Nature Climate Change Contents: April 2017 Volume 7 Number 4 pp 229 - 304

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Advertisement Submit your paper now!  Advanced Sustainable Systems - The interdisciplinary forum for top-quality research on the advancement of sustainable living.  Free online access for institutions to all content published from launch to the end of December 2018.  www.advsustainsys.com TABLE OF CONTENTS April 2017 Volume 7, Issue 4 Editorial Correspondence Commentaries Research Highlights News and Views Perspectives Letters Articles Erratum Corrigendum Advertisement Focus on marine iron cycling Nature Geoscience presents a collection of articles that examine the modern marine iron cycle and assess how iron cycling has varied through time.  Read the Focus Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement npj Climate and Atmospheric Science: open for submissions   An open access, online-only journal providing researchers, policy makers and the public with the latest research on weather and climate, publishing high-quality papers that focus on topics including climate dynamics, climate variability, weather and climate prediction, climate change, weather extremes, atmospheric composition including aerosols, the hydrological cycle and atmosphere-ocean interactions. Find out more >>      Editorial Top Expanding research views p229 doi:10.1038/nclimate3270 Regions most affected by climate change are not always the areas that receive the most attention. Africa is one example of a region that highlights the need for research in more difficult locations. Correspondence Top Ice-free Arctic at 1.5 °C? pp230 - 231 James A. Screen and Daniel Williamson doi:10.1038/nclimate3248 Commentaries Top The visual divide pp231 - 233 Alfons Maes doi:10.1038/nclimate3251 Climate change is a playground for visualization. Yet research and technological innovations in visual communication and data visualization do not account for a substantial part of the world's population: vulnerable audiences with low levels of literacy. The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity pp233 - 235 Patricia Romero-Lankao, Timon McPhearson and Debra J. Davidson doi:10.1038/nclimate3260 While tackling interdependencies among food, energy, and water security is promising, three fundamental challenges to effective operationalization need addressing: the feasibility of science-policy integration, cross-scale inequalities, and path-dependencies in infrastructure and socio-institutional practices. Research Highlights Top Hydrology: Under-estimated recharge | Climate Dynamics: Shifting ocean interactions | Public opinion: Indigenous beliefs | Agriculture: Mitigation through food News and Views Top Natural disasters: Cities build their vulnerability pp237 - 238 Bryan Jones doi:10.1038/nclimate3261 Tornadoes pose a significant threat across vast portions of the US. Now research suggests that growth in the human-built environment will be more influential than climate change in driving future disaster potential. Atmospheric science: Warming boosts air pollution pp238 - 239 Renhe Zhang doi:10.1038/nclimate3257 Atmospheric conditions play an important role in driving severe air pollution events in Beijing, China. Now research finds that global warming will enhance weather conditions favouring such events, increasing the chances of severe winter-time haze in the future. See also: Letter by Wenju Cai et al. Climate variability: Natural causes of Arctic sea-ice loss pp239 - 241 Neil Swart doi:10.1038/nclimate3254 Arctic sea-ice cover has declined precipitously in recent decades. Now research suggests that a sizeable fraction of this observed historical decline could have been caused by internal climate variability rather than by human-induced warming. See also: Article by Qinghua Ding et al. Oceanography: Ocean acidification without borders pp241 - 242 Richard G. J. Bellerby doi:10.1038/nclimate3247 The marine carbonate system is changing as uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere causes ocean acidification. Now, analysis of repeat observations demonstrates that the rate and extent of Arctic Ocean acidification is enhanced through increased transport from the North Pacific. See also: Letter by Di Qi et al. Nature Climate Change JOBS of the week Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecosystem Services Victoria University of Wellington Assistant Professor in Terrestrial Ecology Middle East Technical University PhD fellow in Geobiology Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen More Science jobs from Nature Climate Change EVENT 17th Technical Forum for Geohazards Impacting Transportation in Appalachia 15.08.17 Blacksburg, USA More science events from Advertisement Nature Ecology & Evolution is now publishing exciting research and comment across the entire breadth of ecology & evolution! Follow us: Twitter:@NatureEcoEvo Facebook:@NatEcolEvol Join the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community, our forum for the sharing and discussion of news & opinion in ecology & evolutionary biology with our editors and other members.   Perspectives Top The role of CO2 capture and utilization in mitigating climate change pp243 - 249 Niall Mac Dowell, Paul S. Fennell, Nilay Shah and Geoffrey C. Maitland doi:10.1038/nclimate3231 This Perspective considers the potential mitigation contribution of carbon capture and utilization, such as chemical conversation or to enhance oil recovery. The authors find it will account for a small amount of the required total mitigation effort. Climate change through a poverty lens pp250 - 256 Stephane Hallegatte and Julie Rozenberg doi:10.1038/nclimate3253 The economic impact of climate change has typically been considered at regional or national levels. This Perspective assesses impacts at household level to determine effects on poverty and the poor. It shows how rapid development could reduce these impacts. Letters Top Weather conditions conducive to Beijing severe haze more frequent under climate change pp257 - 262 Wenju Cai, Ke Li, Hong Liao, Huijun Wang and Lixin Wu doi:10.1038/nclimate3249 Severe winter air pollution events, attributed to emissions from development, have increased in Beijing in recent decades. This study looks at how atmospheric conditions contribute and projects climate change will increase conditions favourable to such events. See also: News and Views by Renhe Zhang Towards a rain-dominated Arctic pp263 - 267 R. Bintanja and O. Andry doi:10.1038/nclimate3240 Arctic precipitation is projected to increase and this study shows that rainfall will become the dominant phase of precipitation, with a decrease in snowfall across all seasons. The peak structure and future changes of the relationships between extreme precipitation and temperature pp268 - 274 Guiling Wang, Dagang Wang, Kevin E. Trenberth, Amir Erfanian, Miao Yu, Michael G. Bosilovich and Dana T. Parr doi:10.1038/nclimate3239 Extreme rainfall increases with temperature and this is predicted to continue in a future warmer climate. Whilst a downturn in rainfall scaling is observed at high temperatures in the present day, this does not imply an upper limit on rainfall extremes in the future. The contribution of solar brightening to the US maize yield trend pp275 - 278 Matthijs Tollenaar, Jon Fridgen, Priyanka Tyagi, Paul W. Stackhouse Jr and Saratha Kumudini doi:10.1038/nclimate3234 Gains in maize yield from the US Corn Belt have been attributed to agricultural technologies. A study now shows that solar brightening was responsible for approximately 27% of yield growth from 1984 to 2013. Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil pp279 - 282 David S. Ellsworth, Ian C. Anderson, Kristine Y. Crous, Julia Cooke, John E. Drake, Andrew N. Gherlenda, Teresa E. Gimeno, Catriona A. Macdonald, Belinda E. Medlyn, Jeff R. Powell, Mark G. Tjoelker and Peter B. Reich doi:10.1038/nclimate3235 Experimental evidence from a mature, phosphorous-limited, eucalypt forest finds that aboveground productivity was not significantly stimulated by elevated CO2. Findings suggest that this effect may be limited across much of the tropics. Articles Top A climate stress-test of the financial system pp283 - 288 Stefano Battiston, Antoine Mandel, Irene Monasterolo, Franziska Schütze and Gabriele Visentin doi:10.1038/nclimate3255 The financial system will be impacted by climate policies. Network analysis of the exposures of financial actors to climate-relevant sectors in the Euro Area shows early implementation of climate policy is needed to avoid adverse systemic consequences. Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice pp289 - 295 Qinghua Ding, Axel Schweiger, Michelle L’Heureux, David S. Battisti, Stephen Po-Chedley, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Eduardo Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Kirstin Harnos, Qin Zhang, Ryan Eastman and Eric J. Steig doi:10.1038/nclimate3241 The Arctic is warming and sea ice is declining, but how the two link is unclear. This study shows changes in summertime atmospheric circulation and internal variability may have caused up to 60% of September sea-ice decline since 1979. See also: News and Views by Neil Swart Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes pp296 - 302 Ryan M. Bright, Edouard Davin, Thomas O’Halloran, Julia Pongratz, Kaiguang Zhao and Alessandro Cescatti doi:10.1038/nclimate3250 Remote sensing and in situ observations show that non-radiative mechanisms dominate the local climatic response to land cover and land management changes in most regions of the globe for 8 of 9 common land cover and management perturbations. Erratum Top Erratum: Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model p303 Wolfgang Lutz and Raya Muttarak doi:10.1038/nclimate3258 Corrigendum Top Corrigendum: COP21 climate negotiators' responses to climate model forecasts p304 Valentina Bosetti, Elke Weber, Loïc Berger, David V. Budescu, Ning Liu and Massimo Tavoni doi:10.1038/nclimate3256 Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Research portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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