharalampous, Hristos Tyralis, Yannis Markonis, Petr Máca, Martin Hanel

Incoming plate structure at the Japan Trench subduction zone revealed in densely spaced reflection seismic profiles

Yasuyuki Nakamura, Shuichi Kodaira, Gou Fujie, Mikiya Yamashita, Koichiro Obana, Seiichi Miura

Progress in modeling the Tohoku-oki megathrust earthquake cycle and associated crustal deformation processes

Bunichiro Shibazaki

An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: I—motivation and selected examples

Peter E. van Keken, Cian R. Wilson

Effect of grain size on amorphization mechanism and kinetics of bridgmanite in shocked meteorites

Masayuki Nishi, Si Jin, Katsutoshi Kawano, Hideharu Kuwahara, Akihiro Yamada, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yuki Mori, Tatsuhiro Sakaiya, Tadashi Kondo

Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial organisms of these and adjacent islands

Watanabe N, Arai K, Otsubo M, Toda M, Tominaga A, Chiyonobu S, Sato T, Ikeda T, Takahashi A, Ota H, Iryu Y

Si- versus Mg-metasomatism at the crust–mantle interface: Insights from experiments, natural observations and geochemical modeling

Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi

Possible link between temperatures in the seashore and open ocean waters of Peru identified by using new seashore water data

Shuhei Masuda, Masato Kobayashi, Luis Alfredo Icochea Salas, Gandy Maria Rosales Quintana