Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Multi‐annual variability of storm events and morphological response in the SW Iceland: The Valahnúkamöl boulder barrier45
Geomorphological evidence for superimposed deformation in the southern Sichuan Basin, SW China: Implications for seismic hazards45
Simulation of the influence of physical crust development on the aerodynamic entrainment of sand particles on a sloping bed38
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Post‐disturbance evolution of a prograded foredune barrier during a sustained dynamic restoration project—the role of wind speed, wind direction and vegetation29
The formation and evolution of Al‐rich protoliths in the southern Ribeira belt, Brazil: Insights from remnants of a Precambrian paleoweathering surface29
Unravelling fluvial versus glacial legacy controls on boulder‐bed river geomorphology for semi‐alluvial rivers in Fennoscandia28
Catastrophic overwash and rapid retreat of a gravel barrier spit during storm events (Sillon de Talbert, North Brittany, France)28
On a ~210 t Caribbean coastal boulder: The huracanolito seaward of the ruins of the Bucanero resort, Juragua, Oriente, Cuba27
Strengths and weaknesses of acoustic pipe microphone systems in ephemeral, sandy, gravel‐bed rivers26
Spatiotemporal changes of desertification areas in the Alxa Desert obtained from satellite imagery25
Confluence morphodynamics in mountain rivers in response to intense tributary bedload input24
Predicting sediment connectivity in a mountain basin: A quantitative analysis of the index of connectivity24
Reconstructing active tectonics from land–sea correlations based on cross‐interpretation of core and seismic data for the Tyrrhenian coastal segment in southern Italy23
Aeolization on the Atlantic coast of Galicia (NW Spain) from the end of the last glacial period to the present day: Chronology, origin and evolution of coastal dunes linked to sea‐level oscillations21
Bedload tracing with RFID tags in gravel‐bed rivers: Review and meta‐analysis after 20 years of field and laboratory experiments21
Remote detection of upland surface water storage capacity in deglaciated terrain21
Construction, destruction and fan‐river coupling dynamics during two consecutive debris flow events in an arid fluvial system21
Importance of vegetation in riverbank resilience: An experimental approach21
The slow downwearing of Madagascar: Inferring patterns and controls on long‐term basin‐averaged erosion rates from in situ10Be at the catchment and regional level21
Classifying types of gully changes with unoccupied aircraft vehicles 3D multitemporal point clouds for training of satellite data analysis in Northwest Namibia21
The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander of the Colorado River, Utah (U.S.)20
‘Fluvial geomorphology and environmental design’: Restitution for damage, rehabilitation, restoration or rewilding?20
Structural shifts in plant functional diversity during biogeomorphic succession: Moving beyond taxonomic investigations in an alpine glacier foreland20
Death of a palaeochannel: Slow abandonment of an avulsed channel on the Riverine Plains, SE Australia19
Ecosystem engineering by periphyton in Alpine proglacial streams19
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Bedload infilling and depositional patterns in chute cutoffs channels of a gravel‐bed river: The Ain River, France19
Topographic perturbation of turbulent boundary layers by low‐angle, early‐stage aeolian dunes18
Morphology, timing, and drivers of post‐glacial landslides in the northern Yellowstone region18
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment: Part 1. Pivot angles and surface roughness18
Utilizing geospatial tools for the assessment of river bank erosion and migration patterns in complex braided and meandering river systems18
Simplifying Raupach's model of shear‐stress partitioning by clarifying the relationship between β and σ and quantifying the shear‐stress probability density based on numerical simulation17
Evaluating success in a changing academic landscape17
Was the termination of the Jizera River meandering during the Late Holocene caused by anthropogenic or climatic forcing?17
Recurrent debris flows and their downstream fate: Geomorphic drivers of an anomalous sediment load, Suiattle River, Washington State, USA17
Long‐term drivers of shoreline change over two centuries on a headland‐embayment beach17
Evaluation of the applicability of three sediment transport capacity equations on steep colluvial slopes and their modifications16
Seasonal rotation of California pocket beaches16
Observations of megacusp dynamics and their coupling with crescentic bars at an open, fetch‐limited beach16
Variation in soil erosion rate under typical land uses and vertical zones in an agricultural catchment of the Daliangshan region, Southwest China16
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Provenance of Taklimakan Desert aeolian sediments based on rare earth elements signatures16
River confinement and braiding loss in Canterbury region, Aotearoa New Zealand16
The formation of fan‐deltas in mountain lakes: Findings from Zelené Kežmarské Lake (Slovakia)15
Geomorphological evidence of the Malta‐Sicily land‐bridge during the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from seismic profiles15
Mio‐Pliocene paleo‐course of Indus River in Upper Sutlej‐Zhada basin: Implication of tectonic uplift on river piracy and drainage reorganization in SW Tibet and NW Himalaya15
Fluviomorphic trajectories for dryland ephemeral stream channels following extreme flash floods15
Impacts of raindrops increase particle sedimentation in a sheet flow15
Rates, factors, and tolerances of water erosion in the Cerrado biome (Brazil): A meta‐analysis of runoff plot data15
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Large wood decay state and piece shape in river corridors15
Debris‐flow fan development and geomorphic effects in alpine canyons under a changing climate15
Drainage development on the northern Tibetan Plateau controlled by the Altyn Tagh Fault: Insights from analogue modelling15
A pedagogy of fluvial geomorphology: Incorporating scaffolding and active learning into tertiary education courses15
Hydrological and morphological responses in the São Francisco River Basin (Northeast Brazil) resulting from river damming and climate changes in a tropical region14
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Alluvial dynamics of a formerly glaciated Rocky Mountain headwater valley, Colorado14
Assessment of western Oregon debris‐flow hazards in burned and unburned environments14
Is a climate signal detectable using cosmogenic data and coarse‐resolution digital topography in fluvially dominated landscapes?14
Coupled effects of heavy rainfall and falling water‐level exhibit the most significant influences on reservoir bank failures14
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Contribution of bedrock structures to the bedrock surface topography and groundwater flow systems within deep glaciofluvial aquifers in Kurikka, Western Finland14
Multi‐decadal gravel beach dynamics in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Insights from satellite‐derived shorelines14
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Disintegration characteristics of undisturbed loess in response to train vibration frequency14
Assessing proxy methods for measuring bedrock erodibility in fluvial impact erosion14
Iron pools of the typical loess–palaeosol sequence and their environmental significance in northeastern China14
Legacy sediment: A conceptual model and perspective on the role of dams14
Palimpsest subglacial meltwater corridors of the last cordilleran ice sheet: Geomorphology, stratigraphy and insights into subglacial meltwater dynamics during deglaciation14
What type of gully is that? The need for a classification of gullies13
Major fluvial erosion and a 500‐Mt sediment pulse triggered by lava‐dam failure, Río Coca, Ecuador13
115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Topographic change detection13
From glaciers to large rivers: Lessons and insights from long‐term bedload monitoring13
Do climate and land use change significantly affect the level of sediment connectivity at different spatiotemporal scales?13
Seismic signatures of individual wave impacts on a coastal cliff13
Lichen impact on sandstone hardness is species‐specific13
VedgeSat: An automated, open‐source toolkit for coastal change monitoring using satellite‐derived vegetation edges13
How have Cretan rivers responded to late Holocene uplift? A multi‐millennial, multi‐catchment field experiment to evaluate the applicability of Schumm and Parker's (1973) complex response model13
Comparison of creek and bay influences on salt marsh sediment budget and deposition patterns12
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Assessing ice sheet models against the landform record: The Likelihood of Accordant Lineations Analysis (LALA) tool12
Evolution, sedimentation and thermal state of the emerging pro‐glacial lakes at Witenwasserengletscher, Switzerland12
Water‐induced disintegration behaviour of Malan loess12
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Comparability of multi‐temporal DTMs derived from different LiDAR platforms: Error sources and uncertainties in the application of geomorphic impact studies12
Development of ornamentation on ventifacts: An examination of flow and saltation kinematic mechanisms12
Evaluating the morphodynamics of a spit complex (Punta Rasa, Argentina): Implications for mid‐term evolution of coastal plains12
Sounding out the river: Seismic and hydroacoustic monitoring of bedload transport12
Simulation of loess gully evolution based on geographic cellular automata12
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Evolution of riparian vegetation in response to anthropogenic effects: The Taleqan River, Iran12
Spatial gradients in bank stability response in macrotidal environments: Inferences from the Severn estuary (UK)12
Runoff–sediment dynamics and degradation patterns in an abandoned terraced landscape on the Loess Plateau12
Autonomous generation of alluvial fans in landscape evolution models11
Detection of slow‐moving landslides through automated monitoring of surface deformation using Sentinel‐2 satellite imagery11
The synergistic effect of soil and water conservation measures on sediment supply reduction in a typical basin on the Loess Plateau, China11
Implications of a specific storm event for understanding adjustment of urban dryland channels11
The unrepeatable river: Exploring chaotic variability in laboratory channels11
Carbon stocks in umbric ferralsols driven by plant productivity and geomorphic processes, not by mineral protection11
Numerical modeling of groundwater‐driven stream network evolution in low‐relief post‐glacial landscapes11
Automated grain sizing from uncrewed aerial vehicles imagery of a gravel‐bed river: Benchmarking of three object‐based methods11
Rock–water interaction, chemical weathering and solute transport of two rivers draining contrasting climate gradients in Western Ghats, India11
Editorial 2025: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms—The 50th volume11
Nearshore ice complex breakup is controlled by a balance between thermal and mechanical processes11
The heterogeneity of the hydromorphological responses of a stream to the urbanization of its basin11
Karst landform classification considering surface flow characteristics derived from digital elevation models11
A rare piedmont glaciation in the Mediterranean: Insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of Davraz hummocky moraine field (SW Türkiye)11
Current progress in quantifying and monitoring instream large wood supply and transfer in rivers11
Empirical modeling of streambed hydraulic conductivity in ephemeral rivers: Insights from sediment characteristics in arid environments11
Inferring channel incision in gravel‐bed rivers: Integrating LiDAR data, historical aerial photographs and drone‐based SfM topo‐bathymetry11
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment. Part 2: Modelling critical shear stress10
Determining pore size distribution in rocks using shear‐thinning fluids: Utilisation of the method in geomorphology10
Hillslope grain size variation across evolving landscapes linked to climate, tectonics and lithology10
Effects of rainfall patterns, vegetation cover types and antecedent soil moisture on run‐off and soil loss of typical Luvisol in southern China10
Soil erosion resistance of gully system under different plant communities on the Loess Plateau of China10
Detection of paraglacial sediment supply using detrital 10Be in postglacial landscapes of southwest British Columbia10
Integrating geomorphic and tectonic signals: A multi‐parameter evaluation of active deformation in the Zanskar Shear Zone, Northwest Himalaya, India10
Assessing performance of a “nature‐based” foredune restoration project, Oceano Dunes, California, USA10
Biocrust as a surface protection of erodible nebkhas10
Source of the aeolian sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo valley and its potential dust contribution to adjacent oceans10
The morphology of fluvial‐tidal dunes: Lower Columbia River, Oregon/Washington, USA10
Increased asymmetry of pit‐over‐peak statistics with landscape smoothing10
Instability mechanism and control measures of loess slope induced by heavy rainfall10
Study of clay degradation in an earthslide combining OBIA and roughness analysis of UAV‐based optical images10
Do feral pigs increase soil erosion? A monsoonal northern Australia case study10
Channel adjustments over 50 years in response to climate change and human activities in the Parlung Zangbo River, Tibetan Plateau, China10
Reconstructing basal ice flow patterns of the Last Glacial Maximum Rhine glacier (northern Alpine foreland) based on streamlined subglacial landforms10
Quantifying the effects of carborundum rock surface smoothing for Schmidt hammer R‐value metrics measured on glacial erratics in the North American Great Lakes region10
Formation, development and movement of ords along the Holderness coast (UK): A comparison between 1994–1998 and 2010–2020 in response to changing morphodynamic and hydrodynamic conditions10
Holocene landslides in the Fraser Canyon Corridor and implications for ‘ecohazard’ assessment10
Inundation and flow properties of a runoff‐generated debris flow following successive high‐severity wildfires in northern Arizona, USA9
Seismic and radon signatures: A multiparametric approach to monitor surface dynamics of a hazardous 2021 rock–ice avalanche, Chamoli Himalaya9
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Correction to ‘A karst rather than periglacial origin for small enclosed depressions of the Landes Triangle, southwest France’9
Improving hydroacoustic methods for monitoring suspended‐sand flux and grain size in sediment‐laden rivers9
Late Holocene rupture history of the Ash Hill fault, Eastern California Shear Zone, and the potential for seismogenic strain transfer between nearby faults9
Long‐term geomorphic response of a southwestern USA river following establishment and removal of an invasive riparian tree9
Assessment of a revised dust prediction model for Mildura, Australia9
Predicting soil erosion and sediment delivery in large, data‐sparse, mountainous basins9
Insights into permafrost aggradation and thawing: A case study of Zonag Lake on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau using SAR interferometry9
115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic9
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Influence of orographic precipitation on coevolving landforms and vegetation in semi‐arid ecosystems9
Dynamic bedrock channel width during knickpoint retreat enhances undercutting of coupled hillslopes9
Relevance of field data in the assessment of structural and functional sediment connectivity in a small catchment of southern Brazilian plateau9
Rapid riparian vegetation development and channel stabilization linked to glacier retreat within a large transboundary watershed9
The effects of cyanobacterial biofilms on water transport and retention of natural building stones9
New Zealand's braided rivers: The land the law forgot9
The giant 1960 tsunami in the context of a 6000‐year record of paleotsunamis and coastal evolution in south‐central Chile9
Inbuilt age, residence time, and inherited age from radiocarbon dates of modern fires and late Holocene deposits, Western Transverse Ranges, California9
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Trends in post‐1950 riparian vegetation recovery in coastal catchments of NSW Australia: Implications for remote sensing analysis, forecasting and river management9
Triggering mechanism of rainfall and reservoir water level dynamic change‐induced step‐like displacement for reservoir bank landslide9
Topographic controls on ice flow and recession for Juneau Icefield (Alaska/British Columbia)9
Dos Lenguas rock glacier kinematics stable despite warming trend (2016–2024): Surface changes and the role of topography and climate in the Dry Andes of Argentina9
Controlling effect of sliding zone soil on rainfall‐triggered colluvial landslide in Qinling‐Bashan Mountains – A typical case study9
Changes in shore platform wetting and drying cycles following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Implications for incipient marine terrace evolution9
A method for segmentation of pebble images in the presence of shadows9
Disentangling late quaternary fluvial and climatic drivers of palaeohydrological change in the Najaf Sea basin, Western Iraq9
Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff and suspended sediment load in the Lhasa River Basin, Tibetan Plateau9
Cosmogenic 10Be‐ and 21Ne‐based model exposure ages of desert pavements in the Thar Desert, India9
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Hydrogeomorphology of the origin of the Amazon River, the confluence between the Marañón and Ucayali rivers9
Coastal erosion and sediment reworking caused by hurricane Irma – implications for storm impact on low‐lying tropical islands8
Seasonal morphodynamics of multiple intertidal bars (MITBs) on a meso‐ to macrotidal beach8
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Different styles of subglacial soft bed hydrology: Examples from Breiðamerkurjökull and Fjallsjökull, Iceland8
Differences in sediment provenance from rainfall and snowmelt erosion in the Mollisol region of Northeast China8
Blowout dynamics in lime‐rich and lime‐poor coastal dunes in the Netherlands8
Downstream fining of fluvial gravels along the eastern Tibetan Plateau rivers8
Moisture patterns and fluxes in evolving tafoni developed in arkosic sandstone in temperate climate8
Proglacial lake evolution coincident with glacier dynamics in the frontal zone of Kvíárjökull, South‐East Iceland8
Calibration and validation of the SSSPAM coupled soilscape–landform evolution model for simulating short‐term gully development on a post‐mining landform8
The fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Weiße Elster River (Germany) revealed by a novel method combination of drill cores with two‐dimensional and spatially resolved geophysica8
Correction to A regime shift in sediment export from a coastal watershed during a record wet winter, California: Implications for landscape response to hydroclimatic extremes8
Understanding tectonics from fluvial topography by using the stochastic‐threshold incision model: Theory and application to the Dadu River basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau8
Structural control of bedrock river alignment and morphology in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada8
Advancing gully initiation modelling by means of a Curve Number (CN) method: A way forward?8
Equilibrium of morphological units in anabranching rivers8
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Modelling seasonal variation of gully erosion at the catchment scale8
Vegetation and channel adjustment trajectories in cold regions: The effects of ice disturbances in two Gaspesian rivers8
Dynamics and internal structure of a rock glacier: Inferring relationships from the combined use of differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry, electrical resistivity tomography and ground‐p8
Biogeomorphic assessment of natural streambank structures in the Alps: A step to improve soil and water bioengineering techniques8
The development of laterite weathering profiles as a function of rainfall and time: A geophysical approach8
Islands in the stream: Wood‐induced deposition and erosion in the river corridor8
Geomorphic consequences of freshwater discharge and microbial mats in a macrotidal environment: The case of the beach of Dannes (northern France)8
Channel head response to anthropogenic landscape modification: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont, USA, with implications for water quality8
Disintegration characteristics of sodic–saline loessial soil after freeze–thaw and wet–dry cycles8
Observations and modeling of shear stress reduction and sediment flux within sparse dune grass canopies on managed coastal dunes7
Effects of unsteady characteristics of sediment‐laden overland flow on soil detachment rate7
Spatial and temporal controls on proglacial erosion rates: A comparison of four basins on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 20177
Landscape evolution and sediment delivery in a High Arctic proglacial lake, Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago7
Contrasting beach‐ridge systems in different types of coastal settings7
PS‐InSAR post‐processing for assessing the spatio‐temporal differential kinematics of complex landslide systems: A case study of DeBeque Canyon Landslide (Colorado, USA)7
Sediment and organic carbon discharges to the coastal oceans by badlands (English Channel, Normandy, France)7
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Decadal‐scale impacts of changing mangrove extent on hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a quiescent, mesotidal estuary7
Large wood recruitment in the Tegnas torrent (Italy): The impact of the Vaia storm and the role of the riparian forest structure7
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Annual and decadal net morphological displacement of a small gravel‐bed channel7
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Genesis of subglacial triangular‐shaped landforms (murtoos) formed by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet7
Timing, volume and precursory indicators of rock‐ and cliff fall on a permafrost mountain ridge (Mattertal, Switzerland)7
Salt‐marsh retreat on different time scales: Issues and prospects from a 5‐year monitoring campaign in the Venice Lagoon7
Wind flow dynamics and sand deposition behind excavated foredune notches on developed coasts7
Observing the mass balance and emergence velocity of a temperate glacier on Mt. Yulong, southeastern Tibetan Plateau7
Biogeomorphological inheritance: The legacy of past landforms constrains future tropical coastal landscapes7
The grain size of sediments delivered to steep debris‐flow prone channels prior to and following wildfire7
Contemporary research in coastal dunes and aeolian processes7
Morphotectonic forcing and anthropogenic impact behind a recently emerged relict island of the Brahmaputra River7
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A framework to facilitate development and testing of image‐based river velocimetry algorithms7
The influence of anthropogenic topographic changes on geomorphological processes in the city of Rome (Italy): A case study of the Malagrotta area7
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Quantitative reconstruction of competing sources reveals spatial heterogeneity and complex aeolian–fluvial interactions in the Horqin Sandy Land, NE China7
Fetch‐driven aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: A new study7
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Enhanced river planform analysis using deep learning and medial axis transform with Sentinel 1A imagery7
The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland7
Variance‐based shoreline extraction from nearshore video monitoring systems7
Direct measurement of the inertial drag and lift forces on entrained coarse particles at various protrusion heights7
Measuring the grain‐size distributions of mass movement deposits7
Magnitude and timing of transient incision resulting from large‐scale drainage capture, Sutlej River, Northwest Himalaya7
Uncovering fine‐scale surface flow dynamics with particle tracking velocimetry: A new benchmark for soil erosion modelling7
Surface slip variability on strike‐slip faults7
Riverine aquatic plants trap propagules and fine sediment: Implications for ecosystem engineering and management under contrasting land uses7
A geomorphic perspective on discharge–area relationships7
Flood risk of embanked areas and potential use of dredge spoils as mitigation measures in the southwest region of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta, Bangladesh7
Spatial transferability of the physically based model TRIGRS using parameter ensembles6
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Investigating palaeodune orientations and contemporary wind regimes in Southeast Kazakhstan using a semi‐automated mapping framework6
Lost and found: Maximizing the information from a series of bedload tracer surveys6
Stabilization of fluvial bed sediments by invasive quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis)6
Performance assessment of global open‐access digital elevation models in China mainland coastal region6
Aeolian dust accretion outpaces erosion in the formation of Mediterranean alpine soils. New evidence from the periglacial zone of Mount Olympus, Greece6
Deglaciation history and subsequent lake dynamics in the Siljan region, south‐central Sweden, based on new LiDAR evidence and sediment records6
Modelling the impact of a dam‐break wave on a vertical wall6
The use of continuous sediment‐transport measurements to improve sand‐load estimates in a large sand‐bedded river: The lower Chippewa River, Wisconsin6
Using music and music‐based analysis to model and to classify terrain in geomorphology6
Assessment of suspended sediment export and dynamics using in‐line turbidity sensors and time series statistical models6
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