Coherence among the Northern Hemisphere land, cryosphere, and ocean
responses to natural variability and anthropogenic forcing during the
satellite era

Gonsamo, Alemu; Chen, Jing M.; Shindell, Drew T.; Asner, Gregory P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-717-2016

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-717-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-717-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

Research article

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30 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 30 Aug 2016

Coherence among the Northern Hemisphere land, cryosphere, and ocean responses to natural variability and anthropogenic forcing during the satellite era

Alemu Gonsamo, Jing M. Chen, Drew T. Shindell, and Gregory P. Asner

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RC1: 'Comments on “Coherence among the Northern Hemisphere land, cryosphere, and ocean responses to natural variability and anthropogenic forcing during the satellite era”', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Feb 2016
RC2: 'Review comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 May 2016
AC1: 'author's response to Anonymous Referee #1', Alemu Gonsamo, 03 Jun 2016
AC2: 'author's response to Anonymous Referee #2', Alemu Gonsamo, 03 Jun 2016

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (11 Jun 2016) by Ning Zeng

AR by Alemu Gonsamo on behalf of the Authors (14 Jul 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (15 Jul 2016) by Ning Zeng

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (04 Aug 2016)

ED: Publish as is (16 Aug 2016) by Ning Zeng

AR by Alemu Gonsamo on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

Using 3 decades of observational satellite and field data, we find that long-term changes in sea ice and sea level, plant phenology, and surface temperature are coherent with increases in atmospheric CO₂ concentration and other global greenhouse gases. During the same period, natural causes of climate change should only have a net cooling long-term effect, suggesting the observed coherent pattern of changes across Earth's biological and physical systems could only be due to human activities.