Recent Atmosphere and Land Surface Climate

Readings on Recent Atmosphere and Land Surface Climate

Trenberth, K.E., et al., 2007: Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., et al. (eds)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY.
Supplementary Materials

Smith, T.R., R.W. Reynolds, T.C Peterson, and J. Lawrimore, 2008: Improvements to NOAA’s Historical Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (1880-2006). Journal of Climate, 21, 2283-2296.

Nicholls, N. and L. Alexander, 2007: Has the climate become more variable or extreme? Progress 1992-2006. Progress in Physical Geography, 31(1), 77-87.
Alexander, L.V., et al., 2006: Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D05109, 1-22
Pryor, S.C., J.A. Howe, and K.E. Kunkel, 2009: How spatially coherent and statistically robust are temporal changes in extreme precipitation in the contiguous USA? International Journal of Climatology, 29, 31-45.

Allen, R.J. and S.C. Sherwood, 2008: Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from the thermal winds. Nature Geoscience, 1, 399-403.

Emanuel, K., 2005: Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years. Nature, 436, 686-688.
Pielke, R.A., Jr., 2005: Are there trends in hurricane destruction? Nature, 438, E11.
Landsea, C.W., 2005: Hurricanes and global warming. Nature, 438, E11-E13.
Emanuel, K., 2005: Emanuel replies. Nature, 438, E13.

Deser, C., et al., 2004: Pacific interdecadal climate variability: linkages between the tropics and the North Pacific during boreal winter since 1900. Journal of Climate, 17, 3109-3124.
Yu, B. et al., 2007: The enhanced PNA-like climate response to Pacific interannual and decadal variability. Journal of Climate, 20, 5285-5300.