The Eastern Mediterranean (EM) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are projected to be exposed to extreme climatic conditions in the 21st century, which will likely induce adverse impacts in various sectors. Relevant climate change impact ass...
Climate change exerts wide-ranging impacts on urban tourism, influencing visitor well-being, experiences, and the timing and location of activities. Anticipating future variation in climatic conditions in urban destinations is essential for developin...
30 December 2021
Changes in climate and the underlying surface are the main factors affecting runoff. Quantitative assessment of runoff characteristics, and determination of the climate and underlying surface contribution to changes in runoff are critical to water re...
31 July 2013
Shifts in surface climate may have changed the dynamic of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in the pre-Saharan zones of North Africa. Caused by Leishmania major, this form multiplies in the body of rodents serving as reservoirs of the disease. T...
Traditional air temperature-based climate heat indices can be of high uncertainty in regions where ground observations are scarce. In this study, we calculate the Summer Days and Tropical Nights heat indices defined by the Expert Team on Climate Chan...
Forest cover change alters land–atmosphere exchanges of energy, water, and carbon, thereby influencing local and regional climate. This study assessed climatic patterns associated with afforestation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, from 2003 to...
Cities worldwide are getting warmer due to the combined effects of urban heat and climate change. To this end, local policy makers need to identify the most thermally vulnerable areas within cities. The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme highlights loca...
With the continuous development of cities, the surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) is increasing, leading to the deterioration of the urban thermal environment, increasing energy consumption, and endangering the health of urban residents. Und...
Accurately locating key nodes and corridors of an urban heat island (UHI) is the basis for effectively mitigating a regional surface UHI. However, we still lack appropriate methods to describe it, especially considering the interaction between UHIs a...
Despite an advanced ability to forecast ecosystem functions and climate at regional and global scales, little is known about relationships between local variations in water and carbon fluxes and large-scale phenomena. To enable data collection of loc...
This study aimed to develop criteria for the expert assessment of the visual attractiveness of informal urban green spaces and compare these results with indicators derived from spectral indices and geospatial data. The research was conducted in Lubl...
Vegetation phenology is an important indicator of climate change and ecosystem productivity. However, the monitoring of vegetation generative phenology through remote sensing techniques does not allow for species-specific retrieval in mixed ecosystem...
The surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect, driven by human activities and land cover changes, leads to elevated temperatures in urban areas, posing challenges to sustainability, public health, and environmental quality. While SUHI drivers at large...
Winter precipitation (snowpack) in the European Alps provides a critical source of freshwater to major river basins such as the Danube, Rhine, and Po. Previous research identified Atlantic Ocean variability and hydrologic responses in the European Al...
The current awareness of the high importance of urban green leads to a stronger need for tools to comprehensively represent urban green and its benefits. A common scientific approach is the development of urban ecosystem services (UES) based on remot...
The study compares the performance of satellite-based datasets and the Ångström–Prescott (AP) model in estimating the daily global horizontal irradiance (GHI) for stations in South Africa. The daily GHI from four satellites (namely S...
Improving the urban thermal environment can enhance humans’ well-being. Nevertheless, it was not clear which land-use/land-cover (LU/LC) indices were optimal for explaining land surface temperatures (LSTs) and how they affected LSTs in cities i...
This study estimates the radiative forcing by biomass burning and dust aerosols over the Indian subcontinent, with emphasis on the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) during the period from January 2021 to April 2021, based on multiple satellite and reanalysi...
Surface albedo plays a controlling role in the surface energy budget, and albedo-induced radiative forcing has a significant impact on climate and environmental change (e.g., global warming, snow and ice melt, soil and vegetation degradation, and urb...
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ), as a foundational element of urban climate zone classification proposed by Oke and Stewart, categorizes urban surface types based on 10 influential parameters affecting the urban heat island effect, such as building dens...
Forty years ago, climate scientists predicted the Arctic to be one of Earth’s most sensitive climate regions and thus extremely vulnerable to increased CO2. The rapid and unprecedented changes observed in the Arctic confirm this prediction. Especiall...
Global soil moisture has undergone significant changes in recent decades due to climate change and vegetation greening. However, the seasonal and climate zonal variations in soil moisture dynamics at different depths, driven by both climate and veget...
Rising global temperatures are driving an urgent need for buildings that consume less energy while maintaining comfort. Cooling demand is surging worldwide, yet conventional air-conditioning remains energy-intensive and carbon-heavy. Against this bac...
Oilfield-produced brine is a major source of salt contamination in soil and groundwater. Salt transport in the upper soil layers is controlled by the atmospheric interactions via infiltration of meteoritic water. In lower layers, it is controlled by...
We investigate the effects of solar forcing on the North Atlantic (NA) summer climate, in climate simulations with Earth System Models (ESMs), over the preindustrial past millennium (AD 850–1849). We use one simulation and a four-member ensemble perf...
Arctic sea ice exhibits rapid reductions and large fluctuations during recent decades in conjunction with a warming climate. Arctic sea ice shows a prominent seasonal cycle with the maximum extent in spring and the minimum extent in fall. In this stu...
Accurate climate data at fine spatial resolution are essential for scientific research and the development and planning of crucial social systems, such as energy and agriculture. Among them, sea surface temperature plays a critical role as the associ...
Cloud-based Earth observation platforms, such as data cubes, enable reproducible analyses of long-term satellite time series for climate and urban studies. In parallel, Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) provide a standardised framework for monitorin...
To analyze the climatic evolution of Greece, the ERA5-Land dataset, providing high spatial (~9 km) and temporal (daily) resolution, was utilized. Since the dataset comes from reanalysis (surface, satellite, and radiosonde measurements assimilated wit...
The future climate is anticipated to affect economic activities, the unique natural and forest ecosystems, agriculture, buildings, and communities in the region of the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. The current study, as part of the European project Re...
The most extreme precipitation event in Metropolitan Lima (ML) occurred on 15 January 1970 (16 mm), this event caused serious damage, and the real vulnerability of this city was evidenced; the population is still not prepared to resist events of this...
This study investigates recent changes in the surface area of Lake Marmara, a shallow lake located in western Türkiye under Mediterranean climate conditions, and their relationship with hydrometeorological variability. Lake surface area dynamics...
Climate variability and recurrent droughts have caused remarkable strain on water resources in most regions across the globe, with the arid and semi-arid areas being the hardest hit. The impacts have been notable on surface water resources, which are...
Water scarcity, aggravated by climate change impacts, threatens all sectors in arid regions and hampers sustainable development plans. This work aims to assess the potential impacts of climate change on surface water resources of Amman-Zerqa Basin, J...
In recent decades, the depletion of surface water resources within the Lake Urmia Basin (LUB), Iran, has emerged as a significant environmental concern. Both anthropogenic activities and climate change have influenced the availability and distributio...
Spatial and temporal variability in precipitation has been dramatically changed due to climate variability and climate change over the global domain. Increasing in extreme precipitation events are pronounced in various regions, including monsoon Asia...
In 2024, significant increases in surface temperature were recorded in Batam City and Bintan Regency, marking the highest levels observed in regional climate monitoring. The rapid conversion of vegetated land into residential and industrial areas has...
As one of the critical indicators of the lake ecosystem, the lake surface water temperature is an important indicator for measuring lake ecological environment. However, there is a complex nonlinear relationship between lake surface water temperature...
Using the two-box energy balance model (EBM), we explore the climate system response to radiative forcing generated by variations in the concentrations of stratospheric aerosols and estimate the effect of uncertainties in radiative feedbacks on chang...
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are photosynthetic bacteria that play a crucial role in aquatic ecosystems and are susceptible to changes in temperature. Hence, as global temperatures rise due to climate change, some Cyanobacterial spe...
The study of land–atmosphere (L–A) interactions is an emerging field in which the effects of the land on the atmosphere are strongly considered. Though this coupled approach is becoming more popular in atmospheric research, L–A inte...
The cryosphere is an essential part of the earth system for understanding climate change. Components of the cryosphere, such as ice sheets and sea ice, are generally decreasing over time. However, previous studies have indicated differing trends betw...
30 December 2022
Urban spatial identity is declining in Chinese cities overall due to urbanization, which is attracting increasing attention from the government. Research gaps include systematically comparing urban identities based on causes and manifestations in sma...
Although the climate change projections are produced by global models, studying the impact of climatic change on water resources is commonly investigated at catchment scale where the measurements are taken, and water management decisions are made. Fo...
This study presents the projected future evolution of water resource balance and nitrate pollution under various climate change scenarios and climatic models using a holistic approach. The study area is Almyros Basin and its aquifer system, located i...
The impact of climate change on surface runoff and soil moisture in the source region of the Yellow River is analyzed, which will provide a scientific basis for the rational use and protection of water resources in the source area. In this paper, the...
Atmospheric pollutants and environmental indicators are often used to reconstruct historic atmospheric pollution from peat, as it accumulates over time by decomposing plant material, thus recording a history of air pollution. In the present study, th...
In Mexico, buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris) was introduced in the middle of the 20th century. Currently, buffelgrass has become an invasive species and has colonized various ecosystems in the country. In addition to its invasive capacity, climate chan...
The surface water resources of the West Kazakhstan Region (WKR) face escalating vulnerability due to the synergistic effects of a sharply continental climate, which intensifies climate change impacts, and rapidly increasing anthropogenic water demand...
Impervious surface information is an important indicator to describe urban development and environmental changes. The substantial increase in impervious surface area will have a significant impact on the regional landscape and environment. Therefore,...
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