Simulating the carbon balance of a temperate larch forest under various meteorological conditions

Background  

Changes in the timing of phenological events may cause the annual carbon budget of deciduous forests to change. Therefore, one should take such events into account when evaluating the effects of global warming on deciduous forests. In this article, we report on the results of numerical experiments done with a model that includes a phenological module simulating the timing of bud burst and other phenological events and estimating maximum leaf area index.     

Mineral chemistry of MUSES‐C Regio inferred from analysis of dust particles collected from the first‐ and second‐touchdown sites on asteroid Itokawa

The mineralogy and mineral chemistry of Itokawa dust particles captured during the first and second touchdowns on the MUSES‐C Regio were characterized by synchrotron‐radiation X‐ray diffraction and field‐emission electron microprobe analysis. Olivine and low‐ and high‐Ca pyroxene, plagioclase, and merrillite compositions of the first‐touchdown particles are similar to those of the second‐touchdown particles. The two touchdown sites are separated by approximately 100 meters and therefore the similarity suggests that MUSES‐C Regio is covered with dust particles of uniform mineral chemistry of LL chondrites. Quantitative compositional properties of 48 dust particles, including both first‐ and second‐touchdown samples, indicate that dust particles of MUSES‐C Regio have experienced prolonged thermal metamorphism, but they are not fully equilibrated in terms of chemical composition. This suggests that MUSES‐C particles were heated in a single asteroid at different temperatures. During slow cooling from a peak temperature of approximately 800 °C, chemical compositions of plagioclase and K‐feldspar seem to have been modified: Ab and Or contents changed during cooling, but An did not. This compositional modification is reproduced by a numerical simulation that modeled the cooling process of a 50 km sized Itokawa parent asteroid. After cooling, some particles have been heavily impacted and heated, which resulted in heterogeneous distributions of Na and K within plagioclase crystals. Impact‐induced chemical modification of plagioclase was verified by a comparison to a shock vein in the Kilabo LL6 ordinary chondrite where Na‐K distributions of plagioclase have been disturbed.     

Partitioning Eddy-Covariance Methane Fluxes from a Shallow Lake into Diffusive and Ebullitive Fluxes

Methane (\(\mathrm {CH}_{4}\)) is known to be emitted from lakes to the atmosphere via processes such as diffusion and ebullition (i.e., bubble emission). We developed a practical method for partitioning eddy-covariance \(\mathrm {CH}_{4}\) fluxes from a shallow lake into diffusive and ebullitive fluxes using a wavelet analysis based on local scalar similarity between the \(\mathrm {CH}_{4}\) concentration and other reference scalars, such as the air temperature or water vapour concentration, in the wavelet time-scale domain, with the hypothesis that similar and dissimilar fluctuation components are related to diffusive and ebullitive \(\mathrm {CH}_{4}\) fluxes, respectively. Our method is applied to approximately two weeks of data obtained at a shallow mid-latitude lake. The partitioned diffusive flux has a physically sound relationship with wind speed, supporting the validity of the method. The ratio of the diffusive flux to the total flux is typically 0.11 with flow from an area of steady bubble emission, but otherwise 0.36. Further validation is required using a larger dataset and data from other lakes. The proposed method can be easily applied to historical data because it requires only 10-Hz data of \(\mathrm {CH}_{4}\) concentration and other reference scalars, along with an empirical parameter.     

临夏盆地新生代沉积物高分辨率岩石磁学记录与亚洲内陆干旱化过程及原因

亚洲内陆干旱化是全球新生代大陆环境变化中最引人瞩目的重大事件,与新生代全球变冷和青藏高原隆升密切相关。文章通过对甘肃临夏盆地几乎连续的新生代沉积物系统岩石磁学性质研究,获取了高分辨率磁化率和非磁滞剩磁记录,揭示在29.08.6Ma的漫长的以湖相粉砂岩和泥岩为主的渐新世晚期和中新世早、中期没有明显的长期变化,从8.6Ma开始持续增加,尤其从6.4Ma和5.3Ma开始表现出两次快速持续增加。同时,以8.6Ma为界磁性矿物相对含量发生明显变化,此前以赤铁矿为主,磁铁矿和磁赤铁矿次之,此后以磁铁矿和磁赤铁矿为主,赤铁矿次之,磁性矿物类型和性质类似于风成红粘土和黄土。因此,我们将这种沉积物中磁性矿物组合、性质和含量的长期变化解释为流域外风成物质的加入,指示我国西北内陆现代干旱气候可能从8.6Ma开始,7.46.4Ma后急剧加速变干,5.3Ma后再次加速变干,并最终形成今天的干旱区的过程。98Ma开始的青藏高原阶段性快速隆升和随后的全球变冷可能是驱动亚洲内陆干旱化进程的动力。