An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

SC Sherwood, MJ Webb, JD Annan… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of
atmospheric CO2, characterized by an effective sensitivity S. This evidence includes …

Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change

D Mitchell, EP Snelling, RS Hetem… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of predictive models (also known as mechanistic or causal models) of animal
responses to climate change depends on properly incorporating the principles of heat …

[HTML][HTML] Global increasing trends in annual maximum daily precipitation

S Westra, LV Alexander, FW Zwiers - Journal of climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Bates, BC, ZW Kundzewicz, S. Wu, and JP Palutikof, Eds., 2008: Climate change and water.
IPCC Tech. Paper 6, 210 pp.[Available online at http://www. ipcc. ch/pdf/technical …

Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming

T Schneider, CM Kaul, KG Pressel - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Stratocumulus clouds cover 20% of the low-latitude oceans and are especially prevalent in
the subtropics. They cool the Earth by shading large portions of its surface from sunlight …

[HTML][HTML] Humid heat waves at different warming levels

S Russo, J Sillmann, A Sterl - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The co-occurrence of consecutive hot and humid days during a heat wave can strongly
affect human health. Here, we quantify humid heat wave hazard in the recent past and at …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variability and change of Mediterranean-type climates

R Seager, TJ Osborn, Y Kushnir, IR Simpson… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climate Variability and Change of Mediterranean-Type Climates in: Journal of Climate Volume
32 Issue 10 (2019) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

[HTML][HTML] The non-hydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model: Description and development

M Satoh, H Tomita, H Yashiro, H Miura… - Progress in Earth and …, 2014 - Springer
This article reviews the development of a global non-hydrostatic model, focusing on the
pioneering research of the Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM). Very …

Increased insolation threshold for runaway greenhouse processes on Earth-like planets

J Leconte, F Forget, B Charnay, R Wordsworth… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The increase in solar luminosity over geological timescales should warm the Earth's climate,
increasing water evaporation, which will in turn enhance the atmospheric greenhouse effect …

Robust Hadley Circulation changes and increasing global dryness due to CO2 warming from CMIP5 model projections

WKM Lau, KM Kim - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
In this paper, we investigate changes in the Hadley Circulation (HC) and their connections to
increased global dryness (suppressed rainfall and reduced tropospheric relative humidity) …

Observed relationships between extreme sub‐daily precipitation, surface temperature, and relative humidity

R Hardwick Jones, S Westra… - Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Expected changes to future extreme precipitation remain a key uncertainty associated with
anthropogenic climate change. Recently, extreme precipitation has been proposed to scale …