EDITORIAL 30 June 2020 A proposal for one, simple goal, equivalent to the 2 °C climate target, needs to be thoroughly assessed. The world’s last male northern white Rhino is one of only five of his species left on Earth.Credit: Nichole Sobecki/The Washington Post/Getty Next year, all eyes will be on Kunming, China, as talks […] More
Agricultural data and meteorological data This study used the total yield (kg) and planting area (ha) of maize for 2,247 counties in China from 1981 to 2010; these data were collected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. The dataset contains summer maize and spring maize, while not […] More
Soils We analysed soil from plots of the Rothamsted Highfield Ley-Arable field experiment (00:21:48° W, 51:48:18° N) set on soil that has been under permanent grass since at least 1838. The soil is a silty clay loam (25% clay: 62% silt: 13% sand) (Chromic Luvisol according to FAO criteria). In 2008, plots of severely degraded […] More
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Particles are simulated with the Ariane software (available from http://stockage.univ-brest.fr/~grima/Ariane/doc.html,20,21) modified to include independent, age-related, vertical motion of particles22. The modified Ariane is driven by the velocity, potential temperature, T, and salinity, S, fields output from the VIKING20 configuration23 of the NEMO ocean model24. VIKING20 hydrodynamic model: description and verification Used here as input for […] More
