A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Mankind
Climate change and summer thermal comfort in China
Built-up area and population density: Two Essential Societal Variables to address climate hazard impact (open access)
A systematic review of how vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems to changing climate is assessed in Africa (open access)
Drought and its impacts in Ethiopia (open access)
Coral Reef Island Initiation and Development Under Higher Than Present Sea Levels
Biosphere
Climate change vulnerability assessment of species
Climate change opens new frontiers for marine species in the Arctic: current trends and future invasion risks (open access)
Vulnerability of juvenile hermit crabs to reduced seawater pH and shading
Long?term change in bioconstruction potential of Maldivian coral reefs following extreme climate anomalies (open access)
Oysters as sentinels of climate variability and climate change in coastal ecosystems (open access)
Bacterial community response to a preindustrial?to?future CO2 gradient is limited and soil specific in Texas Prairie grassland (open access)
Consistent trophic amplification of marine biomass declines under climate change
Uneven winter snow influence on tree growth across temperate China
Ocean acidification increases iodine accumulation in kelp?based coastal food webs
Overlooked climate parameters best predict flowering onset: Assessing phenological models using the elastic net (open access)
Land surface greening suggests vigorous woody regrowth throughout European semi?natural vegetation (open access)
Delayed herbivory by migratory geese increases summer?long CO2 uptake in coastal western Alaska
The 1855 to 1859 locust plague in China
Grass invasion and drought interact to alter the diversity and structure of native plant communities
Other impacts
The Northern California Wildfires of October 8-9, 2017: The Role of a Major Downslope Wind Event (open access)
Climate change communication
Climate change and globalisation as ‘Double Exposure’: Implications for policy development
Climate Policy
Transforming China's electricity sector: Politics of institutional change and regulation
Energy production
Emission savings
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Predicted chance that global warming will temporarily exceed 1.5oC
The impact of global warming on sea surface temperature based El Niño–Southern Oscillation monitoring indices (open access)
Regional differences in shifts of temperature trends across China between 1980 and 2017
Suppression of cold weather events over high latitude continents in warm climates
Frequency analysis of precipitation extremes under climate change
Respective impacts of Arctic sea ice decline and increasing greenhouse gases concentration on Sahel precipitation (open access)
Examining the origins of ocean heat content variability in the eastern North Atlantic subpolar gyre
Extreme events
Comprehensive assessment of drought from 1960 to 2013 in China based on different perspectives
Non?stationary peaks?over?threshold analysis of extreme precipitation events in Finland, 1961–2016
High?resolution regional climate model projections of future tropical cyclone activity in the Philippines (open access)
Dominant Role of the Ocean Mixed Layer Depth in the Increased Proportion of Intense Typhoons during 1980?2015 (open access)
How Gulf-Stream SST-fronts influence Atlantic winter storms
Forcings and feedbacks
Long-term changes in the concentration of radiocarbon and the nature of the Hallstatt cycle
Quantifying human?mediated carbon cycle feedbacks
Cryosphere
A statistical fracture model for Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers (open access)
Dynamic changes in outlet glaciers in northern Greenland from 1948 to 2015 (open access)
Processes influencing heat transfer in the near-surface ice of Greenland's ablation zone (open access)
Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: losses and coupled variability (1958–2018) (open access)
Tropical decadal variability and the rate of Arctic sea ice decrease
The linkage between Arctic sea ice and midlatitude weather: in the perspective of energy
The regional, seasonal, and lagged influence of the Amundsen Sea Low on Antarctic Sea Ice
The ice?free topography of Svalbard
Hydrosphere
Robust responses of the Sahelian hydrological cycle to global warming (open access)
A “mirror layer” of temperature and salinity in the ocean (open access)
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
ENSO change in climate projections: forced response or internal variability?
A numerical study of interannual variability in the North Icelandic Irminger Current
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland
Estimating carbon loss due to internal decay in living trees using tomography: implications for forest carbon budgets (open access)
Contribution of soil inorganic carbon to atmospheric CO2: more important than previously thought
Reduced quantity and quality of SOM along a thaw sequence on the Tibetan Plateau (open access)
Multi?year net ecosystem carbon balance of a restored peatland reveals a return to carbon sink (open access)
Effect of urbanization on soil methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in subtropical Australia (open access)
Carbonaceous material export from Siberian permafrost tracked across the Arctic Shelf using Raman spectroscopy (open access)
General climate science
Palaeoclimatology
Postglacial relative sea?level rise in the Limfjord region, northern Jutland, Denmark
Posted by Ari Jokimäki on Friday, 19 October, 2018
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