Atmosphere

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A call for deep-ocean stewardship. 
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks. 
  • A review on the importance of metals and metalloids in atmospheric dust and aerosol from mining operations. 
  • A stomatal optimization theory to describe the effects of atmospheric CO2 on leaf photosynthesis and transpiration. 
  • Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement. 
  • Air pollution: clean up our skies. 
  • An observation-based model for analyzing ozone precursor relationships in the urban atmosphere. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • Atmospheric CO2 enrichment facilitates cation release from soil. 
  • Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors. 
  • Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages. 
  • Chlordanes in the indoor and outdoor air of three U.S. cities. 
  • Climate and air-quality benefits of a realistic phase-out of fossil fuels. 
  • Comment on "Atmospheric particulate matter pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics". 
  • Development and deployment of a field-portable soil O2 and CO2 gas analyzer and sampler. 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Dynamic-chemical coupling of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere region. 
  • Environment. Monitoring Earth's critical zone. 
  • Estimating global "blue carbon" emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems. 
  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies. 
  • Evident elevation of atmospheric monoterpenes due to degradation-induced species changes in a semi-arid grassland. 
  • Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. 
  • Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity. 
  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation. 
  • Gray whales strand more often on days with increased levels of atmospheric radio-frequency noise. 
  • Iconic CO2 time series at risk. 
  • Increases in atmospheric CO2 have little influence on transpiration of a temperate forest canopy. 
  • Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO₂ concentration alleviate forest mortality risk. 
  • Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake. 
  • Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India. 
  • Irreconcilable differences: fine-root life spans and soil carbon persistence. 
  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. 
  • Mean scalar concentration profile in a sheared and thermally stratified atmospheric surface layer. 
  • Microbiome of the upper troposphere: species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications. 
  • Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests. 
  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes. 
  • On the complementary relationship between marginal nitrogen and water-use efficiencies among Pinus taeda leaves grown under ambient and CO2-enriched environments. 
  • Paleoclimate. Trans-Atlantic climate connections. 
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmospheres of Titan and Jupiter. 
  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. 
  • Rates of fixation by lightning of carbon and nitrogen in possible primitive atmospheres. 
  • Reply to Smith and Griffin: Methods, air flows, and conclusions are robust in the DeLeon-Rodriguez et al. study. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Simple models for community exposure from point sources of pollution. 
  • Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere. 
  • Soil-plant-atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations. 
  • Southern Ocean iron enrichment experiment: carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. 
  • Spatial response of coastal marshes to increased atmospheric CO2. 
  • Spatial-temporal characteristics of haze and vertical distribution of aerosols over the Yangtze River Delta of China. 
  • The Lagrangian stochastic model for estimating footprint and water vapor fluxes over inhomogeneous surfaces. 
  • The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition 
  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. 
  • Two phenomenological constants explain similarity laws in stably stratified turbulence. 
  • Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. 
  • Variable conductivity and embolism in roots and branches of four contrasting tree species and their impacts on whole-plant hydraulic performance under future atmospheric CO₂ concentration. 
  • Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems. 
  • Vocal tract resonances in oscine bird sound production: evidence from birdsongs in a helium atmosphere.