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The recent normalization of historical marine heat extremes

February 2022
Kisei R. Tanaka, Kyle S. Van Houtan
PLOS Climate
This study focusing on marine heat extremes to provide an alternative framework that may help better contextualize the dramatic changes currently occurring in marine systems.Read More →

Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

January 2022
Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov & Jim Reagan
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study analyses recent ocean heat content changes through 2021. Read More →

Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

January 2022
Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov & Jim Reagan
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study finds that the world ocean, in 2021, was the hottest ever recorded by humans.Read More →

Marine Heatwaves in the Chesapeake Bay

January 2022
Piero L. F. Mazzini & Cassia Pianca
Frontiers in Marine Science
This study finds that long-term warming of the Chesapeake Bay has led to significant trends in the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves in the region. Read More →

Global Carbon Budget 2021

November 2021
Pierre Friedlingstein, Matthew W. Jones, Michael O'Sullivan, Robbie M. Andrew, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Judith Hauck, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen P. Peters, Wouter Peters, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Rob B. Jackson, Simone R. Alin, Peter Anthoni, Nicholas R. Bates, Meike Becker, Nicolas Bellouin, Laurent Bopp, Thi T. T. Chau, Frédéric Chevallier, Louise P. Chini, Margot Cronin, Kim I. Currie, Bertrand Decharme, Laique Djeutchouang, Xinyu Dou, Wiley Evans, Richard A. Feely, Liang Feng, Thomas Gasser, Dennis Gilfillan, Thanos Gkritzalis, Giacomo Grassi, Luke Gregor, Nicolas Gruber, Özgür Gürses, Ian Harris, Richard A. Houghton, George C. Hurtt, Yosuke Iida, Tatiana Ilyina, Ingrid T. Luijkx, Atul K. Jain, Steve D. Jones, Etsushi Kato, Daniel Kennedy, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jürgen Knauer, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Arne Körtzinger, Peter Landschützer, Siv K. Lauvset, Nathalie Lefèvre, Sebastian Lienert, Junjie Liu, Gregg Marland, Patrick C. McGuire, Joe R. Melton, David R. Munro, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Shin-Ichiro Nakaoka, Yosuke Niwa, Tsuneo Ono, Denis Pierrot, Benjamin Poulter, Gregor Rehder, Laure Resplandy, Eddy Robertson, Christian Rödenbeck, Thais M. Rosan, Jörg Schwinger, Clemens Schwingshackl, Roland Séférian, Adrienne J. Sutton, Colm Sweeney, Toste Tanhua, Pieter P. Tans, Hanqin Tian, Bronte Tilbrook, Francesco Tubiello, Guido van der Werf, Nicolas Vuichard, Chisato Wada, Rik Wanninkhof, Andrew Watson, David Willis, Andrew J. Wiltshire, Wenping Yuan, Chao Yue, Xu Yue, Sönke Zaehle, and Jiye Zeng
Earth System Science Data
This report describes and synthesizes data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and their uncertainties.Read More →

Enhanced El Niño–Southern Oscillation Variability in Recent Decades

October 2021
Pamela R. Grothe, Kim M. Cobb, Giovanni Liguori, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Antonietta Capotondi, Yanbin Lu, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, John R. Southon, Guaciara M. Santos, Daniel M. Deocampo, Jean Lynch‐Stieglitz, Tianran Chen, Hussein R. Sayani, Diane M. Thompson, Jessica L. Conroy, Andrea L. Moore, Kayla Townsend, Melat Hagos, Gemma O'Connor, Lauren T. Toth
American Geophysical Union
Recent modeling studies suggest that El Niño will intensify due to greenhouse warming.Read More →

Extent and Causes of Chesapeake Bay Warming

June 2021
Kyle E. Hinson, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, Pierre St-Laurent, Fei Da, Raymond G. Najjar
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
This study quantifies Chesapeake Bay warming and its causes since 1985.Read More →

Recent trends in the wind-driven California current upwelling system

May 2021
Y. Quilfen, J. Shutler, J.-F. Piolle, E. Autret
Elsevier
This work focused on a sensitivity study of the estimated trends in upwelling winds in the California Current Upwelling System, for the period 1996–2018.Read More →

Multidecadal climate oscillations during the past millennium driven by volcanic forcing

March 2021
Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, Daniel J. Brouillette, & Sonya K. Miller
Science
Using an ensemble of climate models to evaluate the causes of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the authors find no evidence to show that it has been purely internally generated during the last millennium.Read More →

Earth’s Ice Imbalance

January 2021
Thomas Slater, Isobel R. Lawrence, Inès N. Otosaka, Andrew Shepherd, Noel Gourmelen, Livia Jakob, Paul Tepes, Lin Gilbert, and Peter Nienow
The Cryosphere
Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, and the rate of ice loss has risen by 57 % since the 1990s.Read More →

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