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14 June 2016      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         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            Earth & Environmental Sciences               Harvest locations of goose barnacles can be successfully discriminated using trace elemental signatures ▶     Rui Albuquerque, Henrique Queiroga, Stephen E. Swearer et al.     European Union regulations state that consumers must be rightfully informed about the provenance of fishery products to prevent fraudulent practices. However, mislabeling of the …             Massive marine methane emissions from near-shore shallow coastal areas ▶     Alberto V. Borges, Willy Champenois, Nathalie Gypens et al.     Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to climate warming. The open ocean is a minor source of methane to the atmosphere. We report intense methane …             Decadal variability in the occurrence of wintertime haze in central eastern China tied to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ▶     Sen Zhao, Jianping Li, Cheng Sun     Haze is a serious issue in China with increasing concerns, and understanding the factors driving decadal-scale variations in haze occurrence is relevant for government …             The abrupt climate change near 4,400 yr BP on the cultural transition in Yuchisi, China and its global linkage ▶     Jianjun Wang, Liguang Sun, Liqi Chen et al.     Extreme climatic events have profound impacts on human society. Here we present the results of a study of organic biomarkers within a sedimentary section at the archaeological …             Magma transport in sheet intrusions of the Alnö carbonatite complex, central Sweden ▶     Magnus Andersson, Bjarne S. G. Almqvist, Steffi Burchardt et al.     Magma transport through the Earth’s crust occurs dominantly via sheet intrusions, such as dykes and cone-sheets, and is fundamental to crustal evolution, volcanic eruptions and …             Unsaturated C3,5,7,9-Monocarboxylic Acids by Aqueous, One-Pot Carbon Fixation: Possible Relevance for the Origin of Life ▶     Christopher Scheidler, Jessica Sobotta, Wolfgang Eisenreich et al.     All scientific approaches to the origin of life share a common problem: a chemical path to lipids as main constituents of extant cellular enclosures. Here we show by …             Interoccurrence time statistics in fully-developed turbulence ▶     Pouya Manshour, Mehrnaz Anvari, Nico Reinke et al.     Emergent extreme events are a key characteristic of complex dynamical systems. The main tool for detailed and deep understanding of their stochastic dynamics is the statistics of …             A seismic metamaterial: The resonant metawedge ▶     Andrea Colombi, Daniel Colquitt, Philippe Roux et al.     Critical concepts from three different fields, elasticity, plasmonics and metamaterials, are brought together to design a metasurface at the geophysical scale, the resonant …             A predatory bivalved euarthropod from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte, South China ▶     Jie Yang, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Tian Lan et al.     Bivalved euarthropods represent a conspicuous component of exceptionally-preserved fossil biotas throughout the Lower Palaeozoic. However, most of these taxa are known from …             Optimal Environmental Conditions and Anomalous Ecosystem Responses: Constraining Bottom-up Controls of Phytoplankton Biomass in the California Current System ▶     Michael G. Jacox, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd     In Eastern Boundary Current systems, wind-driven upwelling drives nutrient-rich water to the ocean surface, making these regions among the most productive on Earth. Regulation of …             Constraints on mountain building in the northeastern Tibet: Detrital zircon records from synorogenic deposits in the Yumen Basin ▶     Weitao Wang, Peizhen Zhang, Jingxing Yu et al.     The Cenozoic basins and ranges form the high topography of the northeastern Tibet that resulted from the India-Eurasia collision. Sedimentary rocks in the basins provide direct …             Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Coupled with Multivariate Chemometrics for Variety Discrimination of Soil ▶     Ke-Qiang Yu, Yan-Ru Zhao, Fei Liu et al.     The aim of this work was to analyze the variety of soil by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) coupled with chemometrics methods. 6 certified reference materials (CRMs) …             Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warming ▶     Solomon M. Hsiang, Adam H. Sobel     Evidence increasingly suggests that as climate warms, some plant, animal, and human populations may move to preserve their environmental temperature. The distances they must …             Tracking airborne CO2 mitigation and low cost transformation into valuable carbon nanotubes ▶     Jiawen Ren, Stuart Licht     Primary evidence of the direct uptake of atmospheric CO2 and direct transformation into carbon nanotubes, CNTs, is demonstrated through isotopic labeling, and provides a new high …             Integrating landfill bioreactors, partial nitritation and anammox process for methane recovery and nitrogen removal from leachate ▶     Faqian Sun, Xiaomei Su, Tingting Kang et al.     A new process consisting of a landfill bioreactor, partial-nitritation (PN) and the anammox process has been developed for landfill leachate treatment. In this study, the …             Carbon nanotubes affect the toxicity of CuO nanoparticles to denitrification in marine sediments by altering cellular internalization of nanoparticle ▶     Xiong Zheng, Yinglong Su, Yinguang Chen et al.     Denitrification is an important pathway for nitrate transformation in marine sediments, and this process has been observed to be negatively affected by engineered nanomaterials. …             Changes in biological productivity associated with Ningaloo Niño/Niña events in the southern subtropical Indian Oceanin recent decades ▶     Sandeep Narayanasetti, P Swapna, K Ashok et al.     Using observations and long term simulations of an ocean-biogeochemical coupled model, we investigate the biological response in the southern subtropical Indian Ocean (SIO) …             The use of the terrestrial snails of the genera Megalobulimus and Thaumastus as representatives of the atmospheric carbon reservoir ▶     Kita D. Macario, Eduardo Q. Alves, Carla Carvalho et al.     In Brazilian archaeological shellmounds, many species of land snails are found abundantly distributed throughout the occupational layers, forming a contextualized set of samples …             Molecular distributions and compound-specific stable carbon isotopic compositions of lipids in wintertime aerosols from Beijing ▶     Lujie Ren, Pingqing Fu, Yue He et al.     Molecular distributions and stable carbon isotopic compositions (δ13C) of n-alkanes, fatty acids and n-alcohols were investigated in urban aerosols from Beijing, northern China …             Low palaeoelevation of the northern Lhasa terrane during late Eocene: Fossil foraminifera and stable isotope evidence from the Gerze Basin ▶     Yi Wei, Kexin Zhang, Carmala N. Garzione et al.     The Lhasa terrane is a key region for understanding the paleoelevation of the southern Tibetan Plateau after India-Asia collision. The Gerze Basin, located in the northern part …             Distinct characteristics of asymmetric magnetic reconnections: Observational results from the exhaust region at the dayside magnetopause ▶     Y. C. Zhang     Magnetic reconnection plays a key role in the conversion of magnetic energy into the thermal and kinetic energy of plasma. On either side of the diffusion region in space plasma, …             The potential of incorporation of binary salts and ionic liquid in P(VP-co-VAc) gel polymer electrolyte in electrochemical and photovoltaic performances ▶     Ng Hon Ming, S. Ramesh, K. Ramesh     In this study, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has been assembled with poly(1-vinylpyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate) (P(VP-co-VAc)) gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) which have been …             Numerical research on the anisotropic transport of thermal neutron in heterogeneous porous media with micron X-ray computed tomography ▶     Yong Wang, Wenzheng Yue, Mo Zhang     The anisotropic transport of thermal neutron in heterogeneous porous media is of great research interests in many fields. In this paper, it is the first time that a new model …             Biological Nitrogen Removal through Nitritation Coupled with Thiosulfate-Driven Denitritation ▶     Jin Qian, Junmei Zhou, Zhen Zhang et al.     A novel biological nitrogen removal system based on nitritation coupled with thiosulfate-driven denitritation (Nitritation-TDD) was developed to achieve a high nitrogen removal …             Experiments with Seasonal Forecasts of ocean conditions for the Northern region of the California Current upwelling system ▶     Samantha A. Siedlecki, Isaac C. Kaplan, Albert J. Hermann et al.     Resource managers at the state, federal, and tribal levels make decisions on a weekly to quarterly basis, and fishers operate on a similar timeframe. To determine the potential …             Assessment of Heterotrophic Growth Supported by Soluble Microbial Products in Anammox Biofilm using Multidimensional Modeling ▶     Yiwen Liu, Jing Sun, Lai Peng et al.     Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is known to autotrophically convert ammonium to dinitrogen gas with nitrite as the electron acceptor, but little is known about their …             A-site compositional effects in Ga-doped hollandite materials of the form BaxCsyGa2x+yTi8−2x−yO16: implications for Cs immobilization in crystalline ceramic waste forms ▶     Yun Xu, Yi Wen, Rob Grote et al.     The hollandite structure is a promising crystalline host for Cs immobilization. A series of Ga-doped hollandite BaxCsyGa2x+yTi8−2x−yO16 (x = 0, 0.667, 1.04, 1.33; y = 1.33, …             Variation of outdoor illumination as a function of solar elevation and light pollution ▶     Manuel Spitschan, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, David H. Brainard et al.     The illumination of the environment undergoes both intensity and spectral changes during the 24 h cycle of a day. Daylight spectral power distributions are well described by …             Model biases in rice phenology under warmer climates ▶     Tianyi Zhang, Tao Li, Xiaoguang Yang et al.     Climate-induced crop yields model projections are constrained by the accuracy of the phenology simulation in crop models. Here, we use phenology observations from 775 trials with …             NiCo nanoalloy encapsulated in graphene layers for improving hydrogen storage properties of LiAlH4 ▶     Chengli Jiao, Lixian Sun, Fen Xu et al.     NiCo nanoalloy (4–6 nm) encapsulated in grapheme layers (NiCo@G) has been prepared by thermolysis of a 3D bimetallic complex CoCo[Ni(EDTA)]2·4H2O and successfully employed as a …             Process and kinetics of azo dye decolourization in bioelectrochemical systems: effect of several key factors ▶     Hou-Yun Yang, Chuan-Shu He, Lei Li et al.     This study explored the influence of several key factors on the process and kinetics of azo dye decolourization in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), including cathode potential, …             Facile synthesis of sewage sludge-derived in-situ multi-doped nanoporous carbon material for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction ▶     Shi-Jie Yuan, Xiao-Hu Dai     Developing efficient, low-cost, and stable carbon-based catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to replace the expensive platinum-based electrocatalysts remains a major …             A Miniaturized Therapeutic Chromophore for Multiple Metal Pollutant Sensing, Pathological Metal Diagnosis and Logical Computing ▶     Bhimsen Rout     The efficacy of a miniaturized unimolecular analytic system is illustrated. 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