Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

How well do stratospheric reanalyses reproduce high-resolution satellite temperature measurements?  https://buff.ly/2OnYyIS 
Warming ocean waters intensified devastating 2017 Atlantic hurricane season:    [link]
On the statistical significance of climatic trends estimated from GPS tropospheric time series https://buff.ly/2OcB4Xn 
A global climatology of surface anticyclones, their variability, drivers and long-term trend [link]
Response of tropical terrestrial gross primary production to the super El Niño event in 2015 [link] 
“North American weather regimes are becoming more persistent: Is Arctic amplification a factor?” [link  press release [link]
What’s Causing Antarctica’s Ocean to Heat Up? New Study Points to 2 Human Sources [link]
The Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Dataset, Version 4 [link]
Insights on sudden stratospheric warming using an idealized general circulation model & 3 types of tropospheric forcing  [link] …
Gulf Stream variability in the context of quasi‐decadal and multi‐decadal Atlantic climate variability [link] 
A Recent Reversal in the Poleward Shift of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones [link] 
North American weather regimes are becoming more persistent: Is Arctic amplification a factor? (open access) [link] 

California winter precipitation linked to the Arctic Oscillation  [link]
Cold tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures during the late sixteenth‐century North American megadrought [link]

Investigating the role that large modes of climate variability play in affecting air-sea CO2 fluxes in coastal upwelling zones: [link]
Evidence for a volcanic underpinning of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation [link]
Why Are Siberian Temperatures Plummeting While the Arctic Warms? [link] …

Changing the retention properties of catchments and their influence on runoff under climate change [link]
The extremely active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season [link]
Modeled and Observed Multidecadal Variability in the North Atlantic Jet Stream and Its Connection to Sea Surface Temperatures  [link] …

The influence of the stratospheric state on North Atlantic weather regimes [link …
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Social Science & Policy
This is a great piece on flood and water control in the Netherlands. [link]
Nature: “Based on present knowledge, climate geoengineering techniques cannot be relied on to significantly contribute to meeting the Paris Agreement temperature goals.” [link]
Climate change as a motivating factor for farm-adjustments: rethinking the link [link]
Climate driven variability in the occurrence of major floods across North America and Europe [link]
Solutions for nuclear waste that are robust to politics: [link] …
The UK can reach net-zero #greenhousegas emissions by 2050, a key step in meeting our #ParisAgreement targets. Read the new report from the Society and @RAEngNews  [link]
About Science & Scientists
Science classes must start teaching an inconvenient truth: Some scientists fudge facts [link] …
The parallel universes of a woman in science [link]
The problem with all those liberal professors: “The real problems arise in subjects like history, political science, philosophy and psychology, where the professor’s political perspective might well make a difference. (The same is true of law.)” AND climate science. [link]
Why do women bully each other at work? asks Olga Khazan [link]

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