Wind-wave climate changes and their impacts

M Casas-Prat, MA Hemer, G Dodet, J Morim… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wind-waves have an important role in Earth system dynamics through air–sea interactions
and are key drivers of coastal and offshore hydro-morphodynamics that affect communities …

Regional climate change: consensus, discrepancies, and ways forward

TA Shaw, PA Arias, M Collins, D Coumou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change has emerged across many regions. Some observed regional climate
changes, such as amplified Arctic warming and land-sea warming contrasts have been …

Upstream surface roughness and terrain are strong drivers of contrast in tornado potential between North and South America

F Li, DR Chavas, B Medeiros, KA Reed… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Central North America is the global hotspot for tornadoes, fueled by elevated terrain of the
Rockies to the west and a source of warm, moist air from equatorward oceans. This …

Increasing ocean wave energy observed in Earth's seismic wavefield since the late 20th century

RC Aster, AT Ringler, RE Anthony, TA Lee - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean waves excite continuous globally observable seismic signals. We use data from 52
globally distributed seismographs to analyze the vertical component primary microseism …

Global atlas of extreme significant wave heights and relative risk ratios

VS Neary, S Ahn - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Interest in offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy power generation to supply electricity to the
grid nearshore or power off-grid applications far offshore has motivated numerous studies of …

Southern Ocean phytoplankton dynamics and carbon export: insights from a seasonal cycle approach

SJ Thomalla, M Du Plessis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Quantifying the strength and efficiency of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump (BCP)
and its response to predicted changes in the Earth's climate is fundamental to our ability to …

Connecting hemispheric asymmetries of planetary albedo and surface temperature

M Rugenstein, M Hakuba - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite measurements show that the Northern and Southern hemispheres reflect equal
amounts of shortwave radiation (“albedo symmetry”), but no theory exists on if, how, and why …

Anthropogenic aerosols have significantly weakened the regional summertime circulation in the Northern Hemisphere during the satellite era

JM Kang, TA Shaw, L Sun - Agu Advances, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reanalysis data show a significant weakening of summertime circulation in the Northern
Hemisphere (NH) midlatitudes in the satellite era with implications for surface weather …

[HTML][HTML] Application of a two-step space–time EOF statistical postprocessing algorithm to mitigate subseasonal 200-hPa geopotential height forecast error

WD Stikeleather, PE Roundy - Weather and Forecasting, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The time-extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) patterns of error developed in a
companion paper are applied in this study for model data postprocessing. Projecting …

Emerging climate change signals in atmospheric circulation

TA Shaw, JM Arblaster, T Birner, AH Butler… - AGU …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The circulation response to climate change shapes regional climate and extremes. Over the
last decade an increasing number of atmospheric circulation signals have been …