3/03/2015

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc...) 2015/02/23~2015/03/01

Nature
1. An extremely high-altitude plume seen at Mars’ morning terminator
A. Sánchez-Lavega, A. García Muñoz, E. García-Melendo, S. Pérez-Hoyos, J. M. Gómez-Forrellad, C. Pellier, M. Delcroix, M. A. López-Valverde, F. González-Galindo, W. Jaeschke, D. Parker, J. Phillips & D. Peach
Nature 518, 525–528 (26 February 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14162

Science
2. Why the Pacific is cool
Ben B. Booth
Science 27 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6225 p. 952
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4840

3. Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures
Byron A. Steinman, Michael E. Mann, and Sonya K. Miller
Science 27 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6225 pp. 988-991
DOI: 10.1126/science.1257856

PNAS
4. Robust Hadley Circulation changes and increasing global dryness due to CO2 warming from CMIP5 model projections
William K. M. Lau and Kyu-Myong Kim
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1418682112

5. Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y
Yanjun Cai, Inez Y. Fung, R. Lawrence Edwards, Zhisheng An, Hai Cheng, Jung-Eun Lee, Liangcheng Tan, Chuan-Chou Shen, Xianfeng Wang, Jesse A. Day, Weijian Zhou, Megan J. Kelly and John C. H. Chiang
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424035112

6. Century-scale trends and seasonality in pH and temperature for shallow zones of the Bering Sea
Jan Fietzke, Federica Ragazzola, Jochen Halfar, Heiner Dietze, Laura C. Foster, Thor Henrik Hansteen, Anton Eisenhauer, and Robert S. Steneck
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419216112

Nature Communications
7. An extreme event of sea-level rise along the Northeast coast of North America in 2009–2010
Paul B. Goddard, Jianjun Yin, Stephen M. Griffies & Shaoqing Zhang
Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6346 doi:10.1038/ncomms7346

8. North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems
Marc Luetscher, R. Boch, H. Sodemann, C. Spötl, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, S. Frisia, F. Hof & W. Müller
Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6344 doi:10.1038/ncomms7344

Nature Geoscience
9. Steering of westerly storms over western North America at the Last Glacial Maximum
Jessica L. Oster, Daniel E. Ibarra, Matthew J. Winnick & Katharine Maher
Nature Geoscience 8, 201–205 (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2365

10. Declining uncertainty in transient climate response as CO2 forcing dominates future climate change
Gunnar Myhre, Olivier Boucher, François-Marie Bréon, Piers Forster & Drew Shindell
Nature Geoscience 8, 181–185 (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2371

Nature Climate Change
11. Climatic and biotic thresholds of coral-reef shutdown
Lauren T. Toth, Richard B. Aronson, Kim M. Cobb, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Pamela R. Grothe & Hussein R. Sayani
Nature Climate Change (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2541

12. Quantifying the likelihood of a continued hiatus in global warming
C. D. Roberts, M. D. Palmer, D. McNeall & M. Collins
Nature Climate Change (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2531

13. Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification
Julia A. Ekstrom, Lisa Suatoni, Sarah R. Cooley, Linwood H. Pendleton, George G. Waldbusser, Josh E. Cinner, Jessica Ritter, Chris Langdon, Ruben van Hooidonk, Dwight Gledhill, Katharine Wellman, Michael W. Beck, Luke M. Brander, Dan Rittschof,       Carolyn Doherty, Peter E. T. Edwards & Rosimeiry Portela
Nature Climate Change 5, 207–214 (2015) doi:10.1038/nclimate2508

Scientific Reports
14. A Vantage from Space Can Detect Earlier Drought Onset: An Approach Using Relative Humidity
Alireza Farahmand, Amir AghaKouchak & Joao Teixeira
Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 8553 doi:10.1038/srep08553

Geology
15. Solar forcing of Holocene summer sea-surface temperatures in the northern North Atlantic
Hui Jiang, Raimund Muscheler, Svante Björck, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Jesper Olsen, Longbin Sha, Jesper Sjolte, Jón Eiríksson, Lihua Ran, Karen-Luise Knudsen and Mads F. Knudsen

16. Coralline algal Mg-O bond strength as a marine pCO2 proxy

Maren Pauly, Nicholas A. Kamenos, Penelope Donohue and Ellsworth LeDrew