New research, December 7, 2015

Some new papers from last few days:

Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in five years?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13153/abstract

A Solar Irradiance Climate Data Record
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00265.1

How much does it rain over land?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066615/abstract

Can public perceptions of Australian climate extremes be reconciled with the statistics of climate change? (open access)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094715300293

Exceptional ocean surface conditions on the SE Greenland shelf during the Medieval Climate Anomaly
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015PA002849/abstract

Quantification of precipitation and temperature uncertainties simulated by CMIP3 and CMIP5 models
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023719/abstract

Glacier response to North Atlantic climate variability during the Holocene (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/11/1587/2015/cp-11-1587-2015.html

Getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/2215/2015/tc-9-2215-2015.html

The 2 °C global warming effect on summer European tourism through different indices
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00484-015-1115-6

Effects of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on decadal climate prediction skill of Pacific sea surface temperatures
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066608/abstract

Land-use legacies rather than climate change are driving the recent upward shift of the mountain tree line in the Pyrenees
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12407/abstract

The importance of sea-ice area biases in 21st century multi-model projections of Antarctic temperature and precipitation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL067055/abstract

Exploring the Tropically Excited Arctic Warming Mechanism with Station Data: Links between Tropical Convection and Arctic Downward Infrared Radiation
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0271.1

Improved Arctic sea ice thickness projections using bias-corrected CMIP5 simulations (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/2237/2015/tc-9-2237-2015.html

Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice in observations and an Earth System Model
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066049/abstract

Covariance between Arctic sea ice and clouds within atmospheric state regimes at the satellite footprint level
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023520/abstract

Impacts of climate and reclamation on temporal variations in CH4 emissions from different wetlands in China: from 1950 to 2010 (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/12/6853/2015/bg-12-6853-2015.html

Simulating climate change impacts and potential adaptations on rice yields in the Sichuan Basin, China
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11027-015-9688-2

High-resolution inventory of technologies, activities, and emissions of coal-fired power plants in China from 1990 to 2010 (open access)
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/15/13299/2015/acp-15-13299-2015.html

Geographical spread of global emissions: Within-country inequalities are large and increasing
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421515302020

Evaluating economic costs and benefits of climate resilient livelihood strategies
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209631500039X

A 382-year reconstruction of August mean minimum temperature from tree-ring maximum latewood density on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786515000831

Dendroclimatic reconstruction of late summer temperatures from upper treeline sites in Greater Caucasus, Russia
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215010897

Megacities, air quality and climate
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231015305665

Special issue: Ancient polar ecosystems and paleoclimate in deep time: Evidence from the past, implications for the future
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101821500574X