A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Understanding the abrupt climate change in the mid-1970s from a phase-space transform perspective
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Distinguishing trends and shifts from memory in climate data
Persistence of observed air temperatures in Iceland
Revisiting the Mystery of Recent Stratospheric Temperature Trends (open access)
Establishment of a long-term lake-surface temperature dataset within the European Alps extending back to 1880 (open access)
Spatially variable warming of the Laurentian Great Lakes: an interaction of bathymetry and climate
Observed trends in temperature and rainfall in Bangladesh using pre-whitening approach
Later wet seasons with more intense rainfall over Africa under future climate change
Assessment of projected agro-climatic indices over Awun river basin, Nigeria for the late twenty-first century (open access)
“Dry gets drier, wet gets wetter”: A case study over the arid regions of central Asia
Extreme events
Selective Ensemble Mean Technique for Severe European Windstorms
A first collective validation of global fluvial flood models for major floods in Nigeria and Mozambique (open access)
Stronger Contributions of Urbanization to Heat Wave Trends in Wet Climates
Proxy?Based Assessment of Strength and Frequency of Meteotsunamis in Future Climate
Forcings and feedbacks
Anthropogenic Aerosol Indirect Effects in Cirrus Clouds
Leaf Trait Acclimation Amplifies Simulated Climate Warming in Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide (open access)
Long-term memory and multifractality of downwelling longwave radiation flux at the Earth’s surface
Effects of mixing state on optical and radiative properties of black carbon in the European Arctic (open access)
Cryosphere
Greenland submarine melt water observed in the Labrador and Irminger Sea
Simulation of the future sea level contribution of Greenland with a new glacial system model (open access)
Oceanic heat delivery to the Antarctic continental shelf: Large?scale, low?frequency variability
Velocity increases at Cook Glacier, East Antarctica, linked to ice shelf loss and a subglacial flood event (open access)
Black carbon (BC) in a northern Tibetan mountain: effect of Kuwait fires on glaciers (open access)
Bright Prospects for Arctic Sea Ice Prediction on Subseasonal Time Scales (open access)
Warm Arctic, increased winter sea?ice growth?
Hydrosphere
Drivers, timing and some impacts of global aridity change (open access)
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
The fast response of the tropical circulation to CO2forcing
Interaction between the black carbon aerosol warming effect and East Asian monsoon using RegCM4 (open access)
Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamical Coupling Fundamental to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Divergent patterns of experimental and model-derived permafrost ecosystem carbon dynamics in response to Arctic warming (open access)
Mankind
Investigating the Relationship Between Climate and Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis)
Investigating the effect of climatic parameters on mental disorder admissions
Climate and the Global Famine of 1876-78 (open access)
The consequences of change in management practices on maize yield under climate warming in Iran
Adapting to sea level rise: Emerging governance issues in the San Francisco Bay Region
Responses of sub-Saharan smallholders to climate change: Strategies and drivers of adaptation
Mapping discourses of climate change adaptation in the United Kingdom
Biosphere
Satellite observations of enhanced chlorophyll variability in the Southern California Bight
Pivotal roles of environmental sensing and signaling mechanisms in plant responses to climate change (open access)
Northward expansion of the bivoltine life cycle of the cricket over the last four decades (open access)
Sound characteristics of Terapon Fish (Terapon jorbua) as a response to temperature changes
Implications of evergreen shrub expansion in the Arctic
Winter temperature structures mangrove species distributions and assemblage composition in China
Climate change communication
Climate change is the World's greatest threat – In celsius or fahrenheit? (open access)
Energy production
Observation-based solar and wind power capacity factors and power densities (open access)
Variability of household fuelwood consumption in a rural Sudano-Sahelian context in Burkina Faso
CO2 emission changes of China's power generation system: Input-output subsystem analysis
Emission savings
Trends of the EU’s territorial and consumption-based emissions from 1990 to 2016
Characterization of trace gas emissions at an intermediate port (open access)
Explaining shifts in UK electricity demand using time use data from 1974 to 2014 (open access)
A longitudinal study of electricity consumption growth in Kenya
Accessing provincial energy efficiencies in China’s transport sector
The growing importance of scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from industry
Palaeoclimatology
A Wetter Arctic Coincident with Hemispheric Warming 8,000 Years Ago
Temperature seasonality in the North American continental interior during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (open access)
Other environmental issues
Continued Emissions of the Ozone Depleting Substance Carbon Tetrachloride from Eastern Asia
Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actions (open access)
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Friday, 12 October, 2018
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