Marine heatwaves

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, S Darmaraki… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and
extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The …

Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

C Deser, F Lehner, KB Rodgers, T Ault… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Internal variability in the climate system confounds assessment of human-induced climate
change and imposes irreducible limits on the accuracy of climate change projections …

A global transition to flash droughts under climate change

X Yuan, Y Wang, P Ji, P Wu, J Sheffield, JA Otkin - Science, 2023 - science.org
Flash droughts have occurred frequently worldwide, with a rapid onset that challenges
drought monitoring and forecasting capabilities. However, there is no consensus on whether …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes

EM Fischer, S Sippel, R Knutti - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing records by large margins. Such
extremes unprecedented in the observational period often have substantial impacts due to a …

Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events

E Bevacqua, G Zappa, F Lehner… - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Compound hot–dry events—co-occurring hot and dry extremes—frequently cause damages
to human and natural systems, often exceeding separate impacts from heatwaves and …

Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle

J Brahney, N Mahowald, M Prank… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental and social issues of the 21st
century. Recent work has highlighted the atmosphere's role in transporting microplastics to …

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

X Huang, DL Swain - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly
underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of …

Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century

KA Naughten, PR Holland, J De Rydt - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean-driven melting of floating ice-shelves in the Amundsen Sea is currently the main
process controlling Antarctica's contribution to sea-level rise. Using a regional ocean model …