Human influence on the climate system (Chapter 3)

V Eyring, NP Gillett, KM Achuta Rao, R Barimalala… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Monsoon responses to climate changes—connecting past, present and future

A Seth, A Giannini, M Rojas, SA Rauscher… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Knowledge of how monsoons will respond to external forcings
through the twenty-first century has been confounded by incomplete theories of tropical …

[HTML][HTML] East Asian climate evolution during the Cenozoic: A review from the modeling perspective

R Zhang, D Jiang, X Li, J Shi, T Shen - Fundamental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Asian climate evolution during the Cenozoic era is of great importance in
paleoclimate research, a fascinating topic for paleoclimatologists with efforts in both …

Evidence for the repeated occurrence of wildfires in an upper Pliocene lignite deposit from Yunnan, SW China

B Liu, R Spiekermann, C Zhao, W Puettmann… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Charcoal remains and bulk lignites collected from the late Pliocene Jinsuo Basin in Yunnan,
southwestern China, have been studied to reveal changes in the wildfire regime related to …

Past terrestrial hydroclimate sensitivity controlled by Earth system feedbacks

R Feng, T Bhattacharya, BL Otto-Bliesner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite tectonic conditions and atmospheric CO 2 levels (pCO 2) similar to those of present-
day, geological reconstructions from the mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 Ma) document high lake …

What controls the water vapor isotopic composition near the surface of tropical oceans? Results from an analytical model constrained by large‐eddy simulations

C Risi, C Muller, P Blossey - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of this study is to understand the mechanisms controlling the isotopic composition
of the water vapor near the surface of tropical oceans, at the scale of about a hundred …

Modeling the mid-piacenzian warm climate using the water isotope-enabled Community Earth System Model (iCESM1. 2-ITPCAS)

Y Sun, L Ding, B Su, H Dowsett, H Wu, J Hu… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (MPWP,~ 3.264–3.025 Ma) is the most recent
example of a persistently warmer climate in equilibrium with atmospheric CO2 …

Revisiting the physical mechanisms of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation changes during the mid-Holocene: a data–model comparison

Y Sun, H Wu, G Ramstein, B Liu, Y Zhao, L Li, X Yuan… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The mid-Holocene (MH; 6 ka) is one of the benchmark periods for the Paleoclimate
Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) and provides a unique opportunity to study …

Revisiting the physical processes controlling the tropical atmospheric circulation changes during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period

K Zhang, Y Sun, Z Zhang, C Stepanek, R Feng… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (MPWP; 3.0–3.3 Ma), a warm geological period
about three million years ago, has been deemed as a good past analog for understanding …

The response of tropical precipitation to Earth's precession: the role of energy fluxes and vertical stability

C Jalihal, JHC Bosmans, J Srinivasan… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The changes in Earth's precession have an impact on the tropical precipitation. This has
been attributed to the changes in seasonal solar radiation at the top of the atmosphere. The …