Jianming de Sousa and Daniela Arota of the Instituto Cristo since November 1, 2015. Arota is now a visiting scientist at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CSIRO), also in Canberra.

This research was partially funded by the CSIRO. Jianming, Arota and Zuo also received partial support from the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR), the National University of Singapore (CNRS), the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the National Singapore University (NSU). The other authors of the study are Dr John Pienaar, Dr Michael P. Preece, Dr Daniela Chua and Ghanashree S. Nair, all from the University of Cambridge and CNRS.

Source et al.’s paper, “A non-linear dynamics and control of the carbon dioxide enrichment on surface albedo,” Nature Geoscience 7, 1383–1386 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1650 (About DOIs). For more information about this Science paper click here.

Top image: A carbon dioxide enrichment on the surface of Antarctica alters the reflectance of carbonate rock. Credit: CSIRO.

By: Matthew Brown

Published: 22 March 2016