New research – January 2014

Some selected papers as included in my New research stream in Twitter and in Facebook during January 2014. There are 174 papers, which makes it about 5.6 papers per day.

CLIMATE SCIENCE

Man-made warming in Indian Ocean during 1958–2004 (open access) ABSTRACT

Effects of atmospheric teleconnections and solar variability on atmospheric temperatures in NH ABSTRACT

Arctic warming, atmospheric blocking and cold European winters in CMIP5 models (open access) ABSTRACT

Effect of data homogenization on estimate of temperature trend, Huairou, Beijing (open access) ABSTRACT

Spatiotemporal characterization of land surface temperature in Mount Kilimanjaro ABSTRACT

Parallel decadal variability of water temperatures for N and S Hemisphere Intermediate Water Masses ABSTRACT

Equilibrium climate sensitivity cannot be reliably estimated from transient observations ABSTRACT

Earth’s Energy Imbalance ABSTRACT

Quantifying contributions of climate feedbacks to tropospheric warming in the NCAR CCSM3.0 ABSTRACT

Characterizing the Climate Feedback Pattern in the NCAR CCSM3-SOM Using Hourly Data ABSTRACT

Asymmetry & uncertainties in climate–vegetation feedback over range of CO2 forcings (open access) ABSTRACT

Effects of vegetation changes on temperature changes across the Eastern China (open access) ABSTRACT

Interactive ozone induces a negative feedback in CO2 driven climate change simulations ABSTRACT

Stratocumulus cloud feedback in southeastern pacific – models vs. observations ABSTRACT

The responses of cloudiness to the direct radiative effect of sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols ABSTRACT

Global distribution of cloud water ABSTRACT

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder version 6 cloud products (open access) ABSTRACT

Effect of cloudiness on long-term variability in air temperature in Krakow (open access) ABSTRACT

Detecting super-thin clouds with polarized sunlight ABSTRACT

Oceanic heat delivery via Kangerlugssuaq Fjord to the south-east Greenland ice sheet ABSTRACT

Urbanization effect on trends of extreme temperature indices over mainland China ABSTRACT

Detection of spatially aggregated changes in temperature and precipitation extremes ABSTRACT

Abrupt change of temperature and precipitation extremes in the arid region of Northwest China ABSTRACT

Changes in extreme temperature and precipitation in the Caribbean region, 1961–2010 (open access) ABSTRACT

Variations of surface temperature and rainfall in Vietnam from 1971 to 2010 (open access) ABSTRACT

Long-term variations and trends in precipitation in Finland ABSTRACT

The rainfall regime in Lisbon in the last 150 years ABSTRACT

Projected changes in mean and extreme precipitation indices over India using PRECIS ABSTRACT

Growing threat of intense tropical cyclones to East Asia over the period 1977–2010 ABSTRACT

A climatology of Australian severe thunderstorm environments 1979–2011 (open access) ABSTRACT

Cause of severe droughts in Southwest China during 1951–2010 ABSTRACT

Did climate change induced rainfall trends contribute to the Australian Millennium drought? ABSTRACT

Why did the 2011-12 La Niña cause a severe drought in the Brazilian Northeast? ABSTRACT

Trends and variability of seasonal weather regimes ABSTRACT

Frost-free season lengthening and its potential cause in the Tibetan Plateau from 1960 to 2010 ABSTRACT

Temporal change of climate zones in China in the context of climate warming ABSTRACT

Influence of Antarctic ice sheet lowering on the Southern Hemisphere climate ABSTRACT

Future change of global monsoon (open access) ABSTRACT

Met Office Hadley Centre Sea Ice and SST data set, version 2, part 1: Sea ice concentrations ABSTRACT

Evaluation of seven different atmospheric reanalysis products in the Arctic ABSTRACT

Awareness of both type I and II errors in climate science and assessment ABSTRACT

Terrestrial satellite records for climate studies: how long is long enough? ABSTRACT

Various aerosol types and minor gases in Arctic and Antarctic atmospheres ABSTRACT

On the consistency between global and regional methane emissions (open access) ABSTRACT

Two hundred fifty years of aerosols and climate: the end of the age of aerosols (open access) ABSTRACT

How active International Society of Biometeorology is in climate change research (open access) ABSTRACT

Antarctic ozone variability inside polar vortex estimated from balloon measurements (open access) ABSTRACT

Stratospheric ozone trends and variability as seen by SCIAMACHY from 2002 to 2012 (open access) ABSTRACT

Climate system response to stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery ABSTRACT

Response of the ozone column over Europe to the 2011 Arctic ozone depletion event ABSTRACT

The interpretation and use of biases in decadal climate predictions ABSTRACT

Soil temperatures beneath snow-free skin-surface using thermal observations from satellites ABSTRACT

Mending Milankovitch’s theory: obliquity amplification by surface feedbacks (open access) ABSTRACT

ENSO modulation: Is it decadally predictable? ABSTRACT

Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking ABSTRACT

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS

The relationship between climate forcing and impact (open access) ABSTRACT

An Improved Mass Budget for the Greenland Ice Sheet ABSTRACT

Impact of climate sensitivity and polar amplification on projections of Greenland Ice Sheet loss ABSTRACT

Persistent flow acceleration within the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet ABSTRACT

Explaining the presence of perennial liquid water bodies in the firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet ABSTRACT

Complex network of channels beneath an Antarctic ice shelf ABSTRACT

Feedbacks and mechanisms affecting global sensitivity of glaciers to climate change (open access) ABSTRACT

Glacier area loss in Northern Eurasia (open access) ABSTRACT

Glacier mass changes on the Tibetan Plateau 2003–2009 (open access) ABSTRACT

The climate memory of an Arctic polythermal glacier ABSTRACT

Recent changes in freezing level heights in High Asia and their impact on glacier changes ABSTRACT

Mapping hazards from glacier lake outburst floods (open access) ABSTRACT

Seasonal to interannual Arctic sea-ice predictability in current GCMs ABSTRACT

Multiyear sea ice thermal regimes and oceanic heat flux in the Arctic Ocean ABSTRACT

Arctic sea ice and the Madden–Julian Oscillation (open access) ABSTRACT

A satellite-based snow cover climatology (1985–2011) for the European Alps (open access) ABSTRACT

Central European tree phenology (1946-2010) confirm the recent extension of growing seasons ABSTRACT

Olive tree phenology and climate variations in the Mediterranean area over the last two decades ABSTRACT

Forest ecosystem changes from annual methane source to sink depending on late summer water balance ABSTRACT

Increased topsoil carbon stock across China’s forests ABSTRACT

Forest biomass carbon sinks in East Asia ABSTRACT

Change in tropical forest cover of Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010 (open access) ABSTRACT

Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change (open access) ABSTRACT

Terrestrial carbon sink observed from space (open access) ABSTRACT

Predicting changes in temperate forest budburst using continental-scale observations and models ABSTRACT

Impact of climate change and human activities on alpine grassland over Qinghai-Tibet Plateau ABSTRACT

Big eucalypts grow more slowly in a warm climate ABSTRACT

Do climatic conditions affect host and parasite phenotypes differentially? ABSTRACT

Ecological responses of plant species and communities to climate warming ABSTRACT

Increased spring freezing vulnerability for alpine shrubs under early snowmelt ABSTRACT

Impacts of observed growing-season warming trends since 1980 on crop yields in China ABSTRACT

Remotely sensed trends in the phenology of northern high latitude terrestrial vegetation ABSTRACT

Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests ABSTRACT

Trends in Finnish forest moth abundance are counter to predicted effects of climate change ABSTRACT

Faster growth in warmer winters for large trees in a Mediterranean-climate ecosystem ABSTRACT

Forest defoliator outbreaks under climate change from five pine insect pests ABSTRACT

Phenological change in British butterflies since the late-19th century ABSTRACT

Forest cover reduces thermally suitable habitats for a high-elevation lizard ABSTRACT

Climate change effects on animal and plant phylogenetic diversity in southern Africa ABSTRACT

The subtle role of climate change on population genetic structure in Canada lynx ABSTRACT

Projecting date palm distribution in Iran under climate change ABSTRACT

Warming drives a seasonal shift in timing of host-parasite dynamics and affecting disease risk ABSTRACT

Predicting plant invasions under climate change ABSTRACT

Changing Climate and the Altitudinal Range of Avian Malaria in the Hawaiian Islands ABSTRACT

Effects of landscape fragmentation and climate on Lyme disease incidence in NE United States ABSTRACT

Body size and activity times mediate mammalian responses to climate change ABSTRACT

Montane forest root growth and soil organic layer depth may have stabilized Cenozoic global change ABSTRACT

Larger biodiversity in tropical forests increases their carbon sink ABSTRACT

Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change (open access) ABSTRACT

Potential climatic refugia in semi-arid, temperate mountains (Sierra Nevada, California, USA) ABSTRACT

Tropical cyclone cooling combats region-wide coral bleaching ABSTRACT

Do successive climate extremes weaken the resistance of plant communities? (open access) ABSTRACT

Photosynthetic activity buffers ocean acidification in seagrass meadows (open access) ABSTRACT

Ocean acidification state in western Antarctic surface waters (open access) ABSTRACT

Regional variability of acidification in the Arctic: a sea of contrasts (open access) ABSTRACT

Biogeochemical context impacts seawater pH changes from atmospheric sulfur and nitrogen deposition ABSTRACT

Natural variability and anthropogenic change in equatorial Pacific surface ocean pCO2 and pH ABSTRACT

Observed small spatial scale and seasonal variability of CO2 in Southern Ocean (open access) ABSTRACT

The iron budget in ocean surface waters in the 20th and 21st centuries (open access) ABSTRACT

A curious local surface salinity maximum in the northwestern tropical Atlantic ABSTRACT

Rapid changes in the seasonal sea level cycle along the US Gulf coast from the late 20th century ABSTRACT

Naturally forced multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ABSTRACT

Millennial variability in an idealized ocean model: predicting the AMOC regime shifts ABSTRACT

Changes in global ocean wave heights as projected using multi-model CMIP5 simulations ABSTRACT

Arctic Ocean basin liquid freshwater storage trend 1992 – 2012 ABSTRACT

Is flooding in Toronto a concern? ABSTRACT

Comparison of different evaporation estimates over the African continent (open access) ABSTRACT

Energy input is primary controller of methane bubbling in subarctic lakes ABSTRACT

Climate change risks to US infrastructure (open access) ABSTRACT

Historical evidence for climate driven migrations in Portuguese fishing community ABSTRACT

Climate change as a challenge to modern ways of thinking and being ABSTRACT

On climate variability and civil war in Asia (open access) ABSTRACT

Implications of changing climate on food security and smallholders’ livelihoods in Bogotá, Colombia ABSTRACT

Two thresholds determine climatic control of forest fire size in Europe and northern Africa ABSTRACT

Smoke consequences of new wildfire regimes driven by climate change (open access) ABSTRACT

Living on climate-changed country: health and well-being in Remote Australian Communities ABSTRACT

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION

Can regional climate engineering save the summer Arctic Sea-Ice? (open access) ABSTRACT

Will geoengineering be able to stop Arctic sea ice and snow from melting? ABSTRACT

Religion and climate change: varieties in viewpoints and practices ABSTRACT

Climate change mitigation policy paradigms—national objectives and alignments ABSTRACT

Full greenhouse gas budget of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities (open access) ABSTRACT

Effects of climate sensitivity and carbon cycle interactions on mitigation policy stringency (OA) ABSTRACT

Considering local adaptation increases willingness to mitigate ABSTRACT

Historical responsibility for climate change: science and the science–policy interface ABSTRACT

Contribution of lawn mowing to atmospheric aerosol levels in American suburbs (open access) ABSTRACT

Quantifying sources of climate uncertainty to inform climate change risk analysis ABSTRACT

Most people in UK see cold events as pointing towards the reality of climate change (open access) ABSTRACT

Local surface temperature change due to expansion of oil palm plantation in Indonesia ABSTRACT

Well permeability estimation and CO2 leakage rates ABSTRACT

Reduced emissions from U.S. power plants due to switch from coal to natural gas (open access) ABSTRACT

Weakened tropical circulation and reduced precipitation in response to geoengineering (open access) ABSTRACT

Overview of the potential of microalgae for CO2 sequestration ABSTRACT

Efficiency of carbon sequestration by added reactive nitrogen in ocean fertilisation ABSTRACT

Shifting discourses of climate change in India ABSTRACT

Well permeability estimation and CO2 leakage rates ABSTRACT

Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values (open access) ABSTRACT

Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions ABSTRACT

The dynamics of oil consumption and economic growth in Malaysia ABSTRACT

Lightning discharges produced by wind turbines ABSTRACT

The Role of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Policies for Climate Change Mitigation ABSTRACT

Variations in wind-energy regime of Taklimakan Desert, central Asia, over last 700 years ABSTRACT

National contributions to observed global warming (open access) ABSTRACT

Can we modify stratospheric water vapor by deliberate cloud seeding ABSTRACT

The regional climate impact of a realistic future deforestation scenario in the Congo Basin ABSTRACT

PALAEOCLIMATE

Climatic potential of Islamic chronicles in Iberia: Extreme droughts (AD 711–1010) ABSTRACT

New tools for the reconstruction of Pleistocene Antarctic sea ice ABSTRACT

Swiss tree-rings reveal warm and wet summers during medieval times ABSTRACT

A 0.6-Million Year Record of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability in the Tropics ABSTRACT

Past 1200 years surface air temperature reconstruction with tree rings for Gulf of Alaska ABSTRACT

70-80 year peridiocity identified from tree ring temperatures AD 550–1980 in N Scandinavia ABSTRACT

Ephemeral formation of perennial sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the middle Eocene ABSTRACT

Evidence of the solar Gleissberg cycle in the nitrate concentration in polar ice ABSTRACT

Atlantic overturning responses to obliquity and precession over the last 3 Myr ABSTRACT

Late Pliocene lakes and soils: global data set for analysis of climate feedbacks in warmer world (OA) ABSTRACT

CO2 forcing and Intertropical Convergence Zone influence on W Pacific warm pool climate, past 400 ka ABSTRACT

Sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at Permo-Triassic boundary ABSTRACT

Delayed hydrological response to Greenland cooling at the onset of Younger Dryas in western Europe ABSTRACT

Evaluating the dominant components of warming in Pliocene climate simulations (open access) ABSTRACT

Muted change in Atlantic overturning circulation over some glacial-aged Heinrich events ABSTRACT