Gernon, Thomas M.; Hincks, Thea K.; Merdith, Andrew S.; Rohling, Eelco J.; Palmer, Martin R.; Foster, Gavin L. et al. (2021): Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic. In: Nat. Geosci. 28, S. 611. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00806-0.

"Earth’s plate-tectonic activity regulates the carbon cycle and, hence, climate, via volcanic outgassing and silicate-rock weathering. Mountain building, arc–continent collisions and clustering of continents in the tropics have all been invoked as controlling the weathering flux, with arcs also acting as a major contributor of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. However, these processes have largely been considered in isolation when in reality they are all tightly coupled. To properly account for interactions among these processes, and the inherent multi-million-year time lags at play in the Earth system, we need to characterize their complex interdependencies. Here we analyse these interdependencies over the past 400 million years using a Bayesian network to identify primary relationships, time lags and drivers of the global chemical weathering signal."

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An, Soon‐Il; Shin, Jongsoo; Yeh, Sang‐Wook; Son, Seok‐Woo; Kug, Jong‐Seong; Min, Seung‐Ki; Kim, Hyo‐Jeong (2021): Global cooling hiatus driven by an AMOC overshoot in a carbon dioxide removal scenario. In Earth’s Future. DOI: 10.1029/2021EF002165.

"Here, we performed an Earth system model simulation to explore the reversibility of earth climate, in which a CO₂ concentration level gradually increases to 4 times CO₂ of the present-day level and then returns to the present-day level."

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Saidi, Majid; Inaloo, Ebrahim Balaghi (2021): CO2 Removal Using 1DMA2P Solvent via Membrane Technology: Rate Based Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis. In Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, p. 108464. DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2021.108464.

"A numerically solved reaction rate/kinetic model for CO₂ removal from a CO₂/N₂ gas mixture into novel reactive 1-dimethylamino-2-propanol (1DMA2P) solution in a gas–liquid membrane contactor was constructed."

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Grassi, Giacomo; Stehfest, Elke; Rogelj, Joeri; van Vuuren, Detlef; Cescatti, Alessandro; House, Jo et al. (2021): Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress. In Nat. Clim. Chang. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01033-6.

"Here we present a ‘Rosetta stone’ adjustment to translate IAMs’ land-use mitigation pathways to estimates more comparable with GHG inventories."

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