Niches, models, and climate change: assessing the assumptions and uncertainties

JA Wiens, D Stralberg, D Jongsomjit… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
As the rate and magnitude of climate change accelerate, understanding the consequences
becomes increasingly important. Species distribution models (SDMs) based on current …

State‐of‐the‐art with regional climate models

M Rummukainen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate models are used by a large number of groups, for more or less all regions
of the world. Regional climate models are complementary to global climate models. A typical …

The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

RM DeConto, D Pollard, RB Alley, I Velicogna… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean warming in the twenty-first century to
less than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to promote further efforts to limit …

Thirty years of regional climate modeling: where are we and where are we going next?

F Giorgi - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the development of the first regional climate
model (RCM), and here an overview is provided of the progress in regional modeling …

[HTML][HTML] Why is the Mediterranean a climate change hot spot?

A Tuel, EAB Eltahir - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot? in: Journal of Climate Volume 33
Issue 14 (2020) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo JOURNALS Artificial …

North China Plain threatened by deadly heatwaves due to climate change and irrigation

S Kang, EAB Eltahir - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract North China Plain is the heartland of modern China. This fertile plain has
experienced vast expansion of irrigated agriculture which cools surface temperature and …

Deadly heat waves projected in the densely populated agricultural regions of South Asia

ES Im, JS Pal, EAB Eltahir - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and
level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35° C …

Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise

RM DeConto, D Pollard - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Polar temperatures over the last several million years have, at times, been slightly warmer
than today, yet global mean sea level has been 6–9 metres higher as recently as the Last …

Evolving understanding of Antarctic ice‐sheet physics and ambiguity in probabilistic sea‐level projections

RE Kopp, RM DeConto, DA Bader, CC Hay… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms such as ice‐shelf hydrofracturing and ice‐cliff collapse may rapidly increase
discharge from marine‐based ice sheets. Here, we link a probabilistic framework for sea …

The multi-millennial Antarctic commitment to future sea-level rise

NR Golledge, DE Kowalewski, TR Naish, RH Levy… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Atmospheric warming is projected to increase global mean surface temperatures by 0.3 to
4.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial values by the end of this century. If anthropogenic …