by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Modulation of the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice extent related to the Southern Annular Mode [link]
Extreme warming in the Kara Sea and Barents Sea during the winter period 2000 to 2016 [link]
New study links climate change in England to El Niño–Southern Oscillation cycle and the Hale sunspot cycle [link]
New Study Confirms Medieval Warm Period Was Indeed Global in China, And As Warm As Today [link]
On why climate model tuning is challenging but necessary; how approaches vary across models. @ClimateOfGavin et al. [link]
Extreme cyclone events in the Arctic: Wintertime variability & trends [link] …
Atmospheric eddies mediate lapse rate feedback and Arctic amplification[link]
Enhanced wintertime greenhouse effect reinforcing Arctic amplification and initial sea-ice melting [link]
Flooding Not Increasing In North America And Europe, New Study Confirms [link] …
New study: Rainfall intensities have increased in a warming world, but streamflow has actually decreased [link]
Origins of anomalous warming in California coastal ocean and San Francisco Bay during 2014-2016 [link]
10,000 To 5,000 Years Ago, Global Sea Levels Were 3 Meters Higher, Temperatures 4-6° C Warmer [link]
Is the choice of statistical paradigm critical in extreme event attribution studies? [link]
Improved Sea Ice Forecasting Through Spatiotemporal Bias Correction [link]
Why sea spray is making waves in the world of climate modeling: [link]
Assessing climate change impacts on extreme weather events: an alternative (Bayesian) approach [link]
New data set explores 90 years of natural disasters in the US [link]
Solar geoengineering reduces atmospheric carbon burden, Nature Climate Change [link] …
Weather-related disasters are increasing, But the number of deaths caused by them is falling [link]
Elevated CO2 and high temperature improve the growth of rice and Chinese yam [link] …
Social Benefits Of CO2 & Warming: Soviet-Era Grain Record Seen Tumbling on Bumper Russian Harvest [link] …
Spatial distribution of Southern Ocean mesozooplankton has been resilient to long-term surface warming [link]
3 ways nanomaterials cud help combat climate change & prevent pollution [link] …
CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten years of actively observing the Earth system [link]
Policy and social science
Climate change and the re-evaluation of cost-benefit analysis [link]
Special issue: Expertise, Regulatory Science and the Evaluation of Technology and Risk [link] …
A Storm Without Rain: Yemen, Water, Climate Change, and Conflict « The Center for Climate & Security [link]
Economic development isn’t getting less energy-intensive over time: [link]…
About science
Expect experts to disagree on antibiotic resistance, and other scientific controversies [link] …
Dan Sarewitz: stop treating science denial like a disease. [link] …
A profound and provocative essay by Michael McIntyre on multi-level thinking and scientific understanding [link]