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Climate, Volume 8, Issue 5

2020 May - 7 articles

Cover Story: Drought is a recurring phenomenon in North Africa and can have a serious impact on socioeconomic and natural systems. Thus, understanding the mechanisms that underlie precipitation variability in the region is a key driver of sustainable economic growth. The link between winter precipitation variability in this region and some North Atlantic patterns is assessed here over the last millennium. Results show that the link between the westerlies and winter precipitation is stronger and more robust over time than other atmospheric modes. Both winter precipitation and westerlies present significant decreasing trends, associated with drier conditions, starting in the 19th century. This is in agreement with reconstructed and simulated droughts, which show a decreasing trend toward drying conditions in North Africa.View this paper.
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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,883 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2020

This study investigated the spatiotemporal changes of land use land cover (LULC) and its impact on land surface temperature (LST) in the Galle Municipal Council area (GMCA), Sri Lanka. The same was achieved by employing the multi-temporal satellite d...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,539 Views
6 Pages

Disconnect within Agriculture and Ecosystem Climate Effects, Adaptations and Policy

  • Anastasia W. Thayer,
  • Aurora M Vargas,
  • Thomas E. Lacher and
  • Bruce A. McCarl

13 May 2020

Frequently, agriculture and ecosystems (AE) are seen as separate entities, causing entity specific solutions in response to threats [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change in Complex Systems: Effects, Adaptations, and Policy Considerations for Agriculture and Ecosystems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,178 Views
15 Pages

Joint Modeling of Severe Dust Storm Events in Arid and Hyper Arid Regions Based on Copula Theory: A Case Study in the Yazd Province, Iran

  • Tayyebeh Mesbahzadeh,
  • Maryam Mirakbari,
  • Mohsen Mohseni Saravi,
  • Farshad Soleimani Sardoo and
  • Nir Y. Krakauer

13 May 2020

Natural disasters such as dust storms are random phenomena created by complicated mechanisms involving many parameters. In this study, we used copula theory for bivariate modeling of dust storms. Copula theory is a suitable method for multivariate mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,764 Views
23 Pages

6 May 2020

Drought is a recurring phenomenon in North Africa, and extended dry periods can have a serious impact on economic and social structures, as well as the natural environment. Consequently, understanding the mechanisms that underlie precipitation variab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Local to Global Precipitation Dynamics and Climate Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,262 Views
13 Pages

2 May 2020

In this work, a semi-empirical relationship of carbon dioxide emissions with atmospheric CO2 concentrations has been developed that is capable of closely replicating observations from 1751 to 2018. The analysis was completed using data from fossil-fu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3,123 Views
2 Pages

29 April 2020

As we lie firmly entrenched within what many have termed the Anthropocene, the time of humans, human influence on the functioning of the planet has never been greater or in greater need of mitigation [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agriculture for Climate Change Adaptation)
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