PAPERS TO READ! --------------- --------------- SOLAR MINIMUM Accepted for publication in Proc. Roy. Soc. A| Solar change and climate: an update in the light of the current exceptional solar minimum CLUSTERING: Cloud clusters using "k-mean" algorithm Cluster Analysis of Cloud Properties over the Southern European Mediterranean Area in Observations and a Model Cheruy, F; Aires, F MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW 137 (10): 3161-3176 OCT 2009 SEA LEVEL RISE: http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F2009JCLI2985.1 Merrifield et al. (2009) J CLim: acceleration of sea level rise in 1990s (from 1.5 mm/yr to 3 mm/yr). More storage of energy in ocean, greater mixing?? Is this consistent with slower surface temperature rises since 1998? SURFACE FLUX?HUMIDITY Jackson, Darren L.; Wick, Gary A.; Robertson, Franklin R. Improved multisensor approach to satellite-retrieved near-surface specific humidity observations J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 114, No. D16, D16303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011341 On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles | p. 17 M. J. Webb, C. A. Senior, D. M. H. Sexton, W. J. Ingram, K. D. Williams, M. A. Ringer, B. J. McAvaney, R. Colman, B. J. Soden, R. Gudgel, T. Knutson, S. Emori, T. Ogura, Y. Tsushima, N. Andronova, B. Li, I. Musat, S. Bony, K. E. Taylor DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0111-2 How Often Does It Rain?. Ying Sun, Susan Solomon, Aiguo Dai, Robert W. Portmann, pages 916-934. JCLIMATE 19 Donald, Alexis; Meinke, Holger; Power, Brendan; Maia, Aline de H. N.; Wheeler, Matthew C.; White, Neil; Stone, Roger C.; Ribbe, Joachim Near-global impact of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on rainfall Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 33, No. 9, L09704 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025155 04 May 2006