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Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change is contributing to vegetation changes that threaten life support systems. Yet, inherent climatic variability and past and present human actions—such as clearing, burning and grazing regimes—also alter vegetation and complicate understanding of vegetation change. Australian ecosystems exemplify such complexity.
Laura J. Williams, Rachael V. Gallagher, Sami W. Rifai, Matthew A. Adeleye, Patrick J. Baker, David M. J. S. Bowman, Jake Eckersley, Jacqueline R. England, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Pauline F. Grierson, Assaf Inbar, Jürgen Knauer, Clare M. Stephens, Raphaël Trouvé, Belinda E. Medlyn   +14 more
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Characteristics and Spatiotemporal Variations in Tropical Cyclone Rainfall and Rainfall Erosivity in China from 1981 to 2020

Redai dili
Tropical cyclones frequently affect China. However, tropical cyclone rainfall studies in China have mostly focused on the characteristics of and variations in annual rainfall; research on the tropical cyclone rainfall event characteristics and trends ...
Zhou Sihan, Wang Wenting, Wen Meili
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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper, Hester M. Steyn, Cláudia Baider, Benny Bytebier, Anisha Dayaram, F. B. Vincent Florens, Nivohenintsoa Rakotonirina, Domitilla Raimondo, Marc Sosef, M. Marianne le Roux   +9 more
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On the meridional asymmetry of the poleward‐displaced intertropical convergence zone

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
We analyze the complex, asymmetrical dynamical structure of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in the East Pacific and Atlantic basins, seen during boreal summer, using a global, coupled storm‐resolving simulation. The equatorial pressure gradients lead to the acceleration of southerlies, which decelerate when the zonal flow becomes westerly ...
Divya Sri Praturi, Bjorn Stevens
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Operational Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification at the National Hurricane Center [PDF]

, 2021
Mark DeMaria, James L. Franklin, Matthew J. Onderlinde, John Kaplan   +3 more
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When tiny convective spread affects a midlatitude jet: Spread sequence

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
We investigate spread evolution by mesoscale convection from tiny initial condition uncertainty during a real event. There is significant variation among the systems in their propensity to interact with the jet stream, whereby variability in one system (due to convective and long‐wave radiative heating tendencies) tightly relates to Rossby‐like ...
Edward Groot, Michael Riemer
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Mesoscale dynamics of cyclone Leslie (2018): A diagnostic analysis of a rare Iberian landfall

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This study presents a successful numerical simulation of cyclone Leslie (2018), using WRF‐ARW v4.5.1. Several mesoscale dynamics were identified indicative of the occurrence of sting jet and cold conveyor belt, which potentiated the record‐breaking winds in central Portugal.
Miguel M. Lima, Luana C. Santos, Albenis Pérez‐Alarcón, Pedro M. M. Soares, Ricardo M. Trigo, Rita M. Cardoso   +5 more
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Previously Neglected Effects of Strong Horizontal Winds on Raindrop Collisions in Tropical Cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters
Persistent strong winds are a common feature within the near‐surface layer of tropical cyclones, which can induce pronounced horizontal motion as raindrops descend.
Lin Deng, Xuwei Bao, Istvan Geresdi, Lulin Xue, Wei Huang, Yang Zhao, Wanchen Wu, Tiantian Li   +7 more
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A case study of temperature tendency mechanisms operating over northern Africa during and following midlatitude winter troughs

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
An Iberia‐Central Mediterranean trough sequence (7–10 February 2018) delivers anomalous low‐level temperature tendencies attributable to dynamics across most of northern Africa, with warming over northeastern Africa, especially 10–12 February into the eastern Sahel. An ECMWF product attributes the tendencies (see Figure).
Neil Ward, Andreas H. Fink, Richard J. Keane, Douglas J. Parker   +3 more
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Climate change exacerbates hurricane flood hazards along US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts in spatially varying patterns

Nature Communications, 2019
Tropical cyclone-induced coastal flooding will increase under climate change. Here the authors estimate the effects of sea level rise and tropical cyclone climatology change on late–21st–century flood hazards along the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and ...
Reza Marsooli, Ning Lin, Kerry Emanuel, Kairui Feng   +3 more
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