Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

X Li, M Feng, Y Ran, Y Su, F Liu, C Huang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate

D Ellis-Soto, M Wikelski, W Jetz - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
As climate change transforms the biosphere, more comprehensive and biologically relevant
measurements of changing conditions are needed. Traditional climate measurements are …

Challenges simulating the AMOC in climate models

LC Jackson, HT Hewitt, D Bruciaferri… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) was very likely to …

The impact of fine-scale currents on biogeochemical cycles in a changing ocean

M Lévy, D Couespel, C Haëck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fine-scale currents, O (1–100 km, days–months), are actively involved in the transport and
transformation of biogeochemical tracers in the ocean. However, their overall impact on …

[HTML][HTML] Climate tipping point interactions and cascades: a review

N Wunderling, AS von der Heydt… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
Climate tipping elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tipping points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world

X Li, Q Wang, S Danilov, N Koldunov, C Liu… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Ocean eddies play a critical role in climate and marine life. In the rapidly warming Arctic, little
is known about how ocean eddy activity will change because existing climate models cannot …

Southern ocean carbon and heat impact on climate

SO-CHIC consortium, JB Sallée… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Southern Ocean greatly contributes to the regulation of the global climate by controlling
important heat and carbon exchanges between the atmosphere and the ocean. Rates of …

Fluid dynamics challenges in predicting plastic pollution transport in the ocean: A perspective

BR Sutherland, M DiBenedetto, A Kaminski… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Plastic pollution has been observed throughout the world's oceans and estuaries, whether
floating at the surface, settled in bottom sediments, washed up on beaches, or ingested by …

The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities

S Swart, MD du Plessis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions between the upper ocean and air-ice-ocean fluxes in the Southern Ocean play a
critical role in global climate by impacting the overturning circulation and oceanic heat and …

Southern Ocean phytoplankton dynamics and carbon export: insights from a seasonal cycle approach

SJ Thomalla, M Du Plessis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Quantifying the strength and efficiency of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump (BCP)
and its response to predicted changes in the Earth's climate is fundamental to our ability to …