Nature Geoscience
A monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together top-quality research across the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences along with relevant work in related areas.
The contribution of turbulence to slow variations in phytoplankton abundance in the world ocean
Why does the amount of phytoplankton in the oceans vary so much from year-to-year? We thought it was because of the pulsation of the oceans due to climate modes. But this was forgetting that the ocean is a turbulent fluid.
Aerosol’s Fingerprint on Clouds: Increases in Cloud Cover appear to dominate the cooling effect
A new approach has been shown to successfully distinguish the fingerprint of aerosol’s climate influence in clouds from natural variability. This shows that aerosol climate cooling effect is dominated by increasing cloud cover, rather than enhancing cloud albedo as previously believed.
Central shutdown and surrounding activation of aftershocks from megathrust earthquake stress transfer
Seismic hazard assessments are generally based on longterm earthquake rates. But megathrusts and other large shocks cause the hazard to depart abruptly from its average behavior, and so capturing this will improve forecasts, as well as providing a new way to hunt for prehistoric megathrusts.
