Accurate district-level wheat yield forecasting is critical for Kazakhstan, the world’s seventh-largest wheat exporter. Prior remote-sensing studies typically compute vegetation indices over entire administrative units without isolating croplan...
Morocco’s meteorological observation network is quite old, but the spatial coverage is insufficient to conduct studies over large areas, especially in mountainous regions, such as the Fez-Meknes region, where spatio-temporal variability in prec...
Despite increasing the number of studies for mapping remote sensing insect-induced forest infestations, applying novel approaches for mapping and identifying its triggers are still developing. This study was accomplished to test the performance of Ge...
Accurate precipitation data are essential for hydrological modeling, climate studies, and water resource management. Indeed, there is an increasing focus on understanding shifts in precipitation events to monitor the risks of floods and droughts, as...
Incomplete station meteorological records constrain sustainable water-demand planning and climate-adaptation decisions in data-limited regions. Open-data reference evapotranspiration (ETo) products can provide continuous hydroclimatic information for...
Over the past four decades, Wadi Fatimah in western Saudi Arabia has undergone significant environmental changes that have contributed to desertification. High-resolution spatial and temporal analyses are essential for monitoring the extent of desert...
This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) along precipitation gradients across Türkiye by integrating high-resolution satellite-based precipitation datasets (CHIRPS, TerraClimate, and TRMM) with the Europe...
This articles presents a new series of maps showing the climate and environmental variability of Botswana. Situated in southern Africa, Botswana has an arid to semi-arid climate, which significantly varies in its different regions: Kalahari Desert, M...
This paper explores spatial variability of the ten climatic variables of Mongolia in 2019: average minimal and maximal temperatures, wind speed, soil moisture, downward surface shortwave radiation (DSRAD), snow water equivalent (SWE), vapor pressure...
Accurate evapotranspiration (ET) estimates are essential for hydrological assessment, water-resource management, and wetland conservation, yet global ET products often disagree in heterogeneous coastal environments. This study compared ERA5-Land, GLD...
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is particularly prone to floods, since it is on the banks of the Niger River, which in its middle basin has two flood peaks: one in summer (the red flood) and one in winter (the black flood). In 2020, the Niger River in...
The Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is highly sensitive to the impacts of climate change and experiences recurrent flooding, which affects large agricultural areas and poses a high risk to the population. The present study is focused on the recent flood disa...
The increase in built surfaces constitutes the main reason for the formation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI), that is a metropolitan area significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas. The urban heat islands and other urban-induced climate fee...
This study presents for the first time in Venezuela a joint analysis of deforestation and forest degradation processes, including its effects on carbon emissions. The Caparo Forest Reserve, located in the Western Plains ecoregion, in one of the natio...
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During the few last years, climate change, including global warming, which is attributed to human activities, and its long-term adverse effects on the planet’s functions have been identified as the most challenging discussion topics and have pr...
Precise rainfall measurement is essential for achieving reliable results in hydrologic applications. The technological advancement has brought numerous rainfall datasets that can be available to assess rainfall patterns. However, the suitability of a...
Several satellite precipitation estimates are becoming available globally, offering new possibilities for modeling water resources, especially in regions where data are scarce. This work provides the first validation of four satellite precipitation p...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a critical component of the hydrological cycle. The eddy covariance data at 40 flux stations in different climatic regions in China were used to evaluate the accuracy of five reanalysis actual ET datasets (ERA5, ERA5-LAND,...
Climate change is profoundly altering precipitation and temperature patterns across high-altitude regions worldwide. The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), known as the “Third Pole” and the “Asian Water Tower,” is among the mo...
Afghanistan, a nation already challenged by geopolitical and environmental pressure, faces severe climate change impacts, evident through rising temperatures, decreasing precipitation, and reduced river discharge. These changes profoundly affect the...
In Brazil, coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, was first detected in Coffea arabica in January of 1970 in southern Bahia. Now widespread across all cultivation areas, the disease poses a significant threat to coffee produ...
Soil moisture is a critical variable linking the land surface and atmosphere over the Tibetan Plateau. Identifying its spatial variability is essential for understanding the regional water cycle, particularly how landscape features shape soil moistur...
Degraded peatland is caused by forest clearing and the construction of artificial water networks. When water management is not implemented across land uses in the entire peatland landscape, then it will be a big issue that causes a water deficit and...
Forecasting species distributions under future climate scenarios has become a standard application of Species Distribution Models (SDMs), yet their temporal transferability is rarely evaluated. We assessed the reliability of future projections using...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has pointed out the high vulnerability of developing countries to climate change, which is expected to impact food and income security. Sheep farming is one of the main animal productions among the...
Understanding the changes in regional droughts is important for promoting overall sustainable development. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of soil droughts in Guangxi under the background of global warming and regional vegetation restoration hav...
Although drought is recognized as one of the major hydroclimatic hazards affecting the Mediterranean Basin, local-scale assessments to support planning for its agricultural, hydrological, and food security impacts remain limited. This study investiga...
Droughts are increasingly threatening ecological balance, agricultural productivity, and socio-economic resilience—especially in semi-arid regions like the Inner Mongolia segment of China’s Yellow River Basin. This study presents a hybrid...
Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) is very important to achieve long-term improvement in productivity and farm incomes under climate uncertainty. The present study focuses on investigating the plausible changes in the hydrometeorological conditions...
Climate change has a complex effect on snow at the regional scale. The change in snow patterns under climate change remains unknown for certain regions. Here, we used high spatiotemporal resolution snow-related variables simulated by a weather resear...
Climate change has proven to have a profound impact on the growth of vegetation from various points of view. Understanding how vegetation changes and its response to climatic shift is of vital importance for describing their mutual relationships and...
The Ili River Basin is characterized by complex topography and diverse climatic zones with limited in situ observations. This study evaluates the performance of six widely used precipitation datasets, CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitat...
Introduction: Extreme precipitation events in the Ayeyarwady River Basin, Myanmar, exhibit pronounced spatiotemporal heterogeneity and non-stationarity, yet their linkages to large-scale climate oscillations remain poorly understood. Objective: This...
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The scientific community has widely reported the impacts of climate change on the Central Himalaya. To qualify and quantify these effects, long-term land surface temperature observations in both the daytime and nighttime, acquired by the Moderate Res...
Selective logging in the tropics is a major driver of forest degradation by altering forest structure and function, including significant losses of aboveground carbon. In this study, we used a 30-year Landsat time series (1985–2015) to analyze forest...
Satellite remote sensing is a power tool for the long-term monitoring of vegetation. This work, with reference to a regional case study, investigates remote sensing potentialities for describing the annual phenology of rangelands and broad-leaved for...
This study leverages a Random Forest model to predict flood hazard in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, focusing on enhancing sustainability in flood management. Utilizing the National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), an intricate flood map of Arizo...
Evaluating the spatial and temporal model performance of distributed hydrological models is necessary to ensure that the simulated spatial and temporal patterns are meaningful. In recent years, spatial and temporal remote sensing data have been incre...
The heterogeneous ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin (MB) are becoming sensitive to water stress. To investigate the climatic stress, a water budget study was conducted over the basin using TerraClimate simulations for a long temporal range (1990&...
The decline in groundwater storage (GWS) poses a critical threat to water security in semi-arid regions where increasing agricultural water demand and climate variability are increasing pressure on aquifers. This study presents a novel hybrid modelin...
Forest fires are among the most critical disturbance agents reshaping Mediterranean ecosystems under accelerating climate change. This study employs a multi-scale remote sensing approach to examine the relationship between post-fire vegetation dynami...
Highway construction in alpine environments of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau (QXP) raises concerns about vegetation degradation and ecosystem disruption. However, the long-term ecological dynamics along newer expressway corridors on the QXP remain insuf...
Monitoring areas susceptible to desertification contributes to the strategic development of regions located in environments of extreme hydric and social vulnerability. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the process of soil degradat...
The lower reaches of inland river basins in northwestern China are highly vulnerable to water scarcity, ecological degradation, and climate change, yet vegetation responses and their environmental controls remain poorly understood. Using the terminal...
Accurately characterizing the spatiotemporal variations in precipitation in China’s drylands is important for solving water scarcity in the region, guaranteeing security in the ecological environment, and conducting precise drought disaster man...
Reliable pre-season yield forecasting remains a persistent challenge in avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production, due to strong year-to-year variation and alternate bearing. This study developed an early-season, block-level yield forecasting frame...
Future climate forecasts predict major changes that will have negative impacts on the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of forest ecosystems. In Mexico, there is evidence of symptoms of massive forest decline; however, there is no consensus in te...
Spring vegetation phenology is highly sensitive to climate change; however, climate drivers and their threshold responses at the urban scale remain insufficiently and systematically quantified. Focusing on 31 provincial capitals and municipalities in...
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