New research – June 2014

Some selected papers as included in my New research stream in Twitter and in Facebook during June 2014. There are 176 papers, which makes it about 5.9 papers per day.

CLIMATE SCIENCE

Return periods of global climate fluctuations and the pause [ABSTRACT]

Temperature trends in the Canadian arctic during 1895–2014 [ABSTRACT]

Most of the long-term warming in the Czech Lands is due to anthropogenic GHGs [ABSTRACT]

Robust Seasonality of Arctic Warming Processes in Two Different Versions of MIROC GCM [ABSTRACT]

Historical differences in temperature between urban and non-urban areas in Puerto Rico [ABSTRACT]

Antarctic near-surface air temperatures compared with ERA-Interim values since 1979 [ABSTRACT]

Has a warm North Atlantic contributed to recent European cold winters? (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Time, Probe Type and Temperature Variable Bias Corrections to Historical Expendable Bathythermograph Observations [ABSTRACT]

Consistency of the current global ocean observing systems from an Argo perspective (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Estimating surface temperature changes of lakes in the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS LST data [ABSTRACT]

Climate change impacts on groundwater and soil temperatures in cold and temperate regions: Implications, mathematical theory, and emerging simulation tools [ABSTRACT]

The influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on Major Stratospheric Sudden Warmings [ABSTRACT]

The physical drivers of historical and 21st century global precipitation changes (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Decadal trends of global precipitation in the recent 30 years [ABSTRACT]

Detection of spurious precipitation signals from automatic weather stations in irrigated areas [ABSTRACT]

Consistent responses of East Asian summer mean rainfall to global warming in CMIP5 simulations [ABSTRACT]

Fifty-year Amundsen–Scott South Pole station surface climatology (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Modelling present and future African climate using CMIP5 scenarios in HadGEM2-ES [ABSTRACT]

Climate of the Carpathian Region in the period 1961–2010: climatologies and trends of 10 variables [ABSTRACT]

Recent climate change in the Arabian Peninsula: Seasonal rainfall and temperature climatology of Saudi Arabia for 1979–2009 (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Time of emergence of climate signals over China under the RCP4.5 scenario [ABSTRACT]

Surface urban heat island in China’s 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers [ABSTRACT]

Recent climatic trends in the tropical Atlantic [ABSTRACT]

Contrasting Eurasian spring and summer climate anomalies associated with western and eastern Eurasian spring snow cover changes [ABSTRACT]

Global-mean radiative feedbacks and forcing in atmosphere-only and coupled atmosphere-ocean climate change experiments [ABSTRACT]

Contributions of solar and greenhouse gases forcing during the present warm period [ABSTRACT]

Urban Impacts on Mean and Trend of Surface Incident Solar Radiation [ABSTRACT]

On the detection of the solar signal in the tropical stratosphere (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Projected changes in solar UV radiation in the Arctic and subarctic Ocean: Effects from changes in reflectivity, ice transmittance, clouds and ozone [ABSTRACT]

Major impacts of geomagnetic excursions on global climate seem unlikely (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Entering the Era of 30+ Year Satellite Cloud Climatologies: A North American Case Study [ABSTRACT]

An examination of the nature of global MODIS cloud regimes [ABSTRACT]

Evaluation of Cloud Fraction Simulated by Seven SCMs against the ARM Observations at the SGP Site [ABSTRACT]

Improvement of cloud microphysics in the aerosol-climate model BCC_AGCM2.0.1_CUACE/Aero, evaluation against observations, and updated aerosol indirect effect [ABSTRACT]

Quantifying Components of Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions in Climate Models [ABSTRACT]

Climate impacts of changing aerosol emissions since 1996 [ABSTRACT]

Contrasting the direct radiative effect and direct radiative forcing of aerosols (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Contribution of light-absorbing impurities in snow to Greenland’s darkening since 2009 [ABSTRACT]

Albedo over rough snow and ice surfaces (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Uncertainties in future climate predictions due to convection parameterisations (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Irrigation as an historical climate forcing [ABSTRACT]

The importance of the eastward zonal current for generating extreme El Niño [ABSTRACT]

Regional Changes in the Annual Mean Hadley Circulation in Recent Decades [ABSTRACT]

Intraseasonal and interdecadal jet shifts in the Northern Hemisphere: the role of warm pool tropical convection and sea ice [ABSTRACT]

How robust is the recent strengthening of the Tropical Pacific trade winds? [ABSTRACT]

Rapid subsurface warming and circulation changes of Antarctic coastal waters by poleward shifting winds [ABSTRACT]

Beyond climatological extremes – assessing how the odds of hydrometeorological extreme events in South-East Europe change in a warming climate (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Projected increases in heat wave frequency, duration, amplitude, and northern reach in Europe [ABSTRACT]

Observed and simulated temperature extremes during the recent warming hiatus (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Recent Increases in Extreme Temperature Occurrence over Land [ABSTRACT]

Long-term changes in seasonal temperature extremes over Saudi Arabia during 1981–2010 [ABSTRACT]

Anthropogenic CO2 is an important forcing for droughts in the Czech Lands [ABSTRACT]

Modeling of severe persistent droughts over eastern China during the last millennium (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Responses of Terrestrial-mean Aridity to Global Warming [ABSTRACT]

Synchronicity of historical dry spells in the Southern Hemisphere (open access) [ABSTRACT]

The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case [ABSTRACT]

Projecting future drought in Mediterranean forests: bias correction of climate models matters! [ABSTRACT]

Interdecadal shift of intense tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere [ABSTRACT]

Tropical Cyclone-Induced Thermocline Warming and its Regional and Global Impacts [ABSTRACT]

Possible future changes in cyclonic storms in the Bay of Bengal, India under warmer climate [ABSTRACT]

Estimating Tropical Cyclone Damages Under Climate Change in the Southern Hemisphere Using Reported Damages [ABSTRACT]

Methane emissions from Amazonian Rivers and their contribution to the global methane budget [ABSTRACT]

Effect of urban growth on aerosol optical depth – Tucson, AZ 35 years later [ABSTRACT]

Global aerosol change in the last decade: An analysis based on MODIS data (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Forty-seven Years of Weekly Atmospheric Black Carbon Measurements in the Finnish Arctic: Decrease in Black Carbon with Declining Emissions [ABSTRACT]

A new health check of the ozone layer at global and regional scales [ABSTRACT]

Stratospheric Ozone Response to a Solar Irradiance Reduction in a Quadrupled CO2 Environment (open access) [ABSTRACT]

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS

Ocean variability contributing to basal melt rate near the ice front of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica [ABSTRACT]

Modelling the response of the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st and 22nd centuries (open access) [ABSTRACT]

How old is the ice beneath Dome A, Antarctica? (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Observations of Pronounced Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Warming and Implications for Runoff Production [ABSTRACT]

Externally forced fluctuations in ocean temperature at Greenland glaciers in non-summer months [ABSTRACT]

Deformation, warming and softening of Greenland’s ice by refreezing meltwater [ABSTRACT]

Climate trends and glacier retreat in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, revisited [ABSTRACT]

Multitemporal glacier inventory of the French Alps from the late 1960s to the late 2000s [ABSTRACT]

Evidence of Arctic sea ice thinning from direct observations [ABSTRACT]

Spatially Mapped Reductions in the Length of the Arctic Sea Ice Season [ABSTRACT]

The MODIS ice surface temperature product as an indicator of sea ice minimum over the Arctic Ocean [ABSTRACT]

Assessing the forecast skill of Arctic sea ice extent in the GloSea4 seasonal prediction system [ABSTRACT]

Loss of sea ice during winter north of Svalbard (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Snow depth of the Weddell and Bellingshausen Sea ice covers from IceBridge surveys in 2010 and 2011: An examination [ABSTRACT]

Summer Arctic atmospheric circulation response to spring Eurasian snow cover and its possible linkage to accelerated sea ice decrease [ABSTRACT]

Oscillatory dynamics in timing of ice breakup for NH lakes don’t mask progressive climate change [ABSTRACT]

Characteristics of the Tibetan Plateau snow cover variations based on daily data during 1997–2011 [ABSTRACT]

Extent of the rain-snow transition zone in the western U.S. under historic and projected climate [ABSTRACT]

Energy-balance mechanisms underlying consistent large-scale temperature responses in warm and cold climates (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: a multi-sensor satellite data assessment [ABSTRACT]

Amazon forest biomass density maps: tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates [ABSTRACT]

Widespread negative correlations between black spruce growth and temperature across topographic moisture gradients in the boreal forest (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Tree mineral nutrition is deteriorating in Europe [ABSTRACT]

Differential responses of trees to temperature variation during the chilling and forcing phases [ABSTRACT]

Increasing temperatures can improve seedling establishment in arid-adapted savanna trees [ABSTRACT]

High arctic plants like it hot: a long-term investigation of between-year variability in plant biomass [ABSTRACT]

Is climate an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States? [ABSTRACT]

Responses of vegetation distribution to climate change in China [ABSTRACT]

Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant community: Implications for ecosystem function and stability [ABSTRACT]

Response of vegetation to the 2003 European drought was mitigated by height (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Extreme temperature events alter demographic rates, relative fitness, and community structure [ABSTRACT]

A tale of two springs: using recent climate anomalies to characterize the sensitivity of temperate forest phenology to climate change (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Phenological response to climate change in China: a meta-analysis [ABSTRACT]

Cherry blossom phenological data since the seventeenth century for Edo (Tokyo), Japan, and their application to estimation of March temperatures [ABSTRACT]

Asymmetric sensitivity of first flowering date to warming and cooling in alpine plants [ABSTRACT]

Reduced wind strengthens top-down control of an insect herbivore [ABSTRACT]

Climate conditions and resource availability drive return elevational migrations in a single-brooded insect [ABSTRACT]

Climate change enhances the negative effects of predation risk on an intermediate consumer [ABSTRACT]

Predicting thermal vulnerability of stream and river ecosystems to climate change [ABSTRACT]

Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems to changes in harmful algal bloom distribution in response to climate change: projections based on model analysis [ABSTRACT]

Direct and indirect effects of climate and fishing on changes in coastal ecosystem services: a historical perspective from the North Sea (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Coral-algal phase shifts alter fish communities and reduce fisheries production [ABSTRACT]

The susceptibility of corals to thermal stress by analyzing Hsp60 expression [ABSTRACT]

A depth refugium from catastrophic coral bleaching prevents regional extinction [ABSTRACT]

Sensitivity of ocean acidification and oxygen to the uncertainty in climate change (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Detecting decadal-scale increases in anthropogenic CO2 in the ocean [ABSTRACT]

The oceanic anthropogenic CO2 sink: Storage, air-sea fluxes, and transports over the industrial era [ABSTRACT]

Recent unprecedented warming and oligothrophy of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea within the last millennium [ABSTRACT]

Probabilistic 21st and 22nd century sea-level projections at a global network of tide gauge sites (open access) [ABSTRACT]

A comparative study of sea level reconstruction techniques using 20 years of satellite altimetry data [ABSTRACT]

The land-ice contribution to 21st-century dynamic sea level rise (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Sources of 21st century regional sea-level rise along the coast of northwest Europe (open access) [ABSTRACT]

How much has the North Atlantic Ocean Overturning circulation changed in the last 50 years? [ABSTRACT]

Response of inland lake dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau to climate change [ABSTRACT]

Sensitivities of the Australian terrestrial water and carbon balances to climate change and variability [ABSTRACT]

Runoff Sensitivity to Global Mean Temperature Change in the CMIP5 Models [ABSTRACT]

Crop–climate relationships of cereals in Greece and the impacts of recent climate trends [ABSTRACT]

How much does latitude modify temperature–mortality relationship in 13 eastern US cities? [ABSTRACT]

Climate change impacts on extreme temperature mortality in select metropolitan areas in the United States (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Downscaling reveals diverse effects of anthropogenic climate warming on the potential for local environments to support malaria transmission (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Using Weather Forecasts to Help Manage Meningitis in the West African Sahel [ABSTRACT]

Macroclimate Determines the Global Range Limit of main dengue vector [ABSTRACT]

Global-scale projection and its sensitivity analysis of the health burden attributable to childhood undernutrition under the latest scenario framework for climate change research (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Weather and headache onset: a large-scale study of headache medicine purchases [ABSTRACT]

Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California (open access) [ABSTRACT]

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION

China׳s energy security and its challenges towards 2035 [ABSTRACT]

Synthesis of China’s land use in the past 300 years (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Detecting fossil fuel emissions patterns from sub-continental regions using North American in-situ CO2 measurements [ABSTRACT]

Sunlight-induced carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters [ABSTRACT]

Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics [ABSTRACT]

Growth curves and sustained commissioning modelling of renewable energy: Investigating resource constraints for wind energy [ABSTRACT]

Nuclear power in Australia: A comparative analysis of public opinion regarding climate change and the Fukushima disaster [ABSTRACT]

Can deep boreholes solve America׳s nuclear waste problem? [ABSTRACT]

Near zero energy homes – What do users think? [ABSTRACT]

The potential of carbon dioxide emission reductions in German commercial transport by electric vehicles [ABSTRACT]

Direct carbon dioxide emissions from civil aircraft [ABSTRACT]

Public Perception of geoengineering and its consequences for public debate [ABSTRACT]

Ethics and public perception of climate change: Exploring the Christian voices in the US public debate [ABSTRACT]

The genesis of climate change activism: from key beliefs to political action (open access) [ABSTRACT]

It’s political: How the salience of one’s political identity changes climate change beliefs and policy support [ABSTRACT]

Indigenous Knowledge for Environmental Prediction in the Pacific Island Countries [ABSTRACT]

The sustainability of New Zealand climate change policy: an ethical overview [ABSTRACT]

An overview of climate change vulnerability: a bibliometric analysis based on Web of Science database [ABSTRACT]

The water impacts of climate change mitigation measures [ABSTRACT]

Adaptation to climate change impacts on water demand [ABSTRACT]

Towards fair local outcomes in adaptation to sea-level rise [ABSTRACT]

PALAEOCLIMATE

Origin of millennial-scale climate signals in the subtropical North Atlantic [ABSTRACT]

Deep water formation in the North Pacific and deglacial CO2 rise [ABSTRACT]

A tree-ring field reconstruction of Fennoscandian summer hydroclimate variability for the last millennium [ABSTRACT]

Late Holocene Sea-Level Variability and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [ABSTRACT]

Dynamics of the late Plio-Pleistocene West Antarctic Ice Sheet documented in subglacial diamictites, AND-1B drill core [ABSTRACT]

Instability of the Atlantic overturning circulation during Marine Isotope Stage 3 [ABSTRACT]

Isotopic interrogation of a suspected late Eocene glaciation [ABSTRACT]

Temperature and precipitation signal in two Alpine ice cores over the period 1961–2001 (open access) [ABSTRACT]

The extent of permafrost in China during the local Last Glacial Maximum (LLGM) [ABSTRACT]

The impact of astronomical forcing on the Late Devonian greenhouse climate [ABSTRACT]

Model–data comparison and data assimilation of mid-Holocene Arctic sea ice concentration (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Palaeolimnological evidence for an east–west climate see-saw in the Mediterranean since AD 900 (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Climatic impact on tree-ring widths in Abies borisii-regis forests from South-East Albania [ABSTRACT]

Interpolation methods for Antarctic ice-core timescales: application to Byrd, Siple Dome and Law Dome ice cores (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Continental European Eemian and early Würmian climate evolution: comparing signals using different quantitative reconstruction approaches based on pollen (open access) [ABSTRACT]

The effect of climate forcing on numerical simulations of the Cordilleran ice sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum (open access) [ABSTRACT]

New constraints on atmospheric CO2 concentration for the Phanerozoic (-> long-term climate sensitivity greater than thought?) [ABSTRACT]

Dependence of Eemian Greenland temperature reconstructions on the ice sheet topography (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Redefining historical climatology in the Anthropocene (open access) [ABSTRACT]

Control of Quaternary sea-level changes on gas seeps [ABSTRACT]

Timing of the Northern Prince Gustav Ice Stream retreat and the deglaciation of northern James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula during the last glacial–interglacial transition [ABSTRACT]

OTHERS

Cloud shadow speed sensor (open access) [ABSTRACT]