Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences

Q You, Z Cai, N Pepin, D Chen, B Ahrens, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

DH Shugar, A Burr, UK Haritashya, JS Kargel… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Glacial lakes are rapidly growing in response to climate change and glacier retreat. The role
of these lakes as terrestrial storage for glacial meltwater is currently unknown and not …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources

RB Jackson, M Saunois, P Bousquet… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
1. Methods We use the same data and approaches to estimate CH 4 emissions as in
Saunois et al (2020). One approach we use is a top-down (TD) ensemble of 11 inversions …

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures

A Descals, DLA Gaveau, A Verger, D Sheil, D Naito… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Arctic fires can release large amounts of carbon from permafrost peatlands. Satellite
observations reveal that fires burned~ 4.7 million hectares in 2019 and 2020, accounting for …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals

SM Natali, JP Holdren, BM Rogers… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Rapid Arctic warming has intensified northern wildfires and is thawing carbon-rich
permafrost. Carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and Arctic wildfires, which are not fully …

Environmental effects of stratospheric ozone depletion, UV radiation, and interactions with climate change: UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel, Update …

RE Neale, PW Barnes, TM Robson, PJ Neale… - Photochemical & …, 2021 - Springer
This assessment by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the latest scientific update since our …

Overwintering fires in boreal forests

RC Scholten, R Jandt, EA Miller, BM Rogers… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Forest fires are usually viewed within the context of a single fire season, in which weather
conditions and fuel supply can combine to create conditions favourable for fire ignition …

Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia

RM Hantemirov, C Corona, S Guillet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. Putting this rapid warming into
perspective is challenging because instrumental records are often short or incomplete in …