• Climate effects of Black Carbon emissions: Updated GWP and GTP values after the IPCC AR6 

  Samset, Bjørn Hallvard; Lund, Marianne Tronstad; Aamaas, Borgar (CICERO Report;2023:09, Report, 2023-06)

  Black Carbon (BC) is a type of atmospheric aerosol, emitted by many anthropogenic activities through incomplete combustion of, primarily, fossil fuels. Unlike other aerosols, BC absorbs sunlight, and can therefore heat the ...

• Comparison of observation- and inventory-based methane emissions for eight large global emitters 

  Peters, Glen Philip; Engelen, Richard; Houweling, Sander; Brunner, Dominik; Tsuruta, Aki; Matthews, Bradley; Patra, Prabir K.; Belikov, Dmitry; Thompson, Rona Louise; Hoglund-Isaksson, Lena; Zhang, Wenxin; Segers, Arjo; Etiope, Giuseppe; Ciotoli, Giancarlo; Peylin, Philippe; Chevallier, Frédéric; Aalto, Tuula; Andrew, Robbie; Bastviken, David; Berchet, Antoine; Broquet, Gregoire; Conchedda, Giulia; Dellaert, Stijn N. C.; van der Gon, Hugo Denier; Gütschow, Johannes; Haussaire, Jean-Matthieu; Lauerwald, Ronny; Markkanen, Tiina; van Peet, Jacob C. A.; Pison, Isabelle; Regnier, Pierre; Sollum, Espen; Scholze, Marko; Tenkanen, Maria; Tubiello, Francesco N.; van der Werf, Guido R.; Worden, John R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Monitoring the spatial distribution and trends in surface greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes, as well as flux attribution to natural and anthropogenic processes, is essential to track progress under the Paris Agreement and to ...

• Simulating the Thermal Regime and Surface Energy Balance of a Permafrost-Underlain Forest in Mongolia 

  Zweigel, Robin Benjamin; Dashtseren, Avirmed; Temuujin, Khurelbaatar; Aalstad, Kristoffer; Webster, Clare; Stuenzi, Simone M.; Aas, Kjetil Schanke; Lee, Hanna; Westermann, Sebastian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Forests overlap with large parts of the northern hemisphere permafrost area, and representing canopy processes is therefore crucial for simulating thermal and hydrological conditions in these regions. Forests impact ...

• “Robots taking over the world… fantastic!” Understanding social representations, familiarity and visions of experiments with autonomous public transportation 

  Julsrud, Tom Erik; Aasen, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Autonomous public transport (APT) represents a potentially important innovation in the transition to a low-carbon transport system. Niche operators around the world are currently starting to experiment with forms of APT ...

• Calibrating Tropical Forest Coexistence in Ecosystem Demography Models Using Multi-Objective Optimization Through Population-Based Parallel Surrogate Search 

  Cheng, Yanyan; Wang, Wenyu; Detto, Matteo; Fisher, Rosie; Shoemaker, Christine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Tropical forest diversity governs forest structures, compositions, and influences the ecosystem response to environmental changes. Better representation of forest diversity in ecosystem demography (ED) models within Earth ...

• Governing as valuing: Assetization and the making of the Norwegian oil fund 

  Asdal, Kristin; Lahn, Bård (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Recent scholarship has highlighted ‘assetization’ as an increasingly prevalent process in which valuation practices from financial economics are imposed on new aspects of society. This paper analyses the establishment of ...

• No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability 

  Liu, Laibao; Fisher, Rosie; Douville, Hervé; Padrón, Ryan S.; Berg, Alexis; Mao, Jiafu; Alessandri, Andrea; Kim, Hyungjun; Seneviratne, Sonia I. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Unraveling drivers of the interannual variability of tropical land carbon cycle is critical for understanding land carbon-climate feedbacks. Here we utilize two generations of factorial model experiments to show that ...

• Earth system resilience and tipping behavior 

  Yi, Chuixiang; Dakos, Vasilis; D L Ritchie, Paul; Sillmann, Jana; Rocha, Juan C; Milkoreit, Manjana; Quinn, Courtney (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Anthropogenic climate change, marked by unprecedented extremes, is an immediate concern. The Earth's limited ability to adapt to abrupt changes within our societal timeframe has raised global alarm. Resilience, the capacity ...

• Satellite-based analysis of top of atmosphere shortwave radiative forcing trend induced by biomass burning aerosols over South-Eastern Atlantic 

  Jouan, Caroline; Myhre, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  This study investigates long-term changes in the shortwave direct aerosol radiative effect (DARE) at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) induced by biomass burning aerosol (BBA) transported from southern Africa to the south-eastern ...

• Dynamic ecosystem assembly and escaping the "fire trap" in the tropics: insights from FATES_15.0.0 

  Shuman, Jacquelyn K.; Fisher, Rosie; Koven, Charles; Knox, Ryan; Kueppers, Lara; Xu, Chonggang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Fire is a fundamental part of the Earth system, with impacts on vegetation structure, biomass, and community composition, the latter mediated in part via key fire-tolerance traits, such as bark thickness. Due to anthropogenic ...

• Efficacy of climate forcings in transient CMIP6 simulations 

  Myhre, Gunnar; Byrom, Rachael; Andrews, Timothy; Forster, Piers M.; Smith, Christopher J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  For effective radiative forcing (ERF) to be an ideal metric for comparing the strength of different climate drivers (such as CO2 and aerosols), the ratio of radiative forcing to global-mean temperature change must be the ...

• Unngå, flytte, forbedre: Kartlegging av bruk av UFF-rammeverket 

  Børke, Ragnhild; Schmidt, Sara; Teien, Kristin Thorsrud (Report, 2024-10)

  Klimautvalget 2050 pekte på at tiltaksrammeverket unngå, flytte og forbedre (UFF) er sentralt for utviklingen av politikk i omstillingen til et lavutslippssamfunn. CICERO har på oppdrag fra Klima- og miljødepartementet ...

• Biblioteket som drivkraft for mer bærekraftig forbruk. Erfaringer fra UPSCALE 2020-24 

  Julsrud, Tom Erik; Dæhlin, Emil; Førde, Anniken; Guillen-Royo, Monica; Jochumsen, Henrik; Mathiasson, Mia Høj; Solum, Espen Egil Baratt-Due; Aamaas, Borgar (CICERO Report;2024:05, Report, 2024-10)

  Rapporten presenterer utvalgte hovedfunn fra UPSCALE prosjektet. En survey-undersøkelse viser først hvordan interesse for lån av gjenstander fordeler seg i fem kommuner og hvilke faktorer som forklarer dagens utlånsaktivitet. ...

• Regional scenarioanalyse av klimagassutslipp for Troms 

  Børke, Ragnhild; Korsbakken, Jan Ivar; Romundstad, Reidun Marie; Madslien, Anne (2024:03, Report, 2024)

  CICERO og Transportøkonomisk institutt har utarbeidet utslippsbaner for Troms, fram mot 2035. For det første er det utarbeidet utslippsbaner fram mot 2035. Det er laget en referansebane, det vil si et anslag for hvordan ...

• The Burning Issues of Punjab: Exploring the Different Futures on Offer when Managing Residue in Punjab’s Rice-Wheat Cropping System 

  Delebekk, Anders (2024:04, Report, 2024)

  The annual rotation from rice to wheat across Punjab leaves millions of tons of straw residue. The preferred method for handling residue has been incineration. This contributes to the winter smog that covers the mega-city ...

• How well are aerosol-cloud interactions represented in climate models? - Part 1: Understanding the sulfate aerosol production from the 2014-15 Holuhraun eruption 

  Jordan, George; Malavelle, Florent; Chen, Ying; Peace, Amy; Duncan, Eliza; Partridge, Daniel G.; Kim, Paul; Watson-Parris, Duncan; Takemura, Toshihiko; Neubauer, David; Myhre, Gunnar; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Laakso, Anton; Haywood, James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  For over 6 months, the 2014–2015 effusive eruption at Holuhraun, Iceland, injected considerable amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the lower troposphere with a daily rate of up to one-third of the global emission rate, ...

• Observationally constrained analysis of sulfur cycle in the marine atmosphere with NASA ATom measurements and AeroCom model simulations 

  Bian, Huisheng; Chin, Mian; Colarco, Peter R.; Apel, Eric C.; Blake, Donald R.; Froyd, Karl; Hornbrook, Rebecca S.; Jimenez, Jose; Jost, Pedro Campuzano; Lawler, Michael; Liu, Mingxu; Lund, Marianne Tronstad; Matsui, Hitoshi; Nault, Benjamin A.; Penner, Joyce E.; Rollins, Andrew W.; Schill, Gregory; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Wang, Hailong; Xu, Lu; Zhang, Kai; Zhu, Jialei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The atmospheric sulfur cycle plays a key role in air quality, climate, and ecosystems, such as pollution, radiative forcing, new particle formation, and acid rain. In this study, we compare the spatially and temporally ...

• Challenges in assessing and managing multi-hazard risks: A European stakeholders perspective 

  Šakić Trogrlić, Robert; Reiter, Karina; Ciurean, Roxana L.; Gottardo, Stefania; Torresan, Silvia; Daloz, Anne Sophie; Ma, Lin; Padrón Fumero, Noemi; Tatman, Sharon; Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; de Ruiter, Marleen C.; Schlumberger, Julius; Harris, Remi; Garcia-Gonzalez, Sara; García-Vaquero, María; Arévalo, Tamara Lucía Febles; Hernandez-Martin, Raul; Mendoza-Jimenez, Javier; Ferrario, Davide Mauro; Geurts, David; Stuparu, Dana; Tiggeloven, Timothy; Duncan, Melanie J.; Ward, Philip J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The latest evidence suggests that multi-hazards and their interrelationships (e.g., triggering, compound, and consecutive hazards) are becoming more frequent across Europe, underlying a need for resilience building by ...

• Solar radiation modification challenges decarbonization with renewable solar energy 

  Baur, Susanne; Sanderson, Benjamin; Séférian, Roland; Terray, Laurent (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Solar radiation modification (SRM) is increasingly being discussed as a potential tool to reduce global and regional temperatures to buy time for conventional carbon mitigation measures to take effect. However, most ...

• The added value of simulated near-surface wind speed over the Alps from a km-scale multimodel ensemble 

  Molina, M.O.; Careto, J.M.; Gutiérrez, C.; Sánchez, E.; Goergen, K.; Sobolowski, Stefan Pieter; Coppola, E.; Pichelli, E.; Ban, N.; Belus̆ić, D.; Short, C.; Caillaud, C.; Dobler, Andreas; Hodnebrog, Øivind; Kartsios, S.; Lenderink, G.; de Vries, Vries; Göktürk, Ozan mert; Milovac, J.; Feldmann, H.; Truhetz, H.; Demory, M.E.; Warrach-Sagi, K.; Keuler, K.; Adinolfi, M.; Raffa, M.; Tölle, M.; Sieck, K.; Bastin, S.; Soares, P.M.M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The advancement of computational resources has allowed researchers to run convection-permitting regional climate model (CPRCM) simulations. A pioneering effort promoting a multimodel ensemble of such simulations is the ...

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