A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change communication
Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs
Not in my back yard: Egocentrism and climate change skepticism across the globe
Climate Policy
Environmental integrity of international carbon market mechanisms under the Paris Agreement (open access)
Altruism and Global Environmental Taxes (open access)
Energy production
Current perspectives on nuclear energy as a global climate change mitigation option
Changes in soil organic carbon stocks after conversion from forest to oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo (open access)
Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions
Emission savings
The crux with reducing emissions in the long-term: The underestimated “now” versus the overestimated “then” (open access)
Observing local CO2 sources using low-cost, near-surface urban monitors (open access)
Carbon emissions from South?East Asian peatlands will increase despite emission?reduction schemes (open access)
Changes in Irrigation Practices likely Mitigate Nitrous Oxide Emissions from California Cropland
Effect of dung quantity and quality on greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical pastures in Kenya
Consensus in climate classifications for present climate and global warming scenarios
Climate, history, and culture in the United States
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Decadal differences of the diurnal temperature range in the Aral Sea region at the turn of the century (open access)
Disproportionate magnitude of climate change in United States national parks (open access)
Influence of source and scale of gridded temperature data on modelled spring onset patterns in the conterminous United States (open access)
The Role of Melting Snow in the Ocean Surface Heat Budget
On the statistical significance of climatic trends estimated from GPS tropospheric time series
How well do stratospheric reanalyses reproduce high-resolution satellite temperature measurements? (open access)
Future evolution of extreme precipitation in the Mediterranean
Extreme events
California's Drought of the Future: A Midcentury Recreation of the Exceptional Conditions of 2012?2017 (open access)
A winter-season lightning climatology for the contiguous United States
Effects of Climate Change on Wind-Driven Heavy Snowfall Events over Eastern North America
More prolonged droughts by the end of the century in the Middle East (open access)
Does forest cover help prevent flood damage? Empirical evidence from India
Impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on heat waves in the Indochina peninsula (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
The global warming potential of near-surface emitted water vapour (open access)
Asymmetric Cloud?Shortwave Radiation?Sea Surface Temperature Feedback of Ningaloo Niño/Niña
Time evolution of the cloud response to moisture intrusions into the Arctic during winter
Mineral Weathering and the Permafrost Carbon?Climate Feedback
Total ozone characteristics associated with regional meteorology in West Antarctica
Cryosphere
The Trajectory Towards a Seasonally Ice-Free Arctic Ocean (open access)
Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons (open access)
Satellite-derived sea ice export and its impact on Arctic ice mass balance (open access)
Drivers of Antarctic sea ice volume change in CMIP5 models
Surface Meltwater Impounded by Seasonal Englacial Storage in West Greenland
Dual-satellite (Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8) remote sensing of supraglacial lakes in Greenland (open access)
Modeling the effect of Ross Ice Shelf melting on the Southern Ocean in quasi-equilibrium (open access)
Ocean stratification and low melt rates at the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone
Cover Crops May Cause Winter Warming in Snow?Covered Regions
Hydrosphere
Partitioning Evapotranspiration Over the Continental United States Using Weather Station Data
Hydrological response of biological soil crusts to global warming: A ten?year simulative study (open access)
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
North American weather regimes are becoming more persistent: Is Arctic amplification a factor? (open access)
Lagrangian transport across the upper Arctic waters in the Canadian Basin
Performance of the CMIP5 models in the simulation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau monsoon
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Inconsistent response of Arctic permafrost peatland carbon accumulation to warm climate phases
The fate of carbon and nutrients exported out of the Southern Ocean
The response of the marine nitrogen cycle to ocean acidification (open access)
Mankind
Weekly heat wave death prediction model using zero-inflated regression approach
The influence of large-scale factors on the heat load on human beings in Poland in the summer months
Taking Stock: the Field of Climate and Security
Mapping the vulnerability of European summer tourism under 2 °C global warming
The impact of future climate change and potential adaptation methods on Maize yields in West Africa
Developing signals to trigger adaptation to sea-level rise (open access)
Biosphere
Thresholds and drivers of coral calcification responses to climate change (open access)
Controls of terrestrial ecosystem nitrogen loss on simulated productivity responses to elevated CO2 (open access)
Using species traits to guide conservation actions under climate change
Adaptation pathways for conservation law and policy
Response of tropical terrestrial gross primary production to the super El Niño event in 2015
General climate science
Lapse Rate or Cold Point: The Tropical Tropopause Identified by In Situ Trace Gas Measurements
Palaeoclimatology
Other environmental issues
Humans are the most significant global geomorphological driving force of the 21st century
Who is legally responsible for deaths caused by air pollution?
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Friday, 5 October, 2018
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