A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change communication
Place, proximity, and perceived harm: extreme weather events and views about climate change
Cool dudes in Norway: climate change denial among conservative Norwegian men
Emission savings
How important are future marine and shipping aerosol emissions in a warming Arctic summer and autumn? (open access)
The remaining potential for energy savings in UK households
Energy production
The slow expansion of renewable energy in Russia: Competitiveness and regulation issues
Promises and limitations of nuclear fission energy in combating climate change
Russia's Nuclear Export Programme
Analyzing the factors that influence U.S. public support for exporting natural gas
Climate Policy
US and international climate policy under President Trump
The withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement and its impact on global climate change governance (open access)
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, impacts, and China's response (open access)
Short term policies to keep the door open for Paris climate goals (open access)
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Can an ensemble climate simulation be used to separate climate change signals from internal unforced variability? (open access)
Changes in surface air temperature over China under the 1.5 and 2.0 °C global warming targets (open access)
Recent subsurface North Atlantic cooling trend in context of Atlantic decadal-to-multidecadal variability (open access)
Multidecadal Changes of the Upper Indian Ocean Heat Content during 1965-2016
Detectable impacts of the past half?degree global warming on summertime hot extremes in China
Human contribution to the increasing summer precipitation in Central Asia from 1961 to 2013
Diminishing Arctic Sea Ice Promotes Stronger Surface Winds
Extreme events
Spatiotemporal variability of tornadoes in the Czech Lands, 1801–2017
Drivers of 2016 record Arctic warmth assessed using climate simulations subjected to Factual and Counterfactual forcing (open access)
Increase in extreme precipitation events under anthropogenic warming in India (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
Self?amplifying feedbacks accelerate greening and warming of the Arctic
Contributions of Internal Variability and External Forcing to the Recent Pacific Decadal Variations
Cryosphere
Ocean?induced melt triggers glacier retreat in Northwest Greenland
Greenland Ice Mapping Project: ice flow velocity variation at sub-monthly to decadal timescales (open access)
Dynamic response of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet to potential collapse of Larsen C and George VI ice shelves (open access)
Glacier change along West Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land Sector and links to inter-decadal atmosphere–ocean variability (open access)
Global snow zone maps and trends in snow persistence 2001–2016
Hydrosphere
Rising Oceans Guaranteed: Arctic Land Ice Loss and Sea Level Rise (open access)
Sensitivity of streamflow to climate change in California
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Blocking and its Response to Climate Change (open access)
Carbon cycle
Long-term response of oceanic carbon uptake to global warming via physical and biological pumps (open access)
Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California (open access)
Mankind
Projected heat stress under 1.5oC and 2oC global warming scenarios creates unprecedented discomfort for humans in West Africa (open access)
Climatic variability and dengue risk in urban environment of Delhi (India)
Unprecedented risk of spring frost damage in Switzerland and Germany in 2017
Economically robust protection against 21st century sea-level rise
Biosphere
Dramatic loss of seagrass habitat under projected climate change in the Mediterranean Sea
The Arctic picoeukaryote Micromonas pusilla benefits synergistically from warming and ocean acidification (open access)
Increasing temperature sensitivity caused by climate warming, evidence from Northeastern China
Increased growth of Qinghai spruce in northwestern China during the recent warming hiatus
Impacts of recent climate extremes on spring phenology in arid-mountain ecosystems in China
Effects of ocean acidification on algae growth and feeding rates of juvenile sea urchins
Climate change alterations to ecosystem dominance: how might sponge?dominated reefs function?
Ecophysiological plasticity of Amazonian trees to long-term drought
Oysters and eelgrass: potential partners in a high pCO2 ocean
General climate science
Understanding weather and climate of the last 300 years from ships' logbooks
Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union
Palaeoclimatology
Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings
Tracing winter temperatures over the last two millennia using a north-east Atlantic coastal record (open access)
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Friday, 3 August, 2018
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