A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Temperature, precipitation, wind
Radiosondes show that after decades of cooling the lower stratosphere is now warming
Global Wind Speed and Wave Height Extremes Derived from Long-duration Satellite Records
Changes in Canada's Climate: Trends in Indices Based on Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data (open access)
Recent trends of surface air temperatures over Kenya from 1971 to 2010
Central European air temperature: driving force analysis and causal influence of NAO
Temporal trends in absolute and relative extreme temperature events across North America
Projected extreme temperature and precipitation of the Great Lakes Basin
Spatiotemporal characteristics of future changes in precipitation and temperature in Central Asia
Impact of urbanization on hourly precipitation in Beijing, China: Spatiotemporal patterns and causes
Extreme events
On modeling the maximum duration of dry spells: a simulation study under a Bayesian approach
Extratropical cyclone statistics during the last millennium and the 21st century (open access)
A statistical assessment of Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone tracks in climate models
Urban floods in Hyderabad, India, under present and future rainfall scenarios: a case study
Interdependencies and Risk to People and Critical Food, Energy and Water Systems – 2013 Flood Boulder Colorado, USA (open access)
An Intensified Mode of Variability Modulating the Summer Heat Waves in Eastern Europe and Northern China (open access)
Impacts of synoptic and local factors on heat wave events over southeastern region of Korea in 2015
Attributing human influence on the July 2017 Chinese heatwave: the influence of sea-surface temperatures (open access)
Forcings and feedbacks
Evaluating Climate Sensitivity to CO2 Across Earth's History
Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015
Understanding Rapid Adjustments to Diverse Forcing Agents
Evaluating cloud properties in an ensemble of regional online coupled models against satellite observations (open access)
Infrared radiation in the thermosphere near the end of solar cycle 24
Cryosphere
Arctic climate: changes in sea ice extent outweigh changes in snow cover (open access)
Estimated Heat Budget during Summer Melt of Arctic First Year Sea Ice
The internal structure of the Brunt Ice Shelf from ice-penetrating radar analysis and implications for ice shelf fracture (open access)
Permafrost thaw induced drying of wetlands at Scotty Creek, NWT, Canada (open access)
Linking permafrost thaw to shifting biogeochemistry and food web resources in an arctic river (open access)
A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic (open access)
Hydrosphere
Climate change and water resources in arid regions: uncertainty of the baseline time period (open access)
Projected increased risk of water deficit over major West African river basins under future climates
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
Gulf Stream Variability in the Context of Quasi?Decadal and Multidecadal Atlantic Climate Variability (open access)
A Nonstationary ENSO-NAO relationship due to AMO modulation
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Satellite?based estimation of particulate organic carbon export in the northern South China Sea
Quantifying the legacy of snowmelt timing on soil greenhouse gas emissions in a seasonally dry montane forest (open access)
Mankind
A global assessment of atoll island planform changes over the past decades
Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks: Reviewing Regional Organizations in Asia and Africa
Multisource data based agricultural drought monitoring and agricultural loss in China
Simulating the impacts of climate change on soybean cyst nematode and the distribution of soybean
Cross-Sector Management of Extreme Heat Risks in Arizona (open access)
Vulnerability and its discontents: the past, present, and future of climate change vulnerability research (open access)
Nomads’ indigenous knowledge and their adaptation to climate changes in Semirom City in Central Iran
Biosphere
Wave refraction and reef island stability under rising sea level
Declining glacier cover threatens the biodiversity of alpine river diatom assemblages (open access)
Tree growth and water-use in hyper-arid Acacia occurs during the hottest and driest season
Combined effects of warming and nutrients on marine communities are moderated by predators and vary across functional groups (open access)
The Influence of Climate and Livestock Reservoirs on Human Cases of Giardiasis (open access)
Range change evolution of peatmosses (Sphagnum) within and between climate zones
Extreme drought pushes stream invertebrate communities over functional thresholds
The ability of macroalgae to mitigate the negative effects of ocean acidification on four species of North Atlantic bivalve (open access)
Local adaptation of trees at the range margins impacts range shifts in the face of climate change
Beyond the 1984 perspective: narrow focus on modern wildfire trends underestimates future risks to water security (open access)
Long?term changes in the impacts of global warming on leaf phenology of four temperate tree species
Other impacts
Cautious optimism and incremental goals towards stabilizing atmospheric CO2 (open access)
Climate change communication
Self-assessed understanding of climate change
Intergenerational learning: Are children key in spurring climate action?
Taking climate change here and now – mitigating ideological polarization with psychological distance
Climate Policy
A contingent approach to energy mix policy
Energy production
Emission savings
Climate change mitigation potential of community-based initiatives in Europe
Groundwater depletion and associated CO2 emissions in India (open access)
Geoengineering
General climate science
An objective global climatology of polar lows based on reanalysis data
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