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New research, December 3-9, 2018
Posted on 14 December 2018 by Ari Jokimäki
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Hot days and tropical nights in Nigeria: trends and associated large-scale features
Anomalous holiday precipitation over southern China (open access)
Global warming from 1.5°C to 2°C will lead to increase in precipitation intensity in China
The role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in Sahel drought and recovery (open access)
Contrasting monthly trends of Indian summer monsoon rainfall and related parameters
Global terrestrial stilling: does Earth’s greening play a role? (open access)
Extreme events
Global drought trends under 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming
Stratospheric Connection to the Abrupt End of the 2016/2017 Iberian Drought
Population exposed to drought under the 1.5?°C and 2.0?°C warming in the Indus River Basin
Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data (open access)
Evacuee Perception of Geophysical Hazards for Hurricane Irma
Eastern Canada Flooding 2017 and its Subseasonal Predictions (open access)
What determines flood risk perception? A review of factors of flood risk perception and relations between its basic elements (open access)
Modelling glacial lake outburst flood impacts in the Bolivian Andes (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
Computation and analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide annual mean growth rates from satellite observations during 2003–2016 (open access)
Estimating Transient Climate Response in a large?ensemble global climate model simulation
Black carbon aerosol in India: A comprehensive review of current status and future prospects
Cryosphere
Evaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-based precipitation radars (open access)
Sensitivity of the current Antarctic surface mass balance to sea surface conditions using MAR (open access)
A new surface meltwater routing model for use on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface (open access)
Seasonal to decadal variability in ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet (open access)
Wintertime Fjord?Shelf Interaction and Ice Sheet Melting in Southeast Greenland
Glacier facies of Vestfonna (Svalbard) based on SAR images and GPR measurements (open access)
Airborne observations of summer thinning of multi?year sea ice originating from the Lincoln Sea
Spatiotemporal changes in snow cover over China during 1960–2013
The Changing Character of the California Sierra Nevada as a Natural Reservoir
Hydrosphere
Projected freshening of the Arctic Ocean in the 21st century
On the effects of increased vertical mixing on the Arctic Ocean and sea ice
Sea Level Interannual Variability Along the West Coast of India
What caused the accelerated sea level changes along the United States East Coast during 2010?2015?
The weakening of autumn drought intensity in Korea after late 1990s (open access)
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Changes in the MJO under greenhouse gas-induced warming in CMIP5 models
Explaining asymmetry between weakening and recovery of the AMOC in a coupled climate model (open access)
Spatial analysis of early-warning signals for a North Atlantic climate transition in a coupled GCM
The North Atlantic–Eurasian teleconnection in summer and its effects on Eurasian climates (open access)
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Soil aggregates as biogeochemical reactors and implications for soil–atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases—A concept (open access)
Soil nutrient availability regulated global carbon use efficiency
Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance (open access)
Glacial iron sources stimulate the Southern Ocean carbon cycle
Methane at Svalbard and over the European Arctic Ocean (open access)
Global estimates of inorganic nitrogen deposition across four decades
Climate change impacts
Mankind
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America (open access)
Increasing heat stress in urban areas of eastern China: Acceleration by urbanization
Effects of Weather on Traffic Collisions in Edmonton, Canada
Biosphere
Temperature sensitivity of willow dwarf shrub growth from two distinct High Arctic sites (open access)
Temporal declines in tree longevity associated with faster lifetime growth rates in boreal forests (open access)
Temporal clustering of extreme climate events drives a regime shift in rocky intertidal biofilms
Semi?arid ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation extremes: weak evidence for vegetation constraints
Climate change mitigation
Global energy growth is outpacing decarbonization (open access)
Climate change communication
Evaluating the perils and promises of academic climate advocacy
The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook
Climate Policy
Free allocation rules in the EU emissions trading system: what does the empirical literature show?
Energy production
Designing auctions for concentrating solar power
Is there a future for the gas network in a low carbon energy system?
Emission savings
Land use mediated GHG emissions and spillovers from increased consumption of bioplastics (open access)
The politics of technology bans: Industrial policy competition and green goals for the auto industry
Other papers
Palaeoclimatology
North Atlantic Versus Global Control on Dansgaard?Oeschger Events
Hydro-climatic variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean between 6000 and 3000 years ago (open access)
Causes of East Asian temperature multidecadal variability since AD 850
I really enjoy seeing these posts every week. Thanks! This is a "selection" of papers. Is there anywhere online that lists ALL of the papers released? Somewhere I don't need to pay.
Hello blatz, there is no place that lists all the papers. There are thousands of scientific journals, most of which can publish a climate/climate change related paper occasionally. I use a RSS feed reader where I have set up new paper feeds of close to hundred journals. If you want to see more, my suggestion would be that you should set up RSS feed reader with your own selection of journals.
Thank you Ari.