SELECTED RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT (June-September, 2012)
High sulfide weathering in Taiwanese river basinsPresent not the key to the past in tidal environments?
Understanding ionospheric instabilities eludes current approaches
Atmospheric moisture residence time affects rainwater isotope ratios
Peat-based climate reconstructions run into murky waters?
No evidence of polar warming during penultimate interglacial
Atmospheric carbon dioxide drove climate change during longest interglacial
Tropospheric gas at potentially toxic levels in air
New corrections for skylight estimates
Dams impact carbon dynamics in U.S. rivers
The random walk of tracers through river catchments
Local factors important for water availability
Desert dust deposition reduces snow cover in Colorado Mountains
Forest fires may cause cooling in boreal Canada
Active sand dunes are largest dust source in the Sahara Desert
Nitrous oxide pollution from aircraft to increase by 2050
Japan's 2011 tsunami created gravity waves in the ionosphere
New measurements quantify atmospheric greenhouse effect
Atmospheric carbon dioxide drove climate change during longest interglacial
Dams impact carbon dynamics in U.S. rivers
Monsoons intensify with peak sunspot activity
Warmer daily temperatures since 1951
New model to estimate water in the Earth's mantle
New technologies measuring optics of the upper ocean
Atmospheric moisture residence time affects rainwater isotope ratios
Droughts threaten Bornean rainforests