Skeptical Science New Research for Week #29, 2020
86 articles
Physical science of global warming & effects
An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence
Arctic continental margin sediments as possible Fe and Mn sources to seawater as sea ice retreats: Insights from the Eurasian Margin
Observations & observational methods of global warming & effects
Early?Warning Signals for Critical Temperature Transitions
Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 y (open access)
Observed Evidence for Steep Rise in the Extreme Flow of Western Himalayan Rivers
Fingerprints for Early Detection of Changes in the AMOC (open access)
Biogenic volatile organic compound ambient mixing ratios and emission rates in the Alaskan Arctic tundra (open access)
Satellite-observed monthly glacier and snow mass changes in southeast Tibet: implication for substantial meltwater contribution to the Brahmaputra (open access)
Comparing methods of uncertainty estimation in optimal fingerprinting
Interdecadal Change in the Effect of Spring Soil Moisture over the Indo-China Peninsula on the Following Summer Precipitation over the Yangtze River Basin
Changes of Compound Hot and Dry Extremes on Different Land Surface Conditions in China during 1957–2018
Harmonised observations of climate forcing across Africa: an assessment of existing approaches and their applicability
Instrumentation of global warming
Spectrally Resolved Fluxes from IASI Data: Retrieval Algorithm for Clear-Sky Measurements (open access)
Modeling & simulation of global warming & global warming effects
Response of surface shortwave cloud radiative effect to greenhouse gases and aerosols and its impact on summer maximum temperature (open access)
LGM climate forcing and ocean dynamical feedback and their implications for estimating climate sensitivity (open access)
Fast responses on pre-industrial climate from present-day aerosols in a CMIP6 multi-model study (open access)
Arctic Sea Ice in Two Configurations of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) During the 20th and 21st Centuries
Past variance and future projections of the environmental conditions driving western U.S. summertime wildfire burn area (open access)
Changes in future synoptic circulation patterns: consequences for extreme event attribution
Quantifying the influence of cloud radiative feedbacks on Arctic surface warming using cloud locking in an earth system model
Response of Vertical Velocities in Extratropical Precipitation Extremes to Climate Change
Linkage between Projected Precipitation and Atmospheric Thermodynamic Changes
Possible impacts of anthropogenic climate change to the upwelling in the South Brazil Bight (open access)
CO 2 -induced heat source changes over the Tibetan Plateau in boreal summer-part II: the effects of CO 2 direct radiation and uniform sea surface warming
Climate model advancement
The impact of performance filtering on climate feedbacks in a perturbed parameter ensemble (open access)
An observation-based evaluation and ranking of historical Earth System Model simulations for regional downscaling in the northwest North Atlantic Ocean (open access)
Apples and Oranges': on comparing simulated historic near surface temperatures changes with observations
Interdecadal and interannual evolution characteristics of the global surface precipitation anomaly shown by CMIP5 and CMIP6 models
Overestimated acceleration of the advective Brewer?Dobson circulation due to stratospheric cooling
A sensitivity analysis of the different setups of the RegCM4.5 model for the Carpathian Region
Cryosphere & climate change
Present-day and future Greenland Ice Sheet precipitation frequency from CloudSat observations and the Community Earth System Model (open access)
Results of the third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (MISMIP+) (open access)
Estimation of the atmospheric ice content mass, spatial distribution and long?term changes based on the ERA5 reanalysis
Mid?Holocene Grounding Line Retreat and Re?advance at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica
Biology & global warming
Fasting season length sets temporal limits for global polar bear persistence
Anthropogenic stressors impact fish sensory development and survival via thyroid disruption (open access)
Shifts in timing and duration of breeding for 73 boreal bird species over four decades (open access)
Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change
Potential distribution of an epiphytic bryophyte depends on climate and forest continuity
Site conditions exert more control than genetic differentiation on modulation of secondary growth and climate sensitivity of Pinus pinaster
Non?linearity in interspecific interactions in response to climate change: cod and haddock as an example
Landscape resistance mediates native fish species distribution shifts and vulnerability to climate change in riverscapes
Inferring CO 2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model
GHG sources & sinks, flux
Riddles in the cold: Antarctic endemism and microbial succession impact methane cycling in the Southern Ocean
The carbon footprint of household energy use in the United States (open access)
Ocean Carbon Uptake Under Aggressive Emission Mitigation (open access)
Simulation of soil carbon dynamics in Australia under a framework that better connects spatially explicit data with R??? C (open access)
Observing carbon dioxide emissions over China's cities and industrial areas with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (open access)
The potential of Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 data to reduce the uncertainties in CO2 surface fluxes over Australia using a variational assimilation scheme (open access)
Anthropogenic nitrogen?induced changes in seasonal carbonate dynamics in a productive coastal environment
The CO2?equivalent balance of freshwater ecosystems is non?linearly related to productivity
Decade of experimental permafrost thaw reduces turnover of young carbon and increases losses of old carbon, without affecting the net carbon balance
Net landscape carbon balance of a tropical savanna: relative importance of fire and aquatic export in offsetting terrestrial production
The Influence of two land?surface hydrology schemes on the terrestrial carbon cycle of Africa: A regional climate model study
Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources
Effects of land use and cultivation histories on the distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in the area of the Northern Nile Delta in Egypt (open access)
CO2 mitigation science & engineering
A deep dive into the modelling assumptions for biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): a transparency exercise
Geoengineering climate
Forcing dependence of atmospheric lapse rate changes dominates residual polar warming in solar radiation management climate scenarios
Black carbon
Measurement report: Evaluation of sources and mixing state of black carbon aerosol under the background of emission reduction in the North China Plain: implications for radiative effect (open access)
Climate change communications & cognition
Individual and local flooding experiences are differentially associated with subjective attribution and climate change concern
Agronomy & climate change
Impact of rainfall structure and climate change on soil and groundwater salinization
Climate Change effects on Agricultural Production: The Regional and Sectoral Economic Consequences in China (open access)
Simulation of the impacts of climate change on phenology, growth, and yield of various rice genotypes in humid sub-tropical environments using AquaCrop-Rice
Large zonal and temporal shifts in crops and cultivars coincide with warmer growing seasons in Finland (open access)
Irrigation and hydrometeorological extremes (open access)
Economics of climate change
The ultimate cost of carbon (open access)
The interdependence between CO 2 emissions, economic growth, renewable and non-renewable energies, and service development: evidence from 65 countries
The evolution of transformational change in multilateral funds dedicated to financing adaptation to climate change (open access)
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade (open access)
Economic losses from extreme weather in the U.S. Gulf Coast region: spatially differential contributions of climate hazard and socioeconomic exposure and vulnerability
Buy Coal or Kick-Start Green Innovation? Energy Policies in an Open Economy (open access)
Humans dealing with our global warming
Women’s vulnerability to climate-related risks to household water security in Centre-East, Burkina Faso (open access)
Demand for ports to 2050: Climate policy, growing trade and the impacts of sea?level rise (open access)
Urban climate awareness and urgency to adapt: An international overview
Identifying and prioritising adaptation options for a coastal freshwater supply and demand system under climatic and non-climatic changes
Climate change impact assessment on water resources under RCP scenarios: A case study in Mundaú River Basin, Northeastern Brazil
Building authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance: Evidence from the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
Culturally sensitive boundary work: A framework for linking knowledge to climate action
A cross-sectoral integrated assessment of alternatives for climate mitigation in Madagascar (open access)
Other
Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea?Level Change and the Implications for the Future
Quantifying regional surface energy responses to forest structural change in Nordic Fennoscandia
Summary of a workshop on extreme weather events in a warming world organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (open access)
Quantifying a Novel Climate Through Changes in PDO?Climate and PDO?Salmon Relationships
A novel method for assessing climate change impacts in ecotron experiments (open access)
Methane emissions reduce the radiative cooling effect of a subtropical estuarine mangrove wetland by half
ERA5?HEAT: A global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis (open access)
A spatial model for return values of warm temperature extremes in the High Arctic
Informed opinion & nudges
The ultimate cost of carbon (open access)
Existential Risks to Humanity Should Concern International Policymakers and More Could Be Done in Considering Them at the International Governance Level
The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy
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