Skeptical Science New Research for Week #24, 2020
81 Articles
Physical science of global warming & effects
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot?
Observations & observational methods of global warming & effects
Change in the fire season pattern from bimodal to unimodal under climate change: The case of Daxing'anling in Northeast China
The role of atmospheric circulation patterns in driving recent changes in indices of extreme seasonal precipitation across Arctic Fennoscandia (open access)
Observed changes in heat waves with different severities in China during 1961–2015 (open access)
CryoSat Ice Baseline-D validation and evolutions (open access)
Antarctic Surface Mass Balance: natural variability, noise and detecting new trends
Regionally Varying Assessments of Upper-Level Tropical Width in Reanalyses and CMIP5 Models Using a Tropopause Break Metric
Climatology and trend analysis (1987 – 2016) of fire weather in the Euro?Mediterranean
Historical trends of rain and air temperature in the Dominican Republic
Trend analysis of extreme precipitation events across Iran using percentile indices
Extreme Greenland blocking and high?latitude moisture transport (open access)
Modeling & simulation of global warming & global warming effects
Time Scales and Mechanisms for the Tropical Pacific Response to Global Warming: A Tug of War between the Ocean Thermostat and Weaker Walker
Summertime temperature variability increases with local warming in mid?latitude regions
Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of climate change on event rainfall characteristics influencing landslide occurrences based on multiple GCM projections in China
Projected changes in extreme precipitation in a 60?km AGCM large ensemble and their dependence on return periods
Assessing global and local radiative feedbacks based on AGCM simulations for 1980?2014/2017
Future trends in stratosphere-to-troposphere transport in CCMI models (open access)
Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2 (open access)
Improved Multimodel Superensemble Forecast for Sea Ice Thickness using Global Climate Models (open access)
Global land monsoon precipitation changes in CMIP6 projections
Role of AMOC in Transient Climate Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing in Two Coupled Models
Arctic Sea Ice Growth in Response to Synoptic- and Large-Scale Atmospheric Forcing from CMIP5 Models (open access)
Tracing Future Spring and Summer Drying in Southern Africa to Tropical Lows and the Congo Air Boundary
Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of climate change on event rainfall characteristics influencing landslide occurrences based on multiple GCM projections in China
Sensitivity of idealized mixed?phase stratocumulus to climate perturbations
Climate model advancement
Convection?permitting Models Offer Promise Of More Certain Extreme Rainfall Projections
An Overview of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Simulated Cloud Ice, Radiation Fields, Surface Wind Stress, Sea Surface Temperatures and Precipitation over Tropical and Subtropical Oceans
A Statistical–Dynamical Methodology to Downscale Regional Climate Projections to Urban Scale
Sensitivity of simulated climate over the MENA region related to different land surface schemes in the WRF model (open access)
Improving US extreme precipitation simulation: dependence on cumulus parameterization and underlying mechanism
On the discrepancies in the changes in the annual mean Hadley circulation among different regions and between CMIP5 models and reanalyses
Assessment of climate models in relation to the low?level clouds over the Southern Indian Ocean
Leading Modes of Asian–Australian Monsoon Interannual Variability as Represented in CMIP5 Models
Biology & global warming
The stress of Arctic warming on polar bears
Climate change will cause non-analogue vegetation states in Africa and commit vegetation to long-term change (open access)
Climate change impacts on Australia's eucalypt and coral species: Comparing and sharing knowledge across disciplines
Concurrent shifts in wintering distribution and phenology in migratory swans: Individual and generational effects
Mechanisms underlying leaf photosynthetic acclimation to warming and elevated CO2 as inferred from least?cost optimality theory
Climate change promotes transitions to tall evergreen vegetation in tropical Asia
Climate change induces multiple risks to boreal forests and forestry in Finland: A literature review
Climate warming moderates the impacts of introduced sportfish on multiple dimensions of prey biodiversity
Author Correction: Near-future carbon dioxide levels alter fish behaviour by interfering with neurotransmitter function (open access)
GHG sources & sinks, flux
Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world
Sea-ice loss amplifies summertime decadal CO2 increase in the western Arctic Ocean
Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers
Seasonal variation in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forest
The soil organic carbon stabilization potential of old and new wheat cultivars: a 13CO2-labeling study (open access)
Cereal-legume mixtures increase net CO2 uptake in a forage system of the Eastern Pyrenees (open access)
Quantifying sources of Brazil's CH4 emissions between 2010 and 2018 from satellite data (open access)
Interannual Variability of Carbon Uptake of Secondary Forests in the Brazilian Amazon (2004?2014)
Weather, pollution and biotic factors drive net forest - atmosphere exchange of CO2 at different temporal scales in a temperate-zone mixed forest
Accuracy analysis in CH4MODwetland in the simulation of CH4 emissions from Chinese wetlands
Interactive global change factors mitigate soil aggregation and carbon change in a semi?arid grassland
Ensemble projections elucidate effects of uncertainty in terrestrial nitrogen limitation on future carbon uptake
Geoengineering climate
Seasonally Modulated Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Alters the Climate Outcomes
Changes in West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation under Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering (open access)
Storm Track changes in the Middle East and North Africa under stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
Climate change communications & cognition
Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects
A preregistered replication of “Inoculating the public against misinformation about climate change”
Does climate change framing matter? Evidence from an experiment of crop advisors in the Midwestern United States
The Politicization of Risk: Party Cues, Polarization, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change Risk
Too Close to Care? A Replication Study to Re-examine the Effect of Cued Distance on Climate Change Engagement. (open access)
Climate Risk Narratives: An iterative reflective process for co-producing and integrating climate knowledge
Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly (open access)
Agronomy & climate change
Risk aversion hinders forestry professionals to adapt to climate change
Soil greenhouse gas fluxes from maize production under different soil fertility management practices in East Africa
Cereal-legume mixtures increase net CO2 uptake in a forage system of the Eastern Pyrenees (open access)
Impact of climate change on inter?annual variation in tea plant output in Zhejiang, China
Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia
Humans dealing with our global warming
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights
Climate change drives increase in modeled HIV prevalence
Translating climate beliefs into action in a changing political landscape (open access)
Gendered dimensions of migration in relation to climate change (open access)
Occupational heat stress induced health impacts: A cross-sectional study from South Indian working population
The validity of carbon emission trading policies: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
Understanding the economic impact of interacting carbon pricing and renewable energy policy in China
Climate Change Considerations are Fundamental to Management of Deep?Sea Resource Extraction
The regional fingerprint: A new tool to evaluate adaptive capacity
The effect of technology spillover on CO2 emissions embodied in China-Australia trade
Political conflict and climate policy: the European emissions trading system as a Trojan Horse for the low-carbon transition? (open access)
Promoting better economics, renewables and CO2 reduction through trade: A case study for the Eastern Africa Power Pool
The search for the perfect match: Aligning power-trading products to the energy transition
Other
Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect Sensitivity Analysis
Arctic amplification of global warming strengthened by sunlight oxidation of permafrost carbon to CO2
Exceptionally Warm and Prolonged Flow of Warm Deep Water toward the Filchner?Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017
Global Measurements of Brown Carbon and Estimated Direct Radiative Effects
Informed opinion & nudges
Understanding and managing connected extreme events (open access)
Grounding social foundations for Integrated Assessment Models of climate change (open access)
The Gnat and the Bull Do Climate Outlook Forums Make a Difference? (open access)
Just Because
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017: Meteorological Observations from a Statewide Mesonet and Atmospheric Profiling Systems
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