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Managing editor: Tom Coulthard
Editors: Niels Hovius, Douglas Jerolmack, Andreas Lang, Paola Passalacqua, Wolfgang Schwanghart & A. Joshua West
eISSN: ESurf 2196-632X, ESurfD 2196-6338

Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of high-quality research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes shaping Earth's surface and their interactions on all scales.

The main subject areas of ESurf comprise field measurements, remote sensing, and experimental and numerical modelling of Earth surface processes, and their interactions with the lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and pedosphere. ESurf prioritizes studies with general implications for Earth surface science and especially values contributions that straddle discipline boundaries, enhance theory–observation feedback, and/or apply basic principles from physics, chemistry, or biology.

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News

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

Recent papers

08 Oct 2025
Slow-moving rock glaciers in marginal periglacial environment of Southern Carpathians
Alexandru Onaca, Flavius Sîrbu, Valentin Poncoş, Christin Hilbich, Tazio Strozzi, Petru Urdea, Răzvan Popescu, Oana Berzescu, Bernd Etzelmüller, Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe, Mirela Vasile, Delia Teleagă, Dan Birtaş, Iosif Lopătiţă, Simon Filhol, Alexandru Hegyi, and Florina Ardelean
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 981–1001, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-981-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-981-2025, 2025
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07 Oct 2025
Image-based tracking of mixed-sized surface sands and gravels under ultraviolet lights in a shallow flume
Megan Iun, F. Asal Montakhab, Lukas Mueller, and Bruce MacVicar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4669,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4669, 2025
Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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06 Oct 2025
From XRD signal to erosion rate maps
Fien De Doncker, Frédéric Herman, Bruno Belotti, and Thierry Adatte
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4695,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4695, 2025
Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Oct 2025
Quantitative Geomorphic Analyses of Neotectonic Activity in the Central U.S. and Implications for Current Increased Seismicity
Samia Noor, Md Rizwanul Hasan, and Randy Cox
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3205,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3205, 2025
Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Oct 2025
Grain roughness controls on velocity and bed stress fields around a fully protruding obstacle in supercritical flow
Angel Monsalve and Oscar Link
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4327,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4327, 2025
Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Highlight articles

04 Sep 2025
Biomechanical parameters of marram grass (Calamagrostis arenaria) for advanced modeling of dune vegetation
Viktoria Kosmalla, Oliver Lojek, Jana Carus, Kara Keimer, Lukas Ahrenbeck, Björn Mehrtens, David Schürenkamp, Boris Schröder, and Nils Goseberg
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 791–825, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-791-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-791-2025, 2025
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26 Aug 2025
A numerical model of microplastic erosion, transport, and deposition for fluvial systems
John J. Armitage and Sébastien Rohais
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 771–789, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-771-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-771-2025, 2025
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05 Dec 2024
Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks
Liran Goren and Eitan Shelef
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1347–1369, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1347-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1347-2024, 2024
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08 Nov 2024
Testing floc settling velocity models in rivers and freshwater wetlands
Justin A. Nghiem, Gen K. Li, Joshua P. Harringmeyer, Gerard Salter, Cédric G. Fichot, Luca Cortese, and Michael P. Lamb
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1267–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1267-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1267-2024, 2024
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22 Oct 2024
Barchan swarm dynamics from a Two-Flank Agent-Based Model
Dominic T. Robson and Andreas C. W. Baas
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1205–1226, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1205-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1205-2024, 2024
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.