This study provides a unique procedure for validating and reconstructing temperature and precipitation data. Although developed from data in Middle Italy, the validation method is intended to be universal, subject to appropriate calibration according...
Hydroclimatic conditions and related water resources change in the Tibetan Plateau is one of the main concerns for future sustainable development in China. This study presents a 254-year precipitation reconstruction from August of the previous year t...
With the development of the Chinese Fengyun satellite series, Fengyun-2G (FY-2G) quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) can provide real-time and high-quality precipitation data over East Asia. However, FY-2G QPE cannot offer precipitation inform...
Natural hazards such as floods and droughts occur frequently in southwestern China and have occurred more frequently in recent years, which has caused and will continue to cause serious damage to ecosystems and human lives and property. A full knowle...
Maximum latewood density (MXD) chronologies have been widely used to reconstruct summer temperature variations. Precipitation signals inferred from MXD data are, however, rather scarce. In this study, we assess the potential of using MXD data derived...
Attaining accurate precipitation data is critical to understanding land surface processes and global climate change. The development of satellite sensors and remote sensing technology has resulted in multi-source precipitation datasets that provide r...
Precipitation is one of the main meteorological variables in climate research and long records provide a unique, long-term knowledge of climatic variability and extreme events. Moreover, they are a prerequisite for climate modeling and reanalyses. Li...
The Sava River Basin (SRB) includes six countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, and Montenegro), with the Sava River (SR) being a major tributary of the Danube River. The SR originates in the mountains (European Alps) o...
Interactions between clouds, aerosol, and precipitation are crucial aspects of weather and climate. The simple Koren–Feingold conceptual model is important for providing deeper insight into the complex aerosol–cloud–precipitation sy...
This study evaluated the long-term hydroclimatic trend through a reconstruction procedure of precipitation variability in central Greece (1657–2020), using eight tree-ring chronologies (Pinus sp. and Abies sp.). Through the combination of gridd...
Water availability is a major constraint on socioeconomic development in northeastern Mexico, highlighting the need for effective water resource planning that accounts for the variability and extremes of precipitation. In this study, seasonal precipi...
To address the problem of low prediction accuracy of precipitation time series data, an improved overall mean empirical modal decomposition–prediction–reconstruction model (MDPRM) is constructed in this paper. First, the non-stationary pr...
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...
We present a two-dimensional reconstruction of blocking frequency indices in the Atlantic-European region spanning the last 400 years. Our approach is based on a simple field reconstruction scheme similar to the principal component regression method....
In recent decades, droughts associated with climate change have increased in frequency and intensity. Given this trend, the understanding of climate variability over time has raised great interest. The main objective of this study was to reconstruct...
Climate projections suggest ecosystems could face drastic changes due to global climate change, including more severe and frequent droughts than those recorded in the last century. Paleoclimatic series provide more extensive information than that ava...
Storm events and accompanying heavy rain endanger the silty soils of the fertile and intensively-used agricultural landscape of the Saxon loess province in the European loess belt. In late spring 2016, persistent weather conditions with repeated and...
To explore the history of the changes in monsoon precipitation and their driving mechanisms in the context of global warming, climatology studies using tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) were carried out in Shanxi Province, China. Based on...
Precipitation is one of the most important influences on microstructural evolution during thermomechanical processing (TMCP) of micro-alloyed steels. Due to precipitation, pinning of prior austenite grain (PAG) boundaries can occur. To understand the...
As the primary mountain range in Central Asia, the Altay Mountains receive water vapor carried by westerly circulation, resulting in relatively abundant local precipitation and lush pastures in all seasons. Consequently, it has become one of the impo...
The quantity and distribution of summer rainfall in Poland is one of the main elements of weather and makes a strong impact on the economy, mostly agriculture, stockbreeding, and forestry and the associated industries. Droughts or heavy rains, occurr...
To address the challenge of insufficient spatial resolution in remote sensing precipitation data, this paper proposes a novel Multi-Scale Residual Generative Adversarial Network (MSRGAN) for reconstructing high-resolution precipitation images. The mo...
Fully understanding the past characteristics of climate and patterns of climate change can contribute to future climate prediction. Tree-ring stable oxygen isotope ratio (δ18O) is crucial for high-resolution research of past climate changes and...
The significant impact of Nb on ferrite transformation, both in terms of solute drag effect (SDE) and interphase precipitation, was investigated quantitatively. Ferrite transformation kinetics were characterized using thermal expansion experiments an...
The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region is one of China’s most water-scarce yet economically vital areas, facing increasing challenges due to climate change and intensive human activities. This study develops an integrated Water&ndas...
Hydrologic assessment within the Southeast United States is challenging, particularly in upstream basins, necessitating improved approaches to drought forecasting and water management. Within the Tennessee Valley, dense populations intensify the need...
With regard to reconstructing the gamma background dose rate, existing models are either empirical with limited applicability or have many unknown input parameters, which complicates their application in practice. Due to this, there is a need to sear...
Ti-bearing blast furnace slag (TBS), a byproduct of vanadium–titanium magnetite smelting, serves as an important secondary resource for titanium recovery. However, the complex mineralogical composition and finely dispersed nature of titanium in...
The Kızılırmak River is the longest inland river, has the second-largest basin, and is one of the most important water sources of Turkey. On the other hand, flow data in the basin are too short-term and discordant, with too many gaps t...
The prospect of precipitation is of great significance to the distribution of industry and agriculture in Northwest China. The cycle characteristics of temperature and precipitation in the Qilian Mountains were identified by complex Morlet wavelet an...
Understanding long-term hydroclimatic variability in the central Alps is essential when placing recent changes in precipitation and streamflow within a broader temporal context. This study reconstructs warm-season hydroclimatic variability in the cen...
Due to the lack of available long-term climatic records, data related to past autumn precipitation variability throughout Northwest China, especially high-frequency variation, remains limited. In this study, it was found that inter-annual changes in...
In northeastern China, simultaneous reconstruction of temperature and precipitation changes in the same region using tree ring data has not yet been reported, limiting our understanding of the historical climate. Using tree ring samples from the Grea...
Water vapor, as one of the most important greenhouse gases, is crucial for both climate and atmospheric studies. Considering the high spatial and temporal variations of water vapor, a timely and accurate retrieval of precipitable water vapor (PWV) is...
Short-term precipitation forecasting is a core task in meteorological science, aiming to achieve accurate predictions by modeling the spatiotemporal evolution of radar echo sequences, thereby supporting meteorological services and disaster warning sy...
The distribution of sediment grain size can record past environmental conditions and human activity. In this study, radioisotope of 210Pb and 137Cs and a grain size of a 41 cm core in Hulun Lake were applied to reconstruct the high-resolution sedimen...
Precipitation prediction is an important technical mean for flood and drought disaster early warning, rational utilization, and the development of water resources. Complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD) can effectively reduce mod...
A monthly composite rainfall record for the period 1786–present representative of Manchester, northwest England is presented. The 235-year record ranks as the second-longest instrumental rainfall record available for northern England, and the f...
Seasonal freeze–thaw cycling progressively rearranges pores and propagates microcracks in silty clay, reducing the reliability of cold-region earthworks. This study evaluated a bio–polymer stabilization strategy combining microbially indu...
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 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...
Annual river discharge is a critical variable for water resources planning and management. Tree rings are widely used to reconstruct annual discharge, but errors can be large when tree growth fails to respond commensurately to hydrologically importan...
Contextualizing historic hydroclimate variability in the southeastern USA has relied significantly on proxy indicators such as tree-ring data, and while previous studies have reconstructed total precipitation, less is known about the historic variabi...
Precipitation downscaling aims to enhance coarse-resolution data to higher resolutions. Due to the similarity between downscaling and super-resolution (SR), deep learning-based SR approaches have been increasingly adopted in this domain. However, sin...
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...
Precipitation data are essential for hydrological modeling, water resource management, and climate risk assessment. However, meteorological time series frequently contain missing records due to equipment failures, maintenance issues, and logistical l...
Droughts are a climatic phenomenon with local, regional, and large-scale repercussions. Historical knowledge of droughts generated by modeled data allows the development of more accurate climate reconstructions to propose better approaches for the ma...
This article explores the dendrochronological potential of Ocotea porosa (Nees & Mart) Barroso (Imbuia) for reconstructing past climate conditions in the General Carneiro region, Southern Brazil, utilizing well-established dendroclimatic techniqu...
Palaeoglacier modelling is an important approach for reconstructing the palaeoclimate. The timing of glaciations in the central part of the Gangdise Mountains has been constrained previously, but the palaeoclimate remains unclear. In this paper, the...
A tree-ring width chronology was developed from the Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) in northern North China. To acquire a long-term perspective on the history of droughts in this region, the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI...
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