Earth's long-term climate stability is postulated to be maintained by the silicate weathering feedback. Long-term changes on Earth's surface can significantly affect the strength of this feedback and are proposed as drivers for climatic variations over the course of Earth History. Among these modulating processes, we focus on the role of erosion (e...
The uplift history of the SE Tibetan Plateau has been a highly debated topic for decades, yet this problem remains of great importance to our understanding of how the crust deforms in response to continental collision, as well as how the solid Earth and climate systems interact. In particular, two contrasting models of crustal deformation have been...
Urban heat islands (UHIs) are a widely studied phenomenon, while research on urban-rural differences in humidity, the so called urban dry or moisture islands (UDIs, UMIs), is less common and a large-scale quantification of the seasonal and diurnal patterns of the UDI is still lacking. However, quantification of the UDI/UMI effect is essential to un...
Marine ecosystems are important drivers of the global climate system. They emit volatile species into the atmosphere, involved in complex reaction cycles that influence the lifetime of greenhouse gases. Sea spray and marine biogenic aerosols affect Earth’s climate by scattering solar radiation and controlling cloud microphysical properties. Here we...
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Abstract: This collaborative article discusses the opportunities and challenges of adopting integrated, coordinated, open, and networked (ICON) principles in atmospheric sciences. From the global nature of the atmosphere, there has always been a need for atmospheric science to be an ICON science. With the help of evolving technology, it is possible...
Abstract: Stratospheric water vapor affects the Earth's radiative balance and stratospheric chemistry, yet its future changes are uncertain and not fully understood. The influence of deep convection on stratospheric water vapor remains subject to debate. This letter presents a detailed process‐based model study of the impact of convective ice subli...
Funder: Clare College, Cambridge / Abstract: New earthquake focal mechanism and centroid depth estimates show that the deformation style in the forelands of the Andes is spatially correlated with rift systems that stretched the South American lithosphere in the Mesozoic. Where the rifts trend sub‐parallel to the Andean range front, normal faults in...
Abstract: Internal deformation within the downgoing plate in subduction zones to accommodate the bending of the plate as it starts to subduct is reflected in widespread intraplate seismicity. This seismicity, extending from the outer rise and outer trench slope down to intermediate depths within the slab, exhibits a wide variety of focal mechanism ...
