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Volume 1 Issue 8, August 2020

Climate change affects lakes worldwide and is predicted to continue to alter lake ice cover, surface temperature, evaporation rates, water levels and mixing regimes. This Review discusses recent and expected lake responses to climate change and looks towards future research opportunities in lake monitoring and modelling. See Woolway et al.

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Research Highlights

• Research Highlight | 13 July 2020

  Rise of the dunes

  • Laura Zinke

• Research Highlight | 17 July 2020

  Establishing connections

  • Matthew Gleeson

• Research Highlight | 20 July 2020

  Wave threats to the Arctic

  • Graham Simpkins

• Research Highlight | 20 July 2020

  Air quality during COVID-19

  • Laura Zinke

• Tools of the Trade | 21 July 2020

  Untangling aerosols from the sky with sunphotometers

  • Yueming Dong

Reviews

Review Article | 14 July 2020

Global lake responses to climate change

Climate change affects lakes worldwide and is predicted to continue to alter lake ice cover, surface temperature, evaporation rates, water levels and mixing regimes. This Review discusses recent and expected lake responses to climate change and looks towards future research opportunities in lake monitoring and modelling.

• R. Iestyn Woolway
• Benjamin M. Kraemer
• Sapna Sharma

Review Article | 21 July 2020

Life and death of slow-moving landslides

Some landslides creep at low velocities of a few millimetres to metres per year, forced by external factors such as rainfall, snowmelt, earthquakes or anthropogenic forcings. This Review discusses the recent advances in understanding slow-moving landslides and examines circumstances where slow-moving landslides can accelerate and fail catastrophically.

• Pascal Lacroix
• Alexander L. Handwerger
• Grégory Bièvre

Review Article | 07 July 2020

Nitrous oxide emissions from permafrost-affected soils

Permafrost-affected soils are an unappreciated but potentially substantial source of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas. This Review outlines the global importance of nitrous oxide dynamics in permafrost-affected soils, examines what drives nitrous oxide fluxes and discusses the impact of climate change on these greenhouse gas emissions.

• Carolina Voigt
• Maija E. Marushchak
• Pertti J. Martikainen