Land cover dynamics at the African continental scale is of great importance for global change studies. Actually, four satellite-derived land covermaps of Africa nowavailable, e.g. ECOCLIMAP, GLC2000,MODIS andGLOBCOVER, are based on images acquired in the 2000s. This study aims at stressing the compliances and the discrepancies between these four land cover classifications systems. Each of them ...

2014 was nominally the warmest year on record for both the globe and northern hemisphere based on historical records spanning the past one and a half centuries. It was the latest in a recent run of record temperatures spanning the past decade and a half. Press accounts reported odds as low as one-in-650 million that the observed run of global temperature records would be expected to occur in th...

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Many WUWT readers will remember that last year we presented evidence of what we thought was a "solar imprint" in globally averaged temperature trends. Not surprisingly, given the strong interest and passion in the subject of climate change and global warming, our results were greeting with both praise and scorn. Some problems were pointed out in our original assessment, and other possible inter...

*Corresponding author: U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Global Change Program, Science Center, Glacier National Park, West Glacier, Montana 59936, U.S.A. [email protected] {Big Sky Institute, 106 AJM Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, U.S.A. {U.S. Geological Survey Science Center, West Glacier Field Station, Glacier National Park,...

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a Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA b State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China c Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, M...

Long-term estimates of sea level rise are essential for planning responses to anthropogenic global change. The tectonically stable, unglaciated eastern Chukchi Sea coast has numerous depositional environments for extracting long-term records in the absence of tide gauge data. Radiocarbon ages (n= 27) on paleo-marsh beds along several Seward Peninsula lagoons allows the reconstruction of sea lev...