The southward progression of ice shelf collapse in the Antarctic Peninsula is partially attributed to a strengthening of the circumpolar westerlies and the associated increase in föhn conditions over its eastern ice shelves. We used observations...
In recent years, there has been intense debate in the literature as to whether the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is a genuine representation of natural climate variability or is substantially driven by external factors. Here, we perform an...
The Indian monsoon is an important component of the tropical climate system. Studies suggest that both precipitation from the NNU-2K AF experiments and Little Ice Age (LIA) proxy data reveal a significant 56-year period in the Indian summer monsoon (...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of climate evolution in the Porto region (Northern Portugal) using 148 years (1863–2010) of continuous meteorological data from the Serra do Pilar weather station (WMO station 08546). The research em...
The U.S. National Scenic Trail system, encompassing over 12,000 km of hiking trails along the Appalachian Trail (AT), Continental Divide Trail (CDT), and Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), provides critical vegetation corridors that protect diverse forest, s...
While beach erosion and sand loss are typically of great concern to the tourism industry, managing rapid morphological changes linked to large amounts of moving sediments is the challenge facing Grado, an important seaside resort in the northern Adri...
Hydraulic models were used in practice to predict the effect of human intervention during extreme conditions. However, the accuracy of such predictions remains untested. In this study, we compare a simulated trend in water levels covering a twenty-ye...
This work is dedicated to the study of the spatio-temporal variability of climate in Morocco by the analysis of rainfall (gridded and gauged data) and runoff. The wavelet analysis method has been used in this study to compare the rainfall and runoff...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of links between satellite-measured vegetation vigor and climate variables in Armenian mountain grassland ecosystems in the years 1984–2018. NDVI is derived from MODIS and LANDSAT data, temperature a...
I address 12 issues related to the study of ocean dynamics and its impact on global temperature change, regional and local climate change, and on the North Atlantic ecosystem. I outline the present achievements and challenges that lie ahead. I start...
Flooding, including hurricanes and tornadoes, accounts for approximately 40 percent of natural disasters worldwide and kills 100 people on average in the United States each year, which is more than any other single weather hazard. Since flooding is a...
Proxy data-based reconstructions provide an essential basis for understanding comprehensive precipitation variability at multiple time scales. This study compared the variation characteristics of reconstructed precipitation data across different regi...
The Asian monsoon (AM) has direct and profound effects on the livelihoods of residents in South Asia and East Asia. Modern observations have shown multi-decadal alternations of flood and drought periods in these regions, likely influenced by climatic...
Remotely-sensed Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a useful metric for assessing changes in vegetation cover and greeness over time and space. Satellite-derived LAI measurements can be used to assess these intra- and inter-annual vegetation dynamics and how th...
A 117-year daily temperature record (1903–2019) from La Rioja, Argentina, is constructed and homogenised by combining rescued historical observations from the archives of the Oficina Meteorológica Argentina (1903–1940) with modern...
In the Western North Pacific (WNP), the atmospheric low-level convergence is one of the main factors that influences the genesis of tropical cyclones (TC). It has been observed that the timing of the seasonal maxima in the low-level convergence and T...
We applied the newly developed WRF-Hydro model to investigate the hydroclimatic trend encompassing the three basins in Southwest Louisiana as well as their connection with large-scale atmospheric drivers. Using the North American Land Data Assimilati...
On the east Australian coast, climate change is expressed as a slowly rising sea level. Analysis of records, dating back over two centuries, also shows oscillating multidecadal ‘storm’ and ‘drought’ dominated climate periods that are distinct from lo...
Arctic regions are experiencing accelerated environmental change, yet integrated assessments of terrain-scale responses remain limited. This study quantifies the spatial-temporal variability of glaciers, shorelines, and outwash plains in Kaffiø...
This study presents a comprehensive 35-year (1990–2025) shoreline change assessment along the southeast coast of Ireland, integrating multi-decadal Landsat satellite archives with GIS-based Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) metrics to qu...
Tropical lake ecosystems are vulnerable to degradation due to climate change and anthropogenic pressure. These dual pressures lead to ecological change and alterations in aquatic parameters, including chlorophyll-a (Chl-a). Lake Poso is the third-lar...
In the context of global warming, hydroclimatic conditions in the monsoon marginal zone are governed by two primary drivers: the East Asian monsoon and the westerly winds. As a sensitive indicator of climatic change, this region experiences dispropor...
Coastal erosion is a growing concern along many Mediterranean sandy coasts, particularly where reduced fluvial sediment supply, relative sea-level rise and coastal development coincide. This study uses multi-mission Landsat 5/7/8/9 and Sentinel-2 dat...
The 2020 hurricane season in the North Atlantic basin was the most active on record, with 30 named tropical cyclones. In this study, climate trends in oceanic and atmospheric parameters (including the sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content, clo...
Rising sea levels amplify the threat and magnitude of storm surges in coastal areas. The U.S. east coast region north of Cape Hatteras has shown a significant sea level rise acceleration and is believed to be a “hot-spot” for accelerating...
Gridded precipitation datasets are increasingly used as operational tools, with growing emphasis on cloud-native processing to handle multi-decadal archives through reproducible and auditable workflows. This paper presents an end-to-end pipeline that...
This study investigates the long-term temporal patterns of sea level changes by analyzing monthly tide gauge data from 1950 to 2022 (42 to 72 years) along the European coastline and monthly altimetry data from 1992 to 2024 in the surrounding European...
This study presents a 39-year spatiotemporal analysis of shoreline variability at Topocalma Beach (Chile) using satellite-derived data collected between 1985 and 2024. A total of 350 satellite images were processed with CoastSat and DSAS v6.0 to quan...
This study analyzed precipitation and air temperature in the Zhambyl, Almaty, Zhetysu, Abay, and East Kazakhstan regions of Kazakhstan using data from the national meteorological network of the RSE Kazhydromet. The purpose of the study was to reveal...
Long-term climate records are essential for understanding past climate change and its driving forces, which could provide insights for adapting to future climate change. This paper presents a reconstruction of the July mean temperature based on the S...
The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive review and characterization of selected climate variability indices. While we discuss many major climate variability mechanisms, we focus on four principal modes of climate variability related...
Monitoring of land surface albedo dynamics is important for the understanding of observed climate trends. Recently developed multidecadal surface albedo data products, derived from a series of geostationary satellite data, provide the opportunity to...
In Southern Italy, studies dealing with the analysis of multidecadal land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes at the basin scale are scarce. This is an important gap, considering the deep interrelationships between LULC, soil erosion, and river and coastal...
Understanding the spatiotemporal variability of seasonal extreme precipitation and its linkage with climate patterns is of great importance for water resource management over the Yangtze River Basin. Hence, this study examined the spatiotemporal vari...
Mangrove deforestation is a global problem, but sediment-dominated estuaries can resist it through their own morphodynamic processes. This study reconstructs the spatiotemporal trajectory of the Ujung Pangkah estuary (1995–2025) to weigh natura...
The surface snowmelt on ice sheets in polar areas (ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica) is not only an important sensitive factor of global climate change, but also a key factor that controls the global climate. Spaceborne earth observation provid...
The impact of HLA matching on graft survival has been well characterized in renal transplantation, with a higher degree of matching associated with superior graft survival. Additionally, living donor grafts are known to confer superior survival compa...
A two-step attribution and causality diagnostic is designed by employing singular spectrum analysis to unfold the attributed climate time series into a trajectory matrix and then subjected to an empirical orthogonal function analysis to identify the...
In the context of global warming, vegetation activity in northeastern East Asia (40–45°N, 105–130°E) (NEA) shows a significant growth trend on a multidecadal scale, but how vegetation changes on a decadal scale is unclear. In this...
The multi-decadal Landsat data record is a unique tool for global land cover and land use change analysis. However, the large volume of the Landsat image archive and inconsistent coverage of clear-sky observations hamper land cover monitoring at larg...
Coasts are critical ecological, economic and social interfaces between terrestrial and marine systems. The current upsurge in the acquisition and availability of remote sensing datasets, such as Landsat remote sensing data series, provides new opport...
Lakes are essential components of the terrestrial water cycle. Their size and quantity reflect natural climate change and anthropogenic activities in time. Lakes on the Inner-Mongolian Plateau (IMP) have experienced significant changes in recent deca...
The Yili Basin represents a typical region influenced by the Westerlies, and as a result of the substantial precipitation delivered by these winds, it has emerged as a significant hub for agricultural and animal husbandry activities in Central Asia....
Annually resolved temperature records spanning the past few centuries are limited in Southwest China. In this paper, we present a robust 250-year winter minimum temperature reconstruction based on the tree rings of Abies georgei Orr from Luoji Mounta...
It is widely accepted to believe that humanity is mainly responsible for the worldwide temperature growth during the period of instrumental meteorological observations. This paper aims to demonstrate that it is not so simple. Using a wavelet analysis...
Understanding precipitation changes over a long period of time can provide valuable insights into global climate change. Taking the forest–steppe ecotone of North China as the research area, based on the tree ring width index of Carya cathayens...
We analyze the relationship between four climate variables (maximum and minimum extreme temperatures, rainfall and snowfall) measured in winter (December to March) at 17 stations from 1950 to 2000 in the three hydroclimate regions of southern Quebec,...
In recent years, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GISs) have become essential tools for effective landscape management. This study utilizes these technologies to analyze land use and land cover (LULC) changes in Dibru-Saikhowa Natio...
Spring discharge hydrographs can provide information on karst aquifer connectivity and responses to precipitation. However, few studies have conducted time-series analyses of spring hydrographs over multi-decadal time scales. We examine daily dischar...
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the dominant pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies in the North Pacific basin, is an important low-frequency climate phenomenon. Leveraging data spanning from 1871 to 2010, we employed machine learning mo...
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