Recent AGU research related to the impacts of climate change

February 2022

Sea, storms and water

Evolving Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the North Atlantic in a Warming Climate, Earth’s Future

• Press release: Hurricanes expected to linger over northeast cities, causing greater damage

Post-Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California’s Central Valley, Water Resources Research

• Press release: Groundwater in California’s Central Valley may be unable to recover from past and future droughts

Sequential Landfall of Tropical Cyclones in the United States: From Historical Records to Climate Projections, Geophysical Research Letters

• Press release: Back-to-back hurricanes expected to increase in the Gulf Coast

Emerging Global Ocean Deoxygenation Across the 21st Century, Geophysical Research Letters

• Press release: Climate change has likely begun to suffocate the world’s fisheries

Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America, Earth’s Future

• Press release: Western US faces future of prolonged drought even with stringent emissions control

Increasing Coral Reef Resilience Through Successive Marine Heatwaves, Geophysical Research Letters

• Press release: Some coral reefs are keeping pace with ocean warming

Modeling Human Migration Under Environmental Change: A Case Study of the Effect of Sea Level Rise in Bangladesh, Earth’s Future

• Press release: Sea level rise predicted to affect 1.3 million people across Bangladesh by 2050

Heat and warming

Increasing Heat-Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate, Earth’s Future

• Press release: Poorest people bear growing burden of heat waves as temperatures rise

Implications of Increasing Household Air Conditioning Use Across the United States Under a Warming Climate, Earth’s Future

• Press release: US household air conditioning use could exceed electric capacity in next decade due to climate change

Widespread Race and Class Disparities in Surface Urban Heat Extremes Across the United States, Earth’s Future

• Press release: US-wide, non-white neighborhoods are hotter than white ones

Deadly Heat Stress to Become Commonplace Across South Asia Already at 1.5°C of Global Warming, Geophysical Research Letters

• Press release: Deadly heat waves will be common in south Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming

Changing Lengths of the Four Seasons by Global Warming, Geophysical Research Letters

• Press release: Northern hemisphere summers may last nearly half the year by 2100

Pollution

Estimating Intra-Urban Inequities in PM2.5-Attributable Health Impacts: A Case Study for Washington, DC, GeoHealth

• Press release: Air pollution disproportionally affects people of color, lower-income residents in D.C.

Estimated Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Smoke Plumes in the United States: Not Just a Western US Problem, GeoHealth

• Press release: When the Western U.S. burns, the East also gets sick