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Climate, Volume 9, Issue 8

August 2021 - 12 articles

Cover Story: The aim of this study is to investigate the impacts of climate change on flood hazard and damage in two municipalities of the Petite Nation River Watershed (Canada). The methodology uses a climatic, hydrologic, hydraulic, and damage approach. Projected flood frequencies, hazard, and damage maps were produced under current and for future scenarios. The results indicate that the flood frequencies are expected to show a minor decrease in peak flows at the time horizons of 2050 and 2080. In addition, the depth and inundation areas will not significantly change for the two time horizons, but instead show a minor decrease. Similarly, the projected flood damage changes are projected to decrease in the future. The results of this study should help decision-makers and the public to better understand the significance of climate change on flood risk in the Petite Nation River watershed. View this paper.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,626 Views
29 Pages

Effects of Climate Change on the Future of Heritage Buildings: Case Study and Applied Methodology

  • Harold Enrique Huerto-Cardenas,
  • Niccolò Aste,
  • Claudio Del Pero,
  • Stefano Della Torre and
  • Fabrizio Leonforte

23 August 2021

Heritage buildings and the precious artworks contained therein, represent inestimable cultural and artistic evidence from the past that must be properly preserved for future generations. In the last decades, climate change has gained relevance and is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,694 Views
15 Pages

14 August 2021

The transportation sector is a major factor contributing to climate change. Transportation Network Companies (TNC) may become part of solutions to reduce emissions and their drivers play an important role in doing so. This study aims to understand TN...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,279 Views
23 Pages

Plant Species Richness in Multiyear Wet and Dry Periods in the Chihuahuan Desert

  • Debra P. C. Peters,
  • Heather M. Savoy,
  • Susan Stillman,
  • Haitao Huang,
  • Amy R. Hudson,
  • Osvaldo E. Sala and
  • Enrique R. Vivoni

13 August 2021

In drylands, most studies of extreme precipitation events examine effects of individual years or short-term events, yet multiyear periods (>3 y) are expected to have larger impacts on ecosystem dynamics. Our goal was to take advantage of a sequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,384 Views
13 Pages

12 August 2021

Climate change is having a tremendous influence on world food production, with arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas especially susceptible. In these areas, locally adapted crop varieties or landraces can be used to mitigate the influence of clima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,750 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2021

Protected areas, such as natural World Heritage sites, RAMSAR wetlands and Biosphere Reserves, are ecosystems within landscapes. Each site meets certain criteria that allow it to qualify as a heritage or protected area. Both climate change and human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,358 Views
12 Pages

Mass Balance Sensitivity and Future Projections of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden

  • Moon Taveirne,
  • Laura Ekemar,
  • Berta González Sánchez,
  • Josefine Axelsson and
  • Qiong Zhang

6 August 2021

Glacier mass balance is heavily influenced by climate, with responses of individual glaciers to various climate parameters varying greatly. In northern Sweden, Rabots Glaciär’s mass balance has decreased since it started being monitored in 1982. To r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,011 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2021

One of the top long-term threats to airport resilience is extreme climate-induced conditions, which negatively affect the airport and flight operations. Recent examples, including hurricanes, storms, extreme temperatures (cold/hot), and heavy rains,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,563 Views
23 Pages

Flood Risk Assessment under Climate Change: The Petite Nation River Watershed

  • Khalid Oubennaceur,
  • Karem Chokmani,
  • Yves Gauthier,
  • Claudie Ratte-Fortin,
  • Saeid Homayouni and
  • Jean-Patrick Toussaint

5 August 2021

In Canada, climate change is expected to increase the extreme precipitation events by magnitude and frequency, leading to more intense and frequent river flooding. In this study, we attempt to map the flood hazard and damage under projected climate s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,882 Views
14 Pages

4 August 2021

Based on the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2) reanalysis data from 1981 to 2020, the climatological features of the vertical components of three-dimensional Eliassen–Palm (EP) wave activity fluxes (W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,343 Views
17 Pages

Hydro-Meteorological Trends in an Austrian Low-Mountain Catchment

  • Gerald Krebs,
  • David Camhy and
  • Dirk Muschalla

29 July 2021

While ongoing climate change is well documented, the impacts exhibit a substantial variability, both in direction and magnitude, visible even at regional and local scales. However, the knowledge of regional impacts is crucial for the design of mitiga...

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