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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

FacilityPotsdam, Germany
About: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a facility organization based out in Potsdam, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Global warming. The organization has 1519 authors who have published 5098 publications receiving 367023 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the opinions and views of stakeholders concerning the main barriers and solutions to the problem of grid expansion in the European energy system and concluded that major changes are needed in the overall regulatory process, rather than simply minor modifications or improved implementation of existing regulations.

105 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the cumulative future emissions expected to be released by coal power plants that are currently under construction, announced, or planned, and discuss the political economy of policy options that could avoid a continued build-up of coal-fired power plants.
Abstract: We estimate the cumulative future emissions expected to be released by coal power plants that are currently under construction, announced, or planned Even though coal consumption has recently declined and plans to build new coal-fired capacities have been shelved, constructing all these planned coal-fired power plants would endanger national and international climate targets Plans to build new coal-fired power capacity would likely undermine the credibility of some countries' (Intended) Nationally Determined Contributions submitted to the UNFCCC If all the coal-fired power plants that are currently planned were built, the carbon budget for reaching the 2 °C temperature target would nearly be depleted Propositions about 'coal's terminal decline' may thereby be premature The phase-out of coal requires dedicated and well-designed policies We discuss the political economy of policy options that could avoid a continued build-up of coal-fired power plants

105 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss recent developments in the projection of SLC contributions and in the global mean and regional sea-level projections, focusing on the uncertainty distributions of the projection time series, which may not necessarily follow a normal distribution.
Abstract: Sea-level change (SLC) is a much-studied topic in the area of climate research, integrating a range of climate science disciplines, and is expected to impact coastal communities around the world. As a result, this field is rapidly moving, and the knowledge and understanding of processes contributing to SLC is increasing. Here, we discuss noteworthy recent developments in the projection of SLC contributions and in the global mean and regional sea-level projections. For the Greenland Ice Sheet contribution to SLC, earlier estimates have been confirmed in recent research, but part of the source of this contribution has shifted from dynamics to surface melting. New insights into dynamic discharge processes and the onset of marine ice sheet instability increase the projected range for the Antarctic contribution by the end of the century. The contribution from both ice sheets is projected to increase further in the coming centuries to millennia. Recent updates of the global glacier outline database and new global glacier models have led to slightly lower projections for the glacier contribution to SLC (7–17 cm by 2100), but still project the glaciers to be an important contribution. For global mean sea-level projections, the focus has shifted to better estimating the uncertainty distributions of the projection time series, which may not necessarily follow a normal distribution. Instead, recent studies use skewed distributions with longer tails to higher uncertainties. Regional projections have been used to study regional uncertainty distributions, and regional projections are increasingly being applied to specific regions, countries, and coastal areas.

105 citations

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TL;DR: This work applies the recently proposed climate network approach for characterizing the evolving correlation structure of the Earth's climate system based on reanalysis data for surface air temperatures, and provides a detailed study of the temporal variability of several global climate network characteristics.
Abstract: Complex network theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying the structure of statistical interrelationships between multiple time series in various scientific disciplines. In this work, we apply the recently proposed climate network approach for characterizing the evolving correlation structure of the Earth's climate system based on reanalysis data for surface air temperatures. We provide a detailed study of the temporal variability of several global climate network characteristics. Based on a simple conceptual view of red climate networks (i.e., networks with a comparably low number of edges), we give a thorough interpretation of our evolving climate network characteristics, which allows a functional discrimination between recently recognized different types of El Nino episodes. Our analysis provides deep insights into the Earth's climate system, particularly its global response to strong volcanic eruptions and large-scale impacts of different phases of the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

104 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the land surface areas covered by Koeppen climates for the 1901 to 1995 period using trends and outliers as indicators of climate shift and find that only the extreme climate zones of the global Tropics and of the Tundra (with the highly correlated northern hemisphere temperature) realize statistically significant shifts and outlier.
Abstract: Fluctuations of the land surface areas covered by Koeppen climates are analysed for the 1901 to 1995 period using trends and outliers as indicators of climate shift. Only the extreme climate zones of the global Tropics and of the Tundra (with the highly correlated northern hemisphere temperature) realise statistically significant shifts and outliers. There are nosignificant trends and outliers in the fluctuating ocean-atmosphere patterns (Pacific Decadal and North Atlantic Oscillations) and the highly correlated intermediate climate zones (dry, subtropical and boreal) of the surrounding continents.

104 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Carl Folke133360125990
Adam Drewnowski10648641107
Jürgen Kurths105103862179
Markus Reichstein10338653385
Stephen Polasky9935459148
Sandy P. Harrison9632934004
Owen B. Toon9442432237
Stephen Sitch9426252236
Yong Xu88139139268
Dieter Neher8542426225
Johan Rockström8523657842
Jonathan A. Foley8514470710
Robert J. Scholes8425337019
Christoph Müller8245727274
Robert J. Nicholls7951535729
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023101
2022107
2021479
2020486
2019332
2018355