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    The Most Downloaded Paper Award 2021

    We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most downloaded paper award 2020 were presented to the top-two most downloaded papers published in 2019 – 2020.

    Based on the number of accesses until December 2020, these papers are:

    First place Downloaded count : 14,079

    Research [Human geosciences]

    Soil salinity assessment by using near-infrared channel and Vegetation Soil Salinity Index derived from Landsat 8 OLI data: a case study in the Tra Vinh Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

    Kim-Anh Nguyen, Yuei-An Liou, Ha-Phuong Tran, Phi-Phung Hoang and Thanh-Hung Nguyen

    Published: 6 January 2020

    SpringerOpen

    Second place Downloaded count : 5,425

    Research [Interdisciplinary research]

    Millennial-scale variability of East Asian summer monsoon inferred from sea surface salinity in the northern East China Sea (ECS) and its impact on the Japan Sea during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3

    Yoshimi Kubota, Katsunori Kimoto, Ryuji Tada, Masao Uchida and Ken Ikehara

    Published: 28 May 2019

    SpringerOpen