http://climatesci.org News from the Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is an important new paper on the role of landscape processes within the climate system [and thanks to Tobis Rothenberger at the University of St. Gallen for alerting us to it!].  The article is Barnes, C. A., and D. P. Roy (2008), Radiative forcing over the conterminous United States due to contemporary ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/12/new-article-on-the-role-of-landscape-processes-within-the-climate-system-by-barnes-and-roy-in-geophysical-research-letters/ There is another paper on the role of landscape processes within the climate system; it is van der Molen, M.K., H.F. Vugts, L.A. Vruijnzeel, F.N. Scatena, R.A. Pielke, and L.J.M. Kroon, 2007: Mesoscale climate change due to lowland deforestation in the maritime tropics. In: Mountains in the Mist, Science for conserving ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/09/another-paper-on-the-role-of-landscape-change-on-the-climate-system-van-der-molen-et-al/ Professor Chris Castro alerted us to the following paper; Barnett, T. P, and D. W. Pierce, 2008: When will Lake Mead go dry? Water Resour. Res., 44, W03201, doi:10.1029/2007WR006704. The abstract reads "A water budget analysis shows that under current conditions there is a 10% chance that live storage in Lakes Mead and ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/08/when-will-lake-mead-go-dry-a-new-paper-that-uses-multi-decadal-global-models-for-regional-predictions/ We have a new paper that has appeared which reports on the role of an urban area (Mumbai, India) in a heavy rainfall event. The paper is Lei, M., D. Niyogi, C. Kishtawal, R. Pielke Sr., A. Beltrán-Przekurat, T. Nobis, and S. Vaidya, 2008: Effect of explicit urban land surface representation ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/07/new-paper-on-the-role-of-urban-regions-in-weather-published-lei-et-al-2008/ There is an excellent Newsletter series published by the International Global Chemistry Project (IGAC). The latest issue has a very important article entitled "Comparison of Air Pollutant Emissions among Mega-Cities"by Parish et al. The article starts with the paragraph "The world’s mega-cities represent a wide diversity of cultures and histories, with examples of ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/06/an-article-on-the-pollution-emissions-and-concentrations-in-major-cities-by-parish-et-al/ We have published a new research paper, which while not directly on the climate science issue, may be of interest to many Climate Science readers. The paper is Schecter, D.A., M.E. Nicholls, J. Persing, A.J. Bedard Jr., and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2008: Infrasound emitted by tornado-like vortices: Basic theory and a numerical ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/05/new-research-paper-schecter-et-al-on-sound-waves-and-thunderstorms-and-tornadoes/ The climate issue, with respect to how humans are influencing the climate system, can be segmented into three distinct hypotheses. These are: The human influence is minimal and natural variations dominate climate variations on all time scale; While natural variations are important, the human influence is significant and involves a diverse range ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/02/three-climate-change-hypotheses-only-one-of-which-is-true/ There is a remarkable quote on the Nature.com blog website . On that website it is written "The NY Times wraps up its main piece [by Andy Revkin] with a useful quote from Kevin Trenberth, of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research: 'Too many think global warming means monotonic relentless ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/01/comments-on-the-new-york-times-article-decade-break-in-global-warming-may-01-2008/ In our papers Pielke Sr., R.A., C. Davey, and J. Morgan, 2004: Assessing "global warming" with surface heat content. Eos, 85, No. 21, 210-211 and  Davey, C.A., R.A. Pielke Sr., and K.P. Gallo, 2006: Differences between near-surface equivalent temperature and temperature trends for the eastern United States - Equivalent temperature as an alternative ... http://climatesci.org/2008/05/01/evaluation-of-a-long-term-1882%e2%80%932005-equivalent-temperature-time-series-by-rogers-wang-and-coleman/ Thanks to Tobias Rothenberger at the University of St. Gallen (where he is studying economics), he has referred us to another important paper on Antarctic climate trends (Tobias has a website also; Climate Review). The article is Monaghan, A. J., D. H. Bromwich, and D. P. Schneider (2008), Twentieth century Antarctic ... http://climatesci.org/2008/04/30/another-paper-on-antarctic-climate-trends-by-monoghan-et-al/