This work projected future extreme climate indices' changes over Central Asia (The
Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment—CORDEX Region 8). Changes …

Central Asia covers a large land area of 5× 106 km2 and has unique temperate dryland
ecosystems, with over 80% of the world's temperate deserts, which has been experiencing …

Progresses in understanding climate variation and its ecosystem responses and feedback in
Central Asia have been limited by availability of high resolution and quality climate data. To …

Climate change has been thought to drive the accelerated expansion of global drylands.
However, many studies reveal that Arid Central Asia (ACA) has been warming and wetting …

Based on historical and RCP8. 5 experiments, along with 25 Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, we evaluate the skills of the CMIP5 …

Droughts have significant negative impacts on livelihoods and economy of Kazakhstan. In
this study, we assessed and characterized drought hazard events in Kazakhstan using …

Tree-ring-width chronologies for 33 samples of Picea abies (L.) Karst. were developed, and
a relationship between tree growth and hydrometeorological features was established and …

Drylands are terrestrial ecosystems sensitive to climate change. There are totally drylands of
5.17× 10 6 km 2 (above 80% of global total temperate desert area) in Central Asia (CAS), in …

Five satellite precipitation products, including Climate Prediction Center Morphing
Technique (CMORPH), Precipitation Estimation From Remotely Sensed Information Using …

Under the background of global warming, the studies of quantitative water vapor transport
characteristics in arid and semi-arid Central Asia are rare. We examine the spatiotemporal …