Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate

J Lelieveld, K Klingmüller, A Pozzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols are associated with climate change and
human health risks. We used a global model to estimate the climate and public health …

Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone

T Schneider, T Bischoff, GH Haug - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Rainfall on Earth is most intense in the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), a narrow belt
of clouds centred on average around six degrees north of the Equator. The mean position of …

Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

F Chiang, O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Most climate change detection and attribution studies have focused on mean or extreme
temperature or precipitation, neglecting to explore long-term changes in drought …

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

A Dai - Nature climate change, 2013 - nature.com
Historical records of precipitation, streamflow and drought indices all show increased aridity
since 1950 over many land areas,. Analyses of model-simulated soil moisture,, drought …

Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature

J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate
data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple …

Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tip** elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tip** elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Agriculture in West Africa in the twenty-first century: climate change and impacts scenarios, and potential for adaptation

B Sultan, M Gaetani - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

S Bony, B Stevens, DMW Frierson, C Jakob… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Fundamental puzzles of climate science remain unsolved because of our limited
understanding of how clouds, circulation and climate interact. One example is our inability to …

Projected drought risk in 1.5 C and 2 C warmer climates

F Lehner, S Coats, TF Stocker… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The large socioeconomic costs of droughts make them a crucial target for impact
assessments of climate change scenarios. Using multiple drought metrics and a set of …

Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara

JE Tierney, FSR Pausata, PB deMenocal - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
During the “Green Sahara” period (11,000 to 5000 years before the present), the Sahara
desert received high amounts of rainfall, supporting diverse vegetation, permanent lakes …