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  • High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback

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      Original article citation: Nature Geosci doi:10.1038/ngeo331 (2008)

    • Categories: Earth Sciences and Climate Impacts
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 10/27/2008 01:18PM GMT
      
      Ise et al take step forward in modelling the loss of carbon from warming peat bogs. The results: peat looks more sensitive to temperature rises than previously thought. More on the Climate Feedback blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/watching_peat_dry.html
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  • Inconsistencies in air quality metrics: ‘Blue Sky’ days and PM

    • Steven Q Andrews
      Original article citation: Environ. Res. Lett. 3," 034009 , (2008).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 10/03/2008 12:52PM GMT
      
      This paper takes issue with China's claims of improving air quality, concluding that some the supposed progress is actually due to shifts in reporting methods. More on the Climate Feedback blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/10/clouding_the_blue_skies.html
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  • Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change

    • Reed M. Maxwell, Stefan J. Kollet
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci 1," 665 - 669, (2008).

    • Categories: Earth Sciences, Regional Climate, Climate Prediction, and Extreme Events
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 10/03/2008 10:57AM GMT
      
      This paper gets some new insights about the relationship between groundwater and drought by using an unusually sophisticated model that ties together groundwater and surface water (including lateral surface and subsurface flow) along with the land surface. I blogged it here: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/09/breadbasket_or_dust_bowl.html
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  Paleoclimate

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  • An abrupt wind shift in western Europe at the onset of the Younger Dryas cold period

    • Achim Brauer, Gerald H. Haug, Peter Dulski, Daniel M. Sigman, Jörg F. W. Negendank
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci 1," 520 - 523, (2008).

    • Categories: Paleoclimate
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 08/08/2008 08:53AM GMT
      
      This paper by Achim Brauer et al. uses German lake sediment cores to peg the onset of the Younger Dryas to a single year - 12,679 years ago, to be exact. I blogged about this one - and a recent Science paper that reaches a similar conclusion from Greenland ice cores - on Climate Feedback: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/08/the_year_the_climate_changed.html
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  Atmospheric Sciences

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  • Brown Carbon Spheres in East Asian Outflow and Their Optical Properties

    • D. T. L. Alexander, P. A. Crozier, J. R. Anderson
      Original article citation: Science 321," 833 - 836, (2008).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Prediction
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 08/08/2008 08:49AM GMT
      
      Here Duncan Alexander and colleagues analyze what's in the clouds of pollution drifting over the Yellow Sea from East Asia. A common type of carbon particle among the Asian aerosols turns out to be 'brown carbon', which has different optical properties from soot, or 'black carbon'. Atmospheric scientists have become interested in brown carbon recently, but most climate models don't include it. If it's a widespread pollutant, the models will need adjusting.
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  Climate Variability

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  • A large discontinuity in the mid-twentieth century in observed global-mean surface temperature

    • David W. J. Thompson, John J. Kennedy, John M. Wallace, Phil D. Jones
      Original article citation: Nature 453," 646 - 649, (2008).

    • Categories: Climate Variability
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 06/04/2008 09:57AM GMT
      
      The blogs RealClimate, Prometheus and Climate Audit have been arguing over this paper, which finds flaws in WWII temperature records. Quirin Schiermeier offers his take on NRCC's Climate Feedback blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/05/postworld_war_ii_cooling_a_mir_1.html
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  Anthropogenic change

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  • Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution

    • Peter M. Cox, Phil P. Harris, Chris Huntingford, Richard A. Betts, Matthew Collins, Chris D. Jones, Tim E. Jupp, José A. Marengo, Carlos A. Nobre
      Original article citation: Nature 453," 212 - 215, (2008).

    • Categories: Anthropogenic change, Regional Climate, and Climate Prediction
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 05/08/2008 04:17PM GMT
      
      Here's an example of irony unleashed when atmospheric aerosols are incorporated into climate models to improve their precision. Cox et al. find that adding in pollution particles makes for unusually accurate simulations of recent climatic conditions affecting the Amazon - and they use these simulations to predict that cleaner air in future will mean more frequent droughts for the rainforest. Quirin Sciermeier has more to say about this on the Climate Feedback blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/
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  Climate Impacts

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  • From the Cover: Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

    • C. A. Deutsch, J. J. Tewksbury, R. B. Huey, K. S. Sheldon, C. K. Ghalambor, D. C. Haak, P. R. Martin
      Original article citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105," 6668 - 6672, (2008).

    • Categories: Climate Impacts and Biodiversity & Ecology
    • Recommended by : Anne Claflin on 05/07/2008 05:18PM GMT
      
      This is a well written paper that clearly illustrates the impact of seemingly small changes in temperatures on a large and diverse group of species. The fate of tropical insects has the potential to cause a cascade of impacts throughout the tropical ecosystem.
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  Atmospheric Sciences

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  • Satellite measurements of the clear-sky greenhouse effect from tropospheric ozone

    • Helen M. Worden, Kevin W. Bowman, John R. Worden, Annmarie Eldering, Reinhard Beer
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci doi:10.1038/ngeo182 (2008)

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 04/25/2008 03:10PM GMT
      
      This paper offers an observation-based estimate of the radiative forcing caused by tropospheric ozone - a greenhouse gas whose impact was previously judged from models alone. Ozone is one of several lesser-known greenhouse gases that seem to be getting more attention these days. I blogged about the finding here: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/04/in_the_ozone.html
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  Anthropogenic change

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  • Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

    • Patrick J. Mulholland, Ashley M. Helton, Geoffrey C. Poole, Robert O. Hall, Stephen K. Hamilton, Bruce J. Peterson, Jennifer L. Tank, Linda R. Ashkenas, Lee W. Cooper, Clifford N. Dahm, Walter K. Dodds, Stuart E. G. Findlay, Stanley V. Gregory, Nancy B. Grimm, Sherri L. Johnson, William H. McDowell, Judy L. Meyer, H. Maurice Valett, Jackson R. Webster, Clay P. Arango, Jake J. Beaulieu, Melody J. Bernot, Amy J. Burgin, Chelsea L. Crenshaw, Laura T. Johnson, B. R. Niederlehner, Jonathan M. O’Brien, Jody D. Potter, Richard W. Sheibley, Daniel J. Sobota, Suzanne M. Thomas
      Original article citation: Nature 452," 202 - 205, (2008).

    • Categories: Anthropogenic change and Earth Sciences
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 04/03/2008 03:41PM GMT
      
      In a Nature News & Views article that we've reprinted this month (http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0804/full/452162a.html), Sybil Seitzinger explains how this 'study of unparalleled scale' replaces a muddy mix of data on the ability of river sediment bacteria to convert nitrate pollutants into nitrogen gas and the the greenhouse gas N2O. It turns out that the more nitrates we load into rivers, the worse they sponge it up.
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