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• The changing effects of Alaska's boreal forests on the climate system

  Authors:E.S. Euskirchen, A.D. McGuire, F.S. Chapin, III, and T.S. RuppFrom:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 40, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20108,181 words Report In the boreal forests of Alaska, recent changes in climate have influenced the exchange of trace gases, water, and energy between these forests and the atmosphere. These changes in the structure and function of boreal...

• Variability of projected terrestrial biosphere responses to elevated levels of atmospheric CO.sub.2 due to uncertainty in biological nitrogen fixation

  Authors:Johannes Meyerholt and Matthew J. SmithFrom:Biogeosciences (Vol. 13, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 10, 2016319 words Author abstract, Bri... Including a terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycle in Earth system models has led to substantial attenuation of predicted biosphere-climate feedbacks. However, the magnitude of this attenuation remains uncertain. A particularly...

• Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change.

  Authors:Stiig Wilkenskjeld, Frederieke Miesner, Paul P. Overduin, Matteo Puglini, and Victor BrovkinFrom:The Cryosphere (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 28, 2022269 words Brief article Most earth system models (ESMs) neglect climate feedbacks arising from carbon release from thawing permafrost, especially from thawing of subsea permafrost (SSPF). To assess the fate of SSPF in the next 1000 years, we...

• Description and basic evaluation of Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) version 1

  Authors:D. Ji, L. Wang, J. Feng, Q. Wu, H. Cheng, Q. Zhang, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 12, 201454 words Brief article Byline: D. Ji, L. Wang, J. Feng, Q. Wu, H. Cheng, Q. Zhang, J. Yang, W. Dong, Y. Dai, D. Gong, R.-H. Zhang, X. Wang, J. Liu, J. C. Moore, D. Chen, M. Zhou To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the...

• Future methane, hydroxyl, and their uncertainties: key climate and emission parameters for future predictions

  Authors:C. D. Holmes, M. J. Prather, and G. MyhreFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 11, 201332 words Brief article Byline: C. D. Holmes, M. J. Prather, O. A. Sø,vde, G. Myhre To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Accounting for the climate--carbon feedback in emission metrics

  Authors:Thomas Gasser, Glen P. Peters, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, William J. Collins, Drew T. Shindell, and Philippe CiaisFrom:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 10, 2017237 words Author abstract, Bri... Most emission metrics have previously been inconsistently estimated by including the climate--carbon feedback for the reference gas (i.e. CO.sub.2) but not the other species (e.g. CH.sub.4). In the...

• Slow feedbacks resulting from strongly enhanced atmospheric methane mixing ratios in a chemistry-climate model with mixed-layer ocean.

  Authors:Laura Stecher, Franziska Winterstein, Martin Dameris, Patrick Jöckel, Michael Ponater, and Markus KunzeFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 19, 2021424 words Article In a previous study the quasi-instantaneous chemical impacts (rapid adjustments) of strongly enhanced methane (CH.sub.4) mixing ratios have been analysed. However, to quantify the influence of the respective slow climate...

• Attribution of Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) ozone radiative flux bias from satellites.

  Authors:Le Kuai, Kevin W. Bowman, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Makoto Deushi, Laura Revell, Eugene Rozanov, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 8, 2020483 words Article The top-of-atmosphere (TOA) outgoing longwave flux over the 9.6 µm ozone band is a fundamental quantity for understanding chemistry-climate coupling. However, observed TOA fluxes are hard to estimate as they...

• Technical note: Greenhouse gas flux studies: an automated online system for gas emission measurements in aquatic environments.

  Authors:Nguyen Thanh Duc, Samuel Silverstein, Martin Wik, Patrick Crill, David Bastviken, and Ruth K. VarnerFrom:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 24, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 6, 2020252 words Brief article Aquatic ecosystems are major sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Robust measurements of natural GHG emissions are vital for evaluating regional to global carbon budgets and for assessing climate feedbacks of natural...

• Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models.

  Authors:Vivek K. Arora, Anna Katavouta, Richard G. Williams, Chris D. Jones, Victor Brovkin, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 17, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 18, 2020389 words Article Results from the fully and biogeochemically coupled simulations in which CO.sub.2 increases at a rate of 1 % yr.sup.-1 (1pctCO2) from its preindustrial value are analyzed to quantify the magnitude of...

• Vegetation-climate feedbacks modulate rainfall patterns in Africa under future climate change

  Authors:Minchao Wu, Guy Schurgers, Markku Rummukainen, Benjamin Smith, Patrick Samuelsson, Christer Jansson, et al.From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 7, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 26, 2016285 words Brief article Africa has been undergoing significant changes in climate and vegetation in recent decades, and continued changes may be expected over this century. Vegetation cover and composition impose important influences on the...

• Improvement of modeling plant responses to low soil moisture in JULESvn4.9 and evaluation against flux tower measurements.

  Authors:Anna B. Harper, Karina E. Williams, Patrick C. McGuire, Maria Carolina Duran Rojas, Debbie Hemming, Anne Verhoef, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 3, 2021453 words Article Drought is predicted to increase in the future due to climate change, bringing with it myriad impacts on ecosystems. Plants respond to drier soils by reducing stomatal conductance in order to conserve water and avoid...

• Model simulations of arctic biogeochemistry and permafrost extent are highly sensitive to the implemented snow scheme in LPJ-GUESS.

  Authors:Alexandra Pongracz, David Wårlind, Paul A. Miller, and Frans-Jan W. ParmentierFrom:Biogeosciences (Vol. 18, Issue 20) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 26, 2021316 words Brief article The Arctic is warming rapidly, especially in winter, which is causing large-scale reductions in snow cover. Snow is one of the main controls on soil thermodynamics, and changes in its thickness and extent affect both...

• Aromatic acids in a Eurasian Arctic ice core: a 2600-year proxy record of biomass burning

  Authors:Mackenzie M. Grieman, Murat Aydin, Diedrich Fritzsche, Joseph R. McConnell, Thomas Opel, Michael Sigl, et al.From:Climate of the Past (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20, 2017316 words Author abstract, Bri... Wildfires and their emissions have significant impacts on ecosystems, climate, atmospheric chemistry, and carbon cycling. Well-dated proxy records are needed to study the long-term climatic controls on biomass burning...

• Investigating vegetation--climate feedbacks during the early Eocene

  Authors:C. A. Loptson, D. J. Lunt, and J. E. FrancisFrom:Climate of the Past (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 7, 201430 words Brief article Byline: C. A. Loptson, D. J. Lunt, J. E. Francis To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations

  Authors:K. E. O. Todd-Brown, J. T. Randerson, W. M. Post, F. M. Hoffman, C. Tarnocai, E. A. G. Schuur, et al.From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 13, 201343 words Brief article Byline: K. E. O. Todd-Brown, J. T. Randerson, W. M. Post, F. M. Hoffman, C. Tarnocai, E. A. G. Schuur, S. D. Allison To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this...

• Late Pliocene lakes and soils: a global data set for the analysis of climate feedbacks in a warmer world

  Authors:M. J. Pound, J. Tindall, S. J. Pickering, A. M. Haywood, H. J. Dowsett, and U. SalzmannFrom:Climate of the Past (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 23, 201437 words Brief article Byline: M. J. Pound, J. Tindall, S. J. Pickering, A. M. Haywood, H. J. Dowsett, U. Salzmann To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Asymmetry and uncertainties in biogeophysical climate-vegetation feedback over a range of CO.sub.2 forcings

  Authors:M. Willeit, A. Ganopolski, and G. FeulnerFrom:Biogeosciences (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 3, 201427 words Brief article Byline: M. Willeit, A. Ganopolski, G. Feulner To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Sensitivity analysis of polarimetric O.sub.2 A-band spectra for potential cloud retrievals using OCO-2/GOSAT measurements

  Authors:S. Sanghavi, M. Lebsock, and G. StephensFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 8, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 7, 2015320 words Brief article Clouds play a crucial role in Earth's radiative budget, yet their climate feedbacks are poorly understood. The advent of space-borne high resolution spectrometers probing the O.sub.2 A band, like GOSAT and OCO-2, could...

• Cascading transitions in the climate system

  Authors:Mark M. Dekker, Anna S. von der Heydt, and Henk A. DijkstraFrom:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 6, 2018153 words Author abstract, Bri...

  We introduce a framework of cascading tipping, i.e. a sequence of abrupt transitions occurring because a transition in one subsystem changes the background conditions for another subsystem. A mathematical framework...