New research, March 25-31, 2019
Posted on 5 April 2019 by Ari Jokimäki
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, and Other Papers.
Climate change
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Fast warming of the surface ocean under a climatological scenario
Robust regional warming amplifications directly following the anthropogenic emission (open access)
Heat transport pathways into the Arctic and their connections to surface air temperatures (open access)
Natural Climate Oscillations May Counteract Red Sea Warming over the Coming Decades
How much has urbanisation affected United Kingdom temperatures? (open access)
The variability of South Korean temperature associated with climate indicators
Quantifying uncertainty in twenty-first century climate change over India
Sensitivity of extreme rainfall to temperature in semi-arid Mediterranean regions
Changes in extreme precipitation over dry and wet regions of China during 1961?2014
Non-monsoonal precipitation response over the Western Himalayas to climate change
Inter-comparison of remotely sensed precipitation datasets over Kenya during 1998–2016
Why does Amazon precipitation decrease when tropical forests respond to increasing CO2? (open access)
Extreme events
Land subsidence in Houston correlated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey (open access)
Loss potentials based on an ensemble forecast: How likely are winter windstorm losses similar to 1990? (open access)
Global lightning activity and the hiatus in global warming
High?temperature extreme events over Africa under 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming
Forcings and feedbacks
Climate and carbon budget implications of linked future changes in CO2 and non-CO2 forcing (open access)
On the interpretation of upper-tropospheric humidity based on a second-order retrieval from infrared radiances (open access)
Water Vapor, Clouds, and Saturation in the Tropical Tropopause Layer
Changing aerosol loadings over Central Himalayan region (2007–2016) – A satellite perspective
Clouds in convection?resolving climate simulations over Europe
Radiative Forcing by Dust and Black Carbon on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska
Cryosphere
Collapse of 4 Mm3 of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina (open access)
Regional variability of Arctic sea ice seasonal change climate indicators from a passive microwave climate data record (open access)
Baffin Bay sea ice inflow and outflow: 1978–1979 to 2016–2017 (open access)
Hydrosphere
Sensitivity of the Arctic freshwater content and transport to model resolution (open access)
Changing Lake Dynamics Indicate a Drier Arctic in Western Greenland
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Mechanisms causing east Australian spring rainfall differences between three strong El Niño events
Decadal Variations of the Mindanao Current during 1960?2010
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Estimating methane emissions using vegetation mapping in the taiga–tundra boundary of a north-eastern Siberian lowland (open access)
Emissions of methane in Europe inferred by total column measurements (open access)
Carbon cycling in the North American coastal ocean: a synthesis (open access)
Climate change impacts
Mankind
Seasonal effects of climate change on intra-day electricity demand patterns
Socio-economic conditions and small business vulnerability to climate change impacts in Hong Kong
Dynamic response of pedestrian thermal comfort under outdoor transient conditions
Semantics of outdoor thermal comfort in religious squares of composite climate: New Delhi, India
A panting score index for sheep
Biosphere
Climate change would lead to a sharp acceleration of Central African forests dynamics by the end of the century (open access)
Snow roosting reduces temperature-associated stress in a wintering bird
Long?term declines of European insectivorous bird populations and potential causes
Large?scale distribution of tuna species in a warming ocean
Spatial and habitat variation in aphid, butterfly, moth and bird phenologies over the last half century (open access)
Other impacts
Snowmelt?triggered earthquake swarms at the margin of Long Valley Caldera, California
Climate change mitigation
Assessing contributions of major emitters' Paris?era decisions to future temperature extremes
Climate change communication
Climate change in Nepal: a comprehensive analysis of instrumental data and people’s perceptions
Seeing is not always believing: crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors (open access)
Framing of Geoengineering Affects Support for Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Policy
Global rules mask the mitigation challenge facing developing countries (open access)
Exploring China's carbon emissions peak for different carbon tax scenarios
International carbon markets under the Paris Agreement: Basic form and development prospects (open access)
Internal carbon pricing: rationale, promise and limitations
Energy production
Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector (open access)
Limits to deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization: Insights from public opinion
Emission savings
Analytical framework to evaluate the level of integration of climate adaptation and mitigation in cities (open access)
High-resolution spatial distribution of greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector (open access)
Seasonal and diel variation in greenhouse gas emissions from septic system leach fields
Frequent interactions of Tibet's CO2 emissions with those of other regions in China (open access)
Analyzing CO2 emissions from passenger cars in Europe: A dynamic panel data approach
Geoengineering
Impacts of sulfate geoengineering on rice yield in China: results from a multi?model ensemble (open access)
Other papers
General climate science
Palaeoclimatology
Empirical estimate of the signal content of Holocene temperature proxy records (open access)
Predictable hydrological and ecological responses to Holocene North Atlantic variability
Variation of Ice Nucleating Particles in the European Arctic over the Last Centuries
Introduction to the special issue “Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses” (open access)
Impact of millennial-scale oceanic variability on the Greenland ice-sheet evolution throughout the last glacial period (open access)
A 7000?year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate (open access)
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