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We thank Gabrielle Tepp, currently a community science fellow with the American Geophysical Union’s Thriving Earth Exchange, for her outstanding contributions to peer review at Communications Earth & Environment. Her research interests lie with seismo-acoustics and understanding and forecasting natural hazards.

Latest Research articles

Submesoscale flows impact Agulhas leakage in ocean simulations

Leakage of warm, salty waters from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic increases by up to 40 % in high-resolution numerical ocean model simulations, suggesting that low-resolution models underestimate this key part of the global meridional overturning circulation.

• René Schubert
• Jonathan Gula
• Arne Biastoch

Article Open Access 28 Sept 2021

Statistically bias-corrected and downscaled climate models underestimate the adverse effects of extreme heat on U.S. maize yields

Historical annual maize yields in the U.S. are overestimated by CMIP5 models and underestimated by bias-corrected and downscaled models due to differences in temperature and precipitation hindcasts, according to a multi-model ensemble comparison.

• David C. Lafferty
• Ryan L. Sriver
• Robert E. Nicholas

Article Open Access 20 Sept 2021

Standing shock prevents propagation of sparks in supersonic explosive flows

Images of electrical sparks in shock tube experiments with supersonic outflows show how standing shocks regulate electrical breakdown. The resulting radio frequency emission could diagnose flow structure in other explosive events such as volcanic eruptions.

• Jens von der Linden
• Clare Kimblin
• Jason Sears

Article Open Access 20 Sept 2021

Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty

Future projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate based on climate model simulations substantially underestimate the uncertainty that originates from large-scale atmospheric circulation variability, suggest synthetic ensemble projections constrained with observations.

• Christopher H. O’Reilly
• Daniel J. Befort
• Gabriele Hegerl

Article Open Access 20 Sept 2021

Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils

The transfer of organic contaminants from surface to deeper layers in farmland soils is barely enhanced by microplastic and nanoplastic transport, according to an analytical modeling study.

• Stephanie Castan
• Charlotte Henkel
• Thilo Hofmann

Article Open Access 16 Sept 2021

Modulation of ocean acidification by decadal climate variability in the Gulf of Alaska

Decadal wind patterns enhance upwelling of carbon-rich waters and increase apparent surface ocean acidification rates in the Gulf of Alaska, according to a 34-year regional ocean biogeochemical hindcast model simulation.

• Claudine Hauri
• Rémi Pagès
• Scott C. Doney

Article Open Access 15 Sept 2021

Latest Reviews & Analysis

Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

Multiple climate contributors to fire risk in southeast Australia have led to an increase in fire extent and intensity over the past decades that will likely continue into the future, suggests a synthesis of climate variability, long-term trends and palaeoclimatic evidence.

• Nerilie J. Abram
• Benjamin J. Henley
• Matthias M. Boer

Review Article Open Access 07 Jan 2021