Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

The perfect ocean for drought

M Hoerling, A Kumar - Science, 2003 - science.org
The 1998–2002 droughts spanning the United States, southern Europe, and Southwest Asia
were linked through a common oceanic influence. Cold sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in …

Active out-of-sequence thrust faulting in the central Nepalese Himalaya

C Wobus, A Heimsath, K Whipple, K Hodges - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Recent convergence between India and Eurasia is commonly assumed to be
accommodated mainly along a single fault—the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT)—which …

Climatic trends and advancing spring flight of butterflies in lowland California

ML Forister, AM Shapiro - Global change biology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies, largely from cool‐temperate latitudes, have investigated the relationship
between the timing of biological events and changes in climatic conditions during the past …

Large contribution of sea surface warming to recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity

MA Saunders, AS Lea - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Atlantic hurricane activity has increased significantly since 1995 (refs), but the underlying
causes of this increase remain uncertain,,,,,,,,,,,. It is widely thought that rising Atlantic sea …

Satellite based analysis of northern ET trends and associated changes in the regional water balance from 1983 to 2005

K Zhang, JS Kimball, Q Mu, LA Jones, SJ Goetz… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
We developed an evapotranspiration (ET) algorithm driven by satellite remote sensing
inputs, including AVHRR GIMMS NDVI, MODIS land cover and NASA/GEWEX solar …

Impact of climate change on intense Bay of Bengal tropical cyclones of the post-monsoon season: a pseudo global warming approach

P Jyoteeshkumar Reddy, D Sriram, SS Gunthe… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Tropical cyclones (TCs) that make landfall over India's east coast are responsible for
significant loss of life along affected coastlines. TCs forming over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) …

Ablation and associated energy balance of a horizontal glacier surface on Kilimanjaro

T Mölg, DR Hardy - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The surface energy balance of a glacier describes the physical connection between
ice/snow ablation and climatic forcing. To expand knowledge on the response of …

How ENSO impacts precipitation in southwest central Asia

A Mariotti - Geophysical research letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A linkage between ENSO and the hydroclimatic variability of the southwest central Asia
region (SWCA) is established through observational analysis of precipitation, moisture flux …

Climate-driven changes to the atmospheric CO2 sink in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

JE Dore, R Lukas, DW Sadler, DM Karl - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The oceans represent a significant sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Variability in the
strength of this sink occurs on interannual timescales, as a result of regional and basin-scale …