Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Attributing high impact extreme events across timescales — a case study of four different events. [link]

Increasing coupling of Pacific dynamics leads to prolonged marine heat waves [link]

Detection of continental-scale intensification of hourly rainfall extreme [link]

Heatwaves in Northern Europe as much as ‘five times’ as likely due to climate change, scientists say [link]

Contiguous US summer maximum temperature and heat stress trends [link]

Behind the veil of extreme event attribution [link]

New paper on climate sensitivity suggests that changing patterns of future warming raise Otto-et-al-style instrumentally-based sensitivity estimates from 1.9C to 3.2C: [link]

Extratropical atmospheric predictability from the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation in subseasonal forecast models [link

Impact of arctic oscillation on Indian winter monsoon [link]

“Science insurgents plot a climate model driven by artificial intelligence”  [link

he Arctic is getting warmer but Siberia is getting colder. The stratosphere may be to blame. [link]

Recent poleward shift of tropical cyclone formation linked to Hadley cell expansion [link]

Distinct mechanisms govern ocean heat transport into the Arctic under internal variability and climate change. AMOC–ocean heat transport relationship depends on whether variability is internal or forced [link]

New research on Caribbean lizards suggests that hurricanes Maria and Irma could have driven natural selection:  

Importance of stratosphere-troposphere coupling for Barents-Kara sea ice loss forcing the cold anomaly over Siberia. [link

54% Of ‘Vulnerable’ SW Pacific Islands Studied Had Shorelines That EXPANDED From 2005-2015 [link]

Greenhouse gases are warming the world—but chilling Antarctica. Here’s why [link]

How Predictable Are the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations? [link

High ocean temperatures in the western tropical Pacific Ocean played a central role to establish and maintain the US in 2015 [link]

Improved Teleconnection‐Based Dynamical Seasonal Predictions of Boreal Winter [link]

“What the fuck is the Meghalayan?”   on divisions among geologists over the Anthropocene [link]

Human “fingerprints” in planet’s changing seasons. [link]

Trends and drivers of normalized continental US damage [link]

Sluggish Atlantic circulation could cause global temperatures to surge. [link]

120,000 year record of sea ice in the North Atlantic

The paradigm shift in Antarctic ice sheet modeling [link]

Volcanic eruptions interact with El Nino events, affecting sustained megadrought [link]

 

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August 3, 2018 at 02:09PM

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