Prediction and projection of heatwaves

DIV Domeisen, EAB Eltahir, EM Fischer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves constitute a major threat to human health and ecosystems. Projected increases
in heatwave frequency and severity thus lead to the need for prediction to enhance …

Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms

M Previdi, KL Smith, LM Polvani - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Arctic amplification (AA)—referring to the enhancement of near-surface air temperature
change over the Arctic relative to lower latitudes—is a prominent feature of climate change …

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

J Cohen, L Agel, M Barlow, CI Garfinkel, I White - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Arctic is warming at a rate twice the global average and severe winter weather is
reported to be increasing across many heavily populated mid-latitude regions, but there is …

Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise

JE Box, A Hubbard, DB Bahr, WT Colgan… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest sources of contemporary sea-level
rise (SLR). While process-based models place timescales on Greenland's deglaciation, their …

Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

J Cohen, X Zhang, J Francis, T Jung, R Kwok… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average since the late twentieth
century, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification (AA). Recently, there have been …

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

RP Allan, M Barlow, MP Byrne… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback

J Jiang, Y Liu, J Mao, G Wu - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eastern China experienced persistent regional extreme heatwaves in the summer of 2022,
with disparate spatial features and formation mechanisms in different months. We …

Improvements in the GISTEMP uncertainty model

NJL Lenssen, GA Schmidt, JE Hansen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We outline a new and improved uncertainty analysis for the Goddard Institute for Space
Studies Surface Temperature product version 4 (GISTEMP v4). Historical spatial variations …