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New research, May 6-12, 2019
Posted on 17 May 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
An example of principal component analysis application on climate change assessment
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Dominant east-west pattern of diurnal temperature range observed across Zambia
Simulation of Temperature Series and Small Networks from Data
Micro-scale warming due to poor ventilation at surface observation stations
Implications of a varying observational network for accurately estimating recent climate trends (open access)
Characteristics of land and sea breezes along the Guinea Coast of West Africa
The contribution of North Atlantic atmospheric circulation shifts to future wind speed projections for wind power over Europe (open access)
Extreme events
Hurricane damage detection on four major Caribbean islands
Potential impacts of global warming levels 1.5 °C and above on climate extremes in Botswana
Historical Variability of Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Counts since 1855
Historical extreme rainfall events in southeastern Australia (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity (open access)
Short-wave spectral radiative signatures and their physical controls
Boundary Layer Clouds and Convection over Subtropical Oceans in our Current and in a Warmer Climate (open access)
Cloud radiative feedbacks and El Niño Southern Oscillation
Simultaneous dimming and brightening under all and clear sky at Camagüey, Cuba (1981–2010)
Cryosphere
Climate change in the mountain cryosphere: impacts and responses (open access)
Ice-dams, outburst floods, and movement heterogeneity of glaciers, Karakoram
Contributions of advection and melting processes to the decline in sea ice in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean (open access)
Hydrosphere
Strong intensification of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone in response to Arabian Gulf warming
Weakening of the Senegalo–Mauritanian upwelling system under climate change
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
A machine learning approach to estimate surface ocean pCO2 from satellite measurements
Effects of 21st century climate, land use, and disturbances on ecosystem carbon balance in California (open access)
Inorganic carbon and pCO2 variability during ice formation in the Beaufort Gyre of the Canada Basin (open access)
Climate change impacts
Mankind
Social capital and resilience to drought among smallholding farmers in Sri Lanka
Impacts of tropospheric ozone and climate change on Mexico wheat production
Weather conditions and museum attendance: a case-study from Sicily
Biosphere
Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems
Estimating late spring frost-induced growth anomalies in European beech forests in Italy
Thermoregulatory traits combine with range shifts to alter the future of montane ant assemblages
Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity
Climate change mitigation
A human tragedy? The pace of negative global change exceeds human progress
Climate change communication
Public support for global warming policies: solution framing matters
Investing into climate change mitigation despite the risk of failure (open access)
Exploring future scientists' awareness about and attitudes towards renewable energy sources
Climate Policy
Why fully liberalised electricity markets will fail to meet deep decarbonisation targets even with strong carbon pricing (open access)
Linking with Uncertainty: The Relationship Between EU ETS Pollution Permits and Kyoto Offsets
Emission savings
Emission regulation of conventional energy-intensive industries
Geoengineering
Tools of the trade: practices and politics of researching the future in climate engineering (open access)
Other papers
Palaeoclimatology
Is the noble gas?based rate of ocean warming during the Younger Dryas overestimated?
This BBC video discusses electric cars in Norway. The government taxes ICE cars so electric are cheaper. 59% of cars sold in one month were electric!! It is possible to convert to electric if people are motivated. And electric cars are cheaper to maintain.
The video says they need more charging statiions. I imagine the grid will have to be upgraded to transmit more electricity.
More good news on electric vehicles.
China is rapidly converting its bus fleet to electric. They are cheaper than ICE overall because maintenance is cheaper but initial cost is still higher than ICE. They are buying electric to reduce pollution in cities.
Here is the link for Norway electric cars. It is currently the most read link on the BBC.