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Causes of 2022 Pakistan flooding and its linkage with China and Europe heatwaves
Compounding factors occurring simultaneously caused the severe Pakistan flooding in summer 2022. Warming trends in recent decades contributed to the extremeness of the event. A large-scale atmospheric wave connected the flooding with heatwaves and droughts in Europe and China.
The resilience of marine organisms to overshoot global climate
We envision a decline of 4-5% of the volume of the world oceans that can support aerobic habitats even if global temperature targets are only temporarily exceeded.
Hasselmann reloaded: internal variability in marginal seas
Ensembles of regional ocean model simulations show the generation of intrinsic variability to be tied to the annual cycle and the activation of tides. This sensitivity can be attributed to"memory"- the central element in the Stochastic Climate Model of Klaus Hasselmann.
Midwinter breakdown of ENSO climate impacts in East Asia
The influence of ENSO on the seasonal mean East Asian winter monsoon has been well established. Our recent study detects a robust subseasonal variability embedded in the response of the East Asian winter climate to ENSO, characterized by a pronounced collapse of the ENSO effect in midwinter.
Land system intensification within safe limits balances crop production–antibiotic pollution tradeoffs
Crop intensification has increased agricultural production albeit with an increase in field antibiotic pollution. Here, we project how antibiotic pollution undermines production and how intensification needs to be kept below a threshold.
Cold extremes: surprisingly mostly more of the same
It is intuitive that Northern Hemisphere cold extremes would become less intense and frequent not only with global warming but as the Arctic warms at an accelerated pace. However, our analysis of cold extremes in the populated regions shows that little has changed with cold extremes since 1990.
