Science Highlights 2023

December

Ali, J., Wahl, T., Enriquez, A. R., Rashid, M. M., Morim, J., Gall, M., & Emrich, C. T. (2023). The role of compound climate and weather extreme events in creating socio-economic impacts in South Florida. Weather and Climate Extremes, 42, 100625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2023.100625

Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1

Mindlin, J., C. S. Vera, T. G. Shepherd, and M. Osman (2023). Plausible Drying and Wetting Scenarios for Summer in Southeastern South America. J. Climate, 36, 7973–7991, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0134.1

Timmermans, M. L., & Labe, Z. (2023). NOAA Arctic Report Card 2023: Sea Surface Temperature. DOI:10.25923/e8jc-f342. https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2023/sea-surface-temperature-2023/

November

Kad, Pratik et al. (2023). Projected changes in mountain precipitation under CO2-induced warmer climate. Earth’s Future, 11, e2023EF003886. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003886

Petzold, J., Hawxwell, T.,….. Pradhan, HK.,et al (2023). A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01824-z

September

Jain, S., Scaife, A. A., Shepherd, T. G., Deser, C., Dunstone, N., Schmidt, G. A., et al. (2023). Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00389-0

Oguntade, S.S. et al. (2023). The Impact of Climate Change on the State of Carbon Footprint in Nigeria. In: Egbueri, J.C., Ighalo, J.O., Pande, C.B. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Nigeria. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21007-5_9

Veenus, V., Das, S. S., & David, L. M. (2023). Ozone Changes Due To Sudden Stratospheric Warming‐Induced Variations in the Intensity of Brewer‐Dobson Circulation: A Composite Analysis Using Observations and Chemical‐Transport Model. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(13). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103353

June

Calabia, A, G Lu, OS Bolaji (2023). Editorial: Advances on upper-atmosphere characterization for geodetic space weather research and applications. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 10:1211582. doi:10.3389/fspas.2023.1211582

Ravindra Babu, S., Lin, N-H. (2023). Extreme Heights of 15 January 2022 Tonga Volcanic Plume and Its Initial Evolution Inferred from COSMIC-2 RO Measurements. Atmosphere 14(1):121. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010121

Swain, S., Mishra, S. K., Pandey, A., Srivastava, P. K., & Nandi, S. (2023). Characterization and assessment of hydrological droughts using GloFAS streamflow data for the Narmada River Basin, India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27036-8

Vorrath, M.-E., Müller, J., Cárdenas, P., Opel, T., Mieruch, S., Esper, O., Lembke-Jene, L., Etourneau, J., Vieth-Hillebrand, A., Lahajnar, N., Lange, C. B., Leventer, A., Evangelinos, D., Escutia, C., and Mollenhauer, G. (2023). Deglacial and Holocene sea-ice and climate dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Climate of the Past 19, 1061–1079. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1061-2023

May

Bell, S. M., Raymond, S. J., Yin, H., Jiao, W., Goll, D. S., Ciais, P., … & Terrer, C. (2023). Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications, 14(1), 2139. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37907-w

Bremer, S., Stiller-Reeve, M., Mamnun, N., & Lazrus, H. (2023). Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh. Regional Environmental Change, 23(2), 60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02057-8n 

Dash, S. S., & Maity, R. (2023). Effect of climate change on soil erosion indicates a dominance of rainfall over LULC changes. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 47, 101373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101373

Ravindra Babu, S., Ou-Yang, C.-F., Griffith, S. M., Pani, S. K., Kong, S. S.-K., and Lin, N.-H. (2023). Transport pathways of carbon monoxide from Indonesian fire pollution to a subtropical high-altitude mountain site in the western North Pacific. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23, 4727–4740. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4727-2023

Witt, J.K., Z.M. Labe, A.C. Warden, and B.A. Clegg (2023). Visualizing uncertainty in hurricane forecasts with animated risk trajectories. Weather, Climate, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0173.1

April

Abid, M.A., Kucharski, F., Molteni, F. et al (2023). Predictability of Indian Ocean precipitation and its North Atlantic teleconnections during early winter. npj Clim Atmos Sci 6, 17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00328-z

Bouhlassa, S., Bouhsane, N. (2023). Assessment of the impacts of land-use change and slope position on soil loss by magnetic susceptibility-based models. International Journal of Sediment Research 38 (3), 455-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsrc.2022.11.006

Labe, Z.M., E.A. Barnes, and J.W. Hurrell (2023). Identifying the regional emergence of climate patterns in the ARISE-SAI-1.5 simulations. Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a

Tempest, K. I., Craig, G. C., & Brehmer, J. R. (2022). Convergence of forecast distributions in a 100,000 member idealised convective‐scale ensemble. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4410

Thandlam, V., Rahaman, H., Rutgersson, A. et al (2023). Quantifying the role of antecedent Southwestern Indian Ocean capacitance on the summer monsoon rainfall variability over homogeneous regions of India. Sci Rep 13, 5553. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32840-w

March

Paccini, L., & Stevens, B. (2023). Assessing precipitation over the Amazon basin as simulated by a storm-resolving model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037436. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037436

Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A., Rahaman, H., Yabaku, M., Kaagita, V., & Sakirevupalli, V. R. (2022). Quantifying uncertainties in CERES/MODIS Downwelling radiation fluxes in the global tropical oceans. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/olar.0003

February

Hammoudy W., Ilmen R., Sinan M. (2022). Impact of climate change on extremes events in Morocco. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 1090. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1090/1/012034

Koren, G., (2022). Major floods in the Amazon basin. In J. Blunden & T. Boyer (Eds.), State of the Climate in 2021. Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/2022BAMSStateoftheClimate_Chapter7.1

Lim, H.-G., Dunne, J. P., Stock, C. A., & Kwon, M. (2022). Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in global ocean color. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2022JC019121. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019121

Naus, S., Domingues, L. G., Krol, M., Luijkx, I. T., Gatti, L. V., Miller, J. B., Gloor, E., Basu, S., Correia, C., Koren, G., Worden, H. M., Flemming, J., Pétron, G., & Peters, W. (2022). Sixteen years of MOPITT satellite data strongly constrain Amazon CO fire emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14735-2022

Po-Chedley, S., J.T. Fasullo, N. Siler, Z.M. Labe, E.A. Barnes, C.J.W. Bonfils, and B.D. Santer (2022). Internal variability and forcing influence model-satellite differences in the rate of tropical tropospheric warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209431119

Satheesh Chandran, P. R., Sunilkumar, S. V., Muhsin, M., & Alladi, H. K. (2022). Effect of synoptic-scale dynamics on the vertical distribution of tropospheric ozone over the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean during the boreal winter of 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036412. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036412

Singh, P. K., Adhikary, B., Chen, X., Kang, S., Poudel, S. P., Tashi, T., Goswami, A., & Puppala, S. P. (2023). Variability of ambient black carbon concentration in the Central Himalaya and its assessment over the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Science of The Total Environment, 858 (May 2022), 160137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160137

Timmermans, M.-L. and Z.M. Labe (2022). Sea surface temperature [in “Arctic Report Card 2022”]. NOAA, DOI: 10.25923/p493-2548.

Witt, J.K., Z.M. Labe, and B.A. Clegg (2022). Comparisons of perceptions of risk for visualizations using animated risk trajectories versus cones of uncertainty. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107118132266130

January

Andrian, L.G., Osman, M. & Vera, C.S. (2022). Climate predictability on seasonal timescales over South America from the NMME models. Clim Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06506-8

Armstrong McKay DI, A Staal, JF Abrams, R Winkelmann, B Sakschewski, S Loriani, I Fetzer, SE Cornell, J Rockström, TM Lenton (2022). Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. Science 377, 6611. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7950

Graham, J., Hannides, A., Mamnun, N., Sitz, L. E., Wal sh, I. D., Wood-Charlson, E. M., & Ponsoni, L. (2022). Ocean Sciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science. Earth and Space Science, 9, e2021EA002124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002124

Kad, P., Blau, M.T., Ha, K.-J., and Zhu, J. (2022). Elevation-dependent temperature response in early Eocene using paleoclimate model experiment. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9c74

Mamnun, N., Völker, C., Vrekoussis, M., & Nerger, L. (2022). Uncertainties in ocean biogeochemical simulations: Application of ensemble data assimilation to a one-dimensional model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.984236

Reale, M., Cossarini, G., Lazzari, P., Lovato, T., Bolzon, G., Masina, S., Solidoro, C., and Salon, S. (2022). Acidification, deoxygenation, and nutrient and biomass declines in a warming Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences, 19, 4035–4065. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4035-2022

Satheesh Chandran, P. R., Sunilkumar, S. V., Muhsin, M., & Alladi, H. K. (2022). Effect of synoptic-scale dynamics on the vertical distribution of tropospheric ozone over the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean during the boreal winter of 2018. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036412. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036412

Swain, S., Mishra, S. K., Pandey, A., & Dayal, D. (2022). Assessment of drought trends and variabilities over the agriculture-dominated Marathwada Region, India. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 194(12), 883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10532-8

Swain, S., Mishra, S. K., Pandey, A., Dayal, D., & Srivastava, P. K. (2022). Appraisal of historical trends in maximum and minimum temperature using multiple non-parametric techniques over the agriculture-dominated Narmada Basin, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(12), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10534-6

Tariq, S., Mariam, A., ul-Haq, Z., Mehmood, U. (2022). Spatial and temporal variations in PM2.5 and associated health risk assessment in Saudi Arabia using remote sensing. Chemosphere 308 136296. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CHEMOSPHERE.2022.136296

Timmermans, M.-L. and Z.M. Labe (2022). [The Arctic] Sea surface temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2021”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0082.1