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Climate, Volume 7, Issue 3

2019 March - 11 articles

Cover Story: Green infrastructure (GI) is a popular tool for adapting to and mitigating climate change and extreme event effects, and requires financial tools for development and maintenance. GI financing tools are evaluated for a single US dataset to relate GI finance to GI project characteristics. Results indicated that GI projects and cost shares were mostly located in a few states, that grants were the most common tool (two-thirds of GI projects reporting financial tools received grant funding), and most reported using only one to three financing tools. Projects used multiple GI technologies, averaging three to a maximum of nine, and the most commonly used ones were bioswales, retention, rain gardens, and porous pavements. These findings are useful for decision-makers evaluating funding support for GI. Expanding GI databases can increase the representativeness and applicability of findings for decision-making. View this paper.
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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,070 Views
21 Pages

Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

  • Constantine Boussalis,
  • Travis G. Coan and
  • Mirya R. Holman

24 March 2019

City governments have a large role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, given that urban locales are responsible for disproportionately high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are on the “front lines” of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,055 Views
8 Pages

20 March 2019

Growing global food demand and security concerns dictate the need for state-of-the-art food production technologies to increase farming efficiency. Concurrently, freshwater overexploitation in agriculture, especially in arid and water-scarce areas, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,504 Views
21 Pages

A New Wetness Index to Evaluate the Soil Water Availability Influence on Gross Primary Production of European Forests

  • Chiara Proietti,
  • Alessandro Anav,
  • Marcello Vitale,
  • Silvano Fares,
  • Maria Francesca Fornasier,
  • Augusto Screpanti,
  • Luca Salvati,
  • Elena Paoletti,
  • Pierre Sicard and
  • Alessandra De Marco

19 March 2019

Rising temperature, drought and more-frequent extreme climatic events have been predicted for the next decades in many regions around the globe. In this framework, soil water availability plays a pivotal role in affecting vegetation productivity, esp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,777 Views
10 Pages

19 March 2019

We show that oceanic cycle lengths persist across oceanic cyclic time-series by comparing cycles in series that come from “sister” measurements in the North Atlantic Ocean. These are the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), the Atlantic mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
16,330 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2019

Crop yields are strongly dependent on the average climate, extreme temperatures, and carbon dioxide concentrations, all of which are projected to increase in the coming century. In this study, a statistical model was created to predict US yields to 2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,361 Views
20 Pages

Green Infrastructure Financing as an Imperative to Achieve Green Goals

  • Rae Zimmerman,
  • Ryan Brenner and
  • Jimena Llopis Abella

9 March 2019

Green infrastructure (GI) has increasingly gained popularity for achieving adaptation and mitigation goals associated with climate change and extreme weather events. To continue implementing GI, financial tools are needed for upfront project capital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,033 Views
18 Pages

1 March 2019

This study is set out to understand the impact of El Niño Modoki and the Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity (TCPI) in the North Indian Ocean. We also hypothesized and tested if the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) reveals a likely connection betwee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,569 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2019

Species distribution models have many applications in conservation and ecology, and climate data are frequently a key driver of these models. Often, correlative modeling approaches are developed with readily available climate data; however, the impac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,520 Views
9 Pages

27 February 2019

An increasing focus of climate change studies is the projection of storm events characterized by heavy, very heavy, extreme, and/or intense precipitation. Projected changes in the spatiotemporal distributions of such intense precipitation events rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
11,235 Views
21 Pages

Past, Present and Future Climate Trends Under Varied Representative Concentration Pathways for a Sub-Humid Region in Uganda

  • Anthony Egeru,
  • Bernard Barasa,
  • Josephine Nampijja,
  • Aggrey Siya,
  • Moses Tenywa Makooma and
  • Mwanjalolo Gilbert Jackson Majaliwa

26 February 2019

Long-term trend analysis at local scale for rainfall and temperature is critical for detecting climate change patterns. This study analysed historical (1980–2009), near future (2010–2039), mid- (1940–2069) and end-century (2070&ndas...

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