As part of a special issue on natural hazards, this paper reviews the current state of scientific knowledge of Australian heatwaves. Over recent years, progress has been made in understanding both the causes of and changes to heatwaves. Relationships between atmospheric heatwaves and large-scale and synoptic variability have been identified, with increasing trends in heatwave intensity, frequen...

Impact of ozone observations on the structure of a tropical cyclone using coupled atmosphere–chemistry data assimilation S. Lim, S. K. Park, and M. Zupanski Department of Atmospheric Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Center for Climate/Environment Change ...

By improving accuracy in the quantification of the ocean’s CO2 budget, a more precise estimation can be made of the terrestrial fraction of global CO2 budget and its subsequent effect on climate change. First steps have been taken towards this from an environmental and economic point of view, by using an instance based reasoning system, which incorporates a novel clustering and retrieval method...

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1 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2 Now at Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. 3 Now at Service d’Aéronomie, IPSL, Paris, France. 4 Now at Department of Soil, Water & Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA. 5 Atmospheric Sciences Division, NASA ...

[1] We have carried out an empirical study of the seasonal cycle of nitrous oxide (N2O) using the data archived by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA-CMDL) Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network from 1977 to 2000. In order to isolate the seasonal cycle, we first detrended the data using least square polynomial fits. The rem...

In this paper, we analyze technology transfers (TT) and tradable emission rights, which are core issues of the ongoing climate negotiations. Subsidizing TT leads to the adoption of better abatement technologies in developing countries, thereby reducing the international permit price. This is beneficial for industrialized countries as long as they are permit buyers, and as long as they can targe...

S. Gilardoni, L. Shang, S. Takahama, L. M. Russell, J. D. Allan, R. Steinbrecher, J. L. Jimenez, P. F. Decarlo, E. J. Dunlea, and D. Baumgardner Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Institute...

1 Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 3 Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Lab., Aragonne, Illinois,...