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The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014: Character, Context, and the Role of Climate Change

Published:September 2014

Author(s):Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, Noah S. Diffenbaugh

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

California’s driest 12-month period on record occurred during 2013/14, and while global warming likely increased the probability of certain large-scale atmospheric conditions, implications for very low precipitation in California remain uncertain. Read More →

Examining the Contribution of the Observed Global Warming Trend to the California Droughts of 2012/13 and 2013/14

Published:September 2014

Author(s):Christopher C. Funk, Andrew Hoell, Daithi Stone

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Long-term SST warming trends did not contribute substantially to the 2012/13 and 2013/14 California droughts. North Pacific SSTs were exceptionally warm, however; and coupled models indicate more frequent extreme precipitation.Read More →

Causes of the Extreme Dry Conditions Over California During Early 2013

Published:September 2014

Author(s):Hailan Wang, Siegfried Schubert

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The 2013 SST anomalies produced a predilection for California drought, whereas the longterm warming trend appears to make no appreciable contribution because of the counteraction between its dynamical and thermodynamic effects. Read More →

Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs and dairy production in the United States

Published:August 2014

Author(s):Gidon Eshel, Alon Shepon, Tamar Makov, and Ron Milo

Publisher:PNAS

This study's calculations reveal that the environmental costs per consumed calorie of dairy, poultry, pork, and eggs are mutually comparable (to within a factor of 2), but strikingly lower than the impacts of beef.Read More →

Measuring the Burden of Disease Due to Climate Change and Developing a Forecast Model in South Korea

Published:August 2014

Author(s):S.-J. Yoon, I.-H. Oh, H.-Y. Seo, E.-J. Kim

Publisher:Journal of Public Health

This study quantified the burden of disease caused by climate change in Korea, and provides valuable information for determining the priorities of environmental health policy in East Asian countries with similar climates.Read More →

Regional Rainfall Decline in Australia Attributed to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Levels

Published:July 2014

Author(s):Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This study analyzes the decline in precipitation in southern Australia in the past few decades using a global climate model, demonstrating that the decline is in response to anthropogenic changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas and ozone levels.Read More →

Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry : methods for entity-scale inventory

Published:July 2014

Author(s):United States Department of Agriculture - Climate Change Program Office

Publisher:USDA Technical Bulletin 1939

The objective for this report is to create a standard set of GHG estimation methods for use by USDA, landowners, and other stakeholders to assist them in evaluating the GHG impacts of their management decisions.Read More →

Beyond Climatological Extremes— Assessing how the Odds of Hydrometeorological Extreme Events in South-East Europe Change in a Warming Climate

Published:June 2014

Author(s):Sebastian Sippel, F E. L. Otto

Publisher:SpringerLink

This study describes the methodology of probabilistic event attribution to evaluate occurrence probabilities of extreme weather events, and estimates the hazard probabilities of those events in South-East Europe. Read More →

Attributing Weather Extremes to ‘Climate Change’: A Review

Published:June 2014

Author(s):Mike Hulme

Publisher:Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

This report surveys the science of extreme weather event attribution by examining the field in four stages: motivations for extreme weather attribution, methods of attribution, some example case studies and the politics of weather event attribution.Read More →

Climate‐related range shifts – a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

Published:April 2014

Author(s):J. Lenoir, J.-C. Svenning

Publisher:Ecography - Nordic Society Oikos

This paper proposes a uniﬁed classiﬁcation of geographical patterns of species range shifts, arranged in a bi-dimensional space deﬁned by species’ persistence and movement rates. Read More →

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