by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Important new paper analyzing troposphere/stratosphere measurements and implications for understanding climate change [link]
Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change projections [link]
Heinrich events show two-stage climate response in transient glacial simulations [link]
Diagnosing the impacts of Northern Hemisphere surface albedo biases on simulated climate [link]
Towards operational prediction of near-term climate [link]
Rapidly receding Arctic Canada glaciers revealing landscapes continuously ice-covered for more than 40,000 years [link]
Implications for Lindzen's iris hypothesis: Self-aggregation of deep convection and its implication for climate [link]
Any influence of the 11-year solar cycle in the winter North Atlantic Oscillation is not significant. [link]
Ocean mesoscale mixing linked to climate variability [link]
What Thwaites glacier can tell us about the future of West Antarctica [link]
Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979-2017 [link]
Massive controversy, including attacks on dissenting scientists: How much can forests fight climate change? [link]
"We conclude that the QBO can potentially provide another source of skill for Northern Hemisphere winter prediction" [link] …
Aerosol-driven droplet concentrations dominate coverage and water content for oceanic low level clouds – key cloud feedback [link]
Modeling the recent changes in the Arctic Ocean CO2 sink (2006–2013) [link]
Snow cover trends in Finland over 1961‐2014 based on gridded snow depth observations [link]
Timescale for detecting the climate response to st ratospheric aerosol geoengineering [link]
(Re)presenting urban heat islands in Australian cities: A study of media reporting and implications for urban heat and climate change debates [link]
Are the near-Antarctic easterly winds weakening in response to enhancement of the Southern Annular Mode? [link]
The solar cycle's potential impact on weather and climate [link]
Exploring uncertainty in streamflow estimates [link]
The effect of Arctic sea‐ice loss on the Hadley circulation [link]
Why Antarctica's sea ice cover is so low (and no, it's not just about climate change) [link]
Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions that lead to the extreme 2017 Coast El Niño event [link]
A reconciled estimate of the influence of Arctic sea-ice loss on recent Eurasian cooling [link]
20th century redistribution in the drivers of global tree growth [link]
Global atmospheric CO2 inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange, but disagreeing on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate [link]
Permafrost is warming at a global scale [link]
Ocean Circulation Signatures of North Pacific Decadal Variability [link]
"Although the amount of water contained in the snowpack has declined over the past century, it has been surprisingly stable since the 1980s, despite 1 °C of warming over the same period. " [link]
1D scaling analysis of the ice dynamics suggests that the currently destabilized glaciers are the fastest of all possible MIS-instabilities in #Antarctica. [link]
New insight from CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness for sea ice modelling [link]
Clarifying the relative role of forcing uncertainties and initial‐condition unknowns in spreading the climate response to volcanic eruptions [link]
How Ningaloo Nino supercharges El Nino [link]
A decadal dataset of global atmospheric dust retrieved from IASI satellite measurements [link]
Greenland Near-Surface Land Air Temperature Data from Berkeley Earth Present Some Surprises [link]
Heterogeneous changes in western North American #glaciers linked to decadal variability in zonal wind strength. [link]
Uncertainty representations of sea level rise: a telephone game? [link]
Arctic sea ice (Barents-Kara Sea) anomalies can modulate vertical wave propagation and stratosphere-troposphere coupling in weak polar vortex events [link]
Millennial‐scale Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Regional Ice Shelf Collapse [link]
Significant Biologically‐mediated CO2 Uptake in the Pacific Arctic During the Late Open Water Season [link]
Irrigation in the Indian subcontinent strongly modulates water budget and land surface temperature [link]
Adapting attribution science to the climate extremes of tomorrow [link]
Social science, technology & policy
Article says high-pressure air in deep saline aquifers could store immense amounts of energy, sufficient to keep the lights on in Britain for a couple of months. [link]
Some of the best environmental #peacebuilding work in the world is currently taking place in Wadi El Ku, Sudan. A @UNEnvironment project has helped triple crop yield, increase farmers' income, and improve community-based natural resources management [link]
Incorporation of inland flooding into hurricane evacuation decision support modeling [link]
for Minnesota, it is cheaper to overbuild (and curtail) renewable energy than it is to build long-term storage. [link]
Warming trends in summer heatwaves [link]
German wine makers see boon in climate change [link]
EC Report: Climate Change Adaptation: research, science and innovation [link]
Second largest earthquake in South Korean history tied to geothermal plant [link]
Reshaping Africa's rural food systems and cutting food losses [link]
Factors influencing the adaptation of farmers in response to climate change: a review [link]
US Oil Boom Is Headed Into Uncharted Territory — 12 Million Barrels Per Day [link] …
About science & scientists
This is not reality: excellent analysis of uncertainty and validation in modeling [link]
Feeling Exhausted. That's how many #womeninscience feel having to fight the constant battles, big and small. [link]
Long but fascinating read: Is ancient DNA research revealing new truths, or falling into old traps? [link]
Finally, a good paper on 'motivated reasoning'. [link]
"Our habit of dismissing the doomsday messages broadcast by right-wing media has prevented those of us on the left from getting an accurate read on the state of campus free expression." [link]…
"The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns." [link]
New Institute for Integrity in Science [link]
Listening to people who think we are wrong [link]
Scientific progress is build on failure [link]
Problems with second-order logic: Metalogic and the overgeneration argument [link]
from Climate Change Skeptic Blogs via hj on Inoreader http://bit.ly/2B5nXiC
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