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  • Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change

    • Reed M. Maxwell, Stefan J. Kollet
      Original article citation: Nature Geosci 1," 665 - 669, (2008).

    • Categories: Earth Sciences, Regional Climate, Climate Prediction, and Extreme Events
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 10/03/2008 10:57AM GMT
      
      This paper gets some new insights about the relationship between groundwater and drought by using an unusually sophisticated model that ties together groundwater and surface water (including lateral surface and subsurface flow) along with the land surface. I blogged it here: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/09/breadbasket_or_dust_bowl.html
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  • Increasing risk of Amazonian drought due to decreasing aerosol pollution

    • Peter M. Cox, Phil P. Harris, Chris Huntingford, Richard A. Betts, Matthew Collins, Chris D. Jones, Tim E. Jupp, José A. Marengo, Carlos A. Nobre
      Original article citation: Nature 453," 212 - 215, (2008).

    • Categories: Anthropogenic change, Regional Climate, and Climate Prediction
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 05/08/2008 04:17PM GMT
      
      Here's an example of irony unleashed when atmospheric aerosols are incorporated into climate models to improve their precision. Cox et al. find that adding in pollution particles makes for unusually accurate simulations of recent climatic conditions affecting the Amazon - and they use these simulations to predict that cleaner air in future will mean more frequent droughts for the rainforest. Quirin Sciermeier has more to say about this on the Climate Feedback blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/
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  • Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere

    • Shoshiro Minobe, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida, Nobumasa Komori, Shang-Ping Xie, Richard Justin Small
      Original article citation: Nature 452," 206 - 209, (2008).

    • Categories: Atmospheric Sciences and Regional Climate
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 03/13/2008 11:28AM GMT
      
      The Gulf Stream not only blows warm air across the surface of the Atlantic toward Europe, but reaches upward through the entire troposphere, according to the new data and modelling here (recapped on the Climate Feedback blog, http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2008/03/gulf_stream_revisited.html, and in an editorial summary, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7184/covers/). An interesting, though still speculative, implication is that atmospheric waves emanating from this tall column of wind and weather might link the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation with climatic effects throughout the Northern Hemisphere. What could this mean for feedbacks between climate change and ocean circulation?
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  • Potential role of the ocean thermostat in determining regional differences in coral reef bleaching events

    • Joan A. Kleypas, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Janice M. Lough
      Original article citation: Geophys. Res. Lett. 35," (2008).

    • Categories: Ocean Sciences, Regional Climate, Climate Impacts, and Biodiversity & Ecology
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 02/14/2008 03:39PM GMT
      
      A previously proposed 'ocean thermostat' in the Western Pacific Warm Pool seems to protect corals there from bleaching, says this paper from Kleypas et al.
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  • Human contribution to rapidly increasing frequency of very warm Northern Hemisphere summers

    • Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, Nikolaos Christidis
      Original article citation: J. Geophys. Res. 113," (2008).

    • Categories: Extreme Events and Regional Climate
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 01/28/2008 06:45PM GMT
      
      In the last 20-40 years, extremely hot summers - such as the 2003 heatwave that killed an estimated 30,000 Europeans - have become more frequent in regions across the Northern Hemisphere, Jones et al. point out. Comparing observed Northern Hemisphere temperatures to the predictions of climate models with or without anthropogenic contributions, they conclude that humans have been the dominant cause. Unsurprisingly, the models indicate that we can expect even more scorching summers in the future.
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  • Disequilibrium response of permafrost thaw to climate warming in Canada over 1850–2100

    • Yu Zhang, Wenjun Chen, Daniel W. Riseborough
      Original article citation: Geophys. Res. Lett. 35," (2008).

    • Categories: Cryosphere, Regional Climate, and Climate Impacts
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 01/21/2008 04:41PM GMT
      
      Thawing of permafrost in the Arctic tundra owing to global warming could affect "hydrology, ecosystems, soil biogeochemistry and the stability of buildings and infrastructure in high latitudes", Zhang et al. point out. Here they model permafrost thawing in a simulation that reaches deep underground, beyond the rapidly warming surface.
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  • The Spatial Pattern and Mechanisms of Heat Content Change in the North Atlantic

    • M. S. Lozier, S. Leadbetter, R. G. Williams, V. Roussenov, M. S. C. Reed, N. J. Moore
      Original article citation: Science doi:10.1126/science.1146436 (2008)

    • Categories: Climate Variability, Regional Climate, and Anthropogenic change
    • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 01/17/2008 04:23PM GMT
      
      Uneven warming of the North Atlantic Ocean during the last half-century may be caused by changes in the natural climate system, concludes a new analysis by Susan Lozier and co-workers. Since the observed variations in regional heat gain and loss are great enough to mask an underlying greenhouse warming trend, the authors warn it is too early to know whether the changes in heat content are partly due to anthropogenic climate change. A Research Highlight summarizing this paper will appear next week on the Nature Reports Climate Change site.
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  • Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture

    • R. L. Naylor, D. S. Battisti, D. J. Vimont, W. P. Falcon, M. B. Burke
      Original article citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104," (2007).

    • Categories: Climate Variability, Regional Climate, and Society
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:21PM GMT
      
      This paper, which appeared in PNAS at the start of May, suggests that rice agriculture in Indonesia could suffer considerable damage as a result of long-term climate change. The researchers used a set of IPCC global climate models to look at how climate change could affect precipitation in Indonesia over the next 50 years. They found that the probability of harmful delays of more than 30 days could more than double by 2050.
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  • Airborne measurements indicate large methane emissions from the eastern Amazon basin

    • John B. Miller, Luciana V. Gatti, Monica T. S. d'Amelio, Andrew M. Crotwell, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Peter Bakwin, Paulo Artaxo, Pieter P. Tans
      Original article citation: Geophys. Res. Lett. 34," (2007).

    • Categories: Regional Climate and Biodiversity & Ecology
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:20PM GMT
      
      This paper by John B. Miller of NOAA and colleagues verifies that the eastern Amazon basin is emitting large quantities of the potent greenhouse gas methane. It suggests that scientists currently underestimate the tropics as a methane source.
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  • Rapid and Recent Changes in Fungal Fruiting Patterns

    • A. C. Gange, E. G. Gange, T. H. Sparks, L. Boddy
      Original article citation: Science 316," (2007).

    • Categories: Biodiversity & Ecology, Regional Climate, and Climate Impacts
    • Recommended by the Editor: Olive Heffernan on 06/06/2007 09:20PM GMT
      
      We have covered this paper as a highlight in NRCC. It's a really nice piece of work for a few reasons. Firstly, the study of 52,000 records of fungi from southern England shows that some fungi have now started to fruit twice a year as a result of climate change and that the fruiting season for fungi in southern England has more than doubled in the last half century. Secondly, the work was done by a father-and-son team of fungal enthusiasts. The father has been avidly spotting mushrooms for the past 50 years. And lastly, they took lots of great images of fungi, which are well worth checking out. Gets my vote!
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