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Nature Reviews: june 2020

Volume 1 Issue 6, June 2020

Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are an important source of precipitation in many tropical and mid-latitude regions, but can also produce hazardous weather such as extreme rain, derechos and tornadoes. This Review discusses the formation of MCSs, their hazardous weather, predictive capabilities and projected changes with anthropogenic warming. See Schumacher and Rasmussen.

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Research Highlights

Research Highlight | 19 May 2020

COVID-19 carbon cuts

• Graham Simpkins

Research Highlight | 28 May 2020

Water from a stone

• Kyle R. Frischkorn

Research Highlight | 27 May 2020

The rise and fall of mantle plumes

• Matthew Gleeson

Tools of the Trade | 29 April 2020

Exploring the Antarctic waters with seals in electric hats

• Natalia Ribeiro

News & Views

• Snapshot | 18 May 2020

  Mount St Helens 40 years on

  • Matthew Gleeson

Reviews

• Review Article | 09 June 2020

  Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

  By increasing erosion, mountain building can steer the evolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and global climate. This Review expands from the canonical focus on silicate weathering to consider the net carbon budget of erosion, including both CO2 sinks (silicate weathering, organic-carbon burial) and CO2 sources (oxidative weathering).

  • Robert G. Hilton
  •  & A. Joshua West

Review Article | 02 June 2020

The formation, character and changing nature of mesoscale convective systems

Mesoscale convective systems are an important source of precipitation in many tropical and mid-latitude regions, but can also produce hazardous weather, such as extreme rain, derechos and tornadoes. This Review discusses the formation of mesoscale convective systems, their hazardous weather, predictive capabilities and projected changes with anthropogenic warming.

• Russ S. Schumacher
•  & Kristen L. Rasmussen

Perspectives

• Perspective | 21 May 2020

  Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

  Traditional methods for ocean observation are often inadequate for detecting large-scale biogeochemical processes. This Perspective discusses the advantages of implementing autonomous observation platforms in complementing traditional observation methods and generating global biogeochemical data sets.

  • Fei Chai
  • , Kenneth S. Johnson
  •  & Adrienne Sutton