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Climate, Volume 9, Issue 1

2021 January - 17 articles

Cover Story: The goal of our study is to evaluate the effects of climate change upon the Lake Como inflows, to provide a tool to help policy makers to evaluate adaptation strategies, under the framework of the Interreg Project GE.RI.KO. MERA, focusing upon the Mera river. The Poli-Hydro model is used to simulate the cryospheric processes of this catchment. Model accuracy is demonstrated against historical hydrological observations (2002-2018). We then used four scenarios, provided by three GCMs under the IPCC AR6, to project potential climate change and hydrological impact until 2100. The climate projections highlight an increase in temperature at the end of the century, possibly leading to a decrease of the contribution of snow and ice melt. Overall, annual Lake inflows would increase during autumn and winter and decrease in summer. View this paper.
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Articles (17)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,280 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2021

This paper presents an analysis to foresee renewable design requirement changes of net- zero carbon buildings (NZCBs) under different scenarios of potential future climate scenarios in the U.S. Northeast and Midwest regions. A climate change model is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,882 Views
13 Pages

18 January 2021

Climate change is expected to have an impact on the geographical distribution ranges of species. Endemic species and those with a restricted geographic range may be especially vulnerable. The Persian jird (Meriones persicus) is an endemic rodent inha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,313 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2021

There is increasing evidence that rising temperatures and heatwaves in the United Kingdom are associated with an increase in heat-related mortality. However, the Public Health England (PHE) Heatwave mortality monitoring reports, which use provisional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,046 Views
22 Pages

Promoting Low-Carbon Tourism through Adaptive Regional Certification

  • Alex Baumber,
  • John Merson and
  • Chris Lockhart Smith

14 January 2021

Climate change is a key issue in sustainable tourism, both in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the tourism sector and the potential impacts of climate change on tourism-dependent regions. Low-carbon tourism is an emerging paradigm b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,802 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2021

The changing climate and its current rate, frequency, as well as its life-threatening impacts are undoubtedly abnormal and globally worrisome. Its effects are expected to be severely different across segments of the society. It is disposed to leaving...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,583 Views
18 Pages

Flood Vulnerability Analysis in Urban Context: A Socioeconomic Sub-Indicators Overview

  • Velia Bigi,
  • Elena Comino,
  • Magda Fontana,
  • Alessandro Pezzoli and
  • Maurizio Rosso

9 January 2021

Despite indicators-based assessment models for flood vulnerability being a well-established methodology, a specific set of indicators that are universally or widely accepted has not been recognized yet. This work aims to review previous studies in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,527 Views
21 Pages

Climate Change and Thermal Comfort in Greece

  • Harry D. Kambezidis,
  • Basil E. Psiloglou,
  • Konstantinos V. Varotsos and
  • Christos Giannakopoulos

8 January 2021

Global warming is an environmental issue keeping all nations alert. Under this consideration, the present work investigates the future thermal sensation of the Greek population. Three periods are selected (2021–2050, 2046–2075, 2071–2100) and two Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,194 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2021

Annual trends in storm wave intensity over the past 41 years were evaluated during the present study. Storm wave intensity is evaluated in terms of total storm wave energy (TSWE) and storm power index (SPI) of Dolan and Davis (1992). Using an accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,963 Views
18 Pages

Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 °C on Hydrologic Regimes in the Northeastern U.S.

  • Ridwan Siddique,
  • Alfonso Mejia,
  • Naoki Mizukami and
  • Richard N. Palmer

7 January 2021

Regional climate change impacts show a wide range of variations under different levels of global warming. Watersheds in the northeastern region of the United States (NEUS) are projected to undergo the most severe impacts from climate change in the fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,751 Views
24 Pages

Future Hydrology of the Cryospheric Driven Lake Como Catchment in Italy under Climate Change Scenarios

  • Flavia Fuso,
  • Francesca Casale,
  • Federico Giudici and
  • Daniele Bocchiola

6 January 2021

We present an assessment of climate change impact on the hydrology of the Lago di Como lake catchment of Italy. On one side, the lake provides water for irrigation of the Po valley during summer, and on the other side its regulation is crucial to pre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
45,511 Views
14 Pages

4 January 2021

Society is at an important intersection in dealing with the challenges of climate change, and this paper is presented at a critical juncture in light of growing recognition that the natural sciences are insufficient to deal with these challenges. Cri...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,511 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2020

Throughout history, food adequacy has been one of the most critical parameters for the survival of human societies. The prevailing atmospheric conditions have always been recognised as the primary and most uncontrolled factors that determine crop pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,281 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2020

Climate change is expected to substantially reduce future crop yields in South Africa, thus affecting food security and livelihood. Adaptation strategies need to be implemented to mitigate the effect of climate change-induced yield losses. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,247 Views
9 Pages

29 December 2020

Based on high carbon emissions in recent years (i.e., about 11 metric tons in 2018) per capita in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents, Taiwan has actively development greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction action plans. One of the action plans has been to pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,366 Views
18 Pages

29 December 2020

Although recurrent floods cause detrimental impact for the people living in riverine floodplains, households are taking up various risks management strategies to deal with them. This paper examined household’s post-disaster coping strategies to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,701 Views
22 Pages

25 December 2020

The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a large-scale convective and circulation system that propagates slowly eastward over the equatorial Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Multiple, conflicting theories describe its growth and propagation, most inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,968 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2020

Extreme climate events are typically defined based on the statistical distributions of climatic variables; their ecological significance is often ignored. In this study, precipitation and temperature data from 78 weather stations spanning from 1960 t...

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