This study investigated biased prediction of cumulative precipitation, using a variety of patterns of histories of cumulative precipitation, to explore how such biased prediction could delay evacuation or evacuation orders. The irrationality in predi...
Urban areas face cumulative environmental pressures from climate variability, rapid urbanization, and growing concentrations of built assets, requiring geospatial methods that capture gradual, overlapping susceptibility patterns rather than rigid thr...
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) for domestic uses is widely regarded as an economic and ecological solution in water conservation and storm management programs. This paper aims at evaluating long-term trends in 20-day cumulative rainfall periods per year...
Extreme weather events have increased significantly in the past decades due to global warming. As a robust forecast and monitoring tool of extreme weather events, regional climate models have been widely applied on local scales. This study presented...
Previous studies have shown that climate change has significant cumulative effects on vegetation growth. However, there remains a gap in understanding the characteristics of cumulative climatic effects on different vegetation types and the underlying...
Reliable runoff modeling is essential for water resource allocation and management. However, a key uncertainty source is that the true precipitation field is difficult to measure, making reliable runoff modeling still challenging. To account for this...
Quantifying the impacts of multiple factors on surface runoff and base flow is essential for understanding the mechanism of hydrological response and local water resources management as well as preventing floods and droughts. Despite previous studies...
Accurate precipitation mapping is essential for effective disaster management; however, individual radar, satellite, and numerical weather prediction products often struggle in the topographically complex terrain of South Korea. This study proposes a...
Droughts in the Amazon region are expected to increase in frequency and intensity, which would negatively affect the tropical forest, leading to a positive climate–forest feedback loop that could potentially result in the collapse of this ecosy...
26 June 2019
Land degradation is one of the world’s most serious environmental issues. Human activities play an important role in it. Therefore, human-induced land degradation monitoring is of crucial scientific significance in revealing the evolution of la...
Probable Maximum Storms (PMS) are synthetic design storms represented by idealized hyetographs. They play a critical role in assessing extreme rainfall events over extended durations and are widely applied in the hydraulic design of infrastructure su...
It is important to study precipitation chemistry to comprehend both atmospheric and environmental processes. The aim of this study was the reconstruction of daily concentration patterns of major ions in precipitation from samples exposed for longer a...
Increases in climate extremes and their impacts have attracted global attention recently. In this study, the change-point years of precipitation extremes (PEs) and drought extremes (DEs) were investigated by Moving t-Test at 500 stations across the s...
Studying both soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storages in different climate zones and their relationship with climatic factors is of great significance for understanding soil fertility and predicting global climate change. Climate influences soil mi...
27 October 2022
During emergency situations, short-term rainfall forecasting is crucial for human life-saving and economic damage mitigation. However, due to the high interconnection among the meteorological variables, the rainfall evolution mechanism is challenging...
The study of ice runways has significant practical importance. Regarding inland lake ice, while little of the practicality of ice runways during the ice formation period was explored in the published articles, the analysis of the time period and suit...
Understanding the impact of drought on the water use efficiency (WUE) of grasslands is essential for comprehending the mechanisms of the carbon–water cycle in the context of global warming. Nevertheless, the cumulative and lagged effects of dro...
The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, 1857)) is a prominent invasive species exhibiting variable population dynamics. Through collecting long-term climate data and validating field surveys with MaxEnt SDM projections, our results indic...
Climate change and human activities affect regional sediment transport and ecological environment construction. Investigating sediment transport and its influencing factors in the Yihe River Basin (YHRB) will provide guidance for regional soil and wa...
This study investigates the complex factors influencing groundwater NO3-N concentrations on Miyako Island, which has a geological structure of highly permeable Ryukyu Limestone over less permeable mudstone. The groundwater NO3-N levels peaked at near...
Significant variation in the precipitation events caused by global climate change has made it difficult to manage water resources due to the increased frequency of unexpected droughts and floods. Under these conditions, groundwater is needed to ensur...
Understanding the changing relationships between vegetation coverage and precipitation/temperature (P/T) and then exploring their potential drivers are highly necessary for ecosystem management under the backdrop of a changing environment. The Jing R...
Coastal beaches are vulnerable to microplastic pollution originating primarily from terrestrial and marine sources or the in situ weathering of plastic waste. The present study investigates the effects of rainfall events on the composition and divers...
The Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB), through the process of snow accumulation, to snowmelt, to streamflow runoff, provides a critical water source to approximately 40 million residents in the Southwestern United States. Given the importance of late...
The study of the response of vegetation phenology in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau to various climatic variables is paramount to unveiling the reaction of alpine ecosystems to worldwide climate alterations. Nonetheless, the lagged and cumulative effects...
Typhoons are known for causing heavy precipitation, very strong winds, and storm surges. With climate change, the occurrence, strength, and duration of typhoons are changing. Daily, weekly, and monthly precipitation from in situ stations from the NOA...
For this paper, a new global atmospheric model (Global-to-Regional Integrated forecast SysTem; GRIST) with improved sub-grid scale orographic parameterization was verified and assessed, with an emphasis on the precipitation caused by typhoons. Four t...
Extreme hourly precipitation is amongst the most prominent driving factors of flash floods and geological disasters. Based on the hourly precipitation data of 35 stations in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region (TGRR) from 1998 to 2020, we analyzed the...
Precipitation during the period 2001–2016 over the northern and central part of Tuscany was studied in order to characterize the rainfall regime. The dataset consisted of hourly cumulative rainfall series recorded by a network of 801 rain gauges. The...
Historically, snowpack trends have been assessed using one fixed date to represent peak snow accumulation prior to the onset of melt. Subsequent trend analyses have considered the peak snow water equivalent (SWE), but the date of peak SWE can vary by...
Boreal forest ecosystems across mid-to-high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere show strong responses to climate change. Vegetation growth is influenced by cumulative climatic effects with time lags, as well as human disturbances. This study selects...
Numerous simulation studies of the effect of global warming on arid regions have indicated that increases in temperature and decreases in precipitation will trigger water shortages, drought, and further aridification. In north-east Asia, especially C...
Understanding the interaction between land use and climate variability in regulating the hydrology of tropical watersheds remains a significant scientific and policy challenge, particularly in regions with limited data. This study applied the InVEST...
The error in satellite precipitation-driven complex terrain flood simulations is characterized in this study for eight different global satellite products and 128 flood events over the Eastern Italian Alps. The flood events are grouped according to t...
The northern permafrost regions are increasingly experiencing frequent and intense extreme events, with a rise in the occurrence of compound extreme events. Many climate-related hazards in these areas are driven by such compound events, significantly...
The change in raindrop spectrum characteristics is an important factor affecting the accuracy of estimations of precipitation. The in-depth study of raindrop spectrum characteristics is of great interest for understanding precipitation process and im...
Stratiform and convective rain types are associated with different cloud physical processes, vertical structures, thermodynamic influences and precipitation types. Distinguishing convective and stratiform systems is beneficial to meteorology research...
Climate polarization due to global warming has increased the intensity of drought in some regions, and the need for drought estimation studies to help minimize damage is increasing. In this study, we constructed remote sensing and climate data for Bo...
The accuracy and timeliness of precipitation inputs have significant impact on flood forecasting. Upstream Minjiang River Basin is characterized by complex terrain and highly variable climatic conditions, posing a significant challenge for runoff for...
The long continuity of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) can provide high space and resolution data for ground deformation investigations. The ground deformation in this paper appeared in the city’s development, although it is cl...
Accurate precipitation measurement is critical for managing flood and drought risks. Traditional meteorological tools, such as rain gauges and remote sensors, have limitations in resolution, coverage, and cost-effectiveness. Recently, the opportunist...
Precipitation images play an important role in meteorological forecasting and flood forecasting, but how to characterize precipitation images and conduct rainfall similarity analysis is challenging and meaningful work. This paper proposes a rainfall...
Bias correction methods are routinely used to correct climate model outputs for hydrological and agricultural impact studies. Even though superior bias correction methods can correct the distribution of daily precipitation amounts, as well as the wet...
The ecological security of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) alpine transitional region plays a critical role in regional and global climate regulation. Conventional Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) assessments, however, rely on single-date...
Climate is one of the key factors driving changes in vegetation, and the response of the vegetation to climate often occurs with a time delay. However, research on the cumulative lagged response of the vegetation to meteorological factors in large-sc...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) ranks as the third most significant greenhouse gas, capable of depleting the ozone layer and posing threats to terrestrial ecosystems. Climate change alters precipitation variability, notably in terms of frequency and magnitude. H...
This study examined the influence of climate on cumulative and interannual growth patterns of 18 full-sib families of hybrid poplars (Populus × smithii Boivin) derived from different geographical locations (state counties) of natural stands of aspen...
In recent years, the Southeast region in Brazil has suffered from the effects of drought events. Analyzing the history of drought events is fundamental to establish potential risks of the occurrence of droughts in the future. One of the many ways to...
Nearly all the current winter wheat–soybean cropping systems occurring in the southeastern United States (SE) region are rainfed, as such, precipitation (P) underpins energy partitioning. We investigated, using the eddy covariance technique, th...
This study assesses the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation dynamics (kNDVI) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) between 2000 and 2022, considering both lag and cumulative effects. Given the QTP’s high sensitivity to clim...
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