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 (...
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...
This study evaluates monthly sea levels during 1993–2023 from four ocean models using tide gauge and altimeter data in the Northwest Atlantic with its shelf seas, including the Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Newfoun...
The South China Sea (SCS) sea surface temperature (SST) plays a crucial modulating effect on the climate of East Asia. While the interannual variability of South China Sea SST has been extensively examined, the decadal-scale linkages and underlying p...
Anthropogenic activities (represented by dams and land use change) and climate change have disrupted the delicate balance between natural and anthropogenic factors affecting riverine material transport, yet their effects across different river basins...
Rice planthoppers are common insect pests in Taiwan, and they have caused significant damage in the past. The majority of rice planthoppers have seen a drastic decline in their population since the mid-2000s, a trend that has anecdotally attributed t...
This paper presents the latest analyses and integrates results of many past studies on the spatial and temporal variations of the annual frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) making landfall along different areas of the East Asian (EA) c...
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...
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...
Based on the ensemble empirical mode decomposition method, this study explores the differences and similarities in multiple time-scale characteristics of summer air temperature (T) and equivalent temperature (Te) over China during 1961–2017, using da...
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...
The time-varying influences of the wintertime Arctic Oscillation (AO) on the concurrent East Asian surface air temperature (EAT) are investigated based on JRA-55 reanalysis data. Results reveal that there are multidecadal variations in the influences...
This study presents new evidence for long-term variability in the late Holocene North American Monsoon (NAM), Pacific coast of Mexico. We have carried out a rock magnetic study on two deep-sea sediment cores from the Pacific coast Pescadero Basin. Th...
Lakes in direct contact with glaciers (ice-marginal lakes) are found across alpine and polar landscapes. Many studies characterize ice-marginal lake behavior over multi-decadal timescales using either episodic ~annual images or multi-year mosaics. Ho...
28 September 2021
Cholera is a water-borne infectious disease that affects 1.3 to 4 million people, with 21,000 to 143,000 reported fatalities each year worldwide. Outbreaks are devastating to affected communities and their prospects for development. The key to suppor...
Although deforestation affects hydrological and climatic variables over tropical regions, its actual contributions to changes in evapotranspiration (ET) over subarctic China remain unknown. To establish a quantitative relationship between deforestati...
Research Highlights: Yellow-cedar decline on the island archipelago of Haida Gwaii is driven by warm winter temperatures and low winter precipitation, which is caused by anthropogenic climate change and exacerbated by the positive phase of the Pacifi...
Air/soil temperatures play important roles in land–atmosphere interactions. The three-dimensional (temporal, spatial, and vertical) variations of maximum, mean, and minimum ground soil temperature at 0 cm (GSTx, GSTm, and GSTn, respectively), s...
The coasts of the Italian peninsula have been recently affected by frequent damaging hydrological events driven by intense rainfall and deluges. The internal climatic mechanisms driving rainfall variability that generate these hydrological events in...
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 relationship between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) shows pronounced decadal variability, and the modulation of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Osc...
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....
The second version of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Earth System Model, CAS-ESM2-0, is a newcomer that contributes to Coupled Model Intercomparison Project simulations in the community. We evaluated the model’s performance in simulating the s...
The ongoing global warming threatens the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), which has exhibited an overall mass loss since 1990. This loss varies annually and interannually, reflecting the intricate interactions between the ice sheet and atmospheric and ocea...
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...
The impact of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) on the variations in the streamflow in the Atrato River Basin (ARB) during the 1965–2016 period was analyzed here by considering the cold (1965–1994) and warm (1995–2015) pha...
31 August 2023
Surface solar radiation (SSR) is a crucial parameter for both the Earth’s climate and human activities, and it consists of two components: the direct beam from the sun and diffuse radiation, with the latter being scattered by atmospheric molecu...
Based on ERA5 from 1980 to 2018, we compare and analyze the trend and interdecadal variation of evaporation anomalies over the tropical Indian Ocean by the evaporation decomposition method. This method mainly decomposes the evaporation anomalies into...
Using surface observation data for the past hundred years, the contributions of year-specific climate anomaly, nationwide warming, and urban warming to hot summers in Japan were evaluated. A number of indices in temperature were defined to indicate t...
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...
This study characterizes the spatial patterns of the overall and monthly trends in sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to investigate the seasonal variations in oceanic climate trends. We also investiga...
Previous studies suggest that anthropogenic warming has affected the multi-decadal trend patterns of sea level over the Indian Ocean (IO). This effect, however, has not been quantified. Using observational datasets combined with large ensemble experi...
Climate change and variability are likely to increase in most parts of the world, leading to more extreme events, which may increase the stress on already threatened water resources. This study focuses on the effects of the El Niño Southern Os...
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...
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...
This study examines the influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) on the Choco Low-level Jet (CJ) variations during the 1983–2016 period. Considering the September–November (SON) 925 hPa zonal wind index in the CJ core, a s...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of key meteorological parameters at the Lenghu site, a premier astronomical observing location, with particular emphasis on understanding their variability patterns and long-term trends. The research syste...
Highly dynamic hydro-geomorphic processes are known to drive exports of carbon (C) from river basins, but are not yet fully understood. Within this study, we simulated total organic carbon (TOC) exports at the outlet of Lake Simojärvi in the Gulf of...
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...
While global mean sea level rise (SLR) and acceleration (SLA) are indicators of climate change and are informative regarding the current state of the climate, assessments of regional and local SLR are essential for policy makers responding to, and pr...
Thinning of the atmospheric ozone layer leads to elevated levels of Ultraviolet-B (UVB) at the Earth's surface, resulting in an increase of health risks to living organisms due to DNA damage. This paper examines the multidecadal changes of total colu...
Instrumental data show that the groundwater and lake levels in Northeast Germany have decreased over the past decades, and this process has accelerated over the past few years. In addition to global warming, the direct influence of humans on the loca...
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is coherently linked to climate variations over many parts of the globe. Despite recent achievements, the mechanism by which the AMO influences regional precipitation over South America is not well understo...
The Silk Road pattern (SRP) and circumglobal teleconnection pattern (CGT) are two well-known teleconnection patterns, representing the summer circulation variations of the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, which have different definitions but are of...
The Qilian Mountains, located in northwest China and serving as a crucial water recharge area, have exhibited significant regional differences in precipitation patterns in recent decades. However, the limited temporal coverage of instrumental data ha...
A comprehensive analysis of the evolution of rainfall characteristics in Catalonia, NE Spain, was conducted using monthly data from 72 rain gauges over the period 1950–2022. A moving-window approach was applied at annual, seasonal, and monthly...
This study disentangles causes of the Michigan-Huron system lake-level variability. Regional precipitation is identified as the primary driver of lake levels with sub-monthly time lag, implying that the lake-level time series can be used as a proxy f...
Recent technological advancements in spectral imaging core-scanning techniques have proved to be a promising tool to study lake sediments at extremely high resolution. We used this novel analytical approach to scan core AU3 of the Pleistocene Auel ma...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis on the variations in the tropical cyclone (TC) frequencies during 1980–2021, including the linear trends, periodicities, and their variabilities on both global and basin-wise scales. An increasing tr...
Lakes in the Amur River Basin (ARB) are increasingly influenced by climate variability and human activities, yet long-term basin-scale patterns of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) remain unclear. In this study, we developed a support vector re...
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