Monthly Archives: March 2006
Impacts of Land Use Change on Climate – Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Planned
There is a an opporunity to submit papers in the special issue of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology on “Impacts of Land Use Change on Climate” (see). The Announcement reads, “Recently, several special sessions on land use change … Continue reading
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Response to CCSP Comment on the Pielke and Matsui GRL paper
The CCSP Response to the Public Comments includes a comment on the Pielke and Matsui 2005 paper entitled “Should light wind and windy nights have the same temperature trends at individual levels even if the boundary layer averaged heat content … Continue reading
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A New Paper on the Importance of Regional Climate Forcings and Response
An important paper appeared in the March 22, 2006 issue of JGR-Atmosphere which further documents why we must focus on regional diabatic forcings and responses in order to provide a more scientifically sound understanding of climate variability and change. This … Continue reading
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Is the Nightime Warming in Arizona Due to Global Warming?
A news release on March 27, 2006 by Tony Davis of the Arizona Daily Star discusses the observed increase in winter nightime temperaturres in Arizona over the past 70 years. The article is generally well written, but it does not … Continue reading
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Changes in global monsoon precipitation over the past 56 years
There is a significant new research contribution concerning an assessment of recent trends in the global monsoon systems. Monsoons are a critical component of the climate system in many parts of the world which includes their role in regional and … Continue reading
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Further Confirmation of the Robustness of the Kalnay and Cai (2004) Nature paper on the Importance of the Land Surface With Respect to the Surface Temperature Trend Assessments
On several weblogs, we have discussed new research papers on the role of land surface processes on the surface temperature trend assessments (e.g. see and see). Another new paper has appeared on March 24, 2006 that further confirms the important … Continue reading
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A Current Example of The Value of the Vulnerability Paridigm – Water Resources in the Western United States
There was an accurate and well written media report in the NY Times on March 21 2006 by Kirk Johnson on the current water resource conditions in the western United States. Entitled “More Western Drought, but With a Twist”, this … Continue reading
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New Paper on Recent Solar Variability as a Climate Forcing
A new contribution has appeared with respect to the solar forcing of the climate system. We recently presented a weblog on solar forcing (see), and this paper updates the scientific investigation of this subject. This 2006 paper by N. Scafetta … Continue reading
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Tipping Points- Where is the Scientific Evidence That We Are Approaching These Thresolds?
A remarkable scientific claim was made by Jim Hansen in a CBS News story. The article included the statement, “Those human changes, he says, are driven by burning fossil fuels that pump out greenhouse gases like CO2, carbon dioxide. Hansen … Continue reading
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What are the Most Useful Climate Metrics?
With so much discussion of global warming and climate change, what are the most appropriate metrics with respect to these environmental issues? As discussed in the 2005 National Research Council Report (see), and illustrated on page 24 of that report, … Continue reading
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