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Divergent impacts of climate interventions on China’s north-south water divide

Xiao ZhangYuanchao FanJerry TjiputraHelene MuriQiao Chen
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/9/4
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-13
Solar radiation modification-based climate interventions may cause uneven regional hydrological changes while mitigating warming. Here, we investigate the effects of climate interventions on China’s North Drought-South Flood pattern using the Norwegian Earth System Model supplemented by volcanic dat...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modellingClimate-change mitigationHydrology
10.1038/S43247-025-02708-0
ISSN:2662-4435

AI-Enabled conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation enhances ensemble prediction of extreme El Niño events

Lu ZhouRong-Hua ZhangLingjiang Tao
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/12/27
0
Data-driven deep learning (DL) models often underestimate the intensity of extreme weather and climate events due to the scarcity of extreme samples in training datasets and the smoothing effects of gradient-based optimization. While ensemble prediction methods based on initial condition (IC) pertur...
Climate sciencesMathematics and computingNatural hazards
10.1038/S41612-025-01303-6
ISSN:2397-3722

Strengthening of favorable environments for North Atlantic tropical cyclogenesis in midlatitudes in a warmer climate

A. Montoro-MendozaC. Calvo-SanchoJ. J. González-AlemánJ. Díaz-FernándezP. Bolgiani6
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2026
2026/1/9
Vol.9 No.1 p.450
Anthropogenic climate change is intensifying tropical cyclones, and some studies suggest that they are now impacting regions farther from the equator, though uncertainties remain. This study examines the North Atlantic (NATL) basin’s autumn climatology, focusing on environments conducive to tropical...
Atmospheric scienceClimate change
10.1038/S41612-025-01317-0
ISSN:2397-3722

Weakening of global terrestrial carbon sequestration capacity under increasing intensity of warm extremes

Xiuliang YuanXi ChenFriday Uchenna OchegeRafiq HamdiHossein Tabari10
Nature Ecology & Evolution
2024
2024/11/8
00 p.1-10
The net ecosystem exchange (NEE), determining terrestrial carbon sequestration capacity, is strongly controlled by climate change and has exhibited substantial year-to-year fluctuations. How the increased frequency and intensity of warm extremes affect NEE variations remains unclear. Here, we combin...
Climate-change impactsClimate-change mitigation
10.1038/S41559-024-02576-5
ISSN:2397-334X

Future exposure to moist heat extremes linked to soil dryness

Jingwei ZhouDragan MiloševićAdriaan J. Teuling
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/11/18
Vol.8 No.1 p.3740
Soil moisture critically modulates moist heat via surface energy fluxes, impacting human health and ecosystems under climate change. Using CMIP6 models with or without interactive soil moisture, we dissect its global role. Moist heat is most severe in tropical and extra-tropical regions, with mid-la...
Atmospheric scienceClimate changeClimate-change impactsClimate sciencesProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41612-025-01252-0
ISSN:2397-3722

CMIP6 models cannot capture long-term forced changes in the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature gradient

Hannah ByrneRichard SeagerJason E. Smerdon
Nature Communications
2025
2025/12/6
0
The observed zonal sea surface temperature gradient in the tropical Pacific has strengthened over the last 150 years, but many CMIP6 models simulate a forced weakening of this gradient over the same period. This has spurred a multi-decade debate over whether models are correctly representing dynamic...
Climate changeOcean sciences
10.1038/S41467-025-66839-W
ISSN:2041-1723

Interbasin and interhemispheric impacts of a collapsed Atlantic Overturning Circulation

Orihuela-Pinto BryamEngland Matthew H.Taschetto Andréa S.
Nature Climate Change
2022
2022/6/6
Vol.12 No.6 p.558-565
Climate projections suggest a weakening or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under global warming, with evidence that a slowdown is already underway. This could have significant ramifications for Atlantic Ocean heat transport, Arctic sea ice extent and regional North...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modellingPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41558-022-01380-Y
ISSN:1758-678X

Weakened relationship between November Barents-Kara sea ice and January Arctic Oscillation after the mid-1990s

Shuai ZhengPeilong YuBo SunHuijun WangXiaopei Lin7
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/8/6
Vol.8 No.1 p.1-12
The Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a dominant atmospheric mode in the Northern Hemisphere, influencing weather and climate. Its variations are driven by numerous factors, including Arctic sea ice, particularly autumn Barents-Kara Sea ice concentration (SIC), which can significantly impact the AO through...
Climate sciencesOcean sciences
10.1038/S41612-025-01186-7
ISSN:2397-3722

Anomalous increase in sea fog frequency along coastal China in the early 21st century and the aerosol influence

Xinyan LiFan WangXiaorui ZhangPak Wai ChanYuanjian Yang7
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/11/17
Vol.8 No.1 p.3650
Sea fog hampers coastal activities, yet its decadal variability in coastal China remains insufficiently characterized. Using hourly marine observations from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), we identify an April–July sea fog frequency (SFF) trend reversal over fog-p...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental sciences
10.1038/S41612-025-01247-X
ISSN:2397-3722

Increasing ENSO–rainfall variability due to changes in future tropical temperature–rainfall relationship

Kyung-Sook YunJune-Yi LeeAxel TimmermannKarl SteinMalte F. Stuecker7
Communications Earth & Environment
2021
2021/2/22
Vol.2 No.1 p.1-7
Intensification of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-rainfall variability in response to global warming is a robust feature across Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) iterations, regardless of a lack of robust projected changes in ENSO-sea-surface temperature (SST) variability. Previous s...
Atmospheric dynamicsPhysical oceanographyProjection and prediction
10.1038/S43247-021-00108-8
ISSN:2662-4435

Increasing contribution of the atmospheric vertical motion to precipitation in a warming climate

Tackseung JunDavid Rind
Communications Earth & Environment
2024
2024/9/30
Vol.5 No.1 p.1-13
Global warming already influences precipitation, with more intense precipitation in many locations. Although the ‘wet-get-wetter, dry-get-drier’ tendency in mean precipitation holds in many locations, the situations for precipitation extremes are more complex, due to changes in dynamic and thermodyn...
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S43247-024-01676-1
ISSN:2662-4435

Climate-driven synchronization of solar extremes threatens the resilience of Africa’s regional power pool

Paul AdigunKoji DairakuAkinwale T. OgunrindeXian Xue
Npj Clean Energy
2026
2026/5/20
Vol.2 No.1 p.110
Africa’s regional power pools promise to expand electricity access and enhance supply reliability for approximately 600 million people currently without electricity by geographically diversifying solar generation. This strategy assumes that extreme weather affecting photovoltaic output remains uncor...
Climate sciencesEnergy science and technology
10.1038/S44406-026-00027-7
ISSN:3059-2232

A strong constraint on radiative forcing of well-mixed greenhouse gases

Jing FengDavid PaynterRaymond MenzelRyan Kramer
Nature
2026
2026/3/18
Vol.652 No.8108 p.105-111
Radiative forcing from well-mixed greenhouse gases (WMGHGs) is a main driver of Earth’s energy imbalance and global surface climate change1,2. It remains difficult to constrain, largely because its longwave (LW) instantaneous radiative forcing (IRF) component depends on atmospheric state and is subj...
AttributionClimate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41586-026-10289-X
ISSN:0028-0836

Carbon restoration potential on global land under water resource constraints

Shouzhang PengCésar TerrerBenjamin SmithPhilippe CiaisQinggong Han10
Nature Water
2024
2024/10/24
00 p.1-11
Ecosystem restoration is a critical nature-based solution to mitigate climate change. However, the carbon sequestration potential of restoration, defined as the maximum achievable carbon storage, has likely been overestimated because previous studies have not adequately accounted for the competition...
Restoration ecologySustainabilityWater resources
10.1038/S44221-024-00323-5
ISSN:2731-6084

Faster recovery of North Atlantic tropical cyclone-induced cold wakes in recent decades

Effy B. JohnKarthik BalaguruL. Ruby LeungGregory R. FoltzSamson M. Hagos
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/5/19
Vol.8 No.1 p.1-10
Intense winds associated with tropical cyclones (TCs) generate surface ocean cooling in their wakes, which can persist for several weeks in their aftermath. While multi-decadal observations of the sea surface have shown a substantial warming of the ocean, long-term changes in cold wake recovery time...
Climate and Earth system modellingPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41612-025-01029-5
ISSN:2397-3722

Solar cycle as a distinct line of evidence constraining Earth’s transient climate response

King-Fai LiKa-Kit Tung
Nature Communications
2023
2023/12/19
Vol.14 No.1 p.1-17
Severity of warming predicted by climate models depends on their Transient Climate Response (TCR). Inter-model spread of TCR has persisted at ~ 100% of its mean for decades. Existing observational constraints of TCR are based on observed historical warming response to historical forcing and their un...
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41467-023-43583-7
ISSN:2041-1723

North Atlantic temperature and salinity changes are driven by external forcing, underestimated by CMIP6 models

Sergey MolodtsovIrina MarinovWilbert WeijerDerek DeSantisAlex Jonko7
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/9/30
Vol.8 No.1 p.1-9
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is projected to weaken in the 21st century, although evidence of this trend in the observational record is limited and conflicting. Here we utilize the growing set of in-situ observations from Argo floats and Earth System Models, to detect and a...
AttributionPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41612-025-01210-W
ISSN:2397-3722

Recent pronounced warming on the Mongolian Plateau boosted by internal climate variability

Qingyu CaiWen ChenShangfeng ChenShang-Ping XieJinling Piao7
Nature Geoscience
2024
2024/2/14
00 p.1-8
Exceptionally strong summertime warming occurred over the Mongolian Plateau between 1986 and 2004, at a rate that was three times the average terrestrial warming in the Northern Hemisphere. The physical processes responsible for this extreme warming remain unclear. Here we show that the synchronous ...
Atmospheric dynamicsAttributionClimate change
10.1038/S41561-024-01377-6
ISSN:1752-0894

Observational constraint on a feedback from supercooled clouds reduces projected warming uncertainty

Grégory V. CesanaAndrew S. AckermanAnn M. FridlindIsrael SilberAnthony D. Del Genio9
Communications Earth & Environment
2024
2024/4/6
Vol.5 No.1 p.1-14
The increase of carbon-dioxide-doubling-induced warming (climate sensitivity) in the latest climate models is primarily attributed to a larger extratropical cloud feedback. This is thought to be partly driven by a greater ratio of supercooled liquid-phase clouds to all clouds, termed liquid phase ra...
Atmospheric scienceClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S43247-024-01339-1
ISSN:2662-4435

Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau

Li XueyingLong DiScanlon Bridget R.Mann Michael E.Li Xingdong8
Nature Climate Change
2022
2022/8/15
00 p.1-7
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the Tibetan Plateau, a major global water tower, is crucial in determining water transport and availability to a large downstream Asian population. Climate change impacts on historical and future TWS changes, however, are not well quantified. Here we used bottom-...
Cryospheric scienceHydrologyWater resources
10.1038/S41558-022-01443-0
ISSN:1758-678X

Robust and perfectible constraints on human-induced Arctic amplification

Hervé Douville
Communications Earth & Environment
2023
2023/9/4
Vol.4 No.1 p.1-9
The Arctic near-surface warming is much faster than its global counterpart. Yet, this Arctic amplification occurs a rate that is season, model and forcing-dependent. The present study aims at using temperature observations and reanalyses to constrain the projections of Arctic climate during the Nove...
AttributionClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S43247-023-00949-5
ISSN:2662-4435

Human-induced water loss potentially threatens sustainable development of sandy regions in China

Runa AXinliang PanLiudi ZhuKelvin T. F. ChanZhangcai Qin9
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/1/30
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-10
Water is indispensable for sustainable socioeconomic development, especially in China’s sandy regions. Despite existing studies in sandy regions, the drivers of changes in total water storage and their potential impacts remain inadequately understood. Here we found a 55.97 billion m³ net loss in tot...
GeographyHydrologySustainability
10.1038/S43247-025-02046-1
ISSN:2662-4435

High-resolution modeling and projection of heat-related mortality in Germany under climate change

Junyu WangNikolaos NikolaouMatthias an der HeidenChristopher Irrgang
Communications Medicine
2024
2024/10/21
Vol.4 No.1 p.1-8
Heat has become a leading cause of preventable deaths during summer. Understanding the link between high temperatures and excess mortality is crucial for designing effective prevention and adaptation plans. Yet, data analyses are challenging due to often fragmented data archives over different agglo...
EpidemiologyPublic health
10.1038/S43856-024-00643-3
ISSN:2730-664X

Dynamically downscaled seasonal heat wave projections in the CONUS

Hannah J. RubinLeyuan ZhangJoshua S. FuDeeksha RastogiShih-Chieh Kao6
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/6/19
Vol.8 No.1 p.1-9
Heat waves are a well-documented hazard that are projected to increase in intensity, duration, and frequency with climate change. Regions of the US experience widely varying temperatures; for example, 35 °C is extremely hot for spring in the Northeast but not for summer in the Southeast. It is impor...
Atmospheric dynamicsEnvironmental impact
10.1038/S41612-025-01055-3
ISSN:2397-3722

Seasonal-to-decadal prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Choi JungSon Seok-Woo
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2022
2022/4/14
Vol.5 No.1 p.1-8
The growing demand for skillful near-term climate prediction encourages an improved prediction of low-frequency sea surface temperature (SST) variabilities such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). This study assesses their seasonal-to-decadal prediction ...
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41612-022-00251-9
ISSN:2397-3722

Southern Ocean influence on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation across climate states

Zhaoyang SongMojib LatifWonsun ParkYuming Zhang
Nature Communications
2025
2025/10/17
Vol.16 No.1 p.1-13
Various proxy data agree on a shallow Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) during the last glacial maximum (LGM), extending down to 2000 m − 2500 m depth, which is similar to the AMOC geometry projected by climate models over the 21st century with rising atmospheric CO2. The AMOC stren...
Climate and Earth system modellingPalaeoclimate
10.1038/S41467-025-64268-3
ISSN:2041-1723

Enhanced Arctic sea-ice retreat due to pronounced pacificization effect in the Holocene

Yuying ZhangLimin HuXun GongXiaotong XiaoZhizheng Jia14
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/10/22
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-10
Future climate confronts major challenges due to ongoing Arctic sea-ice retreat. Notably, eventful sea-ice loss in the Holocene appears comparable circumstance, but associated physics remians poorly understood. Here we present a high-resolution and semi-quantitative reconstruction of sea-ice conditi...
Cryospheric sciencePalaeoceanographyPalaeoclimate
10.1038/S43247-025-02796-Y
ISSN:2662-4435

Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity

Timothy A. MyersRyan C. ScottMark D. ZelinkaStephen A. KleinJoel R. Norris6
Nature Climate Change
2021
2021/5/13
Vol.11 No.6 p.501-507
Marine low clouds strongly cool the planet. How this cooling effect will respond to climate change is a leading source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity, the planetary warming resulting from CO2 doubling. Here, we observationally constrain this low cloud feedback at a near-global scale. Satellit...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41558-021-01039-0
ISSN:1758-678X

Prolonged wind droughts in a warming climate threaten global wind power security

Meng QuLu ShenZhenzhong ZengBolei YangHuiru Zhong7
Nature Climate Change
2025
2025/7/28
00 p.1-8
Prolonged low-wind events, termed wind droughts, threaten wind turbine electricity generation, yet their future trajectories remain poorly understood. Here, using hourly data from 21 IPCC models, we reveal robust increasing trends in wind drought duration at both global and regional scales by 2100, ...
AttributionEnergy supply and demandProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41558-025-02387-X
ISSN:1758-678X

Sahara greening may have diminished mid-Holocene Atlantic tropical cyclones

Yanning OuMing ZhangYonggang LiuHaikun ZhaoXi Cao6
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
2026/4/16
0
While anthropogenic warming is projected to green the Sahara region, the potential impacts on tropical cyclone remain poorly understood. Here we examine the mid-Holocene Sahara greening (characterized by expanded vegetation and reduced dust emissions) as a potential analog for the future, combining ...
Atmospheric dynamicsPalaeoclimate
10.1038/S43247-026-03481-4
ISSN:2662-4435

Southwestern United States drought of the 21st century presages drier conditions into the future

Wahl Eugene R.Zorita EduardoDiaz Henry F.Hoell Andrew
Communications Earth & Environment
2022
2022/9/19
Vol.3 No.1 p.1-14
Intense drought has occurred in the United States Southwest this century, causing unprecedented stress to water resources. Here we use paleoclimate and instrumental records to establish that the recent temperature rise is incompatible with random draws from past fluctuations, including the current p...
Climate and Earth system modellingClimate-change impactsPalaeoclimate
10.1038/S43247-022-00532-4
ISSN:2662-4435

Quantifying the impact of extreme weather on China’s hydropower–wind–solar renewable energy system

Jianjian ShenYue WangMengke LinChuntian ChengJan K. Kazak10
Nature Water
2025
2025/4/3
00 p.1-15
Carbon reduction goals have driven China to become the world’s largest renewable energy system (RES) that is dominated by hydropower, wind power and solar power. However, the meteorological sensitivity of wind and solar power greatly affects the reliability and generating capability of the RES, part...
HydroelectricitySolar energyWind energy
10.1038/S44221-025-00408-9
ISSN:2731-6084

Recent cloud trends and extremes reaffirm established bounds on cloud feedback and aerosol-cloud interactions

Mark D. ZelinkaTimothy A. MyersYi QinLi-Wei ChaoStephen A. Klein10
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
2026/3/31
0
Earth’s energy imbalance has increased markedly over the past two decades, reaching a record in 2023. Both the long-term trend and year-to-year variations are linked to reduced reflection of sunlight by low-level clouds, which is pronounced over Northern Hemisphere oceans. However, the causes of the...
Climate changeClimate sciences
10.1038/S43247-026-03461-8
ISSN:2662-4435

Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events

Quentin DalaidenHugues GoosseJan T. M. LenaertsMarie G. P. CavitteNaomi Henderson
Communications Earth & Environment
2020
2020/12/11
Vol.1 No.1 p.1-9
Over the last century, the increase in snow accumulation has partly mitigated the total dynamic Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss. However, the mechanisms behind this increase are poorly understood. Here we analyze the Antarctic Ice Sheet atmospheric moisture budget based on climate reanalysis and model...
Atmospheric dynamicsCryospheric science
10.1038/S43247-020-00062-X
ISSN:2662-4435

Moderate climate sensitivity due to opposing mixed-phase cloud feedbacks

Ivy TanChen ZhouAubert LamyCatherine L. Stauffer
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/3/4
Vol.8 No.1 p.1-6
Earth’s climate sensitivity quantifies the ultimate change in global mean surface air temperature in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Recent assessments estimate that Earth’s climate sensitivity very likely lies between 2.3 °C and 4.7 °C, with the representation of clouds in...
Atmospheric scienceClimate sciences
10.1038/S41612-025-00948-7
ISSN:2397-3722

Bimodality in simulated precipitation frequency distributions and its relationship with convective parameterizations

Min-Seop AhnPaul A. UllrichJiwoo LeePeter J. GlecklerHsi-Yen Ma8
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2024
2024/6/15
Vol.7 No.1 p.1-9
Bimodality in precipitation frequency distributions is often evident in atmospheric models, but rarely in observations. This study i) proposes a metric to objectively quantify the bimodality in precipitation distributions, ii) evaluates model simulations contributed to the Coupled Model Intercompari...
Atmospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S41612-024-00685-3
ISSN:2397-3722

Climate change extremes and photovoltaic power output

Sarah FeronRaúl R. CorderoAlessandro DamianiRobert B. Jackson
Nature Sustainability
2020
2020/11/16
Vol.4 No.3 p.270-276
Sustainable development requires climate change mitigation and thereby a fast energy transition to renewables. However, climate change may affect renewable power outputs by enhancing the weather variability and making extreme conditions more frequent. High temperature or clouds, for example, can lea...
Climate-change mitigationEnergy security
10.1038/S41893-020-00643-W
ISSN:2398-9629

Present-day North Atlantic salinity constrains future warming of the Northern Hemisphere

In-Hong ParkSang-Wook YehWenju CaiGuojian WangSeung-Ki Min6
Nature Climate Change
2023
2023/7/13
00 p.1-7
Earth system models exhibit considerable intermodel spread in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation intensity and its carbon uptake, resulting in great uncertainty in future climate. Here we show that present-day sea surface salinity (SSS) in the North Atlantic subpolar region modulates anthro...
Climate changePhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41558-023-01728-Y
ISSN:1758-678X

Tropical cyclone rainfall extends inland

E DengQian XiangDe-Hui OuyangKelvin T. F. ChanDengxin He14
Nature Communications
2026
2026/3/14
0
Tropical cyclone (TC) rainfall, which is typically more intense over the ocean, has increasingly caused devastating floods in coastal regions in recent decades. Regions beyond 100 km inland from coastlines often lack adequate preparedness for TC-induced flooding, underscoring the need to assess whet...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate-change impactsNatural hazards
10.1038/S41467-026-70647-1
ISSN:2041-1723

The intensification of Arctic warming as a result of CO 2 physiological forcing

So-Won ParkJin-Soo KimJong-Seong Kug
Nature Communications
2020
2020/4/29
Vol.11 No.1 p.1-7
Stomatal closure is one of the main physiological responses to increasing CO2 concentration, which leads to a reduction in plant water loss. This response has the potential to trigger changes in the climate system by regulating surface energy budgets—a phenomenon known as CO2 physiological forcing. ...
BiogeochemistryClimate sciencesEcology
10.1038/S41467-020-15924-3
ISSN:2041-1723

Enhanced forest carbon gains from stronger protection in China’s protected areas

Yuwen FuWang LiZheng NiuFang ChenBing Zhang8
Nature Communications
2026
2026/2/10
Vol.17 No.1 p.26090
Protected areas (PAs) are central to China’s forest conservation strategy, yet their effectiveness for carbon storage across governance and management contexts remains unclear. A clearer understanding of their current and future carbon benefits is essential for informing conservation and climate pol...
Conservation biologyEnvironmental impactMacroecologySustainability
10.1038/S41467-026-69505-X
ISSN:2041-1723

Land-atmosphere feedbacks and anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing intensify subseasonal drought-to-pluvial abrupt transitions

Yinghao FuHaishen LüAli Levent YagciYonghua ZhuYingying Xu10
Communications Earth & Environment
2026
2026/3/23
0
Abrupt transitions from drought to pluvial conditions are increasingly reported and pose substantial risks to global hydrological stability. However, their occurrence patterns, underlying mechanisms, and future trajectories remain insufficiently understood. Here, we develop a soil moisture-precipita...
Hydrology
10.1038/S43247-026-03371-9
ISSN:2662-4435

Anthropogenic enhancement of subsurface soil moisture droughts

Yansong GuanXihui GuAiguo DaiTianjun ZhouXing Yuan15
Nature Climate Change
2025
2025/11/14
00 p.1-8
Anthropogenic climate change has exacerbated soil moisture droughts globally, yet this exacerbation in their spatiotemporal evolution in terms of soil vertical structure remains unclear. Here we propose a Lagrangian four-dimensional tracking framework to identify a type of spatial (horizontal and ve...
AttributionHydrology
10.1038/S41558-025-02458-Z
ISSN:1758-678X

Global warming at near-constant tropospheric relative humidity is supported by observations

Douville HervéQasmi SaïdRibes AurélienBock Olivier
Communications Earth & Environment
2022
2022/10/10
Vol.3 No.1 p.1-7
Although global warming is expected to occur at approximately constant relative humidity, the latest IPCC report remains elusive about the magnitude of observed changes in tropospheric humidity and their attribution. Here we use a quality-controlled dataset of in situ observations, global reanalyses...
AttributionProjection and prediction
10.1038/S43247-022-00561-Z
ISSN:2662-4435

Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss

Maria-Vittoria GuarinoLouise C. SimeDavid SchröederIrene Malmierca-ValletErica Rosenblum13
Nature Climate Change
2020
2020/8/10
Vol.10 No.10 p.928-932
The Last Interglacial (LIG), a warmer period 130,000–116,000 years before present, is a potential analogue for future climate change. Stronger LIG summertime insolation at high northern latitudes drove Arctic land summer temperatures 4–5 °C higher than in the pre-industrial era. Climate model simula...
Atmospheric scienceClimate changeClimate sciencesCryospheric scienceOcean sciences
10.1038/S41558-020-0865-2
ISSN:1758-678X

Recent increases in tropical cyclone rapid intensification events in global offshore regions

Yi LiYoumin TangShuai WangRalf ToumiXiangzhou Song6
Nature Communications
2023
2023/8/24
Vol.14 No.1 p.1-9
Rapid intensification (RI) is an essential process in the development of strong tropical cyclones and a major challenge in prediction. RI in offshore regions is more threatening to coastal populations and economies. Although much effort has been devoted to studying basin-wide temporal-spatial fluctu...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate change
10.1038/S41467-023-40605-2
ISSN:2041-1723

Ocean dynamics shape marine heatwaves and their predictability

Xianglin RenWei LiuLiping Zhang
Nature Communications
2026
2026/2/18
Vol.17 No.1 p.28960
Marine heatwaves have become more frequent and intense under anthropogenic warming, posing increasing threats to marine ecosystems and coastal societies, necessitating a better understanding of their mechanism and predictability. Here we show how ocean dynamics modulate marine heatwaves globally by ...
Climate sciencesOcean sciences
10.1038/S41467-026-69509-7
ISSN:2041-1723

Mitigation of Arctic permafrost carbon loss through stratospheric aerosol geoengineering

Yating ChenAobo LiuJohn C. Moore
Nature Communications
2020
2020/5/15
Vol.11 No.1 p.1-10
The Arctic is warming far faster than the global average, threatening the release of large amounts of carbon presently stored in frozen permafrost soils. Increasing Earth’s albedo by the injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere has been proposed as a way of offsetting some of the adverse ...
Climate-change mitigationCryospheric science
10.1038/S41467-020-16357-8
ISSN:2041-1723

Paleoclimate proxy records suggest reduced tropical Pacific zonal asymmetry under sustained global warming

Eui-Seok ChungSeong-Joong KimKeith B. RodgersSang-Yoon JunJoo-Hong Kim7
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/2/8
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-11
Pronounced model-observation discrepancies in the changes of tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient during the satellite era imply systematic model deficiencies. However, the relatively short high-quality instrumental record hampers robustly determining the response of tropical Paci...
AttributionPalaeoclimate
10.1038/S43247-025-02039-0
ISSN:2662-4435

Human driven climate change increased the likelihood of the 2023 record area burned in Canada

Megan C. Kirchmeier-YoungElizaveta MalininaQuinn E. BarberKaren Garcia PerdomoSalvatore R. Curasi16
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2024
2024/12/20
Vol.7 No.1 p.1-12
In 2023, wildfires burned 15 million hectares in Canada, more than doubling the previous record. These wildfires caused a record number of evacuations, unprecedented air quality impacts across Canada and the northeastern United States, and substantial strain on fire management resources. Using clima...
AttributionClimate changeClimate-change impacts
10.1038/S41612-024-00841-9
ISSN:2397-3722

Quantification of human contribution to soil moisture-based terrestrial aridity

Wang YaopingMao JiafuHoffman Forrest M.Bonfils Céline J. W.Douville Hervé13
Nature Communications
2022
2022/11/11
Vol.13 No.1 p.1-11
Current knowledge of the spatiotemporal patterns of changes in soil moisture-based terrestrial aridity has considerable uncertainty. Using Standardized Soil Moisture Index (SSI) calculated from multi-source merged data sets, we find widespread drying in the global midlatitudes, and wetting in the no...
AttributionHydrology
10.1038/S41467-022-34071-5
ISSN:2041-1723

Distinct impacts of diverse forcing agents on Arctic sea ice since the mid-twentieth century

Yu-Chi LeeWei LiuClara DeserMarika Holland
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/11/12
Vol.8 No.1 p.3620
Arctic sea ice has undergone non-monotonic changes since the middle of the last century. Here, we investigate the cause of this behavior by isolating and quantifying the effects of anthropogenic aerosols, well-mixed greenhouse gases, and biomass burning on sea ice dynamics through climate model simu...
Climate and Earth system modellingCryospheric science
10.1038/S41612-025-01238-Y
ISSN:2397-3722

Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over 1980–2024 is dominated by Pacific variability

Wenyu ZhouL. Ruby LeungChuan-Chieh ChangMing ZhaoHuang-Hsiung Hsu9
Nature Geoscience
2025
2025/12/15
00 p.1-10
Since 1980, tropical cyclones have migrated poleward, but it remains unclear whether this trend reflects long-term climate change or temporary climate variability. Here we investigate the drivers of this poleward migration using multiple observational datasets and global models that permit tropical ...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S41561-025-01866-2
ISSN:1752-0894

Global decline of pelagic fauna in a warmer ocean

Ariza AlejandroLengaigne MatthieuMenkes ChristopheLebourges-Dhaussy AnneReceveur Aurore10
Nature Climate Change
2022
2022/9/29
Vol.12 No.10 p.928-934
Pelagic fauna is expected to be impacted under climate change according to ecosystem simulations. However, the direction and magnitude of the impact is still uncertain and still not corroborated by observation-based statistical studies. Here we compile a global underwater sonar database and 20 ocean...
BiogeographyBiooceanographyClimate-change ecologyClimate-change impactsMarine biology
10.1038/S41558-022-01479-2
ISSN:1758-678X

ENSO phase transition enables prediction of winter North Atlantic Oscillation one year ahead

Kiwook KimMyong-In LeeAdam A. ScaifeDoug M. Smith
Nature Communications
2026
2026/3/25
Vol.17 No.1 p.25880
The winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a dominant mode of climate variability affecting temperature and precipitation across the Northern Hemisphere, yet its prediction at seasonal-to-decadal (S2D) lead times remains challenging. Here, using multi-year hindcasts from a multi-model ensem...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S41467-026-70646-2
ISSN:2041-1723

Urban food delivery services as extreme heat adaptation

Yunke ZhangDaoping WangYu LiuKerui DuPeng Lu7
Nature Cities
2025
2025/1/2
00 p.1-10
More frequent global extreme heat events prompt behavioral adaptations, such as reducing outdoor activities to relieve potential distress. The emergence of innovative daily life services in cities offers new avenues for implementing such adaptive strategies. Here we investigate whether urban residen...
Climate-change impactsScience, technology and society
10.1038/S44284-024-00172-Z
ISSN:2731-9997

Arctic ice loss is delaying monsoon retreat over the Indochina Peninsula

Yilin DuoJie Zhang
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2025
2025/11/17
Vol.8 No.1 p.3640
Warming and extreme precipitation events frequently occur in the Asian summer monsoon during autumn, and their causes are still unclear. In this study, we investigate variations in the monsoon and autumn precipitation over the Indochina Peninsula (ICP) using reanalysis data, observational datasets, ...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate-change impactsProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41612-025-01241-3
ISSN:2397-3722

Distinct sub-period trends in tropospheric ozone column over the East Asian outflow region during 1990-2019

Zhou ZangJane LiuDavid TarasickJing M. ChenYingjie Li6
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2026
2026/4/11
0
Tropospheric ozone, an important greenhouse gas and pollutant, has increased over East Asia in recent decades. However, how this increase evolves temporally remains unclear. Here, we construct a global tropospheric ozone column (TrOC) dataset based on the Trajectory-mapped Ozonesonde dataset for the...
Climate sciencesEnvironmental sciences
10.1038/S41612-026-01406-8
ISSN:2397-3722

Natural and anthropogenic contributions to the hurricane drought of the 1970s–1980s

Rousseau-Rizzi RaphaëlEmanuel Kerry
Nature Communications
2022
2022/8/29
Vol.13 No.1 p.1-10
Atlantic hurricane activity experienced a pronounced lull during the 1970s and 1980s. The current explanation that anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing cooled the sea surface locally fails to capture the magnitude of this large decrease in activity. To explain this hurricane drought, we propose t...
Atmospheric scienceClimate change
10.1038/S41467-022-32779-Y
ISSN:2041-1723

Causal pathways underlying global soil moisture–precipitation coupling

Jing SunKun YangXiaogang HeGuiling WangYong Wang7
Nature Communications
2025
2025/10/8
Vol.16 No.1 p.1-10
Surface soil moisture–precipitation (SSM–P) coupling involves complex processes, with sensible heat (SH) and evapotranspiration as important mediators. However, these coupling pathways and their underlying mechanisms across the globe remain unclear, limiting hydrometeorological predictions and proje...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modellingHydrology
10.1038/S41467-025-63999-7
ISSN:2041-1723

Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming

Ouyang ZutaoSciusco PietroJiao TongFeron SarahLei Cheyenne13
Nature Communications
2022
2022/7/1
Vol.13 No.1 p.1-9
The replacement of natural lands with urban structures has multiple environmental consequences, yet little is known about the magnitude and extent of albedo-induced warming contributions from urbanization at the global scale in the past and future. Here, we apply an empirical approach to quantify th...
Climate changeClimate-change ecology
10.1038/S41467-022-31558-Z
ISSN:2041-1723

Future increases in Eurasian mid-latitude winter temperature variability shaped by a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Sangwoo LeeHyo-Seok ParkMaeng-Ki KimSeung-Ki MinHyokyeong Hwang
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/4/5
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-12
Climate models project reduced temperature variability in Northern high latitudes due to global warming, but impacts on mid-latitude variability remain uncertain. Here, using multi-model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, we find that daily winter temperature variability inc...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S43247-025-02249-6
ISSN:2662-4435

Emergence of an oceanic CO2 uptake hole under global warming

Huiji LeeKyung-Min NohJi-Hoon OhSo-Won ParkYechul Shin6
Nature Communications
2025
2025/4/3
Vol.16 No.1 p.1-9
The ocean is a crucial sink for anthropogenic CO2 emissions, yet its future response remains uncertain. Here, using the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) under different CO2 emission rates, we find a pronounced weakening of ocean CO2 uptake in the Subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA), distinct from the...
Carbon cycleClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S41467-025-57724-7
ISSN:2041-1723

Human-induced intensified seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature

Fukai LiuFengfei SongYiyong Luo
Nature Communications
2024
2024/5/10
Vol.15 No.1 p.1-10
Changes in the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) have far-reaching ecological and societal implications. Previous studies have found an intensified SST seasonal cycle under global warming, but whether such changes have emerged in historical records remains largely unknown. Here, we rev...
AttributionPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41467-024-48381-3
ISSN:2041-1723

Thermosteric and dynamic sea level under solar geoengineering

Chao YueSvetlana JevrejevaYing QuLiyun ZhaoJohn C. Moore
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2023
2023/9/7
Vol.6 No.1 p.1-8
The IPCC sixth assessment report forecasts sea level rise (SLR) of up to 2 m along coasts by 2100 relative to 1995–2014 following business as usual (SSP585) scenarios. Geoengineering may reduce this threat. We use five Earth System Models simulations of two different solar geoengineering methods (so...
Climate sciencesPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41612-023-00466-4
ISSN:2397-3722

Soil moisture gradients strengthen mesoscale convective systems by increasing wind shear

Emma J. BartonCornelia KleinChristopher M. TaylorJohn MarshamDouglas J. Parker8
Nature Geoscience
2025
2025/4/4
Vol.18 No.4 p.330-336
Mesoscale convective systems are a class of storm linked to extensive flooding and other destructive hazards in many regions globally. In West Africa, soil moisture impacts provide a valuable source of predictability for mature storm hazards, but little is known about mature storm sensitivity to soi...
Atmospheric dynamicsNatural hazards
10.1038/S41561-025-01666-8
ISSN:1752-0894

Enhanced response of extreme compound events to cumulative CO2 emissions

Jun LiYao ZhangPhilippe CiaisHongying ZhangZhaoli Wang7
Nature
2026
2026/5/13
00 p.1-7
Compound events—such as concurrent hot–wet and drought–heat extremes—are among the most consequential climate hazards on Earth1–4 and are projected to become more severe under warming. Although the transient mean temperature response to cumulative CO2 emissions has been well quantified5–8, the corre...
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41586-026-10544-1
ISSN:0028-0836

Ecological restoration reverses terrestrial water storage losses in the Mu Us Sandyland in China

Hao ZhouYilin SunJianli ChenQing HeHanwen Hu8
Communications Earth & Environment
2025
2025/12/21
0
Large-scale ecological restoration has enhanced ecosystem services, but its impacts on terrestrial water storage (TWS) remain debated. Our study challenges the prevailing assumption that restoration activities inevitably reduce TWS. Here we construct a long-term TWS record (1987-2020) to analyze hyd...
GeophysicsHydrology
10.1038/S43247-025-03101-7
ISSN:2662-4435

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss

Alexander R. GottliebJustin S. Mankin
Nature
2024
2024/1/10
Vol.625 No.7994 p.293-300
Documenting the rate, magnitude and causes of snow loss is essential to benchmark the pace of climate change and to manage the differential water security risks of snowpack declines1–4. So far, however, observational uncertainties in snow mass5,6 have made the detection and attribution of human-forc...
AttributionCryospheric science
10.1038/S41586-023-06794-Y
ISSN:0028-0836

Single hemisphere air-sea interaction shapes the South Pacific surface warming and wind change

Jian MaBiao FengRobin ChadwickDongxiao WangGuihua Wang8
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2026
2026/1/3
Vol.9 No.1 p.330
The projected increase in the sea surface temperature (SST) into the 21st century exhibits a robust southeastern minimum (SEM) pattern in the subtropical Pacific. Despite the agreement between observations and climate models, this pattern remains poorly addressed, with gaps in the proposed mechanism...
Climate sciencesOcean sciences
10.1038/S41612-025-01299-Z
ISSN:2397-3722

Pitfalls in diagnosing temperature extremes

Lukas BrunnerAiko Voigt
Nature Communications
2024
2024/3/18
Vol.15 No.1 p.1-9
Worsening temperature extremes are among the most severe impacts of human-induced climate change. These extremes are often defined as rare events that exceed a specific percentile threshold within the distribution of daily maximum temperature. The percentile-based approach is chosen to follow region...
Atmospheric scienceClimate-change impactsClimate sciences
10.1038/S41467-024-46349-X
ISSN:2041-1723

Weakening of subsurface ocean temperature seasonality over the past four decades

Fukai LiuYiyong LuoFengfei SongWen-Xiao YuJian Lu6
Communications Earth & Environment
2024
2024/12/31
Vol.5 No.1 p.1-8
The seasonal cycle, responsible for much of the temperature variability in the upper ocean, exerts profound climatic and ecological influence. While surface intensification of temperature seasonality has been widely examined, changes beneath the ocean surface remain unknown. Here we analyze multiple...
AttributionPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S43247-024-01986-4
ISSN:2662-4435

ENSO amplifies global vegetation resilience variability in a changing climate

Wei ZhouChangjia LiHaicheng ZhangLindsay C. StringerJingyu Wang7
Nature Communications
2025
2025/12/4
0
A thorough understanding of vegetation resilience to climate variability is critical for sustaining ecosystem functions and terrestrial carbon sinks. Although the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key driver of global extreme weather events and vegetation dynamics, its impacts on vegetation r...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate-change ecologyEnvironmental impactProjection and prediction
10.1038/S41467-025-66987-Z
ISSN:2041-1723

Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Fukai LiuXun LiYiyong LuoWenju CaiJian Lu9
Nature Communications
2024
2024/1/2
Vol.15 No.1 p.1-9
Observational evidence and climate model experiments suggest a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) since the mid-1990s. Increased greenhouse gases and the declined anthropogenic aerosols (AAs) over North America and Europe are believed to contribute to the AMOC slowdow...
AttributionClimate and Earth system modellingPhysical oceanography
10.1038/S41467-023-44597-X
ISSN:2041-1723

Zooplankton grazing is the largest source of uncertainty for marine carbon cycling in CMIP6 models

Tyler RohrAnthony J. RichardsonAndrew LentonMatthew A. ChamberlainElizabeth H. Shadwick
Communications Earth & Environment
2023
2023/6/14
Vol.4 No.1 p.1-22
The current generation of Earth system models used by the United Nations to project future climate scenarios (CMIP6) relies heavily on marine biogeochemical models to track the fate of carbon absorbed into the oceans. Here we compare 11 CMIP6 marine biogeochemical models and find the largest source ...
BiogeochemistryCarbon cycleMarine chemistry
10.1038/S43247-023-00871-W
ISSN:2662-4435

Fusion of multi-source precipitation records via coordinate-based generative models

Sencan SunCongyi NaiBaoxiang PanWentao LiLu Li8
Nature Communications
2025
2025/12/29
0
Precipitation remains one of the most challenging climate variables to observe and predict. Existing datasets face intricate trade-offs: gauges are relatively trustworthy but sparse, satellites provide near-global coverage with retrieval uncertainties, and numerical models offer physical consistency...
Atmospheric scienceHydrology
10.1038/S41467-025-67987-9
ISSN:2041-1723

Southern Annular Mode dynamics, projections and impacts in a changing climate

Ariaan PurichJulie M. ArblasterGhyslaine BoschatZoe E. GillettWill Hobbs21
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2025
2025/12/2
00 p.1-19
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) influences Southern Hemisphere temperature and precipitation, ocean circulation, carbon cycling and the Antarctic cryosphere. In this Review, we examine the dynamics, projections and effects of the SAM, focusing on future implications for the Southern Ocean and Antarc...
Atmospheric scienceClimate changeCryospheric scienceOcean sciences
10.1038/S43017-025-00746-Y
ISSN:2662-138X

Changes in temporal inequality of precipitation extremes over China due to anthropogenic forcings

Duan WeiliZou ShanChristidis NikolaosSchaller NathalieChen Yaning9
Npj Climate And Atmospheric Science
2022
2022/4/19
Vol.5 No.1 p.1-13
Based on the Gini-coefficients, this study has presented an analysis of the impacts of anthropogenic forcing on the temporal inequality (i.e., increase in unevenness or disparity) of precipitation amounts (PRCPTOT), intensity (SDII), and extremes (R95p and RX5day) at national and regional scales (ei...
Climate and Earth system modellingHydrology
10.1038/S41612-022-00255-5
ISSN:2397-3722

Extreme stratospheric wave activity as harbingers of cold events over North America

Xiuyuan DingGang ChenPengfei ZhangDaniela I. V. DomeisenClara Orbe
Communications Earth & Environment
2023
2023/5/27
Vol.4 No.1 p.1-10
Extreme cold events over North America such as the February 2021 cold wave have been suggested to be linked to stratospheric polar vortex stretching. However, it is not resolved how robustly and on which timescales the stratosphere contributes to the surface anomalies. Here we introduce a simple mea...
Atmospheric dynamicsNatural hazards
10.1038/S43247-023-00845-Y
ISSN:2662-4435

Strong cloud–circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback

Vogel RaphaelaAlbright Anna LeaVial JessicaGeorge GeetStevens Bjorn6
Nature
2022
2022/11/30
Vol.612 No.7941 p.696-700
Shallow cumulus clouds in the trade-wind regions cool the planet by reflecting solar radiation. The response of trade cumulus clouds to climate change is a key uncertainty in climate projections1–4. Trade cumulus feedbacks in climate models are governed by changes in cloud fraction near cloud base5,...
Atmospheric dynamicsClimate and Earth system modelling
10.1038/S41586-022-05364-Y
ISSN:0028-0836