The physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Estimates of the social cost of carbon: A review based on meta-analysis

P Wang, X Deng, H Zhou, S Yu - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a great deal of evidence that climate change affects socioeconomic systems. The
social cost of carbon (SCC) is calculated by scientists to monetarize the incremental unit of …

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

IH Myers-Smith, BC Forbes, M Wilmking… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent research using repeat photography, long-term ecological monitoring and
dendrochronology has documented shrub expansion in arctic, high-latitude and alpine …

The Holocene temperature conundrum

Z Liu, J Zhu, Y Rosenthal, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
A recent temperature reconstruction of global annual temperature shows Early Holocene
warmth followed by a cooling trend through the Middle to Late Holocene [Marcott SA, et al …

European summer temperatures since Roman times

J Luterbacher, JP Werner, JE Smerdon… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatial context is critical when assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing
them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a …

Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4 C world'in the twenty-first century

RJ Nicholls, N Marinova, JA Lowe… - … transactions of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The range of future climate-induced sea-level rise remains highly uncertain with continued
concern that large increases in the twenty-first century cannot be ruled out. The biggest …

The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis

DD Zhang, HF Lee, C Wang, B Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies have shown strong temporal correlations between past climate changes and
societal crises. However, the specific causal mechanisms underlying this relation have not …

Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia

ME Mann, Z Zhang, MK Hughes… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Following the suggestions of a recent National Research Council report [NRC (National
Research Council)(2006) Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years …

An overview of BCC climate system model development and application for climate change studies

T Wu, L Song, W Li, Z Wang, H Zhang, X **n… - Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
This paper reviews recent progress in the development of the Bei**g Climate Center
Climate System Model (BCC_CSM) and its four component models (atmosphere, land …

Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia

AC Kemp, BP Horton, JP Donnelly… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
We present new sea-level reconstructions for the past 2100 y based on salt-marsh
sedimentary sequences from the US Atlantic coast. The data from North Carolina reveal four …