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Quantitative Study on Characteristics of Hydrological Drought in Arid Area of Northwest China Under Changing Environment

Published:April 2021

Author(s):Peng Yang, Jun Xia, Yongyong Zhang, Chesheng Zhan, Wei Cai, Shengqin Zhang, Wenyu Wang

Publisher:Elsevier

This study reveals the historical and future hydrological drought characteristics in the Aksu River Basin under a changing environment.Read More →

Time series analysis of climate variability and trends in Kashmir Himalaya

Published:April 2021

Author(s):Javaid M. Dad, M. Muslim, Irfan Rashid, Irfan Rashid, Zafar A. Reshi

Publisher:Elsevier

This study presents and analysis of the climate variability and trends of change in precipitation and temperature for Kashmir Himalaya between 1980 and 2017.Read More →

Spatial and temporal changes in climate extremes over northwestern North America: the influence of internal climate variability and external forcing

Published:March 2021

Author(s):Mohammad Hasan Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Najafi, Harsimrenjit Singh, Markus Schnorbus

Publisher:Springer

This study contains an assessment of the impacts of climate change on extreme temperature and precipitation over the Columbia, Fraser, Peace and Campbell River basins in northwestern North America.Read More →

Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat

Published:February 2021

Author(s):R. F. Stuart-Smith, G. H. Roe, S. Li & M. R. Allen

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

The retreat of Palcaraju glacier cannot be explained by natural variability alone, as human-induced warming equals between 85 and 105% (5–95% confidence interval) of the observed 1 °C warming in this region.Read More →

The influence of anthropogenic climate change on wet and dry summers in Europe

Published:January 2021

Author(s):Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott

Publisher:Elsevier

The authors apply attribution research methods to investigate the effect of human influence on historical trends in wet and dry summers and changes in the likelihood of extreme events in Europe. Read More →

A Later Onset of the Rainy Season in California

Published:January 2021

Author(s):Jelena Luković, John C. H. Chiang, Dragan Blagojević, Aleksandar Sekulić

Publisher:American Geophysical Union

This paper addresses quantitative changes in the onset, amounts, and termination of the precipitation season over the past 6 decades, as well as the large‐scale atmospheric circulation underpinning the seasonal cycle changes.Read More →

State of the Climate in Africa 2020

Published:January 2021

Author(s):World Meteorological Organization

Publisher:World Meteorological Organization

This report summarizes climate trends, observed high-impact events, and associated risks and impacts on key sensitive sectors in Africa during the year 2020.Read More →

A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation

Published:December 2020

Author(s):Qiaohong Sun, Xuebin Zhang, Francis Zwiers, Seth Westra, Lisa V. Alexander

Publisher:American Meteorological Society

This paper provides an updated analysis of observed changes in extreme precipitation using high-quality station data up to 2018.Read More →

Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America

Published:June 2020

Author(s):Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young, Xuebin Zhang

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This study finds robust results for anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation at continental scales.Read More →

Limiting global warming to 1.5º C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change

Published:November 2019

Author(s):Hideo Shiogama, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori, Daisuke Murakami, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Katsumasa Tanaka, Seita Emori, Izumi Kubota, Manabu Abe, Yukiko Imada, Masahiro Watanabe, Daniel Mitchell, Nathalie Schaller, Jana Sillmann, Erich Fischer, John Scinocca, Ingo Bethke, Ludwig Lierhammer, Jun'ya Takakura, Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll, Sebastian Ostberg, Hannes Schmeid, Fahad Saeed, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and socioeconomic indexes to predict the impact of extreme events under 1.5º C and 2º C of warming, especially their impact on least developed countries.Read More →

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