The most-read EGU journal articles in 2021!

This year EGU published more than 3,375 peer-reviewed articles in our 19 Open Access journals. Upon learning about this impressive number of articles, we wondered: which of these were the most popular? You can find out in the following list of the most-read article for each EGU journal.

From rainfall-runoff prediction, tipping points and open source hazard mapping, to the use of language around fracking and earthquake risk and a look back at the eruptive history of the Deccan Traps, these popular choices accounted for half a million views in 2021!

• Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO)

Predictability of variable solar–terrestrial coupling

• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)

Method to quantify black carbon aerosol light absorption enhancement with a mixing state index

• Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)

High-frequency monitoring of anomalous methane point sources with multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite observations

• Biogeosciences (BG)

Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO₂

• Climate of the Past (CP)

The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

• Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf)

Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate

• Earth System Dynamics (ESD)

Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming

• Geochronology (GChron)

An evaluation of Deccan Traps eruption rates using geochronologic data

• Geoscience Communication (GC)

Fracking bad language – hydraulic fracturing and earthquake risks

• Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI)

First evaluation of an absolute quantum gravimeter (AQG#B01) for future field experiments

• Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

fv3gfs-wrapper: a Python wrapper of the FV3GFS atmospheric model

• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network

• Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)

HazMapper: a global open-source natural hazard mapping application in Google Earth Engine

• Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG)

Recurrence analysis of extreme event-like data

• Ocean Science (OS)

FES2014 global ocean tide atlas: design and performance

• SOIL

SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty

• Solid Earth (SE)

Evaluating seismic beamforming capabilities of distributed acoustic sensing arrays

• The Cryosphere (TC)

The tipping points and early warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

• Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD)

The wave geometry of final stratospheric warming events