by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
I’ve studied Larsen C and its giant iceberg for years – it’s not a simple story of climate change [link]
Southern Ocean Decadal Variability and Predictability [link]
Record cold wave in Greenland [link]
New book out on mechanisms of #climate extremes. [link]
NASA Detects Drop in Global Fires [link] Fewer and less severe with 24% decline in land lost.
NASA-MIT study evaluates efficiency of oceans as heat sink, atmospheric gases sponge [link] …
New meteorological case study of Aug 2016’s long-lived great Arctic cyclone -> affected sea ice loss too [link]
Latest in a string of papers suggesting Eurasian winter cooling is caused by internal climate variability and not by Arctic sea ice loss [link]
Investigating the impact of CO2 on the low frequency variability of the AMOC in HadCM3 [link]
Tree rings, ice cores, corals etc combine in major new timeline – 2,000 years of global temp history [link]
Steve McIntyre’s critique [link]
Skillful seasonal predictions of winter precipitation over southern China [link]
Here’s how scientists use water vapor to unlock climate mysteries [link]
Remember the North Pole winter thaw? New study finds rising trend in #Arctic warming spikes in winter. [link] …
There is virtually zero evidence that permafrost will catastrophically melt in our lifetimes. [link] …
Weather responsiveness of crop yields: US evidence and agricultural impacts of climate change [link]
Study shows China’s severe weather patterns changing drastically since 1960 [link] ALL STORMS DOWN 50%.
New paper connects volcanic cooling to crop failures, impoverishment, and hunger in 17th-century Finland [link] …
Scientists Have Discovered a 600-Mile Coral Reef [link] …
3 New Papers: Greenland 3-5°C Warmer With 40 Kilometers Less Ice Area 4,000-10,000 Years Ago [link]
A collection of sea-level rise research published @NatureComms [link]
Measuring forecast performance in the presence of observation error [link]
Black Death 1347-1351 May Have Had A Surprising Effect On The Environment [link] …
Climate scientists predict wet future for California [link]
Surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method & energy balance approach [link]
2 Recent Papers Show Sea Level Variability Have Little To Do With CO2 [link]
Why Are Arctic Linkages to Extreme Weather Still Up in the Air? [link]
Ozone depletion following future volcanic eruptions [link]
River networks dampen long-term hydrological signals of climate change [link]
Greening of the Sahara suppressed ENSO activity during the mid-Holocene’ [link] …
Study examines increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels [link]
More evidence for feedbacks between solid earth and surface carbon cycles and climate, mediated by volcanism [link]
The changing ocean carbon cycle [link] …
Contrary temperature trend stalls upgraded climate model’s debut [link]
.@TobyAult suggests how we might reconcile insights into decadal climate variability coming from proxies and models: [link]
How are warm and cool years in the California Current related to ENSO? [link]
… The #Arctic-Subarctic sea ice system is entering a seasonal regime: Implications for future Arctic amplification [link]
Air-ice-ocean feedback mechanisms and ice oscillation on milllennial time scales [link]
Paleo study: No conclusive support for current Arctic warming > than peak of medieval climate anomaly [link]
Arctic sea ice response to the eruptions of Agung, El Chichón and Pinatubo [link]