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New research, December 25-31, 2017
Posted on 5 January 2018 by Ari Jokimäki
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
1. Renewable technologies in Karnataka, India: jobs potential and co-benefits
"We show that enhancing green economy offers benefits that include the creation of jobs, but also delivers a much wider set of socio-economic and environmental welfare gains for emerging economies such as India."
5. Climate Risk Management and the Electricity Sector
8. Changing climate policy paradigms in Bangladesh and Nepal
Climate change
Temperature and Precipitation
"Compared to existing estimates, we found a larger number of engine room-intake (ERI) reports post War World II and in the period 1960 – 1980. Differences in the inferred mixture of observations lead to a systematic warmer shift of the bias adjusted SST anomalies from 1980 compared to previous estimates, while reducing the ensemble spread. Changes in mean field differences between bucket and ERI SST anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere over the period 1955 – 1995 could be as large as 0.5 °C and are not well reproduced by current bias adjustment models."
10. PRECIS-projected increases in temperature and precipitation over Canada
11. Spatial and temporal variations in extreme temperature in Central Asia
"Results show that: (1) from 1981 to 2015, all extreme temperature values exhibited increasing trends on an annual scale, but maximum temperature (TMAX) increased faster than the minimum temperature (TMIN), leading to an overall increase in the diurnal temperature range (DTR)."
14. Emergent behavior of Arctic precipitation in response to enhanced Arctic warming
15. Evaluating biases in Sea Surface Temperature records using coastal weather stations
"A preliminary sea surface temperature reconstruction homogenized using coastal weather station data suggests significant changes to the sea surface temperature record, although there are substantial uncertainties of which only some can be quantified. A large warm excursion in versions 4 and 5 of the NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature during World War 2 is rejected, as is a cool excursion around 1910 present in all existing records. The mid-century plateau is cooler than in existing reconstructions."
16. A comparison of recent trends in precipitation and temperature over Western and Eastern Eurasia
18. Soil Moisture–Temperature Coupling in a Set of Land Surface Models
Extreme events
22. Windstorms and forest disturbances in the Czech Lands: 1801–2015
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
23. The interconnected global climate system – a review of tropical-polar teleconnections
25. A multivariate estimate of the cold season atmospheric response to North Pacific SST variability
Cryosphere
"We determine that the recent snowfall increases in western Queen Maud Land (QML) are part of a long-term trend (+5.2±3.7% decade-1) and are unprecedented over the past two millennia. Warming between 1998 and 2016 is significant and rapid (+1.1±0.7 °C decade-1)."
30. Large Eddy Simulation of Heat Entrainment Under Arctic Sea Ice
31. Contribution of deformation to sea-ice mass balance: a case study from an N-ICE2015 storm
Carbon Cycle
34. Carbon dioxide fluxes in the city centre of Arnhem, A middle-sized Dutch city
Climate forcings
36. On the climate impacts of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric ozone
Climate change impacts
Impacts to mankind
"Our findings show that farmers nowadays experience more extreme climate variability. Farmers report increasing stresses due to temperature increase and droughts." ... "Farmers report several barriers to implement adaptation strategies including; market price fluctuations, lack of skilled labour, lack of climate change information, and lack of capacity to learn and apply techniques in their daily practice."
38. Barometric pressure change and heart rate response during sleeping at ~ 3000 m altitude
39. Lightning-related fatalities in Romania from 1999 to 2015
42. Australian wheat production expected to decrease by the late 21st century
44. Climatically driven yield variability of major crops in Khakassia (South Siberia)
Impacts to nature
45. Climate warming and land-use changes drive broad-scale floristic changes in Southern Sweden
"Our results suggest that climate warming and changes in land use were the main drivers of changes in the flora during the last decades. Climate warming appeared as the most influential driver, with northern distribution limit explaining 30–60% of the variance in the GLMM models. However, the relative importance of the drivers differed among habitat types, with grassland species being affected the most by cessation of grazing/mowing and species of ruderal habitats by ongoing concentration of both agriculture and human population to the most productive soils. For wetland species, only pH optimum was significantly related to species performance, possibly an effect of the increasing humification of acidic water bodies. An observed relative decline of mycorrhizal species may possibly be explained by decreasing nitrogen deposition resulting in less competition for phosphorus. We found no effect of shortage or decline of pollinating lepidopterans and bees."
49. Predicting autumn phenology: How deciduous tree species respond to weather stressors
Also => Ice Loss and the Polar Vortex: How a Warming Arctic Fuels Cold Snaps
The loss of sea ice may be weakening the polar vortex, allowing cold blasts to dip south from the Arctic, across North America, Europe and Russia, a new study says.
I'm sure someone already spotted this... but there's a typo on the first graph: "sanility" instead of the correct "salinity".