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Climate, Volume 6, Issue 1

March 2018 - 18 articles

Cover Story: The surface heat fluxes at the atmosphere-ice-ocean interface over the Ross and Weddell Seas (Antarctica) moved from opposite to synchronous during the period 1972-2015. An attempt was made to link these results to the signature of global climate variability through the wavelet analysis of SOI and SAMi in order to suggest a hypothetical mechanism of interaction. The synchronous behavior, observed since 2001, coincided with a change in the energy peak associated to the time scale of the SAM variability, which moved from 32 to 64 months. This change generated a common energy peak for the SAM and ENSO with a lagged in phase relationship between the signals, which possibly influenced the surface heat fluxes variability over both areas. These evidences suggest a change in the dominant mode of variability over the Southern Hemisphere. View this paper
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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,615 Views
26 Pages

18 March 2018

As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,441 Views
12 Pages

14 March 2018

Operational analyses and re-analyses, provided by ECMWF for the period 1972–2015, were used to investigate the behaviour of the surface heat fluxes between ocean and atmosphere, estimated via empirical formulae, over the Ross and Weddell Seas. The pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,838 Views
10 Pages

9 March 2018

Work published in 2012 revealed that annual minimum temperatures over the coterminous United States (USA) have increased faster than mean temperatures, causing a pronounced poleward shift in the positions of hardiness zones defined by the expected an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
7,310 Views
12 Pages

9 March 2018

Mitigation plans to counteract overheating in urban areas need to be based on a thorough knowledge of the state of the thermal environment, most importantly on the presence of areas which consistently demonstrate higher or lower urban land surface te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
11,042 Views
16 Pages

Closing the Gap between Climate Information Producers and Users: Assessment of Needs and Uptake in Senegal

  • Issa Ouedraogo,
  • Ndeye Seynabou Diouf,
  • Mathieu Ouédraogo,
  • Ousmane Ndiaye and
  • Robert B. Zougmoré

19 February 2018

West Africa is a very vulnerable part of the world to the impacts of climate change due to a combination of exposure and low adaptive capacity. Climate change has induced an increase in rainfall variability which in turn has affected the availability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,707 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2018

Overheating of buildings and urban areas is a more and more severe issue in view of global warming combined with increasing urbanization. The thermal behavior of urban surfaces in the hot seasons is the result of a complex balance of construction and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,924 Views
18 Pages

12 February 2018

The impact of climate change on the Niger Delta is severe, as extreme weather events have inflicted various degrees of stress on critical oil/gas infrastructure. Typically, assets managers and government agencies lack a clear framework for evaluating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,959 Views
15 Pages

How to Design a Park and Its Surrounding Urban Morphology to Optimize the Spreading of Cool Air?

  • Jérémy Bernard,
  • Auline Rodler,
  • Benjamin Morille and
  • Xueyao Zhang

6 February 2018

Green areas induce smaller increases in the air temperature than built-up areas. They can offer a solution to mitigating the urban heat island impacts during heat waves, since the cool air generated by a park is diffused into its immediate surroundin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
13,000 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2018

The study of frequency analysis is important to find the most suitable model that could anticipate extreme events of certain natural phenomena e.g., rainfall, floods, etc. The goal of this study is to determine the best-fit probability distributions...

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