Unveiling the impact of rapid urbanization on human comfort: a remote sensing-based study in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh

MA Fayshal, MJ Uddin, MN Haque… - Environment, Development …, 2024 - Springer
The present study unveils the environmental impacts of land cover changes upon land
surface temperature (LST) in Rajshahi division, Bangladesh, focusing on human thermal …

Influence of growing season temperature and precipitation anomalies on crop yield in the southeastern United States

MA Eck, AR Murray, AR Ward, CE Konrad - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates the spatiotemporal relationships between growing season
precipitation, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature anomalies on yield for corn …

The 2016 southeastern US drought: An extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling

A Park Williams, BI Cook, JE Smerdon… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fall 2016 drought in the southeastern United States (SE US) appeared exceptional
based on its widespread impacts, but the current monitoring framework that only extends …

Impacts of forest loss on local climate across the conterminous United States: Evidence from satellite time-series observations

Y Li, Y Liu, G Bohrer, Y Cai, A Wilson, T Hu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest disturbances alter land biophysics. Their impacts on local climate and land surface
temperature (LST) cannot be directly measured by comparing pre-and post-disturbance …

Circulation dampened heat extremes intensification over the Midwest USA and amplified over Western Europe

J Singh, S Sippel, EM Fischer - Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Globally heat extremes have intensified in recent decades. However, while Western Europe
shows a remarkably strong intensification of heat extremes, the Midwest United States …

Empirical patterns of environmental variation favor adaptive transgenerational plasticity

JM Colicchio, J Herman - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Effects of parental environment on offspring traits have been well known for
decades. Interest in this transgenerational form of phenotypic plasticity has recently surged …

Spatially distinct seasonal patterns and forcings of the US warming hole

TF Partridge, JM Winter, EC Osterberg… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel approach to characterize the spatiotemporal evolution of regional
cooling across the eastern United States (commonly called the US warming hole), by …

High-resolution GOES insolation–evapotranspiration data set for water resource management in Florida: 1995–2015

JR Mecikalski, WB Shoemaker, Q Wu… - Journal of Irrigation …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
This paper reviews and summarizes the continued development of satellite-based estimates
of insolation (incoming solar radiation), reference evapotranspiration (RET), and potential …

Mid-20th century warming hole boosts US maize yields

TF Partridge, JM Winter, L Liu, AD Kendall… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Corn Belt of the United States, one of the most agriculturally productive regions
in the world, experienced a globally anomalous decrease in annual temperatures and a …

Low-flow trends at Southeast United States streamflow gauges

TA Stephens, BP Bledsoe - Journal of Water Resources Planning …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Water management and infrastructure design depend on quantifying thresholds in minimum
flows. Decreasing trends in low flows have been observed at many stream gauges in the …