Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean

A Jahn, MM Holland, JE Kay - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024‏ - nature.com
Observed Arctic sea ice losses are a sentinel of anthropogenic climate change. These
reductions are projected to continue with ongoing warming, ultimately leading to an ice-free …

Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes

W Cai, B Ng, T Geng, F Jia, L Wu, G Wang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) sea surface temperature (SST) variability
increased after 1960, influenced by more frequent strong El Niño and La Niña events …

Systematic climate model biases in the large‐scale patterns of recent sea‐surface temperature and sea‐level pressure change

RCJ Wills, Y Dong, C Proistosecu… - Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Observed surface temperature trends over recent decades are characterized by (a)
intensified warming in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool and slight cooling in the eastern …

Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models

IR Simpson, KA McKinnon, D Kennedy… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Arid and semi-arid regions of the world are particularly vulnerable to greenhouse gas–
driven hydroclimate change. Climate models are our primary tool for projecting the future …

Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached

NS Diffenbaugh, EA Barnes - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Leveraging artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained on climate model output, we use the
spatial pattern of historical temperature observations to predict the time until critical global …

Seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones in a warming climate

K Shan, Y Lin, PS Chu, X Yu, F Song - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Intense tropical cyclones (TCs), which often peak in autumn,, have destructive impacts on
life and property,–, making it crucial to determine whether any changes in intense TCs are …

Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes

DL Schumacher, J Singh, M Hauser… - … Earth & Environment, 2024‏ - nature.com
In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster
than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not captured by most climate model …

Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability

W Zhou, LR Leung, J Lu - Nature Geoscience, 2024‏ - nature.com
Arctic amplification—the amplified surface warming in the Arctic relative to the globe—is a
robust feature of climate change. However, there is a considerable spread in the reported …

More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice

P Zhang, G Chen, M Ting, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2023‏ - nature.com
In recent decades, Arctic sea-ice coverage underwent a drastic decline in winter, when sea
ice is expected to recover following the melting season. It is unclear to what extent …

Recent pronounced warming on the Mongolian Plateau boosted by internal climate variability

Q Cai, W Chen, S Chen, SP **e, J Piao, T Ma… - Nature Geoscience, 2024‏ - nature.com
Exceptionally strong summertime warming occurred over the Mongolian Plateau between
1986 and 2004, at a rate that was three times the average terrestrial warming in the Northern …