Review articles

Space and atmospheric physics on Svalbard: a case for continued incoherent scatter radar measurements under the cusp and in the polar cap boundary region

Lisa Baddeley, Dag Lorentzen, Stein Haaland, Erkka Heino, Ingrid Mann, Wojciech Miloch, Kjellmar Oksavik, Noora Partamies, Andres Spicher, Juha Vierinen

The nature of the Pacific plate as subduction inputs to the northeastern Japan arc and its implication for subduction zone processes

Gou Fujie, Shuichi Kodaira, Koichiro Obana, Yojiro Yamamoto, Takehi Isse, Tomoaki Yamada, Tetsuo No, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Seiichi Miura

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

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

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

Nana Watanabe, Kohsaku Arai, Makoto Otsubo, Mamoru Toda, Atsushi Tominaga, Shun Chiyonobu, Tokiyuki Sato, Tadahiro Ikeda, Akio Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ota & Yasufumi Iryu

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

Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi

Greenhouse gases observing satellite 2 (GOSAT-2): Mission overview

Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi, Haruma Ishida, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Teruyuki Nakajima & Chong Shi

Progress and application of the synthesis of trans-oceanic tsunamis

Shingo Watada

Accessing the energy-limited and sparsely populated deep biosphere: achievements and ongoing challenges of available technologies

Yuki Morono