J.-L. F. Li, Kuan-Man Xu, Jonathan H. Jiang, Wei-Liang Lee, Jia-Yuh Yu, Jiun-dar Chern, Gregory V. Cesana, Longtao Wu, Graeme Stephens
{"title":"Investigating the “Too Bright” Issue Pertaining to Non-PBL Clouds Over the South Pacific Trade-Wind Region in CMIP6 Global Climate Models","authors":"J.-L. F. Li, Kuan-Man Xu, Jonathan H. Jiang, Wei-Liang Lee, Jia-Yuh Yu, Jiun-dar Chern, Gregory V. Cesana, Longtao Wu, Graeme Stephens","doi":"10.1029/2024GL112006","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL112006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the “too bright” issue pertaining to non-planetary boundary layer (PBL) clouds over the South Pacific trade-wind region and its potential link to the falling ice radiative effects (FIREs). We run sensitivity experiments with CESM2-CAM6 (CESM2) global climate model with FIREs on (SON) and off (NOS). The model exhibits more in-cloud liquid water content (CLWC) and droplet above the PBL in NOS, leading to larger shortwave (SW) reflectivity at the top of the atmosphere than in SON over the trade wind regions. CMIP6 models are divided into three subsets: separately calculates the radiative effects of cloud ice and falling ice (SON2), combined (SON1) and without falling ice (NOS). SON2 models exhibit improved CLWC and SW reflectivity similar to CESM2-SON, while NOS and SON1 models are akin to CESM2-NOS owing to weaker surface wind stress and warmer ocean surface, caused by the lack of FIREs over the convective zones.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL112006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142645894","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}
Chaoshuai Zhao, Jin Liu, Liangxu Xu, Mingqiang Hou, Yukai Zhuang, Jie Zhu, Jung-Fu Lin
{"title":"Electrical Conductivity of (Mg, Fe)CO3 at the Spin Crossover and Its Implication for Mid-Mantle Geomagnetic Heterogeneities","authors":"Chaoshuai Zhao, Jin Liu, Liangxu Xu, Mingqiang Hou, Yukai Zhuang, Jie Zhu, Jung-Fu Lin","doi":"10.1029/2024GL111046","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL111046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>(Mg, Fe)CO<sub>3</sub> is an important deep carbon carrier and plays a vital role in our understanding of lower-mantle carbon reservoirs. The electrical conductivity (EC) of FeCO<sub>3</sub> was measured at 126−2000 K up to 83 GPa in diamond-anvil cells using a standard four-probe van der Pauw method. Moreover, the EC of FeCO<sub>3</sub> increases by ∼6 orders of magnitude from 300 to 1500 K at 10−20 GPa, indicating a strong effect of high temperature. The EC of Fe<sub>0.65</sub>Mg<sub>0.35</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> was measured up to 60 GPa at 300 K, the EC values of (Mg, Fe)CO<sub>3</sub> are proportional to iron content and increase by 2–3 orders of magnitude at 300 K across the spin crossover. The EC values of (Mg, Fe)CO<sub>3</sub> and FeCO<sub>3</sub> + Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> ± C mixtures surpass that of bridgmanite, ferropericlase and davemaoite by ∼1–4 orders of magnitude at depths of 800–2,000 km. This result sheds insights into the genesis of local geomagnetic heterogeneities in the mid-lower mantle.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL111046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637830","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}
Sylvia R. Nicovich, Christopher B. DuRoss, Jessica A. Thompson Jobe, Jessica R. Rodysill, Richard W. Briggs, Alexandra E. Hatem, Madeleine M. Tan, Yann Gavillot, Noah S. Lindberg, Laura E. Strickland, Jason S. Padgett
{"title":"Shallow Lake, Strong Shake: Record of Seismically Triggered Lacustrine Sedimentation From the 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake Earthquake Within Henrys Lake, Idaho","authors":"Sylvia R. Nicovich, Christopher B. DuRoss, Jessica A. Thompson Jobe, Jessica R. Rodysill, Richard W. Briggs, Alexandra E. Hatem, Madeleine M. Tan, Yann Gavillot, Noah S. Lindberg, Laura E. Strickland, Jason S. Padgett","doi":"10.1029/2024GL110889","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL110889","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate a shallow lake basin for evidence of a large historic intraplate earthquake in western North America. Henrys Lake, Idaho is an atypical candidate for lacustrine paleoseismic study given its shallow depth (∼7 m) and low relief (≤2° slopes). Here, we test the earthquake-recording capacity of this basin type by showing sedimentological evidence of the 1959 M7.3 Hebgen Lake earthquake within sediment cores, using anthropogenically produced <sup>137</sup>Cs activity to constrain timing. In addition to expanding the morphologic range of basins targeted for lacustrine paleoseismic studies, this work has implications for sediment response in dam-enhanced basins. Lack of sedimentological evidence for other earthquakes coupled with radiocarbon chronology reveals that the 1959 event is the only clearly recorded earthquake within Henrys Lake since the mid-Holocene. Henrys Lake offers a proxy for paleo-earthquake signatures within similar lacustrine environments and underscores the importance of further paleoseismic studies in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL110889","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637598","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}
Claudia Szczech, Adrien Broquet, Ana-Catalina Plesa, Aymeric Fleury, Michaela Walterová, Alexander Stark, Jürgen Oberst
{"title":"Relaxation States of Large Impact Basins on Mercury Based on MESSENGER Data","authors":"Claudia Szczech, Adrien Broquet, Ana-Catalina Plesa, Aymeric Fleury, Michaela Walterová, Alexander Stark, Jürgen Oberst","doi":"10.1029/2024GL110748","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL110748","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The crustal structure of Mercury's large impact basins provides valuable insights into the planet's geological history. For a warm crust, a post-impact basin structure will viscously relax with inward flow of crustal materials toward the basin center. This effect drastically diminishes the crustal thickness contrasts and associated Bouguer gravity contrasts between the basin center and its surroundings. Here, we analyze Bouguer contrasts of 36 basins (diameter <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>></mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${ >} $</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>300 km) located in the northern hemisphere as a proxy for viscoelastic relaxation. Thermal evolution models, assuming the present 3:2 spin-orbit configuration, are used to predict crustal temperatures. Our analysis reveals that the expected correlation between zones of warm crust and low Bouguer contrast from relaxation is not observed in the available data. This suggests that crustal temperatures have changed in the past, potentially due to a change in Mercury's orbit or to a major volcanic event associated with smooth plain formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL110748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637599","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}
{"title":"Process Evaluation of Subseasonal North Atlantic Oscillation Prediction in the ECMWF Ensemble Forecast System","authors":"Minju Kim, Changhyun Yoo, Hyemi Kim","doi":"10.1029/2024GL111291","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL111291","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study evaluates the prediction skill of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern and its associated energy budget as simulated by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ensemble forecast system. By classifying NAO events into high- and low-skill cases, we analyzed the stationarity of NAO patterns and the role of baroclinic energy conversion in NAO prediction. In both positive and negative NAO phases, high-skill cases exhibited more stationary NAO patterns than low-skill cases. The analysis of processes indicates that high-skill NAO cases are due to stronger baroclinic maintenance of NAO, with its initial position at the climatological thermal trough, whereas low-skill NAO cases result from forecast biases in wave propagation from the North Pacific. Specifically, biases in baroclinic energy conversion in the meridional direction from week 2 lead to weak advection of the eddy available potential energy (EAPE), resulting in lower prediction skill.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL111291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637605","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}
{"title":"Interdecadal Variations in the Spatial Pattern of the Arctic Oscillation Arctic Center in Wintertime","authors":"Zhou Fang, Xuguang Sun, Xiu-Qun Yang, Zhiwei Zhu","doi":"10.1029/2024GL111380","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL111380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Arctic Oscillation (AO) is the dominant mode of atmospheric circulation in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere regions. The spatial pattern of the AO Arctic center affects the extent of polar cold air outbreaks southward. However, the underlying nature and causes of its interdecadal variation remain unclear. Utilizing ERA5 reanalysis data, this study identifies two distinct spatial patterns of the wintertime AO Arctic center through the K-means clustering method, which alternate over different decade periods. The Double-trough pattern generates a tripolar temperature pattern of “cold Arctic-warm Eurasia-cold Tibetan Plateau” through a Rossby wave train during 1960–1997/2013–2024. While the Single-trough pattern leads to a dipolar temperature pattern in 1998–2012. Furthermore, interdecadal variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature meridional gradient act as an influencing factor in shaping the spatial pattern of the AO Arctic center. This research aids the understanding and prediction of climate anomalies using AO signals within various decadal contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL111380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637828","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}
A. Masters, J. R. Szalay, S. Zomerdijk-Russell, M. M. Kao
{"title":"Solar Wind Power Likely Governs Uranus' Thermosphere Temperature","authors":"A. Masters, J. R. Szalay, S. Zomerdijk-Russell, M. M. Kao","doi":"10.1029/2024GL111623","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL111623","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared by ground-based telescopes from 1992 to 2018 have shown that the planet's upper atmosphere (thermosphere) steadily cooled from ∼700 to ∼450 K. We explain this cooling as due to the concurrent decline in the power of the solar wind incident on Uranus' magnetic field, which has dropped by ∼50% over the same period due to solar activity trends longer than the 11-year solar cycle. Uranus' thermosphere appears to be more strongly governed by the solar wind than any other planet where we have assessed this coupling so far. Uranus' total auroral power may also have declined, in contrast with the power of the radio aurora that we expect has been predominantly modulated by the solar cycle. In the absence of strong local driving, planets with sufficiently large magnetospheres may also have thermospheres predominantly governed by the stellar wind, rather than stellar radiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL111623","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610434","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}
Lina Teckentrup, Martin G. De Kauwe, Andy J. Pitman, David Wårlind, Anna M. Ukkola, Benjamin Smith
{"title":"Resolving Uncertainty in the Response of Australia's Terrestrial Carbon Cycle to Projected Climate Change","authors":"Lina Teckentrup, Martin G. De Kauwe, Andy J. Pitman, David Wårlind, Anna M. Ukkola, Benjamin Smith","doi":"10.1029/2024GL111398","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL111398","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Semi-arid ecosystems, common across the Australian continent, strongly influence the inter-annual variability and trend in the global terrestrial net carbon sink. Here we explore the future Australian terrestrial carbon cycle using the CMIP6 ensemble, and the dynamic global vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. Uncertainty in Australia's carbon storage in vegetation ranged between 6 and 49 PgC at the end of the century and was strongly linked to biases in the meteorological forcing. Using LPJ-GUESS with bias-corrected meteorological forcing reduced uncertainty in the vegetation carbon storage to between 14 and 20 PgC, with the remaining range linked to model sensitivities to rising atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration, temperature, and precipitation variability. Reducing this uncertainty will require improved terrestrial biosphere models, but also major improvements in the simulation of regional precipitation by Global Climate Models.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL111398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610422","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}
{"title":"Development of Super Plasma Bubbles During the 7 September 2017 Geomagnetic Storm Revealed by Coupled GITM-SAMI3 Simulations","authors":"Zihan Wang, Shasha Zou, J. D. Huba, Aaron Ridley","doi":"10.1029/2024GL112211","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL112211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we used the coupled GITM (Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model)-SAMI3 (Sami3 is Also a Model of the Ionosphere) model to simulate the response of the ionosphere-thermosphere system during the 7 September 2017 geomagnetic storm. In the simulation results, a super equatorial plasma bubble (SEPB) formed and rose to around <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>40</mn>\u0000 <mo>°</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $40{}^{circ}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> magnetic latitude (MLAT). This is attributed to a penetration electric field (PEF) that enhances the growth rate of generalized Rayleigh-Taylor instability (GRTI), while traveling atmospheric/ionospheric disturbances act as a seeding mechanism.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL112211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637600","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}
Seohee Ahn, Won-Seok Seo, Hataek Kwon, Min-Hee Lee, Seong-Joong Kim, Bang Yong Lee, Sang-Jong Park, Taejin Choi
{"title":"Influence of Foehn-Like Winds on Near-Surface Temperature at Jang Bogo Station, Terra Nova Bay, East Antarctica","authors":"Seohee Ahn, Won-Seok Seo, Hataek Kwon, Min-Hee Lee, Seong-Joong Kim, Bang Yong Lee, Sang-Jong Park, Taejin Choi","doi":"10.1029/2024GL110348","DOIUrl":"10.1029/2024GL110348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The coast of Terra Nova Bay (TNB) is known as one of the intense katabatic wind confluence zones in Antarctica. Strong westerly winds with topography-specific foehn effects (foehn-like winds, FLWs) could have influenced surface temperatures in this area downwind of the Transantarctic Mountains, yet their impact remains unstudied. Jang Bogo Station (JBS) in TNB has weak winds year-round, with occasional strong winds causing significant winter temperature increases. This study aims to investigate the FLWs and their recent variability in occurrence at JBS in terms of surface temperature variability. During the strong wind events, the surface warms due to foehn effects such as adiabatic heating and vertical mixing. FLWs occur approximately 16% (10%) of the time in winter (annually). FLWs are caused by cyclones in the eastern Ross Sea. Meteorological records for 2015–2022 revealed an increased FLW frequency, particularly in winter, which has increased temperatures in recent years.</p>","PeriodicalId":12523,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical Research Letters","volume":"51 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GL110348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610426","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}