Niigata Trip

 Nagaoka City (11/24)

The purpose was to meet with Nishida-san and present current research results, which at the time included all water sample analyses that were completed in March-April of 2021. Yokoyama-sensei was present as well. This was done ahead of the trip to Kashiwazaki so Nishida-san would be made aware of progress. Those involved included myself (Jian), Yokoyama-sensei, and Kozue Ando. 

Kashiwazaki Marine Environmental Research Institute

This particular visit was to see where clam samples that were ultimately used for my thesis experiment were bred and incubated and learn about the research institute’s continuing experiments and goals. Furthermore, many photos of the interior workings of the lab were taken specifically for the purpose of incorporating it into my final master’s thesis.

 

Photos of the Japan Sea, right on the MERI site. Defunct nuclear power plant (right) is shown nearby

              In total, Yokoyama-sensei, Nishida-san, Kozue, and I spent around 2.5 hours at the MERI site being introduced to the grounds and equipment by Hayashi-san (unfortunately I never caught his last name). From what I understood, MERI studies many types of ecosystems, acidification effects, fishery work in regards to commercial selling, and nuclear power plant warming effects on surrounding environments. The power plant pictured above has not been in use since the 2011 earthquake, but MERI continues to perform experiments with regards to it. Hayashi-san began the tour by showing us a short film explaining the different research sites related to MERI.

Photos of the MERI and tanks holding fish outside              

             The building pictured above is the main building of interest for us at AORI. Here and surrounding the building are several tanks that house a variety of marine creatures in extremely controlled environments where they can closely monitor water temperature, pH, and diet.  

            

Fish of the same species that Kozue has used for her otolith experiment

              Once the tour itself ended, we convened in the meeting room to give research updates to Hayashi-san about how The University of Tokyo has utilized the organisms they had carefully grown and maintained.

Dec 1st, 2021 Kikai Island Trip

 Kikai Island is an island formed by the uplift of coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean with a current average annual uplift of about 2 mm. It is located in the east of Amami Islands and it is about 380 kilometers south of Kagoshima Prefecture. 

A view of Kikai Island

Although I checked the Kikai Island wind speed data before and found that the wind speed in winter would exceed 5 m/s, I experienced the strong wind when I came out of the airport (it even affected our flights).

Information about the formation process, topography and coral reefs of Kikai Island

Muto-san in the Agriculture Promotion Division and Ichiji-san introduced the basic situation and provided a map of water intake facilities on the Kikai Island. 

Map of water intake facilities in Kikai Island

Water sampling processes

l Some of the sampling sites in the map were determined under the guidance of Ichiji-san and the help of some staffs. 

l Draw flowing water out, rinse the bottle for several times with water, then fill and seal the bottles.

l The water samples for ¹⁴C measurement were filled in glass bottles, and the water samples for uranium measurement were filled in plastic bottles. The glass bottles used for ¹⁴C measurement were wrapped in aluminum foil.

l Rinse and fill a bucket with water and measure the water temperature.

lRecord the sampling time, GPS number (corresponded to latitude and longitude), water temperature and bottle number in the table.

Coral sampling

Porites and Favia corals were found and sampled with a hammer on the hillside next to the road.

  

Upper: Porites coral   Bottom: Favia coral

In addition, on the way to sampling sites, Ichiji-san and other staffs also showed the sediment cores collected from Kikai Island and the local agricultural products such as coffee and orange.

Kikaicho buried cultural properties center (喜界町埋蔵文化財センター)

This center exhibited the "Gusuku relics (城久遺跡)" and the unearthed cultural relics from the Jomon period (縄文時代) to the Middle Ages.

Many ancient architectural sites and tombs have been identified in these relics. Among the unearthed objects are ceramics from Japan, China, the Korean Peninsula and other places. These different producing areas of earthenware and other products in the relics can reflect the trading routes of Kyushu and Nansei Islands in history. The soil profile of the excavated relics is also displayed in the center.

 

The earthenware in the Jomon period

The earthenware in the Gusuku relics

The porcelain bowls in the Gusuku relics

 

Soil profile of Kawajiri relics

New Papers (Elsevier etc.) 2021/12/13-2021/12/19

 Chemical Geology

1. Magma evolution of the South China Sea basin from continental-margin rifting to oceanic crustal spreading: Constraints from In-situ trace elements and Sr isotope of minerals

Shuang-Shuang Chen, Jing Chen, Zhengfu Guo, Tao Wu, Jiaqi Liu, Rui Gao

 

2. Arc magmatism and porphyry-type ore deposition are primarily controlled by chlorine from seawater

P.R. Castillo

 

Quaternary International

3. Environmental changes during Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Kuyavia Lakeland, Central Poland

Mirosław Makohonienko, Mateusz Płóciennik, Piotr Papiernik, Piotr Kittel, Mariusz Gałka, Agnieszka Mroczkowska, Karina Apolinarska, Daniel Okupny, Monika Panfil, Bartosz Kotrys, Tomi P. Luoto, Marek Krąpiec, Sebastian Tyszkowski

 

4. Late Holocene palaeogeographic evolution of the Lihoura coastal plain, Pteleos Gulf, Central Greece

E. Karymbalis, K. Tsanakas, A. Cundy, G. Iliopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, D. Protopappas, K. Gaki-Papanastassiou, D. Papanastassiou, V. Batzakis, V. Kotinas, H. Maroukian

 

5. Late Pleistocene submarine terraces in the Eastern Mediterranean, central Lebanon, Byblos: Revealing their formation time frame through modeling

N. Georgiou, M. Geraga, M. Francis-Allouche, D. Christodoulou, P. Stocchi, E. Fakiris, X. Dimas, D. Zoura, M. Iatrou, G. Papatheodorou

 

6. Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of the Northern Cape (South Africa)

Liora Kolska Horwitz, David Morris, Michael Chazan

 

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

7. Bottom water redox dynamics during the Early Cretaceous Weissert Event in ODP Hole 692B (Weddell Sea, Antarctica) reconstructed from the benthic foraminiferal assemblages

Victor M. Giraldo-Gómez, Maria Rose Petrizzo, Cinzia Bottini, Carla Möller, Thomas Wagner, Liyenne Cavalheiro, Onoriode Esegbue, Gabriele Gambacorta, Elisabetta Erba

 

8. Palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Eocene-Oligocene Tarim Basin (NW China): Sedimentary response to late Eocene sea retreat

Jingyu Zhang, Fengcun Xing, Wout Krijgsman, Cheng Zhang, Wei Wei, Lin Chen, Suju Yang, Xiaochen Liu, Yongchao Lu

 

9. Environmental changes across the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the western proto-Gulf of Mexico — Chemo- and biostratigraphic correlation of NE Mexican sections

Dominik Hennhoefer, Patrick Zell, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

 

10. Change from shallow to deep-water environment on an isolated carbonate platform in the Middle Triassic of the Transdanubian Range (Hungary)

Viktor Karádi, Tamás Budai, János Haas, Attila Vörös, Olga Piros, István Dunkl, Emőke Tóth

 

11. Palaeoredox reconstruction in the eastern Arabian Sea since the late Miocene: Insights from trace element and stable isotopes of molybdenum (δ98/95Mo) and tungsten (δ186/184W) at IODP Site U1457 of Laxmi Basin

M. Alam, M. Tripti, G.P. Gurumurthy, Y. Sohrin, M. Tsujisaka, A.D. Singh, S. Takano, K. Verma

 

12. Coralline algal assemblages record Miocene sea-level changes in the South China Sea

Yinqiang Li, Kefu Yu, Lizeng Bian, Yeman Qin, Weihua Liao, Yang Yang, Yifang Ma

 

13. Influences on Asian summer monsoon during Dansgaard-Oeschger events 19 to 25 (70–115 kyr B.P.)

Xiao Shi, Yan Yang, Hai Cheng, Jingyao Zhao, Ting-Yong Li, Lidan Lei, Sha Liang, Xiangxiang Feng, R. Lawrence Edwards

 

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

14. Low-δ18O Neoarchean precipitation recorded in a 2.67 Ga magmatic-hydrothermal system of the Keivy granitic complex, Russia

D.O. Zakharov, D.R. Zozulya, D. Rubatto

 

15. Enhanced ocean connectivity and volcanism instigated global onset of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) ∼94.5 million years ago

Yong-Xiang Li, Xinyu Liu, David Selby, Zhonghui Liu, Isabel P. Montañez, Xianghui Li

 

16. Deep-subaqueous implosive volcanism at West Mata seamount, Tonga

Arran P. Murch, Ryan A. Portner, Ken H. Rubin, David A. Clague

 

17. Impact of Indian Ocean surface temperature gradient reversals on the Indian Summer Monsoon

Syee Weldeab, Carsten Rühlemann, Qinghua Ding, Vyacheslav Khon, Birgit Schneider, William R. Gray

 

18. Controlling factors and impacts of river-borne neodymium isotope signatures and rare earth element concentrations supplied to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

M. Grenier, K.A. Brown, M. Colombo, M. Belhadj, I. Baconnais, V. Pham, M. Soon, P.G. Myers, C. Jeandel, R. François

 

Global and Planetary Change

19. Cyclic sediment deposition by orbital forcing in the Miocene wetland of western Amazonia? New insights from a multidisciplinary approach

Carina Hoorn, Tyler Kukla, Giovanni Bogotá-Angel, Els van Soelen, Catalina González-Arango, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hubert Vonhof, Pedro Val, Gaspar Morcote-Rios, Martin Roddaz, Elton Luiz Dantas, Roberto Ventura Santos, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Jung-Hyun Kim, Robert J. Morley

 

20. Ice sheet and terrestrial input impacts on the 100-kyr ocean carbon cycle during the Middle Miocene

Xiaolin Ma, Wentao Ma, Jun Tian, Jimin Yu, Enqing Huang

 

Marine Geology

21. Testing XRF Identification of Marine Washover Sediment Beds in a Coastal Lake in Southeastern Texas, USA

Harry F.L. Williams, Chelsea E. Beaubouef, Kam-biu Liu, Nicholas Culligan, Lance Riedlinger

 

22. Neglected role of continental circulation in cross-shelf sediment transport: Implications for paleoclimate reconstructions

Yong Shi, Xiaomei Xu, Hui Sheng, Jixuan Lv, Shuo Zhang, Jianhua Gao

 

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

23. Global trends in novel stable isotopes in basalts: theory and observations

Caroline R. Soderman, Oliver Shorttle, Simon Matthews, Helen M. Williams

 

24. Recent weathering promotes C storage inside large phyllosilicate particles in forest soil

Ingride Van Der Kellen, Delphine Derrien, Jaafar Ghanbaja, Marie-Pierre Turpault

 

25. No ion is an island: Multiple ions influence boron incorporation into CaCO3

Michael J. Henehan, Christa D. Klein Gebbinck, Jill V B. Wymans, Mathis P. Hain, Rae. James W. B., Bärbel. Hönisch, Gavin L. Foster, Sang-Tae. Kim

New Papers (AGU, EGU, GSA) 20/12/2021 - Tam

 AGU, EGU, GSA 20/12/2021

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

1.Duration and Intensity of End-Permian Marine Anoxia
Michael Pimentel-Galvan, Kimberly V. Lau, Katharine Maher, Tapan Mukerji, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Demir Altiner, Jonathan L. Payne

2.Zircon U-Pb Age Constraints on NW Himalayan Exhumation from the Laxmi Basin, Arabian Sea
Peng Zhou, Daniel F. Stockli, Thomas Ireland, Richard W. Murray, Peter D. Clift

3.Shallow-Water Tsunami Deposits: Evidence from Sediment Cores and Numerical Wave Propagation of the 1601 CE Lake Lucerne Event
Valentin Nigg, Paola Bacigaluppi, David F. Vetsch, Hendrik Vogel, Katrina Kremer, Flavio S. Anselmetti

Geophysical Research Letters

4.Does Regional Hydroclimate Change Scale Linearly With Global Warming?
Flavio Lehner, Sloan Coats

5.Assessing Net Growth of Phytoplankton Biomass on Hourly to Annual Time Scales Using the Geostationary Ocean Color Instrument
Joseph E. Salisbury, Bror F. Jönsson, Antonio Mannino, Wonkook Kim, Joaquim I. Goes, Jin-Yong Choi, Javier A. Concha

6.Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Conducive to Severe Haze in Eastern China Have Shifted Under Climate Change
Yang Yang, Yang Zhou, Ke Li, Hailong Wang, Lili Ren, Liangying Zeng, Huimin Li, Pinya Wang, Baojie Li, Hong Liao

7.Continental and Sea Ice Iron Sources Fertilize the Southern Ocean in Synergy

Renaud Person, Martin Vancoppenolle, Olivier Aumont, Manon Malsang

8.The Phase-Locking of Tropical North Atlantic and the Contribution of ENSO
Han-Ching Chen, Fei-Fei Jin, Leishan Jiang

9.Rapid Mass Loss in West Antarctica Revealed by Swarm Gravimetry in the Absence of GRACE
Chaoyang Zhang, C. K. Shum, Aleš Bezděk, Michael Bevis, João de Teixeira da Encarnação, Byron D. Tapley, Yu Zhang, Xiaoli Su, Qiang Shen

10.The Role of a Weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Modulating Marine Heatwaves in a Warming Climate
Xianglin Ren, Wei Liu

11.California's Volatile Hydroclimate: Lessons From the Paleoclimate Record
Kathleen R. Johnson

12.Helheim Glacier Poised for Dramatic Retreat
Joshua J. Williams, Noel Gourmelen, Peter Nienow, Charlie Bunce, Donald Slater

JGR Oceans

13.Optimal Precursors Triggering Sudden Shifts in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport Through Drake Passage
Li Zhou, Qiang Wang, Mu Mu, Kun Zhang

14.Intercomparison of High-Resolution SST Climatologies Over the Australian Region
Yuwei Hu, Helen Beggs, Xiao Hua Wang

15.Distinct Ocean Responses to Greenland's Liquid Runoff and Iceberg Melt
Juliana M. Marson, Laura C. Gillard, Paul G. Myers

16.Interannual Variation of Modified Circumpolar Deep Water in the Dotson-Getz Trough, West Antarctica
Tae-Wan Kim, Hee Won Yang, Pierre Dutrieux, Anna K. Wåhlin, Adrian Jenkins, Yeong Gi Kim, Ho Kyung Ha, Chang-Sin Kim, Kyoung-Ho Cho, Taewook Park, Jisoo Park, SangHoon Lee, Yang-Ki Cho

17.How the Source Depth of Coastal Upwelling Relates to Stratification and Wind
Jing He, Amala Mahadevan

18.Mechanisms for Late 20th and Early 21st Century Decadal AMOC Variability
Alex Megann, Adam Blaker, Simon Josey, Adrian New, Bablu Sinha

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

19.Linkages Between East China Sea Deep-Sea Oxygenation and Variability in the East Asian Summer Monsoon and Kuroshio Current Over the Last 400,000 years
Nishant Vats, Raj K. Singh, Manisha Das, Ann Holbourn, Anil K. Gupta, Stephen J. Gallagher, D. K. Pandey

20.Regional Patterns in Miocene-Pliocene Aridity Across the Chinese Loess Plateau Revealed by High Resolution Records of Paleosol Carbonate and Occluded Organic Matter
Timothy M. Gallagher, Lily Serach, Natasha Sekhon, Hanzhi Zhang, Hanlin Wang, Shunchuan Ji, Xi Chang, Huayu Lu, Daniel O. Breecker

New Paper 2020/12/6~2020/12/12

Nature

1. A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2
Keenan, T.F., Luo, X., De Kauwe, M.G. et al. 
 
Science

2. Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Lauren’s Poorter, Dylan Craven, Catarina C. Jakovac et al.
 
PNAS

3. Persistent deep water anoxia in the eastern South Atlantic during the last ice age
Natascha Riedinger, Florian Scholz, Michelle L. Abshire, Matthias Zabel
 
Nature Communications

4. Glacier retreat creating new Pacific salmon habitat in western North America
Pitman, K.J., Moore, J.W., Huss, M. et al. 

5. Krill and salp faecal pellets contribute equally to the carbon flux at the Antarctic Peninsula
Pauli, NC., Flintrop, C.M., Konrad, C. et al.

6. Sustainable intensification for a larger global rice bowl
Yuan, S., Linquist, B.A., Wilson, L.T. et al. 

7. Stable isotopes in global lakes integrate catchment and climatic controls on evaporation
Vystavna, Y., Harjung, A., Monteiro, L.R. et al. 
 
Nature Climate Change

8. Kug, JS., Oh, JH., An, SI. et al. Hysteresis of the intertropical convergence zone to CO2 forcing

Scientific Reports

9. Watanabe, Y., Amitani, N., Yokoyama, T. et al. Synthesis of mesoporous silica from geothermal water

Science Advances

10. Damming the wood falls
Ellen Wohl and Emily P. Iskin

11. Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes
Lu Xu, John D. Crounse, Krystal T. Vasquez et al.

New papers 2021/12/06-12/12 (Elsevier)

 Quaternary Science Reviews

1.     Different response of stalagmite δ18O and δ13C to millennial-scale events during the last glacial, evidenced from Huangjin Cave, northern China 

Yijia Liang, Kan Zhao, Yongjin Wang, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Qingfeng Shao, Shitao Chen, Jinyu Wang, Junji Zhu

 

2.    Vegetation, glacier, and climate changes before the global last glacial maximum in the Isla Grande de Chiloé, southern Chile (42° S)

Gabriel A. Gómez, Juan-Luis García, Carolina Villagrán, Christopher Lüthgens, Ana M. Abarzúa

 

3.    Palaeoshoreline reconstruction and underwater archaeological potential of Liman Tepe: A long-occupied coastal prehistoric settlement in western Anatolia, Turkey

Nicholas L. Riddick, Joseph I. Boyce, Gillian M. Krezoski, Vasıf Şahoğlu, Hayat Erkanal, İrfan Tuğcu, Yeşim Alkan, Jeremy J. Gabriel, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Beverly N. Goodman-Tchernov

 

Quaternary International

4.   The Early Neolithic–Middle Bronze Age environmental history of the Mamakan archaeological area, Eastern Siberia

Elena V. Bezrukova, Svetlana A. Reshetova, Aleksey V. Tetenkin, Pavel E. Tarasov, Christian Leipe

 

5.    Combined metagenomic and archaeobotanical analyses on human dental calculus: A cross-section of lifestyle conditions in a Copper Age population of central Italy

Alessandra Modi, Davide Attolini, Valentina Zaro, Lisa Pisaneschi, Gabriel Innocenti, Stefania Vai, David Caramelli, Jacopo Moggi Cecchi, Andrea Quagliariello, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Martina Lari

 

6.    New results of radiocarbon dating and identification of plant and animal remains from the Oglakhty cemetery provide an insight into the life of the population of southern Siberia in the early 1st millennium CE

Pavel E. Tarasov, Svetlana V. Pankova, Tengwen Long, Christian Leipe, Kamilla B. Kalinina, Andrey V. Panteleev, Luise Ørsted Brandt, Igor L. Kyzlasov, Mayke Wagner

 

7.   Reconstruction of diachronic changes in human fishing activity and marine ecosystems from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of archaeological fish remains

Takumi Tsutaya, Tomonari Takahashi, Takayuki Omori, Kohei Yamazaki, Takao Sato, Minoru Yoneda, Rick J. Schulting, Hirofumi Kato, Andrzej W. Weber

 

Marine Geology

8.    Comparison of cold season sedimentation dynamics in the non-tidal estuary of the Northern Baltic Sea

Jouni Salmela, Saija Saarni, Linnea Blåfield, Markus Katainen, Elina Kasvi, Petteri Alho

 

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

9.   The transition from a closed to an open lake in the Pannonian Basin System (Croatia) during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Sedimentological evidence of Early Miocene regional aridity

Davor Pavelić, Marijan Kovačić, Darko Tibljaš, Ivo Galić, Frane Marković, Ivica Pavičić

 

Global and Planetary Change

10.   Reconstructed temperature change in late summer over the eastern Tibetan Plateau since 1867 CE and the role of anthropogenic forcing

Hong Yin, Ying Sun, Ming-Yong Li

 

11.    Millennial-scale variability of Indian summer monsoon constrained by the western Bay of Bengal sediments: Implication from geochemical proxies of sea surface salinity and river runoff

Yuki Ota, Hodaka Kawahata, Junichiro Kuroda, Atsushi Suzuki, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Francisco Jimenez-Espejo, JAMSTEC NGHP-02 Scientist Team

 

12.    Holocene aeolian dust accumulation rates across the Chinese Loess Plateau

Shuang Zhao, Dunsheng Xia, Kexin Lü

 

13.    MOW strengthening and contourite development over two analog climate cycles (MIS 12–11 and MIS 2–1) in the Gulf of Cadíz: An impact on North Atlantic climate during deglaciation V and MIS 11?

Paul Moal-Darrigade, Emmanuelle Ducassou, Jacques Giraudeau, André Bahr, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Vincent Hanquiez, Marie-Claire Perello

 

Chemical Geology

14.    The impact of outgassing of CO2 and prior calcium precipitation to the isotope composition of calcite precipitated on stalagmites. Implications for reconstructing climate information from proxies

Wolfgang Dreybrodt, Jens Fohlmeister

 

15.    Chemical isolation and isotopic analysis of terrigenous sediments with emphasis on effective removal of contaminating marine phases including barite

Amy M. Jewell, Matthew J. Cooper, J. Andrew Milton, Rachael H. James, Anya J. Crocker, Paul A. Wilson

 

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Quaternary Geochronology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, no relevant

New Papers 2021 December 6-12 (AGU, EGU, GSA)

Geophysical Research Letters

1. How does the high‐latitude thermal forcing in one hemisphere affect the other hemisphere?

Yechul Shin, Sarah M. Kang

2. How does Pacific Decadal Oscillation affect tropical cyclone activity over Far East Asia?

Minkyu Lee, Taehyung Kim, Dong‐Hyun Cha, Seung‐Ki Min, Doo‐Sun R. Park, Sang‐Wook Yeh, Johnny C. L. Chan

JGR Oceans

3. Seasonal transformation and spatial variability of water masses within MacKenzie polynya, Prydz Bay

Esther Portela, Stephen R. Rintoul, Sophie Bestley, Laura Herraiz‐Borreguero, Esmee Wijk, Clive R. McMahon, Fabien Roquet, Mark Hindell

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

4. Identifying Global‐Scale Patterns of Vegetation Change During the Last Deglaciation from Paleoclimate Networks

Moritz Adam, Nils Weitzel, Kira Rehfeld

5. Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea across the mid‐Pleistocene transition: Insights from IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427

Sonja Felder, Takuya Sagawa, Mervyn Greaves, Melanie J. Leng, Ken Ikehara, Katsunori Kimoto, Siro Hasegawa, Thomas Wagner, Andrew C. G. Henderson

Climate of the Past

6. Quantifying dating uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimate proxy archives

Eirik Myrvoll-Nilsen, Keno Riechers, Martin Wibe Rypdal, and Niklas Boers

7. Terrestrial records of glacial terminations V and IV and insights on deglacial mechanisms

Fabrizio Marra, Alison Pereira, Brian Jicha, Sebastien Nomade, Italo Biddittu, Fabio Florindo, Giovanni Muttoni, Elizabeth Niespolo, Paul Renne, and Vincent Scao

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc.) 2021/11/29~2021/12/5

  

[Science]

1. Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations

MATTHEW C. LONG BRITTON B. STEPHENS KATHRYN MCKAIN COLM SWEENEY RALPH F. KEELING ERIC A. KORT ERIC J. MORGAN JONATHAN D. BENT NAVEEN CHANDRA FREDERIC CHEVALLIER RÓISÍN COMMANE BRUCE C. DAUBE PAUL B. KRUMMEL ZOË LOH INGRID T. LUIJKX DAVID MUNRO PRABIR PATRA WOUTER PETERS MICHEL RAMONET CHRISTIAN RÖDENBECK ANN STAVERT PIETER TANS STEVEN C. WOFSY

 

[Geology]

2. Monthly insolation linked to the time-transgressive nature of the Holocene East Asian monsoon precipitation maximum

Xin Zhou; Tao Zhan; Luyao Tu; John P. Smol; Shiwei Jiang; Xiaoyan Liu;Chenxi Xu; Zhengtang Guo

3. Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA

Mark R. Sweeney; Steven L. Forman; Eric V. McDonald

 

[Nature Geoscience]

4. Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming

Chijun Sun, Timothy M. Shanahan, Pedro N. DiNezio, Nicholas P. McKay & Priyadarsi D. Roy

5. Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon

Davide Tognin, Andrea D’Alpaos, Marco Marani & Luca Carniello

6. Interglacial Antarctic–Southern Ocean climate decoupling due to moisture source area shifts

A. Landais, B. Stenni, V. Masson-Delmotte, J. Jouzel, A. Cauquoin, E. Fourré, B. Minster, E. Selmo, T. Extier, M. Werner, F. Vimeux, R. Uemura, I. Crotti & A. Grisart

7. A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination

Gregor Knorr, Stephen Barker, Xu Zhang, Gerrit Lohmann, Xun Gong, Paul Gierz, Christian Stepanek & Lennert B. Stap

8. Development of ice-shelf estuaries promotes fractures and calving

Alexandra L. Boghosian, Lincoln H. Pitcher, Laurence C. Smith, Elena Kosh, Patrick M. Alexander, Marco Tedesco & Robin E. Bell

 

[Nature communications]

9. Atlantic tropical cyclones downscaled from climate reanalyses show increasing activity over past 150 years

Kerry Emanuel

10. Substantial oxygen consumption by aerobic nitrite oxidation in oceanic oxygen minimum zones

J. M. Beman, S. M. Vargas, J. M. Wilson, E. Perez-Coronel, J. S. Karolewski, S. Vazquez, A. Yu, A. E. Cairo, M. E. White, I. Koester, L. I. Aluwihare & S. D. Wankel

11. Assessing costs of Indonesian fires and the benefits of restoring peatland

L. Kiely, D. V. Spracklen, S. R. Arnold, E. Papargyropoulou, L. Conibear, C. Wiedinmyer, C. Knote & H. A. Adrianto

12. Global patterns of potential future plant diversity hidden in soil seed banks

Xuejun Yang, Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, Robin J. Pakeman, Zhenying Huang, Ruiru Gao & Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

13. Phase transitions in natural C-O-H-N-S fluid inclusions - implications for gas mixtures and the behavior of solid H2S at low temperatures

Marta Sośnicka & Volker Lüders

14. New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected

Michelle R. McCrystall, Julienne Stroeve, Mark Serreze, Bruce C. Forbes & James A. Screen

15. Production of hydrogen from offshore wind in China and cost-competitive supply to Japan

Shaojie Song, Haiyang Lin, Peter Sherman, Xi Yang, Chris P. Nielsen, Xinyu Chen & Michael B. McElroy

 

[Nature Climate change]

16. Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation

Brayton Noll, Tatiana Filatova, Ariana Need & Alessandro Taberna

17. Ocean warming and accelerating Southern Ocean zonal flow

Jia-Rui Shi, Lynne D. Talley, Shang-Ping Xie, Qihua Peng & Wei Liu

18. Net zero-emission pathways reduce the physical and economic risks of climate change

Laurent Drouet, Valentina Bosetti, Simone A. Padoan, Lara Aleluia Reis, Christoph Bertram, Francesco Dalla Longa, Jacques Després, Johannes Emmerling, Florian Fosse, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Stefan Frank, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Mathijs Harmsen, Volker Krey, Ken Oshiro, Larissa P. Nogueira, Leonidas Paroussos, Franziska Piontek, Keywan Riahi, Pedro R. R. Rochedo, Roberto Schaeffer, Jun’ya Takakura, Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst, Bob van der Zwaan, Detlef van Vuuren, Zoi Vrontisi, Matthias Weitzel, Behnam Zakeri & Massimo Tavoni

 

[Scientific reports]

19. Hydroclimate change in the Garhwal Himalaya, India at 4200 yr BP coincident with the contraction of the Indus civilization

E. A. Niederman, D. F. Porinchu & B. S. Kotlia

20. Indigenous impacts on north Australian savanna fire regimes over the Holocene

Christopher M. Wurster, Cassandra Rowe & Michael I. Bird

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