New research, April 22-28, 2019
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 impacts
Mankind
Impacts of exposure to ambient temperature on burden of disease: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence
Can increased outdoor CO2 concentrations impact on the ventilation and energy in buildings? A case study in Shanghai, China
Global warming to increase flood risk on European railways
Winter tourism under climate change in the Pyrenees and the French Alps: relevance of snowmaking as a technical adaptation (open access)
Adjusting sowing date and cultivar shift improve maize adaption to climate change in China
Cultural ecosystem services provided by flowering of cherry trees under climate change: a case study of the relationship between the periods of flowering and festivals
Predicting high-magnitude, low-frequency crop losses using machine learning: an application to cereal crops in Ethiopia (open access)
Effects of climate change on sugarcane production in the state of Paraíba (Brazil): a panel data approach (1990–2015)
Climate change and variability impacts on grazing herds: Insights from a system dynamics approach for semi?arid Australian rangelands
Ethology, physiological, and ingestive responses of sheep subjected to different temperatures and salinity levels of water
Adaptations in irrigated agriculture in the Mediterranean region: an overview and spatial analysis of implemented strategies (open access)
Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil
Biosphere
Local snow melt and temperature—but not regional sea ice—explain variation in spring phenology in coastal Arctic tundra (open access)
Phytoplankton growth and stoichiometric responses to warming, nutrient addition and grazing depend on lake productivity and cell size
Latitudinal variation in soil nematode communities under climate warming?related range?expanding and native plants
Projecting impacts of global climate and land?use scenarios on plant biodiversity using compositional?turnover modelling
Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming
Contributions of competition and climate on radial growth of Pinus massoniana in subtropics of China
Taxonomy, together with ontogeny and growing conditions, drives needleleaf species’ sensitivity to climate in boreal North America
Streamflow regimes and geologic conditions are more important than water temperature when projecting future crayfish distributions
A semi-analytical snow-free vegetation index for improving estimation of plant phenology in tundra and grassland ecosystems
Species?specific and temporal scale?dependent responses of birds to drought
Shrub persistence and increased grass mortality in response to drought in dryland systems
Latitude and daily-weather effects on gobbling activity of wild turkeys in Mississippi
Evidence that the Montseny Mountains are still a good climatic refugium for the southernmost silver fir forest on the Iberian Peninsula
The response of English yew (Taxus baccata L.) to climate change in the Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forest ecoregion
Other impacts
River temperature and the thermal-dynamic transport of sediment
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Climate uncertainty and policy making—what do policy makers want to know?
Systems thinking as a pathway to global warming beliefs and attitudes through an ecological worldview
Climate Policy
Language and environmental justice: articulating intersectionality within energy policy deliberations
Can Japan enhance its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets? Assessment of economic and energy-related assumptions in Japan's NDC
The differentiated impact of emissions trading system based on company size
Energy production
Assessing the evolution of India's power sector to 2050 under different CO2 emissions rights allocation schemes
Coal production and consumption analysis, and forecasting of related carbon emission: evidence from China
The role of local governments in the development of China's solar photovoltaic industry
Emission savings
Reduction of the carbon footprint of college freshman diets after a food-based environmental science course
Investigating CO2 mitigation potentials and the impact of oil price distortion in China's transport sector
Do solar study lamps help children study at night? Evidence from rural India
Climate change
Climate science needs to take risk assessment much more seriously (open access)
Temperature, precipitation, wind
The global warming hiatus has faded away: an analysis of 2014–2016 global surface air temperatures
Changes in the dependence between global precipitation and temperature from observations and model simulations
Present-day status and future projection of spring Eurasian surface air temperature in CMIP5 model simulations
An assessment of recent global atmospheric reanalyses for Antarctic near surface air temperature
Monotone trends in the distribution of climate extremes
The Influence of Mesoscale Atmospheric Circulation on Spitsbergen Air Temperature in Periods of Arctic Warming and Cooling
Declining diurnal temperature range in the North China Plain related to environmental changes
Problems in calculating long-term trends in the upper atmosphere
Effects of deforestation on the onset of the rainy season and the duration of dry spells in southern Amazonia
Projected changes in autumn rainfall over West China: results from an ensemble of dynamical downscaling simulations
Near?surface mean wind in Switzerland: Climatology, climate model evaluation and future scenarios
Extreme events
Climate of the weakly-forced yet high-impact convective storms throughout the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic United States
Physical understanding of human-induced changes in U.S. hot droughts using equilibrium climate simulations
Characteristics of drought in Southern China under climatic warming, the risk, and countermeasures for prevention and control
Forcings and feedbacks
Anthropogenic aerosols, greenhouse gases and the uptake, transport and storage of excess heat in the climate system
Evaluating climate model simulations of the radiative forcing and radiative response at the Earth’s surface
The Interdecadal Change of Summer Water Vapor over the Tibetan Plateau and Associated Mechanisms
Cryosphere
Uncertainty quantification of the multi-centennial response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate change (open access)
A new 200?year spatial reconstruction of West Antarctic surface mass balance
Non-uniform contribution of internal variability to recent Arctic sea ice loss
Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1?km2 scale
Hydrosphere
Assessment of time of emergence of anthropogenic deoxygenation and warming: insights from a CESM simulation from 850 to 2100 CE (open access)
Regime shift of global oceanic evaporation in the late 1990s using OAFlux dataset
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Observation-based estimate of global and basin ocean meridional heat transport time series
Identifying strong signals between low?frequency climate oscillations and annual precipitation using long?window correlation analysis
How strong is influence of the tropics and midlatitudes on the Arctic atmospheric circulation and climate change?
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Characteristics of annual greenhouse gas flux and NO release from alpine meadow and forest on the eastern Tibetan Plateau
Regime shifts of Mediterranean forest carbon uptake and reduced resilience driven by multidecadal ocean surface temperatures
Other papers
Palaeoclimatology
A 2917-year tree-ring-based reconstruction of precipitation for the Buerhanbuda Mts., southeastern Qaidam Basin, China
Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events
Decadal-scale progression of the onset of Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events (open access)
Challenges associated with the climatic interpretation of water stable isotope records from a highly resolved firn core from Adélie Land, coastal Antarctica (open access)
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Thursday, 2 May, 2019
