by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Did a slower AMOC 12,000 yrs ago contribute to increased hurricane intensity? [link]
Low-Frequency Climate Modes and Antarctic Sea Ice Variations, 1982-2013 [link]
Understanding the detectability of potential changes to the 100-year peak storm surge [link]
Overview of #cloudfeedbacks in the 5 IPCC reports & beyond [link]
“desert urbanization…nighttime warming and weaker, but significant daytime cooling.” most areas [link]
Antarctica-Regional Climate and Surface Mass Budget [link]
Finding parallels between Hadley Cell expansion & the global warming hiatus, . [link] …
The 2016 southeastern US drought: an extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling [link]
Solar Activity Plays Key Role In North American Blizzard Frequency, Study Finds [link]
New large 75-yr dataset reconstructs Gulf Stream & shows physical link between it & NAO. [link]
A long-term forest experiment helps unravel the complex forest-soil-carbon cycle: [link]
State-dependent quantification of climate sensitivity based on paleo data of last 2.1 million years [link]
How might plausible future volcanic activity alter climate projections? [link]
Perspective: New vigour involving statisticians to overcome ensemble fatigue [link]
New research using driftwood samples from the western #Arctic offers insights on sea ice changes during the Holocene.[link]
New evidence that Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million yrs ago [link]
How humans are causing deadly earthquakes [link]
The ozone-climate penalty in the Midwestern U.S. [link]
How can we estimate snow depth & water content in snowpacks? Use cosmic ray neutron sensors. [link]
Water storage changes and balances in Africa observed by GRACE and hydrologic models [link] …
Leading drivers of Pacific coastal drought variability in the Contiguous United States [link]
Influence of ice sheets on temperature during past 38 million years (a model study) [link]
Do we understand the terrestrial carbon cycle? What uncertainties? What future developments? [link]
Carbon circular logic [link]
Playing with Water: Humans Are Altering Risk of Nuisance Floods [link]
When Less Is More: Opening the Door to Simpler Climate Models [link]
Policy and social science
Potential surprise theory as a theoretical foundation for scenario planning [link]
“Adapting to #Hurricanes: A Long-Term Historical Perspective on New Orleans 1718-2005″ [link] …
McKitrick: Americans have made hurricane destruction worse (but not with carbon emissions) [link]…
Climate change tort cases are becoming a reality, not just a theoretical possibility [link] …
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Reasons, impacts, and China’s response [link]
#India’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by an alarming 4.7% in 2016, compared to last year [link] …
Now in NatureClimate – A typology of loss and damage perspectives [link]
The driving forces behind membership nominations in international scientific assessments [link]
Narrowing the climate field: the symbolic power of authors in the IPCC’s Assessments [link]
About science
Alice Dreger: Taking Back the Ivory Tower [link]
Wonderful irony here: Academic freedom lecturer (M. Mann) takes on claims of climate change deniers [link]
The invention of zero—how ancient Mesopotamia created the mathematical concept and India gave it symbolic form [link] …
The Academic Reason Why There Are So Few Conservatives in Academia [link]
Author relationships with industry [link]
Science journalism is missing a watchdog attitude [link] …
Bret Stephens: The Dying Art of Disagreement [link]