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Climate, Volume 8, Issue 12

2020 December - 13 articles

Cover Story: Considerable uncertainties remain regarding the impacts and interplay of temperature, precipitation, and elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2) on forest growth and productivity—especially due the long lifespans of trees. Other uncertainties stem from the different responses of forest ecosystems and underlying ecophysiological processes. The NPP of beech and fir was notably to be stimulated by eCO2 until 2035–2060. This stimulation was gradually cancelled out by climate effects (temperature increase and precipitation decrease) accompanied by increased mortality. Forest management (FM) may still be possible in the more climate-risky sub-mountainous belt of the Black Forest, but major losses in productivity can be expected. Under the most pessimistic scenario, FM may become critical where a substantial transition on the ecological and economic levels becomes inevitable. View this paper.
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,363 Views
20 Pages

Modeling the Soil Response to Rainstorms after Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in Mediterranean Forests

  • Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja,
  • Giuseppe Bombino,
  • Bruno Gianmarco Carrà,
  • Daniela D’Agostino,
  • Pietro Denisi,
  • Antonino Labate,
  • Pedro Antonio Plaza-Alvarez and
  • Demetrio Antonio Zema

17 December 2020

The use of the Soil Conservation Service-curve number (SCS-CN) model for runoff predictions after rainstorms in fire-affected forests in the Mediterranean climate is quite scarce and limited to the watershed scale. To validate the applicability of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Climatic Data in Hydrologic Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,497 Views
14 Pages

15 December 2020

Precipitation is a primary input for hydrologic, agricultural, and engineering models, so making accurate estimates of it across the landscape is critically important. While the distribution of in-situ measurements of precipitation can lead to challe...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,416 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2020

This study aimed to appraise the role of local institutions in adaptation to changing climate at the local level in the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Ethiopia. Thirty-one years of climate data were analyzed by employing the Mann–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,730 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2020

The majority of people in South Africa eat maize, which is grown as a rain-fed crop in the summer rainfall areas of the country, as their staple food. The country is usually food secure except in drought years, which are expected to increase in sever...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Food Insecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,744 Views
9 Pages

Vulnerability and Risk Factors due to Tropical Cyclones in Coastal Cities of Baja California Sur, Mexico

  • Elvia Aida Marín-Monroy,
  • Víctor Hernández-Trejo,
  • Eleonora Romero-Vadillo and
  • Antonina Ivanova-Boncheva

10 December 2020

Coastal cities have seen an unprecedented growth with regional settlements due to development activities; that is why measures are needed to mitigate risk of adverse events such as tropical cyclones. Baja California Sur, a state known as a relevant e...

(This article belongs to the Section Policy, Governance, and Social Equity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,082 Views
14 Pages

10 December 2020

Asymmetric warming was bound to have a major impact on terrestrial ecosystems in arid regions during global warming. Further study was necessary to reveal the spatiotemporal patterns of asymmetric warming in Xinjiang; this study analyzed the climate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Quantity and Quality at Small Scale Watersheds)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,217 Views
18 Pages

Long-Term Rainfall Trends and Their Variability in Mainland Portugal in the Last 106 Years

  • Maria Manuela Portela,
  • Luis Angel Espinosa and
  • Martina Zelenakova

10 December 2020

This study addresses the long-term rainfall trends, their temporal variability and uncertainty over mainland Portugal, a small country on the most western European coast. The study was based on monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall series spanning fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,615 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2020

This study assessed the performance of 24 simulations, from five regional climate models (RCMs) participating in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), in representing spatiotemporal characteristics of precipitation over We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Impacts at Various Geographical Scales)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
644,918 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2020

The objective of this study is to perform trend analysis in the historic data sets of annual and crop season [May–September] precipitation and daily maximum and minimum temperatures across the southwest United States. Eighteen ground-based weat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,313 Views
22 Pages

Gains or Losses in Forest Productivity under Climate Change? The Uncertainty of CO2 Fertilization and Climate Effects

  • Dominik Sperlich,
  • Daniel Nadal-Sala,
  • Carlos Gracia,
  • Jürgen Kreuzwieser,
  • Marc Hanewinkel and
  • Rasoul Yousefpour

30 November 2020

Global warming poses great challenges for forest managers regarding adaptation strategies and species choices. More frequent drought events and heat spells are expected to reduce growth and increase mortality. Extended growing seasons, warming and el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,552 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2020

Sri Lanka is experiencing various social and environmental challenges, including drought, storms, floods, and landslides, due to climate change. One of Sri Lanka’s biggest cities, Kurunegala, is a densely populated city that is gradually turnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,812 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Statistical Downscaling on the Weighting of Multi-Model Ensembles of Precipitation

  • Adrienne M. Wootten,
  • Elias C. Massoud,
  • Agniv Sengupta,
  • Duane E. Waliser and
  • Huikyo Lee

25 November 2020

Recently, assessments of global climate model (GCM) ensembles have transitioned from using unweighted means to weighted means designed to account for skill and interdependence among models. Although ensemble-weighting schemes are typically derived us...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate Dynamics and Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,970 Views
20 Pages

Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yield and Irrigation in the Monocacy River Watershed, USA

  • Manashi Paul,
  • Sijal Dangol,
  • Vitaly Kholodovsky,
  • Amy R. Sapkota,
  • Masoud Negahban-Azar and
  • Stephanie Lansing

25 November 2020

Crop yield depends on multiple factors, including climate conditions, soil characteristics, and available water. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of projected temperature and precipitation changes on crop yields in the Monocacy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Impacts at Various Geographical Scales)
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