How fast is the Earth warming? What do the most recent and updated climate models show will be the effects? And, when will those impacts hit? Meteorological and climatological research is at the center of wrestling with climate change—its path and its effects.
On this page you’ll find current and ground-breaking meteorological and climatological research—hand-picked from both books and journals—focused on these urgent questions.
We had an interview with Dr. Fred Kucharski, Research Scientist in the Earth System Physics Section at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. We asked him to share his thoughts with us on the nature of his work and his commitment to addressing the SDGs. Dr. Kucharski is also Editor-in-Chief of our open access journal npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. Enjoy reading the interview.
* Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate
* Business-as-usual will lead to super and ultra-extreme heatwaves in the Middle East and North Africa
Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocenefrom Nature Climate Change | Meteorology and climatology of historical weekly wind and solar power resource droughts over western North America in ERA5from SN Applied Sciences | The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitationfrom Climate Dynamics |
Climate Change and Healthfrom Essentials of Medical Meteorology | Greenhouse Phenomenon in the Earth’s Atmospherefrom Global Atmospheric Phenomena Involving Water | Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Centuryfrom Scientific Report |
Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical landfrom Nature Geoscience | Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire eventsfrom Climatic Change | Understanding of the Effect of Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Intensity: A Reviewfrom Advances in Atmospheric Sciences |
Measured data are the basis for describing and understanding the Earth's climate and its changes. The Springer Handbook of Atmospheric Measurements provides a clearly structured, concise and comprehensive account of the huge variety of atmospheric and related measurements relevant to environmental physicists and ecologists for the purpose of climate research. Presenting the whole range of in-situ and remote sensing methods that are indispensable to monitor all facets of the climate, this handbook contributes towards describing and predicting climate change and thus underpins the goals as specified in SDG-13.
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Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann have received Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."*
You are invited to read a selection of their research published across Springer Nature’s journals and books.
Getting started publishing your SDG 13 work at Springer Nature is easy. Springer Nature aspires to lead in publishing SDG research, and especially in open access (OA) SDG research.
You can add impact and power to your SDG-related research when you publish it at Springer Nature, and alongside leading research (like the examples above). Research published OA at Springer Nature gets more exposure. For example, research published in fully OA Springer Nature journals are downloaded over 7,000 times on average (up to 5x more than competitors) and cited 7.39 times on average.
