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Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events 洪水玄武岩事件后的隐秘脱气和持久温室气候

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01574-3

Benjamin A. Black, Leif Karlstrom, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Tamsin A. Mather, Maxwell L. Rudolph, Jack Longman, Andrew Merdith

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Human management has a crucial role in China’s land carbon balance 人为管理在中国土地碳平衡中发挥关键作用

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01571-6

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Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling 密集的底拖网捕捞减少了陆架海沉积物中的长期碳储存

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01581-4

Wenyan Zhang, Lucas Porz, Rümeysa Yilmaz, Klaus Wallmann, Timo Spiegel, Andreas Neumann, Moritz Holtappels, Sabine Kasten, Jannis Kuhlmann, Nadja Ziebarth, Bettina Taylor, Ha Thi Minh Ho-Hagemann, Frank-Detlef Bockelmann, Ute Daewel, Lea Bernhardt, Corinna Schrum

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Mineral alteration in water-saturated liquid CO2 on early Mars 早期火星上水饱和液态二氧化碳中的矿物变化

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01576-1

Michael H. Hecht, Samuel Krevor, Albert S. Yen, Adrian J. Brown, Nicolas Randazzo, Michael A. Mischna, Mark A. Sephton, Samuel P. Kounaves, Andrew Steele, James W. Rice, Isaac B. Smith, Max Coleman, David Flannery, Marc Fries

{"title":"Mineral alteration in water-saturated liquid CO2 on early Mars","authors":"Michael H. Hecht, Samuel Krevor, Albert S. Yen, Adrian J. Brown, Nicolas Randazzo, Michael A. Mischna, Mark A. Sephton, Samuel P. Kounaves, Andrew Steele, James W. Rice, Isaac B. Smith, Max Coleman, David Flannery, Marc Fries","doi":"10.1038/s41561-024-01576-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01576-1","url":null,"abstract":"Geomorphological and mineralogical evidence is consistent with aqueous activity on ancient Mars, yet explaining the presence of substantial liquid water on early Mars remains challenging. Another fluid, liquid CO2, was probably present during Martian history, at least in the subsurface, and could even have been stable at the surface under a sufficiently dense CO2-rich early atmosphere. Liquid CO2 flows have been proposed as an alternative to water to explain morphological features, but it is widely accepted that water is the fluid responsible for mineral alteration. Interestingly, however, experimental research on geologic sequestration on Earth has revealed a surprising degree of chemical reactivity between CO2 fluid and minerals if the fluid is water-saturated, as it would probably have been on Mars. The resulting alteration products — carbonates, phyllosilicates and possibly sulfates — are consistent with minerals found on Mars today. We therefore propose that the formation of some of the aqueous mineral alteration observed on the Martian surface may have been mediated by liquid CO2. Further laboratory investigations are needed to test this hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake due to near-surface temperature gradients 近表层温度梯度导致海洋二氧化碳吸收增强

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01570-7

Daniel J. Ford, Jamie D. Shutler, Javier Blanco-Sacristán, Sophie Corrigan, Thomas G. Bell, Mingxi Yang, Vassilis Kitidis, Philip D. Nightingale, Ian Brown, Werenfrid Wimmer, David K. Woolf, Tânia Casal, Craig Donlon, Gavin H. Tilstone, Ian Ashton

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Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought 气候变化的直接和滞后影响加剧了 2022 年欧洲干旱

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2

Emanuele Bevacqua, Oldrich Rakovec, Dominik L. Schumacher, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, Luis Samaniego, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Jakob Zscheischler

{"title":"Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought","authors":"Emanuele Bevacqua, Oldrich Rakovec, Dominik L. Schumacher, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, Luis Samaniego, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Jakob Zscheischler","doi":"10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2","url":null,"abstract":"In 2022, Europe faced an extensive summer drought with severe socioeconomic consequences. Quantifying the influence of human-induced climate change on such an extreme event can help prepare for future droughts. Here, by combining observations and climate model outputs with hydrological and land-surface simulations, we show that Central and Southern Europe experienced the highest observed total water storage deficit since satellite observations began in 2002, probably representing the highest and most widespread soil moisture deficit in the past six decades. While precipitation deficits primarily drove the soil moisture drought, human-induced global warming contributed to over 30% of the drought intensity and its spatial extent via enhanced evaporation. We identify that 14–41% of the climate change contribution was mediated by the warming-driven drying of the soil that occurred before the hydrological year of 2022, indicating the importance of considering lagged climate change effects to avoid underestimating associated risks. Human-induced climate change had qualitatively similar effects on the extremely low observed river discharges. These results highlight that global warming effects on droughts are already underway, widespread and long lasting, and that drought risk may escalate with further human-induced warming in the future. An attribution analysis using observations, hydrological models and climate models suggests that both direct and lagged effects of climate warming contributed to Europe experiencing the highest observed water storage deficit in the satellite era during the widespread drought of 2022.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"17 11","pages":"1100-1107"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01559-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451827","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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Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles 板块构造超级周期遗留的大规模地幔异质性

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01558-3

Luc S. Doucet, Zheng-Xiang Li

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Centennial-scale variations in the carbon cycle enhanced by high obliquity 碳循环的百年尺度变化因高倾角而增强

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01556-5

Etienne Legrain, Emilie Capron, Laurie Menviel, Axel Wohleber, Frédéric Parrenin, Grégory Teste, Amaëlle Landais, Marie Bouchet, Roberto Grilli, Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles, Lucas Silva, Hubertus Fischer, Thomas F. Stocker

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Theory and the future of land-climate science 理论与陆地气候科学的未来

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01553-8

Michael P. Byrne, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Jacob Scheff, Ori Adam, Alexis Berg, Michela Biasutti, Simona Bordoni, Aiguo Dai, Ruth Geen, Matthew Henry, Spencer A. Hill, Cathy Hohenegger, Vincent Humphrey, Manoj Joshi, Alexandra G. Konings, Marysa M. Laguë, F. Hugo Lambert, Flavio Lehner, Justin S. Mankin, Kaighin A. McColl, Karen A. McKinnon, Angeline G. Pendergrass, Marianne Pietschnig, Luca Schmidt, Andrew P. Schurer, E. Marian Scott, David Sexton, Steven C. Sherwood, Lucas R. Vargas Zeppetello, Yi Zhang

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Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs 湾流涡带重氮营养体支持的北大西洋固氮作用

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Nature Geoscience Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01567-2

Cora Hoerstmann, Borja Aguiar-González, Stéphanie Barrillon, Cécile Carpaneto Bastos, Olivier Grosso, M. D. Pérez-Hernández, Andrea M. Doglioli, Anne A. Petrenko, Lidia I. Carracedo, Mar Benavides

{"title":"Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs","authors":"Cora Hoerstmann, Borja Aguiar-González, Stéphanie Barrillon, Cécile Carpaneto Bastos, Olivier Grosso, M. D. Pérez-Hernández, Andrea M. Doglioli, Anne A. Petrenko, Lidia I. Carracedo, Mar Benavides","doi":"10.1038/s41561-024-01567-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41561-024-01567-2","url":null,"abstract":"Mesoscale oceanic eddies contribute to the redistribution of resources needed for plankton to thrive. However, due to their fluid-trapping capacity, they can also isolate plankton communities, subjecting them to rapidly changing environmental conditions. Diazotrophs, which fix dinitrogen (N2), are key members of the plankton community, providing reactive nitrogen, particularly in large nutrient-depleted regions such as subtropical gyres. However, there is still limited knowledge about how mesoscale structures characterized by specific local environmental conditions can affect the distribution and metabolic response of diazotrophs when compared with the large-scale dynamics of an oceanic region. Here we investigated genetic diazotroph diversity and N2 fixation rates in a transect across the Gulf Stream and two associated eddies, a region with intense mesoscale activity known for its important role in nutrient transport into the North Atlantic Gyre. We show that eddy edges are hotspots for diazotroph activity with potential community connectivity between eddies. Using a long-term mesoscale eddy database, we quantified N2 fixation rates as up to 17 times higher within eddies than in ambient waters, overall providing ~21 µmol N m−2 yr−1 to the region. Our results indicate that mesoscale eddies are hotspots of reactive nitrogen production within the broader marine nitrogen cycle. Nitrogen fixation by diazotrophs within North Atlantic eddies, especially near the edges of the mesoscale structures, is a key component of the North Atlantic marine nitrogen cycle, according to an analysis of genetic and past eddy activity data.","PeriodicalId":19053,"journal":{"name":"Nature Geoscience","volume":"17 11","pages":"1141-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01567-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404925","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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