To understand why a large‐scale monsoon does not exist in North America, we performed a series of sensitivity simulations to investigate orographic effects of the Rocky Mountains (RMs) using the Community Atmosphere Model version 5.1. Results show that the height of the RMs plays a fundamental role in shaping the monsoon over North America that is confined to a small area from northwestern Mexico to the southwestern United Sta...

Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from soil contribute to global warming and are in turn substantially affected by climate change. However, climate change impacts on N 2 O production across terrestrial ecosystems remain poorly understood. Here, we synthesized 46 published studies of N 2 O fluxes and relevant soil functional genes (SFGs, that is, archaeal amoA , bacterial amoA , nosZ , narG , nirK and nirS ) to assess their respo...