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Climate, Volume 12, Issue 9

September 2024 - 23 articles

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Cover Story: Climate change is a global phenomenon, but precipitation impacts are felt at the local scale. Thus, the availability of future local climate scenarios is crucial, especially in complex orographic areas where precipitation is driven by convective phenomena, which is difficult to detect using standard models. In this study, using an innovative neural network tool, we downscale a high-resolution regional climate model for two stations in the Italian Alps. This approach corrects biases and provides reliable local projections of seasonal precipitation. The results indicate a slight future decrease in precipitation across all seasons, except spring, but increased extremes at the higher elevation station. These findings deepen our understanding of climate change in the Alpine region. View this paper

Articles (23)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,666 Views
37 Pages

Characterization of Water Bodies through Hydro-Physical Indices and Anthropogenic Effects in the Eastern Northeast of Brazil

  • Christopher Horvath Scheibel,
  • Astrogilda Batista do Nascimento,
  • George do Nascimento Araújo Júnior,
  • Alexsandro Claudio dos Santos Almeida,
  • Thieres George Freire da Silva,
  • José Lucas Pereira da Silva,
  • Francisco Bento da Silva Junior,
  • Josivalter Araújo de Farias,
  • João Pedro Alves de Souza Santos and
  • José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior
  • + 6 authors

23 September 2024

Brazil, despite possessing the largest renewable freshwater reserves in the world (8.65 trillion m3 annually), faces growing challenges in water management due to increasing demand. Agriculture, responsible for 68.4% of water consumption, is one of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,279 Views
18 Pages

Community-Led Climate Preparedness and Resilience in Boston: New Evidence from Communities of Color

  • Katsyris Rivera-Kientz,
  • Rosalyn Negrón,
  • Lorena M. Estrada-Martínez,
  • Nyingilanyeofori Hannah Brown,
  • Chidimma Ozor Commer,
  • Mahesh Admankar,
  • Jessica Lillquist,
  • Nicholas Johnson,
  • Racheal Inegbedion and
  • Paul Watanabe

22 September 2024

Communities of color have been historically excluded and marginalized in the ongoing conversations about climate preparedness and resilience at local, national, and global levels. Using focus groups composed of Boston communities of color (Asian Amer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,246 Views
17 Pages

Assessing Heatwave-Related Deaths among Older Adults by Diagnosis and Urban/Rural Areas from 1999 to 2020 in Slovenia

  • Simona Perčič,
  • Katarina Bitenc,
  • Majda Pohar,
  • Anka Uršič,
  • Tanja Cegnar and
  • Ana Hojs

21 September 2024

Background: The association between mortality and heatwaves is well documented. Heatwaves frequency, intensity, and duration increase with global climate change. The most vulnerable group for dying during heatwaves is older people. Knowing which dise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,014 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2024

Predicting local precipitation patterns over the European Alps remains an open challenge due to many limitations. The complex orography of mountainous areas modulates climate signals, and in order to analyse extremes accurately, it is essential to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,404 Views
19 Pages

19 September 2024

Climate change presents an urgent global challenge, manifesting in rising temperatures and extreme weather events with severe societal impacts. The Eastern Mediterranean, warming faster than the global average, faces immediate repercussions. Climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,129 Views
21 Pages

16 September 2024

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a climate-resilient practice that stands out globally as an important practice through which we can deal with emerging challenges through adaptation and mitigation to increase crop productivity and resilience. Despi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,607 Views
22 Pages

Synergistic Impacts of Climate Change and Wildfires on Agricultural Sustainability—A Greek Case Study

  • Stavros Kalogiannidis,
  • Dimitrios Kalfas,
  • Maria Paschalidou and
  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis

14 September 2024

Climate change and wildfire effects have continued to receive great attention in recent times due to the impact they render on the environment and most especially to the field of agriculture. The purpose of this study was to assess the synergistic im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,421 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2024

Portugal is by far the country most affected by wildfires in Mediterranean Europe. The increase in frequency and severity of extreme years in the last two decades calls for a better understanding of the role played by climate variability and climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,305 Views
28 Pages

10 September 2024

Studying air Urban Heat Islands (AUHI) in African cities is limited by building height data scarcity and sparse air temperature (Tair) networks, leading to classification confusion and gaps in Tair data. Satellite imagery used in surface UHI (SUHI) a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,625 Views
25 Pages

Systematic Mapping of Climate Change Impacts on Human Security in Bangladesh

  • Ferdous Sultana,
  • Jan Petzold,
  • Sonali John,
  • Verena Muehlberger and
  • Jürgen Scheffran

9 September 2024

There is an increasing consensus that climate change undermines human security by exacerbating existing challenges, acting as a “threat multiplier”. Bangladesh is a climate hot spot due to its geographical location, dense population and v...

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