New research, January 18, 2016

Some new papers from last few days:

BAMS special supplement: Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective (open access)
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-ExplainingExtremeEvents2014.1

Global reconstructions of glacier mass change during the 20th century are consistent (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/2399/2015/tc-9-2399-2015.html

On the state dependency of the equilibrium climate sensitivity during the last 5 million years (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/11/1801/2015/cp-11-1801-2015.html

Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/11/1673/2015/cp-11-1673-2015.html

Flowering phenological changes in relation to climate change in Hungary
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00484-015-1128-1

Climate-vegetation modelling and fossil plant data suggest low atmospheric CO2 in the late Miocene (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/11/1701/2015/cp-11-1701-2015.html

Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/12/51/2016/cp-12-51-2016.html

Radiative Analysis of Global Mean Temperature Trends in the Middle Atmosphere: Effects of Non-Locality and Secondary Absorption Bands
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682616300116

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

Committed retreat of Smith, Pope, and Kohler Glaciers over the next 30 years inferred by transient model calibration (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/2429/2015/tc-9-2429-2015.html

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

SeaRISE experiments revisited: potential sources of spread in multi-model projections of the Greenland ice sheet (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/43/2016/tc-10-43-2016.html

Millennial changes in North Atlantic oxygen concentrations (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/211/2016/bg-13-211-2016.html

The global warming-induced South Asian High change and its uncertainty
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0638.1

Detection and spatiotemporal analysis of methane ebullition on thermokarst lake ice using high-resolution optical aerial imagery (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/27/2016/bg-13-27-2016.html

Assessing Surface Solar Radiation Fluxes in the CMIP Ensembles
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00503.1

Positive low cloud and dust feedbacks amplify tropical North Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL067679/abstract

Climate, CO2 and human population impacts on global wildfire emissions (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/267/2016/bg-13-267-2016.html

The carbon cycle in Mexico: past, present and future of C stocks and fluxes (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/223/2016/bg-13-223-2016.html

Time series construction of summer surface temperatures for Alabama, 1883-2014, and comparisons with tropospheric temperature and climate model simulations
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0287.1

Climate model biases in the width of the tropical belt
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0336.1

A framework for evaluating climate model performance metrics
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0114.1

Comparison between total cloud cover in four reanalysis products and cloud measured by visual observations at U.S. weather stations
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0637.1

Did high Neo-Tethys subduction rates contribute to early Cenozoic warming?
http://www.clim-past.net/11/1751/2015/cp-11-1751-2015.html

A 14,000-year record of fire, climate, and vegetation from the Bear River Range, southeast Idaho, USA
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/11/0959683615622545.abstract

Biodiversity trends within the Holocene
http://hol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/11/0959683615622568.abstract

Tropical and mid-latitude forcing of continental Antarctic temperatures (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/2405/2015/tc-9-2405-2015.html

Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818115301867

Small glaciers on the Balkan Peninsula: State and changes in the last several years
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215010010

Satellite-derived changes in the permafrost landscape of central Yakutia, 2000–2011: Wetting, drying, and fires
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818116300066

Warm spells in Northern Europe in relation to atmospheric circulation (open access)
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-015-1727-0

Is robustness really robust? How different definitions of robustness impact decision-making under climate change
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-015-1586-9

Habitat associations drive species vulnerability to climate change in boreal forests
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-015-1591-z

Mechanisms of elevation-dependent warming over the Tibetan plateau in quadrupled CO2 experiments
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-016-1599-z

The effect of tropical cyclones on climate change engagement
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-015-1590-0

Intercomparison of CMIP5 and CMIP3 simulations of the 20th century maximum and minimum temperatures over India and detection of climatic trends
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-015-1716-3

West Nile virus, climate change, and circumpolar vulnerability
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.382/abstract

Transformational responses to climate change: beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation (open access)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.384/abstract

Climate trends and variability in Ecuador (1966–2011)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.4597/abstract

Daily precipitation concentration around the world according to several indices
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.4596/abstract

Summer Arctic dipole wind pattern affects the winter Siberian High (open access)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.4623/abstract

Historical floods in Tabasco and Chiapas during sixteenth–twentieth centuries
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11069-015-2039-5

Devastation in the Kedarnath (Mandakini) Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, during 16–17 June 2013: a remote sensing and ground-based assessment
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11069-015-2033-y

Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378015300741

Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget (open access)
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/014004/meta

Global assessment of onshore wind power resources considering the distance to urban areas
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421515302366