A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
A fluctuation in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence (open access)
The 'pause' in global warming in historical context: (II). Comparing models to observations (open access)
Climate change communication
Framing Climate Uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence Climate Change Beliefs
Relationship?building between climate scientists and publics as an alternative to information transfer (open access)
Climate Policy
Quantifying the potential for consumer-oriented policy to reduce European and foreign carbon emissions (open access)
Norms and flexibility: Comparing two mitigation policies implemented in Shanghai
Review and assessment of energy policy developments in Chile
Interactions between federal and state policies for reducing vehicle emissions
Energy production
The green flings: Norwegian oil and gas industry’s engagement in offshore wind power
A comprehensive evaluation of the development and utilization of China's regional renewable energy
How to reach the EU renewables target by 2030? An analysis of the governance framework
Decarbonising domestic heating: What is the peak GB demand? (open access)
The role of biomass in China's long-term mitigation toward the Paris climate goals (open access)
Regulating Japan's nuclear power industry to achieve zero-accidents
Response of electricity sector air pollution emissions to drought conditions in the western United States (open access)
Fluvial organic carbon fluxes from oil palm plantations on tropical peatland (open access)
Emission savings
Informing energy consumption uncertainty: an analysis of energy data revisions (open access)
Data center growth in the United States: decoupling the demand for services from electricity use (open access)
Linking wastes and climate change: Bandwagoning, contention, and global governance
The long-term relationship between emissions and economic growth for SO2, CO2, and BC (open access)
Geoengineering
Reducing sea level rise with submerged barriers and dams in Greenland (open access)
Carbon leakage from geological storage sites: Implications for carbon trading
Temperature, precipitation, wind
The realized warming fraction: a multi-model sensitivity study (open access)
Extreme events
Changes in the severity of compound drought and hot extremes over global land areas (open access)
Adapting attribution science to the climate extremes of tomorrow (open access)
A climatology of thunderstorms across Europe from a synthesis of multiple data sources
The 'Day Zero' Cape Town drought and the poleward migration of moisture corridors (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
Global Observed and Modeled Impacts of Irrigation on Surface Temperature
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide variability at Aigüestortes, Central Pyrenees, Spain
Cryosphere
Natural variability has slowed the decline in western?US snowpack since the 1980s
Snow depth reconstruction over last century: Trend and distribution in the Tianshan Mountains, China
West Antarctic Surface Melt Event of January 2016 Facilitated by Foehn Warming
Velocity response of Petermann Glacier, northwest Greenland, to past and future calving events (open access)
Freshwater Export in the East Greenland Current Freshens the North Atlantic
Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971–2017 (open access)
Hydrosphere
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Anthropogenically forced decadal change of South Asian summer monsoon across the mid?1990s
Global meridional overturning circulation inferred from a data?constrained ocean & sea?ice model
On the Drivers of Decadal Variability of the Gulf Stream North Wall
Estimating the Deep Overturning Transport Variability at 26° N Using Bottom Pressure Recorders
A Radar-based Climatology of Mesoscale Convective Systems in the United States
The asymmetry of vertical velocity in current and future climate
Stability of the arctic halocline: a new indicator of arctic climate change (open access)
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Soil organic carbon stability in forests: distinct effects of tree species identity and traits
Detecting changes in Arctic methane emissions: limitations of the inter-polar difference of atmospheric mole fractions (open access)
Attribution of recent increases in atmospheric methane through 3-D inverse modelling (open access)
Using Stable Carbon Isotopes of Seasonal Ecosystem Respiration to Determine Permafrost Carbon Loss
Mankind
Predicting Yellow Fever Through Species Distribution Modeling of Virus, Vector, and Monkeys
The effect characteristics of temperature on stroke mortality in Inner Mongolia and globally
What are the impacts of tropical cyclones on employment? –An Analysis Based on Meta-regression
Maladaptation in Nordic Agriculture (open access)
Direct and indirect effects of CO2 increase on crop yield in West Africa
Cities in Asia: how are they adapting to climate change?
Climate change adaptation: a systematic review on domains and indicators
Mapping summer tourism climate resources in China
Adapting and coping with climate change in temperate forests
Biosphere
Body size, reef area and temperature predict global reef?fish species richness across spatial scales
Warmer and browner waters decrease fish biomass production
Divergent responses of Atlantic cod to ocean acidification and food limitation
Drying drives decline in muskrat population in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada (open access)
Climate change resilience of a globally important sea turtle nesting population (open access)
Climate readiness of recovery plans for threatened Australian species
Other impacts
Origin and location of new Arctic islands and straits due to glacial recession (open access)
Palaeoclimatology
Asymmetric dynamical ocean responses in warming icehouse and cooling greenhouse climates (open access)
What climate signal is contained in decadal- to centennial-scale isotope variations from Antarctic ice cores? (open access)
Reconstruction of dust storm frequency in China using the SST signals recorded in coral reefs
Other environmental issues
Diminishing clear winter skies in Beijing towards a possible future (open access)
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Friday, 28 December, 2018
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