Climate Links

A list of my favorite climate links, including to dashboards, articles, blog posts, and research papers. Last modified on Jan 27, 2023 @ 4:16 pm

Climate Dashboards, Articles, and Blog Posts

Dashboards

• AntarcticGlaciers.org
• Climate.gov – Global Climate Dashboard
• Climate Central – Resources
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• NASA – Vital Signs of the Planet
• NSIDC – Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
• NSIDC – Quick Facts
• Zachary Labe – Polar Climate Change Figures

Articles / Blog Posts

• CarbonBrief – Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change
• Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget
• Climate.gov – El Niño and the Stratospheric Polar Vortex
• EPA – Ozone Layer Science
• NASA – Milankovitch (Orbital Cycles)
• NASA – Reaction of Ozone and Climate to Increasing Stratospheric Water Vapor
• Plate Tectonics and Long-Term Climate
• The Guardian – The strange science of melting ice sheets
• The Science of Climate Change Explained
• UC Berkeley – How the Earth System Works

Favorite Climate Papers

Antarctica

• Unmasking the Negative Greenhouse Effect over the Antarctic Plateau (2018)
• A benchmark dataset of in situ Antarctic surface melt rates and energy balance (2020)
• Stabilizing effect of mélange buttressing on the marine ice-cliff instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (2022)

Arctic Amplification / Extreme Weather

• The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation (2018)
• Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather (2020)
• Linking Arctic Variability and Change with Extreme Winter Weather in the United States (2021)
• Reviews and Syntheses: Arctic Fire Regimes and Emissions in the 21st Century (2021)
• Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms (2021)
• Arctic Amplification Modulated by Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Greenhouse Forcing on Multidecadal to Century Scales (2022)
• Enhanced Arctic warming amplification revealed in a low-emission scenario (2022)
• Process Drivers, Inter-Model Spread, and the Path Forward: A Review of Amplified Arctic Warming (2022)

Greenland

• Firn Meltwater Retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Model Comparison (2017)
• Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss (2019)
• Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Disequilibrium and Committed Sea Level Rise (2022)

Ozone (Arctic)

• Climate Change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone (2021)

Stratospheric Polar Vortex (Arctic/Antarctic)

• Recent Strengthening of the Stratospheric Arctic Polar Vortex Response to Warming in the Central North Pacific (2018)

Other

• An Overview of Interactions and Feedbacks Between Ice Sheets and the Earth System (2018)
• Observing and Modeling Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance (2019)
• Stratospheric Drivers of Extreme Events at the Earth’s Surface (2020)
• Enhanced Jet Stream Waviness Induced by Suppressed Tropical Pacific Convection During Boreal Summer (2022)