Two epic review reportsTwo epic review reportsAMS have released State of the Climate 2019 (50MB pdf), a comprehensive review of Earth's climate as it stood in 2019.
With much less fanfare Walsh et al have produced Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review, 55 pages of scrupulous literature synopsis, synthesis and cautious projection supported by 20 pages of citation references. A true "don't miss" publication. The reference section is a goldmine for further exploration.
Both items are open access.
In this week's "nudges" Schwalm et al remind us of the stubbornly droopy nature of the Keeling Curve:
Climate simulation-based scenarios are routinely used to characterize a range of plausible climate futures. Despite some recent progress on bending the emissions curve, RCP8.5, the most aggressive scenario in assumed fossil fuel use for global climate models, will continue to serve as a useful tool for quantifying physical climate risk, especially over near- to midterm policy-relevant time horizons. Not only are the emissions consistent with RCP8.5 in close agreement with historical total cumulative CO2 emissions (within 1%), but RCP8.5 is also the best match out to midcentury under current and stated policies with still highly plausible levels of CO2 emissions in 2100.
Observations of global warming & effects
AMS State of the Climate 2019 (open access)
Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review (open access)
Snow cover variations across China from 1951–2018 (open access)
Climate change dominated long?term soil carbon losses of Inner Mongolian grasslands
Temporal variability of seasonal warming rates in China
Asymmetric trends of extreme temperature over the Loess Plateau during 1998?2018
Instrumentation & observational methods of climate & global warming
A linear model to derive melt pond depth on Arctic sea ice from hyperspectral data (open access)
Present-day radiative effect from radiation-absorbing aerosols in snow (open access)
Modeling & simulation of global warming & global warming effects
Human-induced changes to the global ocean water masses and their time of emergence
Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level rise in California
Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models (open access)
Irreversibility of Marine Climate Change Impacts under Carbon Dioxide Removal
Robust longitudinally?variable responses of the ITCZ to a myriad of climate forcings
Projected End-of-Century Changes in the South American Monsoon in the CESM Large Ensemble
Seasonal Dependency of Tropical Precipitation Change under Global Warming
Are the Transient and Equilibrium Climate Change Patterns Similar in Response to Increased CO 2 ?
Long term trends of mesopheric ice layers: A model study
Future Projections of Winter Cold Surge Paths over East Asia from CMIP6 Models
Climate model advancement
Optimal Estimation of Stochastic Energy Balance Model Parameters
An idealized protocol to assess the nesting procedure in regional climate modelling
Cryosphere & climate change
Review Article: Earth's ice imbalance (open access)
Greenland climate simulations show high Eemian surface melt (open access)
Less climatic resilience in the arctic
Biology & global warming
Climatic changes and the fate of mountain herbivores (open access)
Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities
Research challenges and opportunities for using big data in global change biology
Survived but not safe: Marine heatwave hinders metabolism in two gastropod survivors
Focus on recent, present and future Arctic and boreal productivity and biomass changes
A changing climate is snuffing out post?fire recovery in montane forests
Tree growth sensitivity to climate is temporally variable
GHG sources & sinks, flux
Historical CO2 emissions from land use and land cover change and their uncertainty (open access)
Diel variability of methane emissions from lakes (open access)
Labile carbon limits late winter microbial activity near Arctic treeline (open access)
Decadal?scale Recovery of Carbon Stocks After Wildfires Throughout the Boreal Forests
Using a natural experiment to foresee the fate of boreal carbon stores
Asymmetric response of soil methane uptake rate to land degradation and restoration: Data synthesis
CO2 removal science & engineering
Small?scale capillary heterogeneity linked to rapid plume migration during CO2 storage
Irreversibility of Marine Climate Change Impacts under Carbon Dioxide Removal
Geoengineering climate
Climate change communications & cognition
Global Warming Risk Perceptions in India
Agronomy & climate change
Economics & finance of climate change & mitigation
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate
A sectoral approach allows an artful merger of climate and trade policy (open access)
Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia
The financial impact of fossil fuel divestment (open access)
Climate change mitigation & adaptation public policy research
Research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies
Climate change adaptation
An agent-based model for community flood adaptation under uncertain sea-level rise
Searching for Grouped Patterns of Heterogeneity in the Climate–Migration Link
Humans dealing with our global warming
A demographic approach to understanding the effects of climate on population growth
A decision support tool for climate-informed and socioeconomic urban design
Other
Book Review: Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
Determining the most accurate program for the Mann-Kendall method in detecting climate mutation
Informed opinion & nudges
Review Article: Earth's ice imbalance (open access)
Less climatic resilience in the arctic
RCP8.5 tracks cumulative CO2 emissions (open access)
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