Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Global climate changes cause extreme temperatures and a significant reduction in crop
production, leading to food insecurity worldwide. Temperature extremes (including both heat …

2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

A severe agricultural drought swept Central Asia in 2021, causing mass die-offs of crops and
livestock. The anthropogenic contribution to declines in soil moisture in this region over …

In this paper, future drought characteristics (frequency, duration and intensity) over China
are analysed by using four climate models from CMIP6 under the seven SSP-RCP (shared …

Droughts of the future are likely to be more frequent, severe, and longer lasting than they
have been in recent decades, but drought risks will be lower if greenhouse gas emissions …

North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the
physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to …

Two questions motivated this study: 1) Will meteorological droughts become more frequent
and severe during the twenty-first century? 2) Given the projected global temperature rise, to …