Blogs & Media

Plain Language Climate Science Blogs:

1. Explaining observed daily variations and decadal trends in the diurnal air temperature range.

2. Clouds obscure the link between extreme rainfall and rising temperatures.

3. What make heatwaves different and how do their impacts on ecosystems vary?

4. Interactions between hydrological cycle and land-surface temperatures: insights from a thermodynamic systems perspective

5. Applying a thermodynamic systems approach to hydrologic cycling and global change

6. Explaining the climatological variations in downwelling longwave radiation across space and time

7. Revealing the power of motion in shaping land-surface temperatures.

8. Can we infer rainfall sensitivity to global warming using observations of precipitation and temperature? Not quite, until you correct for the cooling effects of clouds

Mentions in News:

1. Clouds obscure link between extreme rainfall and rising temperatures

2. Forecasting the floods: New clues about extreme rainfall

3. Extreme rainfall increases as a direct result of global warming

4. Land surface temperatures follow simple physics, likely due to complexity of processes involved

5. How warm is it why?

6. Temperaturen der Landoberfläche folgen einfacher Physik - Innovations report

Videos

1. How can we explain extreme rainfall in a warming climate? (Latest thinking video)

2. Vapor pressure deficit (VPD): a driver or response of land-atmosphere exchange? (YHS Seminar)