Climate Reference Library
Supporting Documents (in alphabetical order)
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Antarctica
- Global warming hits Antarctica, study finds, CNN.com
- Ice Bridge Ruptures in Antarctic, BBC News
- Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts, BBC News – 12-01-2009
- Matters Arising, Giant solar flares in Antarctic ice, Nature – 09-25-1980
- Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year, Nature – 01-22-2009
Arctic
- ACE-FTS measurements across the edge of the winter 2004 Arctic vortex, Geophysical Research Letters
- ANGEO - Abstract - Regional stratospheric warmings in the Pacific-Western Canada (PWC) sector during winter 2004/2005: implications for temperatures, winds, chemical constituents and the characterization of the Polar vortex
- Climatology of Arctic and Antarctic Polar Vortices Using Elliptical Diagnostics, AMS Online Journals
- Conceptual Image Lab Animation 10005 - Arctic Vortex, NASA
- Countries in tug-of-war over Arctic resources, CNN.com
- How permeable is the edge of the Arctic vortex: Model studies of winter 19992000, JGR
- Regional stratospheric warmings in the Pacific-Western Canada (PWC) sector during winter 2004/2005: implications for temperatures, winds, chemical constituents and the characterization of the Polar vortex., Annales Geophysicae
- Seasonal Arctic Sheet Ice Cycles, National Snow and Ice Data Center
- The Arctic Oscillation and Arctic Weather Patterns, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Arctic Ice Breakup
- A catastrophe in slow motion – sea ice updates, BraveNewClimate.com
- Another big climate bet — Of Ice and Men, Climate Progress
- Arctic losing long-term ice cover, BBC News
- Arctic sea ice 'faces rapid melt', BBC News
- Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
- Artic Meltdown, From: Brown To: Green
- Frightening Arctic Study Shows Leading Edge of Global Warming, Mitchell Anderson
- NASA: Arctic Ocean Could be Mostly Ice Free in 2013, YouTube
- New Ice and Old Ice, Climate Audit
- Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
Biofuels
- Agricultural Management Committee Newsletter Archive, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Law
- BioPreferred Home Page, USDA
- Public Comments Submitted, BioPreferred | USDA
- The Biofuels Source Book - Footnotes, Energy Future Coalition
- The Biofuels Source Book : The Benefits of Biofuels: Oil Dependence and National Security, Energy Future Coalition
Black Carbon
- 20th-Century Industrial Black Carbon Emissions Altered Arctic Climate Forcing, McConnell et al. 317 (5843): 1381 Science
- Arctic Haze: A Primer, National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Arctic haze: From Russia, with soot: smoke from forest fires, agricultural burning blankets north., Free Online Library
- By Degrees - Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight - Series, NYTimes.com
- EOS Clouds, Soot, Dr. Michael D. King - NASA
- Laboratory Comparison of the Global-Warming Potential of Six Categories of Biomass Cooking Stoves Abstract
- Northern Disclosure, Science News
- Pollutant Haze Heats the Arctic, NASA Newsroom
- Seasonal Carbonaceous Aerosol Emission, Annual Conference of Indian Aerosol Science & Technology Association
- Soot and Other Pollutants Also Melting Arctic, EarthWeek
- Soot blocks rain: Studies say it's worse than you think, Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- Surface Radiative Forcing (JPEG Image, 1280x755 pixels), Science
Climate Change
- 'Dramatic evidence' of Arctic warming - Climate Change, MSNBC.com
- 2005 CICS Annual Report
- 2006 Cal Climate Action Report, CA EPA
- 2007 Climate EOS Projection, Science Magazine
- 2007_Reducing Ag. Climate Effects, Science Direct
- 2008 Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH
- 2008 Projected Effects Aersols, ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
- 2008-2030 Projection, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH
- Abrupt Climate Change, John D. Cox
- Atmospheric Chemistry II: Methane
- Atmospheric Environment (1967) : Causes of increasing atmospheric methane: Depletion of hydroxyl radicals and the rise of emissions, ScienceDirect
- Atmospheric Methane, Paul Wennberg
- Changes in GHG Excluding LULUCF (GIF Image, 614x753 pixels), UNFCCC
- Climate changing 'faster, stronger, sooner', CNN.com
- Climate forcing and air quality change due to regional emissions reductions by economic sector, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 12-08-2008
- Climate Projection for California, California Climate Change Center
- Climate simulations for 1880-2003 with GISS modelE, Clim Dyn – 06-20-2007
- CO2 Flow Speeds Up; Poor Countries Now Lead - Dot Earth Blog, NYTimes.com
- Cooperative Institute For Climate Science: Contacts
- Destabilization of methane hydrates: a risk analysis, David Archer
- Flare GHG Projections, Matthew Johnson
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- GHG Protocol Revised, WRI
- GHG emission profiles for Annex I Parties and major groups, UNFCCC
- GHG Including LULUCF (GIF Image, 930x534 pixels), UNFCCC
- Global Distribution of Methane
- Growth of Methane Concentration in the Atmosphere, Economy & Energy
- Ice Core Analysis of CH4?-CO2-400,000 years
- IIASA Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI)
- Intensification of Methane Midpoint
- IPCC TAR Methane Flux Balance
- Laboratory Comparison of the Global-Warming Potential of Six Categories of Biomass Cooking Stoves, Aprovecho Research Center
- Lifetime of Methane
- List of greenhouse gas molecular diagrams - Global Warming Art
- Methane (CH4), Rolf von Kuhlmann
- Methane 20 Year Impact, Eco-cycle
- Methane and Global Warming, University of Oregon
- Methane – Sources and Sinks, HENVI Seminar – 02-19-2009
- Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change, D Archer
- Methane hydrates and global warming, RealClimate
- Methane Releases, Dr. Robert Stokes
- NASA's James Hansen warns Barack Obama on climate change, guardian.co.uk
- Paul Wennberg, Caltech
- Photochemical loss of methane
- Projects ? PIK Research Portal, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Pulse of the Planet: Earth to Exxon: Methane on the Rise Again, Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
- Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties, National Research Council
- Sea-level to rise by one-metre this century: scientists, ENN
- Shipping Carbon Dioxide to Sea for Burial - Green Inc. Blog, NYTimes.com
- Surface Temperature Analysis - Map, NASA
- Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?, The Open Atmospheric Science Journal – 02-01-2008
- The atmospheric sink of methane, IGAC
- Time Scales GWPs, Michael J Prather
General Background Information
- 2005-2030 Projection of Energy Growth
- 3D Airplane Contrails, Robin Hogan & Amanda Gounou
- A storm brews over food, water & power, BBC News – 08-24-2009
- Atmospheric Chemistry Greenhouse Gas, EOS Science Plan
- Chapter 2, Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing
- Climate response to regional radiative forcing during the twentieth century, Nature Geoscience – 03-31-2009
- CO Monitoring
- Degree of Destruction
- Degree of Destruction
- EOS Contributions, Dr. Michael D. King - NASA
- EOS Executive Summary, Reynold Greenstone & Dr. Michael D. King
- Fires Global
- Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temp, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH – 07-17-2003
- Land Surface Temperature Difference Europe
- Method GHG Inventory, Gen Inoue
- MOZART-4 Chemical Forecasts
- NOx Emmissions by Sector – 01-01-2009
- O3 by Sector, Image
- Oxy-Fuel Combustion, DOE
- Projected Fire Response to GHG
- Radiative forcing since preindustrial times due to ozone change in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 02-24-2006
- Recent Stratospheric Ozone Measurements over Ankara-Turkey and Evaluation of Ozone Profiles, Geophysical Research Abstracts,
- SO2 Emissions, DOE
- Summary Solar, DESERTEC.org
- The Decade in Climate Change Research Ormes Symposium, Michael D. King
- Tropospheric Temperature Trend
- Upgraded Egrid
- World Population 2004 chart
IPCC
- 2007 IPCC Syn Report
- IPCC GHG Metrics
- IPCC GHG Protocol
- IPCC Isopleths
- IPCC Projection Spreadsheet
- IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, IPCC
- IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001 - Complete online versions, UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - Other
- IPCC Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Second, JunkScience.com
- Syn Report Ch01 SOD Figs TSU FINAL
- Syn Report Ch02 SOD Figs TSU FINAL P1
- Syn Report Ch03 SOD Figs TSU FINAL P1
- Syn Report Ch06 SOD Figs TSU FINAL P1
- Syn Report Ch08 SOD Figs TSU FINAL
- Syn Report Ch11 SOD Figs TSU FINAL P2
Mitigation
- A quick fix for global warming, BBC NEWS
- APX, Inc. - Solutions & Services for the Energy & Environmental Markets
- Atmospheric Methane, Paul Wennberg
- Changes 'amplify Arctic warming', BBC NEWS
- Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
- CRIS: Climate Registry Information System
- Global Distribution of Methane, NOAA
- GreenStream
- Ice Core Analysis of CH4 & CO2-400,000 years, Nature
- Intensification of Methane Midpoint
- IPCC TAR Methane Flux Balance, IPCC
- Issuance of CERs, CDM
- Issuance of Credit Emission Reductions by Projects, UNFCC CDM
- Lifetime of Methane
- Methane, 12.842 Climate Physics and Chemistry Fall 2006 Atmospheric
- Methane 20 year Impact, Eco Cycle
- Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change, D. Archer
- Methane releases, Dr. Robert Stokes
- Press conference by Alliance of Small Island States on climate change
Nitrous Oxide Fluxes and Eutrophication
- Gulf 'dead zone' suffocating fish and livelihoods, CNN.com
- Ocean 'dead zones' becoming global problem, CNN.com
- Ocean Color Science Focus: Dead Zones, NASA
- Proceedings of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) International Biofuels Project Rapid Assessment – 09-25-2008
Oceanic Acidification
- Acid oceans 'need urgent action', BBC News
- Acidic seas fuel extinction fears, BBC News
- What is ocean acidification?, BBC News
Tropospheric Ozone
- A global simulation of tropospheric ozone and related tracers: Description and Description and evaluation of MOZART, version 2, Journal of Geophysical Research – 11-02-2002
- Arctic Climate Change ACIA Briefing Summary, Congressional Briefing Summary
- Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, SpringerLink
- Journals on Tropospheric Ozone Plumes, SpringerLink
- NASA GODDARD TROPOSPHERIC OZONE HOMEPAGE, NASA
- Nitrate aerosols today and in 2030: a global simulation including, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 10-02-2007
- Other Greenhouse gases - Tropospheric ozone, GHG online
- Stratospheric ozone in the post-CFC era, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 03-24-2009
- SVS Animation 3071 - AURA/OMI Tropospheric Ozone On a Flat Map, NASA
- The impact of traffic emissions on atmospheric ozone and OH: results from QUAN, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – 05-14-2009
- The influence of tropospheric ozone on Arctic climate, Drew Shindell
- TRANSIENT BEHAVIOUR OF TROPOSPHERIC OZONE PRECURSORS IN A GLOBAL 3-D CTM AND THEIR INDIRECT GREENHOUSE EFFECTS, R. G. DERWENT ET AL.
- Troposhperic Ozone Video (mpeg), NASA
- Tropospheric Ozone and Climate: Past, Present and Future, G. P. BRASSEUR et al. – 11-01-2001
