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Indian Ocean Dipole intensifies Benguela Niño through Congo River discharge 印度洋偶极子通过刚果河排水加剧本格拉尼诺现象

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01955-x

Michael J. McPhaden, Sreelekha Jarugula, Léo C. Aroucha, Joke F. Lübbecke

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Projected phenological shifts in stratification and overturning of ice-covered Northern Hemisphere lakes 预估北半球冰雪覆盖湖泊分层和倾覆的物候变化

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01953-z

Lei Huang, R. Iestyn Woolway, Axel Timmermann, Keith B. Rodgers

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Middle Triassic transcontinental connection between the North China Craton and the Paleo-Tethys Ocean 华北克拉通与古特提斯洋的中三叠世跨大陆连接

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01945-z

Heng Peng, Lin Ding, Chiyang Liu, Massimiliano Zattin, Jianqiang Wang, Licheng Wang

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Increasing timber and declining live plant diversity and volumes in global trade from 2000 to 2020 2000 - 2020年全球贸易中木材的增加和活植物多样性和数量的减少

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01950-2

Alireza Naqinezhad, Oscar Morton, David P. Edwards

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Airborne observations of fast-evolving ocean submesoscale turbulence 快速演变的海洋亚中尺度湍流的航空观测

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01917-3

Hector S. Torres, Ernesto Rodriguez, Alexander Wineteer, Patrice Klein, Andrew F. Thompson, Jörn Callies, Eric D’Asaro, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, J. Thomas Farrar, Federica Polverari, Ruzbeh Akbar

{"title":"Airborne observations of fast-evolving ocean submesoscale turbulence","authors":"Hector S. Torres, Ernesto Rodriguez, Alexander Wineteer, Patrice Klein, Andrew F. Thompson, Jörn Callies, Eric D’Asaro, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, J. Thomas Farrar, Federica Polverari, Ruzbeh Akbar","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01917-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01917-3","url":null,"abstract":"Ocean images collected by astronauts onboard the Apollo spacecraft more than 50 years ago revealed a large number of ocean eddies, with a size between 1 and 20 km. Since then, satellite infrared, ocean color, sun glitter and synthetic aperture radar images, with high spatial resolution, have confirmed the ubiquitous presence of these small eddies in all oceans. However, observing the dynamical characteristics and evolution of these eddies has remained challenging. An experiment was recently carried out in the California Current system using the new airborne Doppler Scatterometer (National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Jet Propulsion Laboratory DopplerScatt) instrument that observes surface velocities. Here, with DopplerScatt, we mapped a 30 × 100 km domain over multiple days to unveil numerous 1–20 km ocean eddies, called submesoscale eddies, that evolve over a period of a few hours. The strong interactions between eddies generate horizontal velocity divergence, implying vertical velocities reaching 250 m day−1 at 40 m depth. The velocity field also produces horizontal dispersion of particles over a distance of 50 km within 12 h, which rapidly fills the turbulent eddy field. These observations suggest that submesoscale ocean turbulence may profoundly affect the vertical transport of heat, carbon, and important climatic gases between the atmosphere and the ocean interior, as well as the horizontal dispersion of tracers and particles. As such, submesoscale ocean eddies are a critical element of Earth’s climate system. Submesoscale eddies in the upper ocean play a critical role in the vertical transport and dispersion of ocean properties, including heat, nutrients, and carbon, making them essential for regulating the Earth’s climate system, according to results from the new airborne Doppler Scatterometer.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01917-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario 碳清除情景下的强厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜降水-海洋表面温度敏感性

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01958-8

Chao Liu, Soon-Il An, Zixiang Yan, Soong-Ki Kim, Seungmok Paik

{"title":"Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario","authors":"Chao Liu, Soon-Il An, Zixiang Yan, Soong-Ki Kim, Seungmok Paik","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01958-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01958-8","url":null,"abstract":"El Niño-Southern Oscillation-induced tropical Pacific precipitation anomalies have global impacts and will intensify under greenhouse warming, but the potential for mitigating these changes is less understood. Here, we identify distinct hysteresis features in the precipitation-sea surface temperature sensitivity between strong El Niño and La Niña phases using a large ensemble carbon removal numerical simulation. The strong El Niño precipitation sensitivity exhibits a century-scale hysteretic enhancement and eastward shift, mainly due to modulated deep convection anomalies by the Intertropical Convergence Zone via cloud-longwave feedback. Instead, the strong La Niña counterpart is concentrated toward the equator, mostly in the central-western Pacific, with a shorter hysteresis period of a few decades. This primarily involves changes in shallow convection and surface thermal structures during La Niña, shaped by global warming-induced upper-ocean circulation changes. The distinct climate change regimes of strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation sensitivity hold important implications for assessing mitigation consequences. The hysteresis in precipitation-sea surface temperature sensitivity differs between strong El Niño and La Niña phases, with El Niño intensifying and shifting eastward due to deep convection, while La Niña is more equator-centered with a shorter hysteresis period, according to a large ensemble simulation of symmetric CO2 ramp-up and ramp-down pathways.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01958-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Near-term carbon dioxide removal deployment can minimize disruptive pace of decarbonization and economic risks towards United States’ net-zero goal 短期内部署二氧化碳去除技术可以最大限度地降低脱碳的破坏性速度和经济风险，以实现美国的净零目标

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01916-4

Humphrey Adun, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Olusola Bamisile, Yihua Hu, Iain Staffell, Haris R. Gilani

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Decarbonization pathways promote improvements in cement quality and reduce the environmental impact of China’s cement industry 脱碳途径促进了水泥质量的提高，减少了中国水泥工业对环境的影响

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01929-z

Zhaoling Li, Lu Sun, Runsen Zhang, Tatsuya Hanaoka

{"title":"Decarbonization pathways promote improvements in cement quality and reduce the environmental impact of China’s cement industry","authors":"Zhaoling Li, Lu Sun, Runsen Zhang, Tatsuya Hanaoka","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01929-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01929-z","url":null,"abstract":"The cement industry plays a key role in emission reduction efforts, but cement quality is rarely considered in low-carbon development analyses. Here we design three cement quality transformation routes in response to China’s cement quality improvement program and analyse the corresponding low-carbon development pathways via a bottom-up integrated assessment model. Results show that cement quality improvements trigger a 14.6% increase in energy consumption and emissions in business-as-usual scenarios in 2060. Compared with the base year, raising the environmental taxes to 46.8 Chinese Yuan per equivalent unit saves up to 75.1% of carbon dioxide emissions and 25.0% of fuel consumption from the high-quality-cement scenario by 2060. Carbon capture and storage contributes up to 77% of the emission reduction. The reduction in cement demand conserves 17.3% more energy than the high-cement-demand scenario does in 2060. Collaborative waste treatment is expected to replace 22.4% of fuel consumption in the cement industry in 2060. In China, under the high cement quality scenario, the increase of environmental taxes is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption in the cement industry by 2060, according to an analysis that uses an integrated assessment model with the flow of energy and materials.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01929-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Growing aridity poses threats to global land surface 日益严重的干旱对全球陆地表面构成威胁

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1

Jordi Sardans, Albert Miralles, Akash Tariq, Fanjiang Zeng, Rong Wang, Josep Peñuelas

{"title":"Growing aridity poses threats to global land surface","authors":"Jordi Sardans, Albert Miralles, Akash Tariq, Fanjiang Zeng, Rong Wang, Josep Peñuelas","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1","url":null,"abstract":"Global warming has impacted water cycle, but not exist a global study of the changes at global scale of the impacts on water available for plants. Here, cloud-optimized monthly aggregated climate reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts dataset indicates that from 1960 to 2023, 27.9% of the global land surface became significantly more arid, while 20.5% became significantly less arid. This indicates a shift towards drier climates, with humid, semi-humid, and semi-arid areas decreasing by 8.51, 1.45, and 0.53 million-km², respectively, and arid and hyper-arid areas increasing by 6.34 and 4.18 million-km², respectively. This total increase of 9.99 million km² in arid areas represents 5.9% of the global land surface, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Accelerated aridification has occurred in already dry regions, such as South-west North-America, North-Brazil, the European-Basin, North-Africa, the Middle-East, the Sahel, and central-Asia, with central-Africa as a new hotspot. The main driver is the disproportionate increase in potential evapotranspiration relative to rainfall, attributed to rising atmospheric temperatures, which also reduces the land’s carbon sink capacity, potentially exacerbating climate warming. From 1960 to 2023, 27.9% of the global land surface became more arid, while 20.5% became less arid, resulting in a 5.9% increase in arid regions, linked to reduction of land’s carbon sink capacity and climate warming, according to analysis of the ERA5-land monthly aggregated climate reanalysis dataset.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01935-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Regional cooling potential from expansion of perennial grasses in Europe 欧洲多年生牧草扩张带来的区域降温潜力

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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01923-5

Xia Zhang, Bo Huang, Nariê Rinke Dias de Souza, Xiangping Hu, Francesco Cherubini

{"title":"Regional cooling potential from expansion of perennial grasses in Europe","authors":"Xia Zhang, Bo Huang, Nariê Rinke Dias de Souza, Xiangping Hu, Francesco Cherubini","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01923-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01923-5","url":null,"abstract":"Perennial grasses are an option to mitigate global warming, increase energy security, and alleviate environmental pressures within agricultural landscapes. Their cultivation alters near-surface temperature in ways that are still largely unclear. Here, a regional climate model with an enhanced representation of perennial grasses shows that converting today’s cropland areas in Europe induces annual mean temperature reductions in summer and autumn (up to –1 °C), which are primarily driven by a later harvest of perennial grasses relative to annual crops. Cultivation of perennial grasses where they deliver stronger biogeophysical cooling can achieve a similar annual mean temperature reduction on half of the land. This cooling can counteract up to 50% of the projected future warming and it is three times larger than what is achieved via carbon emission reductions. A sustainable deployment of perennial grasses has the potential to link global mitigation objectives with co-benefits for the local climate and environment. In Europe, converting today’s cropland areas into perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, reduces annual mean temperatures in summer and autumn, according to an analysis that uses a regional climate model and life cycle assessment.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01923-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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