4/03/2014

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc...) 2014/03/24~2014/03/30

Nature
1. Climate science: A high bar for decadal forecasts of El Niño
Pedro DiNezio
Nature 507, 437–439 (27 March 2014) doi:10.1038/507437a

2. Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone
Sarah L. C. Giering, Richard Sanders, Richard S. Lampitt, Thomas R. Anderson, Christian Tamburini, Mehdi Boutrif, Mikhail V. Zubkov, Chris M. Marsay, Stephanie A. Henson, Kevin Saw, Kathryn Cook & Daniel J. Mayor
Nature 507, 480–483 (27 March 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13123

3. Biogeochemistry: Methane minimalism
Tori M. Hoehler & Marc J. Alperin
Nature 507, 436–437 (27 March 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13215

4. Methane fluxes show consistent temperature dependence across microbial to ecosystem scales
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Andrew P. Allen, David Bastviken, Ralf Conrad, Cristian Gudasz, Annick St-Pierre, Nguyen Thanh-Duc & Paul A. del Giorgio
Nature 507, 488–491 (27 March 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13164

Science
5. Hydrologic Regulation of Chemical Weathering and the Geologic Carbon Cycle
K. Maher, C. P. Chamberlain
Vol. 343 no. 6178 pp. 1502-1504 DOI: 10.1126/science.1250770

PNAS
6. Onset of carbon isotope excursion at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum took millennia, not 13 years
Richard E. Zeebea, Gerald R. Dickensb, Andy Ridgwellc, Appy Sluijsd, and Ellen Thomase
PNAS 2014 111 (12) E1062-E1063; published ahead of print February 26, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1321177111

7. Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia
Neil Pederson, Amy E. Hessl, Nachin Baatarbileg, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, and Nicola Di Cosmo
PNAS 2014 111 (12) 4375-4379; published ahead of print March 10, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1318677111

8. Plate tectonic controls on atmospheric CO2 levels since the Triassic
Douwe G. Van Der Meer, Richard E. Zeebe, Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Appy Sluijs, Wim Spakman, and Trond H. Torsvik
PNAS 2014 111 (12) 4380-4385; published ahead of print March 10, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1315657111

9. Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y B.P.
James M. Russella,1, Hendrik Vogelb, Bronwen L. Koneckya, Satria Bijaksanac, Yongsong Huanga, Martin Mellesd, Nigel Wattruse, Kassandra Costaa, and John W. Kingf
PNAS 2014 ; published ahead of print March 24, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1402373111

Nature Geoscience
11. Climate science: Tropical expansion by ocean swing
Jian Lu
Nature Geoscience 7, 250–251 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2124

12. Newly detected ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere
Johannes C. Laube, Mike J. Newland, Christopher Hogan, Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Paul J. Fraser, Patricia Martinerie, David E. Oram, Claire E. Reeves, Thomas Röckmann, Jakob Schwander, Emmanuel Witrant & William T. Sturges
Nature Geoscience 7, 266–269 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2109

13. Solar forcing of North Atlantic surface temperature and salinity over the past millennium
Paola Moffa-Sánchez, Andreas Born, Ian R. Hall, David J. R. Thornalley & Stephen Barker
Nature Geoscience 7, 275–278 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2094

14. Production of sulphate-rich vapour during the Chicxulub impact and implications for ocean acidification
Sohsuke Ohno, Toshihiko Kadono, Kosuke Kurosawa, Taiga Hamura, Tatsuhiro Sakaiya, Keisuke Shigemori, Yoichiro Hironaka, Takayoshi Sano, Takeshi Watari, Kazuto Otani, Takafumi Matsui & Seiji Sugita
Nature Geoscience 7, 279–282 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2095

15. Early Earth: Cyanobacteria at work
Alan J. Kaufman
Nature Geoscience 7, 253–254 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2128

16. Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
Noah J. Planavsky, Dan Asael, Axel Hofmann, Christopher T. Reinhard, Stefan V. Lalonde, Andrew Knudsen, Xiangli Wang, Frantz Ossa Ossa, Ernesto Pecoits, Albertus J. B. Smith, Nicolas J. Beukes, Andrey Bekker, Thomas M. Johnson, Kurt O. Konhauser, Timothy W. Lyons & Olivier J. Rouxel
Nature Geoscience 7, 283–286 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2122

17. Surface-water iron supplies in the Southern Ocean sustained by deep winter mixing
Alessandro Tagliabue, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Andrew R. Bowie, Marina Lévy, Sebastiaan Swart & Philip W. Boyd
Nature Geoscience 7, 314–320 (2014) doi:10.1038/ngeo2101

Nature Communications
18. Fossil pollen records indicate that Patagonian desertification was not solely a consequence of Andean uplift
L. Palazzesi, V.D. Barreda, J.I. Cuitiño, M.V. Guler, M.C. Tellería & R. Ventura Santos
Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3558 doi:10.1038/ncomms4558