The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

NS Diffenbaugh, CB Field, EA Appel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Restrictions to reduce human interaction have helped to avoid greater suffering and death
from the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also created socioeconomic hardship. This …

Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change

A Hall, P Cox, C Huntingford, S Klein - Nature Climate Change, 2019‏ - nature.com
In recent years, an evaluation technique for Earth System Models (ESMs) has arisen—
emergent constraints (ECs)—which rely on strong statistical relationships between aspects …

The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era

JL Bamber, RM Westaway, B Marzeion… - Environmental …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Since 1992, there has been a revolution in our ability to quantify the land ice contribution to
sea level rise using a variety of satellite missions and technologies. Each mission has …

Silicic magma reservoirs in the Earth's crust

O Bachmann, C Huber - American Mineralogist, 2016‏ - degruyter.com
Magma reservoirs play a key role in controlling numerous processes in planetary evolution,
including igneous differentiation and degassing, crustal construction, and volcanism. For …

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017‏ - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

Near-term climate change: projections and predictability

B Kirtman, SB Power, AJ Adedoyin, GJ Boer, R Bojariu… - 2013‏ - pure.iiasa.ac.at
This chapter assesses the scientific literature describing expectations for near-term climate
(present through mid-century). Unless otherwise stated," near-term" change and the …

Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

AA Chiarenza, A Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - National Acad Sciences
The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, 66 Ma, included the demise of non-avian
dinosaurs. Intense debate has focused on the relative roles of Deccan volcanism and the …

[كتاب][B] Climate intervention: Reflecting sunlight to cool earth

National Research Council, Life Studies… - 2015‏ - books.google.com
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate
destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem …

Global changes in water vapor 1979–2020

RP Allan, KM Willett, VO John… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global‐scale changes in water vapor and responses to surface temperature variability since
1979 are evaluated across a range of satellite and ground‐based observations, a reanalysis …

The changing character of precipitation

KE Trenberth, A Dai, RM Rasmussen… - Bulletin of the …, 2003‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
From a societal, weather, and climate perspective, precipitation intensity, duration,
frequency, and phase are as much of concern as total amounts, as these factors determine …