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Historical trends and future projections of annual rainfall from CMIP6 models in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Dang Nguyen Dong Phuong, Nguyen Duc Vu, Nguyen Kim Loi
ABSTRACT: Climate risks have posed a major threat to many local communities living in low-lying coastal megacities across the globe, including Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hence, this study first aimed to contribute towards a comprehensive understanding of temporal trend patterns of annual rainfall and absolute extremes in Ho Chi Minh City over the last 4 decades (1980-2022) through multiple non-parametric
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Changes in morphometric parameters of lakes in different ecological zones of Mongolia: implications of climate change Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Altanbold Enkhbold, Li Dingjun, Byambabayar Ganbold, Gansukh Yadamsuren, Boldsaikhan Tsasanchimeg, Sandelger Dorligjav, Odkhuu Nyamsuren, Batsuren Dorjsuren, Tuvshin Gerelmaa, Batnyambuu Dashpurev, Rentsenduger Boldbayar
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to determine the way recent climate change impacts the morphometric changes in lakes in various ecological zones of Mongolia. We studied 4 lakes located between 48 and 50°N as representative of other environmental zones of Mongolia and determined the correlation between climate variables and changes in the area, depth, and volume of these lakes. To analyze changes
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Impact of climate change on farm-level technical efficiency in Punjab, Pakistan Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Khush Bukhat Zahid, Hassnain Shah
ABSTRACT: This paper assessed the impact of climate change on farm-level productivity and technical efficiency in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The stochastic production frontier model was employed at the farm household level for 3 yr of panel data (n = 537) covering 3 cropping systems (rice-wheat, cotton-wheat, and mixed wheat) from 3 different agro-ecologies and 17 of 36 districts of Punjab. Though
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Topographically channeled ocean-atmosphere coupling in the southern Caribbean and summer climate variability Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mark R. Jury
ABSTRACT: This research links global climate to regional weather by considering Caribbean trade wind strength in the context of the large-scale Walker circulation across the Pacific-Atlantic basins, and localized processes involving air-sea interactions between freshwater flux, the ocean mixed-layer depth, and topographic channeling of airflow north of Colombia. Trade wind driven coastal upwelling
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Long-term trend of near-surface air temperature lapse rate over the Chinese mainland during 1961-2018 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Yun Qin, Guoyu Ren, Panfeng Zhang, Yunjian Zhan, Siqi Zhang, Xiaoying Xue
ABSTRACT: The near-surface air temperature lapse rate (SATLR) is a result of surface energy balance, and the long-term trend of SATLR is linked to elevation-dependent warming (EDW). The long-term trend of SATLR in China’s mainland was examined in the present study. It was found that the regional average values of annual, autumn, and winter SATLR anomalies in Tmean, Tmax, and Tmin decreased significantly
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Temporal characteristics of extreme high temperatures in Wuhan since 1881 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xiang Zheng, Guoyu Ren, Jiajun He, Yuxinzi Zhao, Yuyu Ren, Guowei Yang
ABSTRACT: The construction and analysis of daily temperature data series in long enough a time period is important to understand decadal to multi-decadal variability and changing trends in extreme temperature events. This paper reports a new analysis of extreme temperature indices over the last 140 yr in Wuhan, China, with an emphasis on changes in extreme high temperature changes. The daily temperature
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Evaluating future changes in the South Indian Ocean Convergence Zone projected by CMIP5 models and associated uncertainty Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Melissa J. Lazenby, Martin C. Todd
ABSTRACT: Southern Africa relies heavily on precipitation for agricultural purposes; therefore, spatial and temporal changes in precipitation are crucial to identify and understand. The South Indian Ocean Convergence Zone (SIOCZ), a large-scale, austral summer rainfall feature extending across southern Africa into the southwest Indian Ocean, is evaluated in future projections. Using a best-fit algorithm
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Ten years of climate change adaptation in Greenlandic fisheries: key observations from local ecological knowledge Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Rikke Becker Jacobsen, Sun Cole Seeberg Dyremose, Kristen Ounanian, Jesper Raakjær
ABSTRACT: This article reviews and examines the most significant climate-change-related impacts and adaptation from the perspective of stakeholders in Greenlandic fisheries. The study was constructed as a comprehensive, multi-site, bottom-up case study around Greenlandic fisheries (south-north/offshore-inshore), where interviews and workshops with Greenlandic fishers and stakeholders have communicated
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Assessment of climate change impacts for two tributary basins of the Irtysh River in Kazakhstan Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Aigerim Bolatova, Valentina Krysanova, Anastasia Lobanova, Kainar Bolatov
ABSTRACT: Information about the climate change impacts on river discharge of 2 tributary basins of the Irtysh River, the Oba and Ulbi, is important for effective management of the water resources of the Shulba reservoir in Kazakhstan. The main aim of the study was to investigate potential changes in water resource availability in the study basins. To assess the projected changes, the process-based
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Spatial-temporal characteristics of tornadoes in China based on observational data of meteorological stations Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Xiaoying Xue, Guoyu Ren, Xiangde Xu, Siqi Zhang
ABSTRACT: Tornadoes are the most destructive meso-small-scale strong convective weather on Earth. At present, however, the temporal change of tornadoes in a subcontinental region like mainland China is still controversial. Here, we report an analysis of the spatial-temporal pattern and long-term trend of tornadoes in mainland China from 1961 to 2013 based on a dataset of the national meteorological
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Asian climate warming since 1901: observation and simulation Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Xiubao Sun, Guoyu Ren, Yuyu Ren, Wei Lin, Panfeng Zhang, Siqi Zhang, Xiaoying Xue
ABSTRACT: Land surface air temperature in Asia has been increasing significantly since the 1950s. However, current understanding of Asian warming since 1901 in terms of observations and simulations is still poor. Based on a newly developed observation dataset with 2658 stations and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5/6 (CMIP5/6) output data, we analyze changes in mean (Tmean), maximum (Tmax)
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Updated analysis of surface warming trends in North China based on in-depth homogenized data (1951-2020) Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jiajun He, Guoyu Ren, Panfeng Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Siqi Zhang
ABSTRACT: The reliability of climate change detection and research is significantly impacted by the inhomogeneity of surface climate observation data. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding whether comprehensive homogenization has been performed in large-scale homogenized data sets. In this study, we examined the homogeneity of the original maximum and minimum temperature (Tmax and Tmin) data
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Effects of deforestation at different spatial scales on the climate of the Amazon basin Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Adriana L. Lima, José A. P. Veiga, Adriane L. Brito, Francis W. S. Correia
ABSTRACT: Deforestation in the Amazon has accelerated in recent years, making it increasingly important to understand the physical processes that occur after forest removal. This study investigates how deforestation at different spatial scales alters the climate in the Amazon. Using the Eta regional climate model, 3 deforestation scenarios were simulated: a scenario with the Amazon basin totally covered
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Change in mean and extreme precipitation in eastern China since 1901 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Y. J. Zhan, G. Y. Ren
ABSTRACT: Extreme precipitation in the monsoon region of China can cause a variety of weather and climate disasters, and its long-term change has a significant impact on human life and social production. However, due to the lack of high-resolution precipitation data for the early 20th century, the variation characteristics and causes or mechanisms of extreme precipitation change in eastern China in
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Long-term changes in surface air temperature over the Chinese mainland during 1901-2020 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Kangmin Wen, Guoyu Ren, Yuyu Ren, Lijuan Cao, Yun Qin, Panfeng Zhang, Jiajun He, Xiaoying Xue, Xiubao Sun
ABSTRACT: The magnitude of long-term surface climate warming over some regions, such as the Chinese mainland, is still uncertain due to the lack of observational data early in the 20th century. In this study, the monthly data series of the average, maximum, and minimum temperatures in the Chinese mainland during 1901-2020 were constructed based on the daily surface air temperature observations from
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Decade-to-decade variations in summer precipitation patterns in eastern China since the 1960s: roles of water vapor transport and sea surface temperature Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Pengling Wang, Chengyu Song, Yanju Liu, Guowei Yang, Jing Wang, Chunfeng Duan, Yihui Ding
ABSTRACT: Based on the observational precipitation data and multiple reanalysis datasets, this study analyzes the decade-to-decade spatiotemporal evolution of anomalous summer precipitation in eastern China (SPEC) for 1961-2019 and explores the roles of water vapor transport and global sea surface temperatures (SSTs). Results show that SPEC patterns in the last 60 yr were mainly classified into 3 categories:
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Extreme precipitation changes over the Yangtze River Basin in 1901-2020 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Siqi Zhang, Guoyu Ren, Yunjian Zhan, Cunjie Zhang, Yuyu Ren
ABSTRACT: To better understand the characteristics of long-term change and variability in regional extreme precipitation and to examine possible regional responses to global climate warming, we analyzed temporal and spatial patterns of precipitation and extreme precipitation index changes in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) over the last 120 yr. Based on the China Meteorological Administration’s daily
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Investigating the factors driving the adoption of a combination of water- and nutrient-smart and soil fertility-smart agricultural practices Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Abbas Mirzaei, Mostafa Mardani Najafabadi, Abas Abdeshahi
ABSTRACT: Community food security under climate change can be achieved through the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and transform agricultural systems into efficient and development-oriented systems. Farmers can adopt a number of CSA practices simultaneously to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. However, the adoption rate of these practices by farmers in developing
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Observed changes in temperature and precipitation over Asia, 1901-2020 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Guoyu Ren, Yunjian Zhan, Yuyu Ren, Kangmin Wen, Yingxian Zhang, Xiubao Sun, Panfeng Zhang, Xiang Zheng, Yun Qin, Siqi Zhang, Jiajun He
ABSTRACT: Asia is the largest continent in the world and home to 4.7 billion people. Climate change on this continent, therefore, attracts a significant amount of attention from scientists and policy-makers. However, observational studies of long-term climate change over the continent as a whole are lacking. Using updated, homogenized observational data from stations in Asia since 1901 and systematic-bias-adjusted
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Increasing impact of compound agricultural drought and hot events on maize yield in China Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Xinying Wu, Dabang Jiang, Fan Zhang
ABSTRACT: Drought episodes with hot events usually trigger dramatic impacts on crop yields. However, most previous studies on climate stress have only focused on individual droughts or hot conditions, leading to a neglect of compound information. Based on various combinations of soil moisture and temperature, we investigated the impact of 6 modes of events, namely, compound drought and cold events
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Evaluation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from 1901 to 2014 in CMIP6 models Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Yifei Xu, Te Li, Min Xu, Shuanghe Shen, Zhenghua Hu
ABSTRACT: The simulation of internal climate variability is key to understanding climate change. Internal fluctuations can fully obscure or amplify the underlying climate-change signal in many fields over years to decades. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is an important mechanism that dominates interdecadal climate variations. Here, the capacity of 36 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase
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Regional integrated assessment of climate change impact on cotton production in a semi-arid environment Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Shakeel Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmad, Burhan Ahmad, Ashfaq Ahmad, Aftab Wajid, Tasneem Khaliq, Ghulam Abbas, Carol Jo Wilkerson, Gerrit Hoogenboom
ABSTRACT: Climate change has a negative impact on the productivity of agricultural crops at local, regional and global levels. Foodstuff security and sustainable livelihood of cotton farmers in the core cotton growing region in Punjab, Pakistan is under threat because of decreased yield due to climate change. The quantification of the integrated impact assessment of climate change for developing adaptation
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Climate calibration of the Spring Index model for more accurate broad-scale first leaf predictions Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Liang Liang
ABSTRACT: Phenological models are needed for forecasting plant and ecosystem responses to climate change. Due to a lack of considering local adaptation induced variations in climatic requirements of plant species for phenological development, traditional uniform/non-spatial models that cover broad geographic regions are susceptible to systematic prediction biases. This study presents a climate calibration
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High-temperature indicators for capturing the impacts of heat stress on yield: lessons learned from irrigated wheat in the hot and dry environment of Sudan Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Toshichika Iizumi, Mitsuru Tsubo, Atsushi Maruyama, Izzat S. A. Tahir, Yasunori Kurosaki, Hisashi Tsujimoto
ABSTRACT: High temperatures occurring during flowering and early grain filling substantially decrease cereal yields. Drawing on accumulated evidence showing that, compared to air temperature (Ta), crop canopy temperature (Tc) better explains observed yield reductions caused by heat stress, we evaluated the usefulness of Tc versus Ta in designing high-temperature indicators for agrometeorological services
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Sensitivity of precipitation and atmospheric low-level circulation patterns to domain size and choice of parameterization schemes in RegCM4.4 over Central America Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Erick R. Rivera, Jorge A. Amador, Fernán Sáenz
ABSTRACT: The sensitivity of regional climate model simulations to domain size and position is becoming increasingly important for generating reliable climate scenarios. In this study, the Central America CORDEX domain (CCA) at 50 km horizontal resolution with a relaxation zone of 10° around the boundaries (CCA+) was taken as the basis to increase domain size in the RegCM4.4 model. The low-level circulation
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Influence of weather and climate on disease in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Clement J. Davis, Elizabeth G. Hanna, Philip Kokic
ABSTRACT: The death rate in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War (WW1) was 18.5%, higher than rates for the UK and Canada. Around 9% of reported AIF deaths resulted from diseases and were predominantly climate sensitive. AIF hospital admissions for non-battle conditions exceeded the total number of AIF enlistments. To our knowledge, the climatic influences on these high morbidity
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A new version of the reconnaissance drought index, N-RDI Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Mohammad Mehdi Ghasemi, Abdol Rassoul Zarei, Marzieh Mokarram
ABSTRACT: We present a new, modified version of the reconnaissance drought index (RDI), named the N-RDI. To calculate the N-RDI, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) were replaced with spatially normalized precipitation and PET. To assess the capability of N-RDI, the RDI and N-RDI were computed at monthly, seasonal, and annual time scales over Iran based on a climatic data series of
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When crop producers face dynamic climate risks in Ethiopia: exploring determinants behind choices of adaptation strategies Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Sisay Belay Bedeke
ABSTRACT: Farmers in Ethiopia frequently adopt different combinations of local adaptation strategies to fight against climate change and other economic stresses. This study contributes to the existing research by identifying determinants behind the choice of adaptation strategies in 2 districts of Ethiopia. Data on demographics, socio-economics, biophysical characteristics as well as adaptation strategies
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Spatio-temporal variation of precipitation projection based on bias-adjusted CORDEX-SA regional climate model simulations for arid and semi-arid region Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Alireza Ghaemi, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared, Abdolhamid Bahrpeyma, Peyman Mahmoudi, Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani
ABSTRACT: Global warming significantly affects the hydrological cycle that influences hydrological systems worldwide. Knowledge of precipitation variation under a changing climate can provide effective ways to deal with its impacts on water resource management. Hence, in this study, spatiotemporal variability of precipitation under future climatic scenarios was studied using suitable regional climate
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Role of changing land use and land cover (LULC) on the 2018 megafloods over Kerala, India Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Ankur Dixit, Sandeep Sahany, Balaji Rajagopalan, Sweta Choubey
ABSTRACT: The state of Kerala, India, experienced massive flooding in August 2018. Unprecedented extreme rainfall left the region with huge losses of infrastructure. Several studies reported the role of improper dam operations and climate change in this region. However, changing land use/land cover (LULC) is an important driver of flood modulation; we therefore studied regional LULC changes (over 4
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Spatiotemporal characterization of meteorological drought: a global approach using the Drought Exceedance Probability Index (DEPI) Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Natalia Limones, Jesús Vargas Molina, Pilar Paneque
ABSTRACT: We present a global spatiotemporal characterization of meteorological droughts using historical precipitation data through the Drought Exceedance Probability Index (DEPI). The relationship between meteorological drought characteristics and monthly precipitation is explored at a global level. This study contributes to our understanding of the drought features observed in different areas of
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South Pacific Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT): variability and impact on the French Polynesian climate Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Victoire Laurent, Keitapu Maamaatuaiahutapu, Marania Hopuare, Patrick Varney, Pascal Ortega
ABSTRACT: The South Pacific Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) is an elongated trough that appears in summer monthly averaged maps of the upper tropospheric flow over the ocean. We provide the first comprehensive description of the South Pacific TUTT and analyze its impact on the regional climate with 42 yr (1979-2020) of monthly data from ERA5, radiosonde, rain, keraunic data, and lightning
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Replacing rice with lower water consumption crops: green policy implications for Iran Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Masoud Yazdanpanah, Tahereh Zobeidi, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr, Seyedeh Bahar Homayoon
ABSTRACT: Replacing rice cultivation is a measure that mitigates water scarcity and climate change. This study used the extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict rice growers’ intentions to alter their current rice cropping system to other, less water-consumptive products. Using survey data collected from 220 randomly sampled rice growers in southwestern Iran, structural equation modeling
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Using ENSO conditions to optimize rice yield for Nepal’s Terai Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Prakash K. Jha, Panos Athanasiadis, Silvio Gualdi, Antonio Trabucco, Valentina Mereu, Vakhtang Shelia, Gerrit Hoogenboom
ABSTRACT: The direct application of forecasts from seasonal prediction systems (SPSs) in agriculture is limited by their skill, and SPSs are more skilled at El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction than precipitation prediction. An alternative to the direct application of forecasts from SPSs could be to link the forecast of ENSO conditions with dynamic crop models to evaluate alternate crop management
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Weather-index insurance as an adaptation strategy to climate change: a global insight Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Adetoso A. Adetoro, Mjabuliseni S. C. Ngidi, Temitope O. Ojo, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Abiodun A. Ogundeji, Israel R. Orimoloye
ABSTRACT: The effects of climate change and other weather-related disasters pose a high additional risk to the agricultural sector. This study carried out a rigorous assessment of empirical scientific research on weather-index insurance and its impact on smallholder maize farmers’ welfare and productivity. A three-stage analytical approach was used to analyze trends in related research, and available
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Spatio-temporal trend and frequency analysis of precipitation in South-southern Nigeria (SSN) Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Akinwale Temitope Ogunrinde, Yahaya Olotu, Oluwaseun Ayodele Ilesanmi
ABSTRACT: Precipitation is one of the key climatic parameters that have a significant impact on the spatial and temporal trends of available water resources in a region. Therefore, carrying out a long-term analysis on its seasonal and annual trends and variability is imperative for viable water resources management. This study investigates the seasonal and annual precipitation data for South-southern
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Impacts of greenhouse gases and deforestation in Amazon Basin climate extreme indices Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Adriane Lima Brito, José Augusto P. Veiga, Francis Wagner S. Correia, Alessandro A. Michiles, Vinícius Buscioli Capistrano, Sin Chan Chou, André de Arruda Lyra, Gustavo Medeiros
ABSTRACT: To evaluate the individual and combined impacts of increasing greenhouse gases and deforestation on extreme precipitation events in the Amazon Basin, we carried out 4 numerical experiments with the regional Eta model forced from the initial and boundary conditions of the global HadGEM2-ES model: (1) control experiment (CTRL); (2) RCP8.5 scenario; (3) DEFOREST scenario; and (4) RCP8.5+DEFOREST
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Analysis of rainfall and temperature trends and variability in semi-arid Tharaka South Subcounty, Kenya Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Caxton Gitonga Kaua, Thuita Thenya, Jane Mutheu Mutune
ABSTRACT: To better understand the impacts of climate variability, including spatiotemporal variations in mean rainfall, temperature, and other climatic elements, it is imperative to analyze the dynamics of these elements. Despite the high vulnerability of the Tharaka South Subcounty, Kenya, to the impacts of climate change and variability, no studies have analyzed the local climatic trends and variability
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Factors preventing smallholder farmers from adapting to climate variability in South Africa: lessons from Capricorn and uMshwati municipalities Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Henry Bikwibili Tantoh, Thabiso Michael Mokotjomela, Eromose E. Ebhuoma, Felix K. Donkor
ABSTRACT: Climate variability has adversely compromised food production in South Africa, with severe consequences for the livelihood of smallholder farmers. However, the extent to which adaptation has enabled rural farmers to continue earning their livelihoods has received limited attention. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by examining the constraints faced in food production and the coping
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Reconstruction of the severe drought events of 1875-1879 in Shanxi Province, China, based on rain and snow record data from the Qing Palace Archives Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Yanping Qu, Qianfeng Wang, Zhe Li, Rongrong Zhang, Jingyu Zeng, Yanling Song, Xiaojing Yang, Juan Lv
ABSTRACT: Climate change is one of the main reasons for frequent severe droughts in many areas of China. At present, there is a lack of research on the occurrence and impact of large-scale and long-lasting extreme drought events in the historical period. This study utilized the ‘Yu-Xue-Fen-Cun’ (rain and snow record) data from the Qing Palace Archives for the Qing Dynasty and records from modern meteorological
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Pandemic shows that global climate and biodiversity science assessments need to be annual Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 MJ Costello,KS Kelly
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated that with daily data informing citizens and governments of the situation, society can respond to a crisis rapidly. We suggest that the current multi-yearly assessments of the, by comparison, chronic crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are no longer fit for purpose. Instead, annual assessments (as is standard for governmental
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Long-term change in relative humidity across China from 1961-2018 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Jun Guo, Sining Chen
ABSTRACT: Using observational data of daily relative humidity obtained from 2479 meteorological stations from 1961-2018 and the homogenized monthly data set of national ground meteorological stations, this paper analyzes the climate change characteristics of average relative humidity across China as well as in 9 individual regions. From 1961-2018, the climate change trend in annual average relative
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Tornado climatology and potentially severe convective environments in Mexico Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 José Francisco León-Cruz, Luis Felipe Pineda-Martínez, Noel Carbajal
ABSTRACT: Tornadoes are extreme meteorological phenomena that can produce significant damage. The Mexican territory is prone to tornadogenesis; however, these phenomena are poorly studied in the country, and several characteristics of their behavior are unknown. We analyzed the spatiotemporal distribution of tornadoes and waterspouts in Mexico (2000-2020) and compared them with potentially severe convective
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North American rain-on-snow ablation climatology Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Z. J. Suriano
ABSTRACT: Rain-on-snow ablation events carry a relatively high risk for rapid snowmelt and runoff due to the combination of liquid precipitation and generally high turbulent fluxes into the snowpack. Determining the variability in rain-on-snow ablation is critical in describing local hydroclimate. This study uses a gridded observational snow dataset to examine spatiotemporal variations in North American
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Future changes in aridity in the Upper Indus Basin during the twenty-first century Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Xiaoxin Wang, Xianmei Lang, Dabang Jiang
ABSTRACT: The Upper Indus Basin (UIB) supplies water resources for the downstream areas of the Indus Basin, and the associated climate changes have attracted considerable attention. Here, we project the aridity changes in the UIB during the 21st century relative to 1995-2014 based on 12 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models under the 3 Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios
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Spatiotemporal and physiographic relationship between MODIS land surface temperature and air temperature over Iran Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Masoud Moradi, Mohammad Darand
ABSTRACT: Land cover and topography influence land surface temperature (LST). The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST and air temperature (AT) under various physiographic conditions in Iran. A novel method was developed to determine the match-up time between the LST of the Terra/Aqua overpass and the
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Spatiotemporal variability in annual drought severity, duration, and frequency from 1901 to 2020 Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Rongrong Zhang, Yanping Qu, Xuejun Zhang, Xiaoping Wu, Xiaozhen Zhou, Binyu Ren, Jingyu Zeng, Qianfeng Wang
ABSTRACT: Drought is currently one of the most severe natural disasters affecting the world. Therefore, characterizing the temporal and spatial characteristics of droughts is critical to managing drought disasters and coping with global climate change. In this study, we apply the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), empirical orthogonal function (EOF) decomposition, and the drought event division
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Effect of using isolated interannual and decadal time scales on the water balance of the Amazon basin Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Rildo Gonçalves de Moura, Francis Wagner Silva Correia, José Augusto Paixão Veiga, Vinicius Buscioli Capistrano, Paulo Yoshio Kubota
ABSTRACT: In this study, we evaluated the isolated effects of interannual and decadal time scales on the water balance of the Amazon basin. This research is interesting because it brings the dynamical response of water balance components to a particular ocean-scale variability. For this, we used the Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM) and SST filtering techniques. The impact of isolated interannual
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Projection of future changes in the summer thermal stress index in Romania using statistical downscaling and associated uncertainties Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Aristita Busuioc, Alexandru Dumitrescu, Amalia Iriza-Burca, Zenaida Chitu, Rodica Dumitrache, Andreea Dima
ABSTRACT: The main goal of this paper is to infer local-scale information on future changes in a complex index quantifying the direct discomfort felt by the human body under global warming. A statistical downscaling model based on the canonical correlation analysis (CCA-SDM) is used to project future changes in heat thermal stress (THI) at high spatial resolution across Romania and the frequency of
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Climate change impacts on wheat yield: a multi-modeling case study of central Punjab, Pakistan Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Zaffar Munir, Sangam Shrestha, Muhammad Zaman, Muhammad Imran Khan, Malik Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Naveed Tahir
ABSTRACT: In this study, we integrated 2 crop models—the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) and the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT)—with regional climate models (RCMs) of the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) to examine the best combinations of sowing and irrigation practices to combat the impact of future climate change on winter
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Socio-economic, social-capital, and psychological characteristics and climate change adaptive behavior of farmers in Iran Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Abbas Mirzaei, Hassan Azarm, Masoud Yazdanpanah, Mostafa Mardani Najafabadi
ABSTRACT: In recent years, climate change in Iran has led to frequent droughts and reduction of available water resources. Iranian farmers are extremely vulnerable to unexpected drought. Despite the undesirable impacts of climate change on their vulnerability, farmers have not sufficiently used adaptive strategies; accordingly, we investigated factors affecting farmers’ choice of adaptive strategies
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Direct and indirect effects of environmental drivers on reindeer reproduction Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 John-André Henden, Torkild Tveraa, Audun Stien, Jarad Pope Mellard, Filippo Marolla, Rolf Anker Ims, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz
ABSTRACT: The impact of climate change on the dynamics of populations has been well documented and is widespread. However, weather variability influences populations both directly and indirectly, and is mediated by species interactions. This complexity may impede proper climate impact assessments. Hence, predicting the consequences of climate change may require including processes that occur both with
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Food web approach for managing Arctic wildlife populations in an era of rapid environmental change Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Jarad Pope Mellard, John-André Henden, Åshild Ønvik Pedersen, Filippo Marolla, Sandra Hamel, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Rolf Anker Ims
ABSTRACT: Scientists and wildlife managers implementing adaptive monitoring and management schemes, are tasked with providing predictions of population responses to harvest and environmental changes. Such predictions are useful not only to forecast direct effects of climate, productivity, land use, or habitat degradation, but also changes in the food web, such as expanding/�increasing species that
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Exploring drift simulations from ocean circulation experiments: application to cod eggs and larval drift Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Arne Melsom, Kristina Øie Kvile, Knut-Frode Dagestad, Göran Broström, Øystein Langangen
ABSTRACT: Drift models are commonly used to study the transport of early life stages of fish and other marine organisms. Various approaches may be applied to examine the distribution and variability of ocean trajectory pathways. In the present study, we compare results using passive Eulerian tracers and Lagrangian float trajectories that are embedded in numerical models. We supplement this analysis
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Shifted dynamics of plankton communities in a restored lake: exploring the effects of climate change on phenology through four decades Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 S. Jannicke Moe1, Anders Hobæk, Jonas Persson, Birger Skjelbred, Jarl Eivind Løvik
ABSTRACT: Lake surface temperatures have increased globally in recent decades. Climate change can affect lake biota directly via enhanced water temperatures, shorter ice cover duration and prolonged stratification, and indirectly via changes in species interactions. Changes in the seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton and zooplankton can further affect whole lake ecosystems. However, separating the effects
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Environmental effects on spatial population dynamics and synchrony: lessons from northern ecosystems Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Ivar Herfindal, Aline Magdalena Lee, Jonatan F. Marquez, Mathilde Le Moullec, Bart Peeters, Brage Bremset Hansen, John-André Henden, Bernt-Erik Sæther
ABSTRACT: Environmental variation in time and space generates complex patterns in the spatial structure of temporally covarying populations. Accounting for spatial population structure is important for sustainable management and harvest, but there is a need for a better understanding of the many mechanisms affecting the spatial structure of populations. In the large-scale research project SUSTAIN,
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Hunting quotas, selectivity and stochastic population dynamics challenge the management of wild reindeer Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Bart Peeters, Åshild Ønvik Pedersen, Vebjørn Veiberg, Brage Bremset Hansen
ABSTRACT: Wildlife managers adjust harvest quotas based on population changes and specific management goals, like controlling population size and demography or minimizing human-�wildlife interactions. However, establishing quotas that best meet these goals can be challenging due to e.g. population fluctuations, climate change, and bias or variation in harvest effort. High-Arctic Svalbard reindeer Rangifer
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Population responses to harvesting in fluctuating environments Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Aline Magdalena Lee, Javier Jarillo, Bart Peeters, Brage Bremset Hansen, Francisco J. Cao-García, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen
ABSTRACT: Achieving sustainable harvesting of natural populations depends on our ability to predict population responses to the combined effects of harvesting and environmental fluctuations while accounting for other internal and external factors that influence population dynamics in time and space. Here, we review recent research showing how spatial patterns and interspecific interactions can influence
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Low impact of first-time spawners on population growth in a brown trout population Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Marlene Wæge Stubberud, Chloé R. Nater, Yngvild Vindenes, L. Asbjørn Vøllestad, Øystein Langangen
ABSTRACT: For species with individual variation in reproductive success, experience in breeding and the distribution of different breeders is important for population productivity and viability. Human impacts, such as climate change and harvesting, can alter this distribution and thus population dynamics. Here, we investigated the effect of spawning experience on population growth in a population of
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Demographic consequences of harvesting: a case study from a small and isolated moose population Clim. Res. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Ivar Herfindal, Aline Magdalena Lee, Sandra Hamel, Erling Johan Solberg, Bernt-Erik Sæther
ABSTRACT: Harvesting can have a substantial impact on population dynamics and individual performance in wild populations. While the direct consequences of harvest on individual survival and population growth rate are often apparent, harvesting can also have indirect and more subtle demographic consequences. Disentangling these consequences, however, requires in-depth knowledge of individual life histories