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Climate, Volume 7, Issue 10

2019 October - 9 articles

Cover Story: Anticipating seasonal climate anomalies is essential for defining short-term adaptation measures. For this to be actionable, many stakeholders require seasonal forecasts at a regional scale to be properly coupled to regional vulnerabilities. In this study, we present a regional-scale seasonal forecast system (SFS) over Central Italy resulting from a double dynamical downscaling performed through the climate model RegCM. An ensemble of the global-scale NCEP-CFSv2 provides driving fields. Firstly, RegCM dynamically downscales NCEP-CFSv2 predictions from a resolution of 100 to 60 km over Europe. The first downscaling drives a second downscaling over Central Italy at 12 km. To investigate the added value of downscaled forecasts, a three-step evaluation of the driving CFS and the two downscaled SFSs has been conducted. View this paper
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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,805 Views
19 Pages

The Global Trend of the Net Irrigation Water Requirement of Maize from 1960 to 2050

  • Abdoulaye Oumarou Abdoulaye,
  • Haishen Lu,
  • Yonghua Zhu,
  • Yousef Alhaj Hamoud and
  • Mohamed Sheteiwy

22 October 2019

Irrigated production around the world has significantly increased over the last decade. However, climate change is a new threat that could seriously aggravate the irrigation water supplies and request. In this study, the data is derived from the IPCC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,589 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2019

Changes in climate can be favorable as well as detrimental for natural and anthropogenic systems. Temperatures in Central Asia have risen significantly within the last decades whereas mean precipitation remains almost unchanged. However, climatic tre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
69,633 Views
15 Pages

16 October 2019

Climate change has been one of the most debated topics in the past few decades, but a number of challenges have hindered the development of robust policies and strategies by nations. At the same time, social media platforms—such as Instagram, T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,078 Views
17 Pages

Prospective Climate Change Impacts upon Energy Prices in the 21ST Century: A Case Study in Italy

  • Giovanni Martino Bombelli,
  • Andrea Soncini,
  • Alberto Bianchi and
  • Daniele Bocchiola

15 October 2019

The assessment of the effect of the electricity price on energy production is important when studying the profitability and benefits of energy systems. The demand and price of electricity depends upon societal and economic development, but it is subj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,956 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2019

Anticipating seasonal climate anomalies is essential for defining short-term adaptation measures. To be actionable, many stakeholders require seasonal forecasts at the regional scale to be properly coupled to region-specific vulnerabilities. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
158 Citations
33,517 Views
24 Pages

4 October 2019

The population that lives in cities has surpassed the one that lives in the countryside. Cities are recognized as apriority source of pollution. The degradation of air quality and the phenomenon of Urban Heat Island (UHI) are some of the most well-kn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,300 Views
14 Pages

Visual Narrative of the Loss of Energy after Natural Disasters

  • Gerardo Castañeda-Garza,
  • Gabriel Valerio-Ureña and
  • Takako Izumi

30 September 2019

Concerns exists regarding natural disasters, but what about the resulting power outages? This study investigates the characteristics of a digital visual narrative depicting the loss of electrical power after a natural disaster to identify how such si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,643 Views
20 Pages

Precipitation Trends over the Indus Basin

  • Nir Y. Krakauer,
  • Tarendra Lakhankar and
  • Ghulam H. Dars

26 September 2019

A large population relies on water input to the Indus basin, yet basinwide precipitation amounts and trends are not well quantified. Gridded precipitation data sets covering different time periods and based on either station observations, satellite r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,470 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Combined CO2 and O3 Exposures on Net CO2 Assimilation and Biomass Allocation in Seedlings of the Late-Successional Fagus Crenata

  • Hiroyuki Tobita,
  • Masabumi Komatsu,
  • Hisanori Harayama,
  • Kenichi Yazaki,
  • Satoshi Kitaoka and
  • Mitsutoshi Kitao

26 September 2019

We examined the effects of elevated CO2 and elevated O3 concentrations on net CO2 assimilation and growth of Fagus crenata in a screen-aided free-air concentration-enrichment (FACE) system. Seedlings were exposed to ambient air (control), elevated CO...

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