New research, March 23, 2016

Some new papers from last few days:

Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2681.html

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous (open access)
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/

Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/12/3143.short

Decrease in winter respiration explains 25% of the annual northern forest carbon sink enhancement over the last 30 years
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12441/abstract

Methane oxidation, biogenic carbon, and the IPCC’s emission metrics. Proposal for a consistent greenhouse-gas accounting
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11367-016-1091-z

Historical reconstruction of ocean acidification in the Australian region (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/1753/2016/

Skeletal mineralogy of coral recruits under high temperature and pCO2 (open access)
http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/1717/2016/

Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13292/abstract

Effects of extreme thermal conditions on plasticity in breeding phenology and double-broodedness of Great Tits and Blue Tits in central Poland in 2013 and 2014 (open access)
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00484-016-1152-9

Demographic responses to weather fluctuations are context dependent in a long-lived amphibian
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13290/abstract

Understanding a migratory species in a changing world: climatic effects and demographic declines in the western monarch revealed by four decades of intensive monitoring
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-016-3600-y

The stratospheric pathway for Arctic impacts on mid-latitude climate
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL068330/abstract

Climatic anomalous patterns associated with the Arctic and Polar cell strength variations
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-016-3067-x

Glacier change over the last century, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia, observed from old topographical maps, Landsat and ASTER satellite imagery (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/713/2016/

Analysis of the mass balance time series of glaciers in the Italian Alps (open access)
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/695/2016/

Seasonal atmospheric responses to reduced Arctic sea ice in an ensemble of coupled model simulations
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0586.1

Recent changes in sea ice area flux through the Beaufort Sea during the summer
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JC011464/abstract

A high-resolution salinity time series 1993–2012 in the North Atlantic from Argo and altimeter data
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JC011439/abstract

Intensity–area–duration analysis of droughts in China 1960–2013
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-016-3066-y

On the robustness of near term climate predictability regarding initial state uncertainties
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-016-3078-7

Effect of climate change on surface ozone over North America, Europe, and East Asia
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL068060/abstract

Toward consistency between trends in bottom-up CO2 emissions and top-down atmospheric measurements in the Los Angeles megacity (open access)
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3843/2016/

Accelerated greenhouse gases versus slow insolation forcing induced climate changes in southern South America since the Mid-Holocene
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-016-3081-z

Phase relationships between orbital forcing and the composition of air trapped in Antarctic ice cores (open access)
http://www.clim-past.net/12/729/2016/

Unsaturated zone hydrostratigraphies: A novel archive of past climates in dryland continental regions
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825216300526

Coral-reef records of Quaternary changes in climate and sea-level
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825216300472

Here and now, there and then: How “departure dates” influence climate change engagement
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378016300243

Ethiopian agriculture has greater potential for carbon sequestration than previously estimated
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13288/abstract

The importance of contrail ice formation for mitigating the climate impact of aviation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD024696/abstract

How might adaptation to climate change by smallholder farming communities contribute to climate change mitigation outcomes? A case study from Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11625-016-0361-9