オススメ論文紹介（2011.6.28）

[PD Obrochta]
Transient nature of late Pleistocene climate variability
Crowley, T.J., and Hyde, W.T.
Nature, 456 (7219) 226–230, 2008.
→This paper considers model evidence that the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition was simply a transient state in between a longer shift from a state of no northern hemisphere ice sheets to permanent northern hemisphere glaciation.

[D4 山根 Yamane]
Antarctic Climate Evolution
Florindo, F. and Siegert, M. (eds)
Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 8, 1-593, 2008.
→今回はオススメ本の紹介です。前半は南極寒冷圏の説明や南極での科学調査の歴史について、後半は南極氷床が形成されたと考えられる始新世‐漸新世境界から現在に至るまでの南極氷床・南大洋変動史が時代ごとにまとめられて いる。

[D2 山口 Yamaguchi]
Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont
Zakee L. Sabree, Srinivas Kambhampati, and Nancy A. Moran
PNAS 2009 106:19521-19526; 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0907504106
→研究室のテーマと全く関係ないけど、単純に面白かったので、今週は「ゴキブリ体内の窒素循環」。ゴキブリの体内共生細菌のゲノムを解析した結果、この細菌はゴキブリの体の老廃物窒素を、アミノ酸やビタミンに変換していることが明らかになった。細菌たちのおかげで、ゴキブリは排尿する必要さえないという。ゴキブリ半端ない。
参考Website：

ゴキブリは排尿しない：その優れた代謝系が明らかに

Cockroach Superpower No. 42: On-Board Nitrogen Recycling

[D1 川久保 Kawakubo]
Surface-temperature trends and variability in the low-latitude North Atlantic since 1552
Casey Saenger, Anne L. Cohen, Delia W. Oppo, Robert B. Halley & Jessica E. Carilli
Nature Geoscience 2, 492 - 495 (2009) doi:10.1038/ngeo552
→サンゴを用いた水温復元の研究だが、一般的によく用いられる骨格中のSr/Ca比分析による水温復元とは異なり、成長速度に基づいて水温復元を行ったユニークな研究。（ただし、骨格中の微量元素分析で一般的に用いられる種(Porites)ではない）

[M2 窪田 Kubota]
Glacial/Interglacial variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide
Daniel M. Sigman & Edward A. Boyle
Nature 407, 859-869 (19 October 2000) doi:10.1038/35038000
→氷期-間氷期スケールの大気中二酸化炭素濃度変動についての仮説のレビュー。2000年とやや古いが今でも引用される優れたレビュー論文。特に「氷期に高緯度域の海洋において生物ポンプの効率が増していたことが二酸化炭素濃度減少の主たる原因」説を支持。

[M2 中村 Nakamura]
Paleo-erosion rates in Central Asia since 9 Ma: A transient increase at the onset of Quaternary glaciations?
J. Charreau, P.-H. Blard, N. Puchol, J.-P. Avouac, E. Lallier-Vergès, D. Bourlès, R. Braucher, A. Gallaud, R. Finkel, M. Jolivet, Y. Chen, P. Roy
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 304, Issues 1-2, 1 April 2011, Pages 85-92
→in situ 10Be　による侵食速度決定法を利用した面白い研究例。

[M2 坂下 Sakashita]
Stable isotopes in tree rings
Danny McCarroll and Neil Loader
Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 23, Issue 7-8, April 2004, Pages 771-801, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06.017
→This paper provide the first overview of isotope dendroclimatology and explaining the underlying theory of stable carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in tree rings.

[M1 関 Seki]
Geochemical Perspectives on Coral Mineralization
Anne L. Cohen, Ted A. McConnaughey
Biomineralization, Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 54, 1, 151-187, 2003. DOI: 10.2113/0540151
→Biomineralizationに関する本の、サンゴについての章。Sr/Caなどの地球化学的観点だけではなく、サンゴ骨格の形態学的構造と形成メカニズムについても詳しく説明されている。

新着論文紹介 2011/6/28 (Nature, Science, PNAS)

☆Nature vol.474 (2011.6.23)

Comment

Hidden depths
Andrew V. Newman

doi:10.1038/474441a

Published online 22 June 2011

A staggering lack of undersea data hampers our understanding of earthquakes and tsunamis. Geophysicists must put more instruments offshore, says Andrew V. Newman.

Specials

Biofuels

☆ Science vol.332 (2011.6.24)

News and analysis
Apollo Physicist Launches Noisy Dustup Over Old Moon Data

Lucas Laursen

[DOI:10.1126/science.332.6037.1493]

The floating dust believed to explain the lunar horizon glow may have been interference from heaters on nearby instruments, according to a new analysis.

Perspectives
The Earth and the Sun

Robert N. Clayton

[DOI:10.1126/science.1206965]

Sample collection by the Genesis spacecraft reveals the isotopic composition of elements in the solar system.

Research Articles
The Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Sun Inferred from Captured Solar Wind

K. D. McKeegan, A. P. A. Kallio, V. S. Heber, G. Jarzebinski, P. H. Mao, C. D. Coath,T. Kunihiro, R. C. Wiens, J. E. Nordholt, R. W. Moses, Jr., D. B. Reisenfeld,A. J. G.Jurewicz, and D. S. Burnett

[DOI:10.1126/science.1204636]

The Sun is highly enriched in the most abundant isotope of oxygen, oxygen-16, relative to most other planetary materials.


A ¹⁵N-Poor Isotopic Composition for the Solar System As Shown by Genesis Solar Wind Samples

B. Marty, M. Chaussidon, R. C. Wiens, A. J. G. Jurewicz, and D. S. Burnett

[DOI:10.1126/science.1204656]
The solar atmosphere is about 40% enriched in the heavy nitrogen-15 isotope compared with the Sun and Jupiter.


Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation

Romain Guilbaud, Ian B. Butler, and Rob M. Ellam

[DOI:10.1126/science.1202924]

Iron isotope signatures may not differentiate abiotic and biological processes in sediments.

☆ Geology vol.39 (2011.7)

Terrestrial source to deep-sea sink sediment budgets at high and low sea levels: Insights from tectonically active Southern California

Jacob A. Covault, Brian W. Romans, Stephan A. Graham, Andrea Fildani and George E. Hilley

Geology; July 2011; v. 39; no. 7; p. 619-622; DOI: 10.1130/G31801.1

Whole-edifice ice volume change A.D. 1970 to 2007/2008 at Mount Rainier, Washington, based on LiDAR surveying

T.W. Sisson, J.E. Robinson, and D.D. Swinney

Geology; July 2011; v. 39; no. 7; p. 639-642; DOI: 10.1130/G31902.1

The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

Brent M. Goehring, Joerg M. Schaefer, Christian Schluechter, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Robert C. Finkel, A.J. Timothy Jull, Naki Akçar, and Richard B. Alley

Geology; July 2011; v. 39; no. 7; p. 679-682; DOI: 10.1130/G32145.1

Seawater calcium isotope ratios across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Elizabeth M. Griffith, Adina Paytan, Anton Eisenhauer, Thomas D. Bullen, and Ellen Thomas

Geology; July 2011; v. 39; no. 7; p. 683-686; DOI: 10.1130/G31872.1

Evolution of a Pharaonic harbor on the Red Sea: Implications for coastal response to changes in sea level and climate

Christopher J. Hein, Duncan M. FitzGerald, Glenn A. Milne, Kathryn Bard, and Rodolfo Fattovich

Geology; July 2011; v. 39; no. 7; p. 687-690; DOI: 10.1130/G31928.1

☆ PNAS vol.108 (2011.6.21)

Jellyfish blooms result in a major microbial respiratory sink of carbon in marine systems

Robert H. Condon, Deborah K. Steinberg, Paul A. del Giorgio, Thierry C. Bouvier, Deborah A. Bronk, William M. Graham, and Hugh W. Ducklow

PNAS 2011 108 (25) 10225-10230; published ahead of print June 6, 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1015782108

新着論文紹介 2011/06/28 (Elsevier, AGUほか)

Elsevier

○Chemical Geology

Volume 285, Issues 1-4, Pages 1-256 (22 June 2011)

特になし

○Earth and Planetary Science Letters

今回はなし

○Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volume 75, Issue 14, Pages 3903-4094 (15 July 2011) 

³⁴S/³²S fractionation by sulfate-reducing microbial communities in estuarine sediments

Stam et al.

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.022

Cave air and hydrological controls on prior calcite precipitation and stalagmite growth rates: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions using speleothems

Sherwin & Baldini

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.020

Environmental control of the oxygen isotope composition of Porites coral microatolls

McGregor et al.

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.017

Inhibition of calcite growth by alginate

Lakshtanov et al.

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.014

Oxygen isotopes in calcite grown under cave-analogue conditions

Day & Henderson

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.026

A physicochemical framework for interpreting the biological calcification response to CO₂-induced ocean acidification

Ries

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.025

○Global and Planetary Change

今回はなし

○Marine Geology

今回はなし

○Organic Geochemistry

Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages e121-e144, 575-706 (July 2011) 

Archaeal lipids in Neogene dolomites (Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, California) – Planktic versus benthic archaeal sources

Hoffmann-Sell et al.

doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.04.008

○Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

今回はなし

○Quaternary Geochronology

今回はなし

○Quaternary International

今回はなし

○Quaternary Research

Volume 76, Issue 1, Pages 1-180 (July 2011) 

Holocene eolian activation as a proxy for broad-scale landscape change on the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona

Wright et al.

doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.04.008

Importance of sampling across an assemblage of glacial landforms for interpreting cosmogenic ages of deglaciation

Stroeven et al.

doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.04.004

○Quaternary Science Reviews

Volume 30, Issues 13-14, Pages 1555-1812 (June 2011) 

An updated astronomical timescale for the Plio-Pleistocene deposits from South China Sea and new insights into Asian monsoon evolution

Ao et al.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.009

Enhanced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation supports the Last Glacial Inception

Guihou et al.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.017

The marine record of deglaciation of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica since the Last Glacial Maximum

Simms et al.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.018

Tephrochronology of the Siple Dome ice core, West Antarctica: correlations and sources

Dunbar & Kurbatov

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.015

Paired bedrock and boulder 10Be concentrations resulting from early Holocene ice retreat near Jakobshavn Isfjord, western Greenland

Corbett et al.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.001

AGU 19-26 June, published

○G³

In situ enrichment of ocean crust microbes on igneous minerals and glasses using an osmotic flow-through device

Smith et al.

doi:10.1029/2010GC003424

○GRL

Oceanic forcing for the East Asian precipitation in pacemaker AGCM experiments

Lu et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047614

key word: The impact of the tropical oceanic forcing on the East Asian winter-to-early spring climate

Drivers of past and future Southern Ocean change: Stratospheric ozone versus greenhouse gas impacts

Sigmond et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047120

Mass balance of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers, 2000–2010

Howat et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047565

Contribution of Pacific wind stress to multi-decadal variations in upper-ocean heat content and sea level in the tropical south Indian Ocean

Schwarzkopf & Böning

doi:10.1029/2011GL047651

keyword: Reconstructions of the spatial pattern of recent multi-decadal sea level trends in the Indian Ocean

Direct measurements of CO2 flux in the Greenland Sea

Lauvset et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047722

Influence of subtropical and polar sea-surface temperature anomalies on temperatures in Eurasia

Sedláček et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047764

Sea-level rise and impacts projections under a future scenario with large greenhouse gas emission reductions

Pardaens et al.

doi:10.1029/2011GL047678

○Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Investigating spatial differentiation of model parameters in a carbon cycle data assimilation system

Ziehn et al.

doi:10.1029/2010GB003886

○JGR-Oceans

Key factors in simulating the equatorial Atlantic zonal sea surface temperature gradient in a coupled general circulation model

Tozuka et al.　（東大・山形俊男さんのグループ）

doi:10.1029/2010JC006717

Contrasting the flavors of El Niño-Southern Oscillation using sea surface salinity observations

Singh et al.

doi:10.1029/2010JC006862

○JGR-Atmosphere

Is energetic decadal variability a stable feature of the central Pacific Coast's winter climate?

George & Ault

doi:10.1029/2010JD015325

keyword: tree ring

Ferrel Circulation variability in the Southern Hemisphere and its linkages with tropical and subtropical sea surface temperature

Chen et al.

doi:10.1029/2010JD015409

The cloud radiative effects of International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project weather states

Oreopoulos & Rossow

doi:10.1029/2010JD015472

Regional long-term climate change (1950–2000) in the midtropical Atlantic and its impacts on the hydrological cycle of Puerto Rico

Comarazamy & González

doi:10.1029/2010JD015414

Cloud cover conditions and stability of the Western Ghats montane wet forests

Ray et al.

doi:10.1029/2010JD015245

keyword: 11 year solar cycle

○Paleoceanography

Radiocarbon-age differences among coexisting planktic foraminifera shells: The Barker Effect

Broecker & Clark

doi:10.1029/2011PA002116

EGU 19-26 June, published

○Climate of the Past

A coupled climate model simulation of Marine Isotope Stage 3 stadial climate

Brandefelt et al.

doi:10.5194/cp-7-649-2011

The last deglaciation: timing the bipolar seesaw

Pedro et al.

doi:10.5194/cp-7-671-2011

○Biogeosciences

A systematic approach for comparing modeled biospheric carbon fluxes across regional scales

Huntzinger et al.

doi:10.5194/bg-8-1579-2011

Carbon dioxide fluxes over an ancient broadleaved deciduous woodland in southern England

Thomas et al.

doi:10.5194/bg-8-1595-2011

Effect of ocean acidification on otolith development in larvae of a tropical marine fish

Munday et al.

doi:10.5194/bg-8-1631-2011

Constraining global methane emissions and uptake by ecosystems

Spahni et al.

doi:10.5194/bg-8-1643-2011

GSA

○GSA Bulletin

July 2011, v. 123, no. 7-8

Chironomids record terrestrial temperature changes throughout Arctic interglacials of the past 200,000 yr

Axford et al.

Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Allen et al.

新着論文紹介（2011.6.21） Nature, Science, PNAS

☆Nature☆ 2011/6/16

[Research Highlights]
Geochemistry: Mercury on the decline
Nature, Volume 474, Pages 255, 16 June 2011.
→1996年から大気中水銀濃度が20-38%減少。土壌や海洋における水銀生物地球化学が変化した？　Atmos. Chem. Phys.に論文。

[Books and Arts]
Techniques: Records in the field
Sandra Knapp
Nature, Volume 474, Pages 280–281, 16 June 2011.
→『Field Notes on Science & Nature』(Edited by Michael R. Canfield Harvard University Press: 2011. 320 pp) の書評。

[Letters]
Zero outward flow velocity for plasma in a heliosheath transition layer
Stamatios M. Krimigis, Edmond C. Roelof, Robert B. Decker & Matthew E. Hill
Nature, Volume 474, Pages 359-361, 16 June 2011.
→ボイジャーによって観測された太陽系出口の緩やかな変化。ヘリオポーズでは急激な不連続面が存在すると理論的に予想されていた。


☆Science☆ 2011/4/29

[News & Analysis]
Japan Disaster: Citizens Find Radiation Far From Fukushima
Dennis Normile
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 p. 1368

[Perspective]
Geophysics: A Tale of Two Earthquakes
Kosuke Heki
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1390-1391, DOI: 10.1126/science.1206643
→巨大地震に関する論文4本の解説記事。

[Brevia]
Displacement Above the Hypocenter of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Mariko Sato, Tadashi Ishikawa, Naoto Ujihara, Shigeru Yoshida, Masayuki Fujita, Masashi Mochizuki, Akira Asada
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 p. 1395, DOI: 10.1126/science.1207401
→東北沖地震における、GPSと干渉計データからみた、海底の動き。

[Report]
EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2
Michael F. A’Hearn et al.
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1396-1400, DOI: 10.1126/science.1204054
→エポキシ探査機によるハートレー彗星２の観測。

Thermal Structure and Dynamics of Saturn’s Northern Springtime Disturbance
Leigh N. Fletcher et al.
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1413-1417, DOI: 10.1126/science.1204774
→土星北半球の春の嵐の温度構造とダイナミクス

The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule Megathrust Earthquake of Central Chile, Monitored by GPS
C. Vigny et al.
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1417-1421, DOI: 10.1126/science.1204132
→GPSで観測された、2010年チリ中部巨大地震。

The 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Mosaicking the Megathrust from Seconds to Centuries
Mark Simons et al.
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1421-1425, DOI: 10.1126/science.1206731
→2011年東北地方太平洋沖地震の、秒単位から百年単位まで混在する巨大衝上断層。

Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Satoshi Ide, Annemarie Baltay, Gregory C. Beroza
Science 17 June 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6036 pp. 1426-1429, DOI: 10.1126/science.1207020
→2011年東北地方太平洋沖地震における、浅い動的過剰すべりとエネルギーを持った深部破壊。


☆Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA☆ 2011/6/14

[Commentaries]
Terrestrial influences on carbon burial at sea
Richard G. Keil
PNAS 2011 108 (24) 9729-9730; doi:10.1073/pnas.1106928108
→下記Kennedy and Wagner (2011) について解説。

[Papers]
Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland
William J. D’Andrea, Yongsong Huang, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and N. John Anderson
PNAS 2011 108 (24) 9765-9769; doi:10.1073/pnas.1101708108
→グリーンランド西部の二つの湖のアルケノン古水温計で過去5600年間の温度を復元。考古学的記録と温度変動が一致するらしい。

Enhanced chemistry-climate feedbacks in past greenhouse worlds
David J. Beerling, Andrew Fox, David S. Stevenson, and Paul J. Valdes
PNAS 2011 108 (24) 9770-9775; doi:10.1073/pnas.1102409108
→3次元地球システムモデルで、二酸化炭素以外の温室効果ガス（メタン、対流圏オゾン、亜酸化窒素）が、early Eocene (55 Ma) とlate Cretaceous (90 Ma) の気候に与えた影響を評価。高濃度に存在して、アルベドフィードバックを介して、全球で>2K、高緯度で>6Kの温度上昇に寄与？

Clay mineral continental amplifier for marine carbon sequestration in a greenhouse ocean
Martin J. Kennedy andThomas Wagner
PNAS 2011 108 (24) 9776-9781; doi:10.1073/pnas.1018670108
→OAE（海洋無酸素事変）における有機炭素埋没増加は、大陸風化促進により供給された粘土鉱物（鉱物表面積大）により有機物が保護されたため？　無酸素水塊や粘土鉱物供給どちらかだけではTOCは5%を超えないが、両者が合わさると10-18%に達する非線形性を示すらしい。

担当：山口保彦（D2）

新着論文紹介（2011.6.14)

☆Nature 474, (09 June 2011) ☆
Irregular tropical glacier retreat over the Holocene epoch driven by progressive warming
Vincent Jomelli, Myriam Khodri, Vincent Favier, Daniel Brunstein, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Patrick Wagnon, Pierre-Henri Blard, Jean-Emmanuel Sicart, Régis Braucher, Delphine Grancher, Didier Louis Bourlès, Pascale Braconnot & Mathias Vuille
doi:10.1038/nature10150
宇宙線生成核種10Beによって完新世におけるボリビアTelata氷河の後退を復元。10.8〜8.5kaの急激な後退の後、LIAまでゆっくりと後退し、その後20世紀に急激な後退をしている。現在より11kaは3.3±0.8 °C低く、小氷河期の終わりまで2.1±0.8 °C低くかった。

☆Science 332, (10 June 2011)☆
Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter As Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite
Christopher D. K. Herd, Alexandra Blinova, Danielle N. Simkus, Yongsong Huang, Rafael Tarozo, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Frank Gyngard, Larry R. Nittler, George D. Cody, Marilyn L. Fogel, Yoko Kebukawa, A. L. David Kilcoyne, Robert W. Hilts, Greg F. Slater, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Michael P. Callahan, Jamie E. Elsila, Bradley T. De Gregorio, Rhonda M. Stroud
DOI: 10.1126/science.1203290

新着論文紹介 2011/06/14 (Elsevier, AGUほか)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volume 307, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-240 (1 July 2011)  

The significance of an Early Jurassic (Toarcian) carbon-isotope excursion in Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada
Pages 19-26
Andrew H. Caruthers, Darren R. Gröcke, Paul L. Smith

←Carbon Isotope Excursion, TOC, Toarcian, Oceanic anoxic event, Canada

A strong control of the South American SeeSaw on the intra-seasonal variability of the isotopic composition of precipitation in the Bolivian Andes
Pages 47-58
Françoise Vimeux, Guillaume Tremoy, Camille Risi, Robert Gallaire

←Water stable isotopes, Precipitation, South American seesaw

West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevations in the Ohio Range: Geologic constraints and ice sheet modeling prior to the last highstand
Pages 83-93
Robert P. Ackert Jr., Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, David Pollard, Robert M. DeConto, Aaron E. Putnam, Harold W. Borns Jr.

←West Antarctic Ice sheet, Ice sheet model, exposure dating, 10Be, 3He

Model, proxy and isotopic perspectives on the East African Humid Period
Pages 103-112
Jessica E. Tierney, Sophie C. Lewis, Benjamin I. Cook, Allegra N. LeGrande, Gavin A. Schmidt

←African Humid Period, Holocene climate, Hydrogen isotope, isotope-enabled climate model

前期から中期完新世における東アフリカの湿潤期について。モデル＆プロキシ(Leaf wax の水素同位体比)。

Mg/Ca in foraminifera from plankton tows: Evaluation of proxy controls and comparison with core tops
Pages 113-125
M.A. Martínez-Botí, P.G. Mortyn, D.N. Schmidt, D. Vance, D.B. Field

←Mg/Ca paleothermometry, planktonic foraminifera, proxy validation, salinity

古水温計としての有孔虫のMg/Ca比の評価。Mg/Ca比の制限要因の検討。塩分、生体効果など。４つの異なるエリアのデータをコンパイル（先行研究を含めて）。

Lead isotopic record of Barremian–Aptian marine sediments: Implications for large igneous provinces and the Aptian climatic crisis
Pages 126-134
Junichiro Kuroda, Masaharu Tanimizu, Rie S. Hori, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Nanako O. Ogawa, Maria L.G. Tejada, Millard F. Coffin, Rodolfo Coccioni, Elisabetta Erba, Naohiko Ohkouchi

←OAE-1a, Pb isotope

Manganese enrichment in the Gowganda Formation of the Huronian Supergroup: A highly oxidizing shallow-marine environment after the last Huronian glaciation
Pages 201-210
Yasuhito Sekine, Eiichi Tajika, Ryuji Tada, Takemaru Hirai, Kosuke T. Goto, Tatsu Kuwatani, Kazuhisa Goto, Shinji Yamamoto, Shogo Tachibana, Yukio Isozaki, Joseph L. Kirschvink

←The Great Oxidation Event, Huronian Supergroup, Glaciation, Ocean redox state

Glacial/interglacial ice-stream stability in the Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica
Pages 211-221
Andrew S. Hein, Christopher J. Fogwill, David E. Sugden, Sheng Xu

←Antarctic Ice Sheet, cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating, Ice stream, LGM

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volume 75, Issue 13, Pages 3645-3902 (1 July 2011)  

Large fractionation of calcium isotopes during cave-analogue calcium carbonate growth
Pages 3726-3740
L.M. Reynard, C.C. Day, G.M. Henderson

←laboratory precipitated calcite, Calcium isotope, stalagmite

鍾乳石形成の実験的研究。

Global and Planetary Change

Volume 77, Issues 3-4, Pages 103-152 (June 2011)  

Freshwater tufa record from Spain supports evidence for the past interglacial being wetter than the Holocene in the Mediterranean region
Pages 129-141
David Domínguez-Villar, Juan A. Vázquez-Navarro, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards

←tufa, paleo-hydrology

Interannual variability in net accumulation on Tasman Glacier and its relationship with climate
Pages 142-152
Heather Purdie, Andrew Mackintosh, Wendy Lawson, Brian Anderson, Uwe Morgenstern, Trevor Chinn, Paul Mayewski

←glaciar, glaciar mass balance, ENSO, South Annular mode

Marine Geology

Volume 284, Issues 1-4, Pages 1-230 (1 June 2011)  

Influence of diagenesis on sedimentary δ¹⁵N in the Arabian Sea over the last 130 kyr
Pages 127-138
Jürgen Möbius, Birgit Gaye, Niko Lahajnar, Enno Bahlmann, Kay-Christian Emeis

←Nitrogen isotope, Amino acids, early diagenesis

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volume 306, Issues 3-4, Pages 103-258 (15 June 2011)  

Onset and termination of the late-glacial climate reversal in the high-resolution diatom and sedimentary records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan
Pages 103-115
Annette Kossler, Pavel Tarasov, Gordon Schlolaut, Takeshi Nakagawa, Michael Marshall, Achim Brauer, Richard Staff, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Charlotte Bryant, Henry Lamb, Dieter Demske, Katsuya Gotanda, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi, Yusuke Yokoyama, Hitoshi Yonenobu, Ryuji Tada and Suigetsu 2006 project members

←Lake Suigetsu, Annually laminated sediments, Younger Dryas, Fresh water diatoms, Pollen, East Asian Monsoon

Valve chemistry of Limnocythere inopinata (Ostracoda) in a cold arid environment — Implications for paleolimnological interpretation
Pages 116-126
Thijs Van der Meeren, Emi Ito, Dirk Verschuren, James E. Almendinger, Koen Martens

←Non-marine Ostracodes, Valve chemistry, 18O, 13C, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca

Quaternary Geochronology

Volume 6, Issues 3-4, Pages 289-424 (June-August 2011)  

Can in-situ cosmogenic ¹⁴C be used to assess the influence of clast recycling on exposure dating of ice retreat in Antarctica?
Pages 289-294
Duanne White, Réka-Hajnalka Fülöp, Paul Bishop, Andrew Mackintosh, Gordon Cook

←Cosmogenic nuclides exposure dating, glacier, inheritance, AMS, 14C

Cosmogenic isotope burial dating of fluvial sediments from the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany
Pages 313-325
Andreas Dehnert, Oliver Kracht, Frank Preusser, Naki Akçar, Hans Axel Kemna, Peter W. Kubik, Christian Schlüchter

←Cosmogenic nuclides、10Be, 26Al

A multi-method approach to dating middle and late Quaternary high relative sea-level events on NW Svalbard – A case study
Pages 326-340
Helena Alexanderson, Jon Y. Landvik, Anatoly Molodkov, Andrew S. Murray

←OSL, ESR, Radiocarbon, sea level

Quaternary International

Volume 239, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-170 (1 July 2011) 

特集
Shell Midden Research: An Interdisciplinary Agenda for the Quaternary and Social Sciences
Edited by Andrea Balbo, Ivan Briz Godino, Myrian Álvarez and Marco Madella

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volume 30, Issues 11-12, Pages 1281-1554 (June 2011) 

An updated astronomical timescale for the Plio-Pleistocene deposits from South China Sea and new insights into Asian monsoon evolution
Pages 1560-1575
Hong Ao, Mark J. Dekkers, Li Qin, Guoqiao Xiao

←Asian monsoon, South China Sea, Plio-Plistocence, ODP site 1143, hematite and goethite ratio (Hm/Gt)

Enhanced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation supports the Last Glacial Inception
Pages 1576-1582
Abel Guihou, Sylvain Pichat, Aline Govin, Silvia Nave, Elisabeth Michel, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Philippe Telouk, Laurent Labeyrie

←AMOC, Last Glacial, 231Pa/230Th

Tephrochronology of the Siple Dome ice core, West Antarctica: correlations and sources
Pages 1602-1614
Nelia W. Dunbar, Andrei V. Kurbatov

←tephra, Siple Dome, Ice core

Earth-Science Reviews

Volume 106, Issues 3-4, Pages 191-332 (June 2011)  

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A requiem
Pages 247-264
Nicholas Pinter, Andrew C. Scott, Tyrone L. Daulton, Andrew Podoll, Christian Koeberl, R. Scott Anderson, Scott E. Ishman

←Younger Dryas, impact markers, carbonate spherules, magnetic spherules, nanodiamonds, impact cratering

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis(彗星原因説)に関するレビュー。

Geophysical Research Letters (6/7-6/13)

The impact of Asian and non-Asian anthropogenic aerosols on 20th century Asian summer monsoon

Cowan, T., and W. Cai

Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11703,doi:10.1029/2011GL047268 

←Asian monsoon, Asian and non-Asian aerosols, precipitation

エアロゾル（アジア起源とアジア域外起源（主にヨーロッパ））が降水（夏季アジアモンスーン）にもたらす影響もGCMを用いて評価。アジア域外起源のエアロゾルが増加した時にヨーロッパ、アジア域が寒冷になり、夏季アジアモンスーンに伴う降水量が減少する。

The reversal of the multi-decadal trends of the equatorial Pacific easterly winds, and the Indonesian Throughflow and Leeuwin Current transports

Feng, M., C. Böning, A. Biastoch, E. Behrens, E. Weller, and Y. Masumoto

Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11604,doi:10.1029/2011GL047291 

←easterly winds, ITF, Leeuwin current, multi-decadal trends

数十年スケール貿易風の強度変動がITF(Indonesian Through)やLeeuwin Currentに与える影響を再解析データとモデルから調べた。

Extreme melt on Canada's Arctic ice caps in the 21st century

Sharp, M., D. O. Burgess, J. G. Cogley, M. Ecclestone, C. Labine, and G. J. Wolken

Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11501,doi:10.1029/2011GL047381 

←Canada, Ice caps, snow accumulation, summer temperature

地球氷床の約14%を占めるカナダのクイーンエリザベス諸島の氷床表面が2005年以降の夏の高温によって急激に溶融している。

Global Biogeochemical Cycles (6/7-6/13)

Age trends in tree ring growth and isotopic archives: A case study of Pinus sylvestris L. from northwestern Norway

Young, G. H. F., J. C. Demmler, B. E. Gunnarson, A. J. Kirchhefer, N. J. Loader, and D. McCarroll

Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 25, GB2020,doi:10.1029/2010GB003913 

←tree ring width, stable carbon and oxygen isotope, age-related trend

Paleoceanography  (6/7-6/13)

Early Oligocene glaciation and productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific: Insights into global carbon cycling

Coxall, H. K., and P. A. Wilson

Paleoceanography, 26, PA2221,doi:10.1029/2010PA002021 

Holocene climate variability of the Norwegian Atlantic Current during high and low solar insolation forcing

Berner, K. S., N. Koç, F. Godtliebsen, and D. Divine

Paleoceanography, 26, PA2220,doi:10.1029/2010PA002002 

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Journal of Climate

Volume 24 Issue 11 (June 2011)

Numerical Investigations of Seasonal and Interannual Variability of North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water and Its Implications for Pacific Climate Variability

Xujing Jia Davis, Lewis M. Rothstein, William K. Dewar, Dimitris Menemenlis

←North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water, Pacific climate, PDO, Seasonal to interannual variability

Spatial-Scale Dependence of Climate Model Performance in the CMIP3 Ensemble

David Masson, Reto Knutti

←CMIP3, model evaluation, surface temperature and precipitation

Effects of Mountains and Ice Sheets on Global Ocean Circulation

Andreas Schmittner, Tiago A. M. Silva, Klaus Fraedrich, Edilbert Kirk, and, Frank Lunkeit

←Orographic effect, Ice sheet, a new coupled ocean–atmosphere model [Oregon State University–University of Victoria model (OSUVic)], air temperature, salinity, deep water formation, wind stress

Climate Feedbacks in Response to Changes in Obliquity

Damianos F. Mantsis, Amy C. Clement, Anthony J. Broccoli, Michael P. Erb
←Earth’s obliquity, the meridional gradient of the annual mean insolation, feedback, the CM2.1 coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model