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Kevin E. Trenberth
Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Understanding climate change through Earth’s energy flows
GENERAL SESSION: ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, RADIATION, CLOUDS, AND AEROSOLS I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2021
Kevin E. Trenberth
Climate models have improved enormously, but even with the biggest supercomputers models cannot resolve scales needed to depict many important phenome...
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Toward closing the regional energy budget over ocean when integrating satellite derived energy data products
THE FLOWS OF ENERGY THROUGH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM II ORAL
global environmental change | 14 december 2021
Seiji Kato, Fred G. Rose, Fu-Lung Chang, David Pai...
When energy data products are integrated to understand the energy budget and energy flow within the climate system, issues that are not considered in ...
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Probabilistic Evaluation of Drought in CMIP6 Simulations
EARTH'S FUTURE
11 october 2021
Simon Michael Papalexiou, Chandra Rajulapati, Kons...
As droughts have widespread social and ecological impacts, it is critical to develop long‐term adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce...
Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the water cycle
THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE: COUPLING AND EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE OCEAN, LAND, AND ATMOSPHERE I
global environmental change | 14 december 2020
Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, Nicolas Gruber, ...
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-te...
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El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate
AGU BOOK SERIES
23 october 2020
Soon-Il An, Magdalena Balmaseda, Arnaud Bertrand, ...
"Comprehensive and up-to-date information on Earth’s most dominant year-to-year climate variation ...
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Increase in the rate of ocean warming
EARTH’S ENERGY IMBALANCE AND ENERGY FLOWS THROUGH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM II POSTERS
global environmental change | 13 december 2019
John P. Abraham, Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth,...
Increased human-emitted greenhouse gases are the major cause of the current energy imbalance for the Earth, and subsequently to the multi-decadal obse...
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Evolution of ocean heat content related to ENSO
EARTH’S ENERGY IMBALANCE AND ENERGY FLOWS THROUGH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM I
global environmental change | 12 december 2019
Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Mi...
As the strongest inter-annual perturbation to the climate system, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dominates the year-to-year variability ...
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Time Series of Ocean Meridional Heat Transports and the Role of the Indonesian ThroughFlow
EARTH’S ENERGY IMBALANCE AND ENERGY FLOWS THROUGH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM I
global environmental change | 12 december 2019
Kevin E. Trenberth, Yongxin Zhang
New and improved methods and datasets enable the Earths energy balance to be closed locally on annual time-scales. Earths energy imbalance is not unif...
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