Climate Attribution

Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1

January 2021
O'Connor, F. M., Abraham, N. L., Dalvi, M., Folberth, G. A., Griffiths, P. T., Hardacre, C., Johnson, B. T., Kahana, R., Keeble, J., Kim, B., Morgenstern, O., Mulcahy, J. P., Richardson, M., Robertson, E., Seo, J., Shim, S., Teixeira, J. C., Turnock, S. T., Williams, J., Wiltshire, A. J., Woodward, S., and Zeng, G
European Geosciences Union
The authors quantify and analyse a wide range of present-day anthropogenic effective radiative forcings with the UK's Earth System Model, UKESM1.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 →

Effect of Extreme Climate Events on Lake Ecosystems

January 2021
Erik Jeppesen, Donald Pierson, Eleanor Jennings
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Extreme climatic events, including heatwaves, storms, extreme calm periods, sudden and intense rainfall, and droughts, have the potential to result in physical, chemical, and biological changes within lakes.Read More →

The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

January 2021
Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Sam Heft-Neal, Jiani Xue, Jennifer Burney, Michael Wara
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
To illustrate how changes in wildfire activity might affect air pollution and related health outcomes, and how these linkages might guide future science and policy, the authors relate satellite-based fire and smoke data to information from pollution Read More →