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The Use of Basal Area Increment to Preserve the Multi-Decadal Climatic Signal in Shrub Growth Ring Chronologies: A Case Study of Betula glandulosa in a Rapidly Warming Environment

Atmosphere, 2023
Climate warming at high latitudes has contributed to the growing interest in shrub tree-ring analysis. Shrub architecture presents new challenges for dendrochronology, such as the seemingly lower and inconsistent climatic sensitivity of stems vs.
Julie-Pascale Labrecque-Foy, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Pascale Ropars, Martin Simard, Stéphane Boudreau   +4 more
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Lessons on Climate Sensitivity From Past Climate Changes [PDF]

Current Climate Change Reports, 2016
Over the last decade, our understanding of climate sensitivity has improved considerably. The climate system shows variability on many timescales, is subject to non-stationary forcing and it is most likely out of equilibrium with the changes in the radiative forcing.
AS von der Heydt, HA Dijkstra, RSW van de Wal, R Caballero, M Crucifix, GL Foster, M Huber, P Köhler, E Rohling, PJ Valdes, P Ashwin, S Bathiany, T Loes,  G. J. van Bree, P Ditlevsen, M Ghil, AM Haywood, J Katzav, G Lohmann, J Lohmann, V Lucarini, A Marzocchi, H Pälike, I Ruvalcaba,  Baroni, D Simon, A Sluijs, LB Stap, A Tantet, J Viebahn, M Ziegler   +30 more
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Response of Vegetation Photosynthetic Phenology to Urbanization in Dongting Lake Basin, China

Remote Sensing, 2021
Urbanization can induce environmental changes such as the urban heat island effect, which in turn influence the terrestrial ecosystem. However, the effect of urbanization on the phenology of subtropical vegetation remains relatively unexplored.
Peng Li, Mai Sun, Yuxin Liu, Peixin Ren, Changhui Peng, Xiaolu Zhou, Jiayi Tang   +6 more
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Is climate sensitivity related to dynamical sensitivity? [PDF]

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2016
AbstractThe atmospheric response to increasing CO2 concentrations is often described in terms of the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). Yet the response to CO2 forcing in global climate models is not limited to an increase in global‐mean surface temperature: for example, the midlatitude jets shift poleward, the Hadley circulation expands, and the ...
Kevin M. Grise, Lorenzo M. Polvani
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Thermodynamics of climate change: generalized sensitivities [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010
Abstract. Using a recent theoretical approach, we study how the impact of global warming of the thermodynamics of the climate system by performing experiments with a simplified yet Earth-like climate model. In addition to the globally averaged surface temperature, the intensity of the Lorenz energy cycle, the Carnot efficiency, the material entropy ...
LUCARINI, VALERIO, K. Fraedrich, F. Lunkeit   +2 more
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Geographic patterns of the climate sensitivity of lakes [PDF]

Ecological Applications, 2019
AbstractClimate change is a well‐recognized threat to lake ecosystems and, although there likely exists geographic variation in the sensitivity of lakes to climate, broad‐scale, long‐term studies are needed to understand this variation. Further, the potential mediating role of local to regional ecological context on these responses is not well ...
Ian M. McCullough, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Sarah M. Collins, Patricia A. Soranno   +3 more
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A Resource and Policy Driven Assessment of the Geothermal Energy Potential Across the Islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021
The energy security of each Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state is a key issue specifically addressed based on the energy demands of each nation. St.
Randy Koon Koon, Kalim Shah, Masaō Ashtine, Santana Lewis   +3 more
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Climate variability from annual to multi-decadal timescales in a two-layer stochastic energy balance model: analytic solutions and implications for general circulation models

Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2019
A low-order stochastically forced two-layer global energy balance model (EBM) admitting an analytical solution is developed for studying natural inter-annual, decadal and multi-decadal climate variability, and ultimately to better understand forced ...
Sergei Soldatenko, Robert Colman
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Underestimated marine stratocumulus cloud feedback associated with overly active deep convection in models

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Cloud feedback remains the largest source of uncertainty in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). Many studies have attempted to narrow uncertainties in cloud feedback and ECS by proposing observable metrics with high skill at predicting future climate,
N Hirota, T Ogura, H Shiogama, P Caldwell, M Watanabe, Y Kamae, K Suzuki   +6 more
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Hot climates, high sensitivity [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Climate sensitivity is the Holy Grail of climate science; because CO2 is one of the principal control knobs for climate, sensitivity to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration is of particular interest. This sensitivity is typically characterized by the change in global mean temperature per doubling of concentration.
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