One of the possible consequences of projected global warming is the progressive
enlargement of drylands. This study investigates to what extent population and land-use …

The spatial and temporal changes in annual and seasonal aridity, the shift of land from one
arid class to another and the effect of this shift on different landuses in Iran during 1951 …

Abstract The health of United States forests is of concern for biodiversity conservation,
ecosystem services, forest commercial values, and other reasons. Climate change, rising …

The changing characteristics of aridity over a larger spatiotemporal scale have gained
interest in recent years due to climate change. The long-term (1901–2016) changes in …

A quantitative framework for characterizing the intensity of the water cycle over land is
presented, and illustrated using a spatially distributed water-balance model of the …

Rainfall events largely control hydrological processes occurring on and in the ground, but
the performance of climate models in reproducing rainfall events has not been investigated …

Precipitation has an important impact on crop growth, water resources, industrial/agricultural
production, and ecological services. Compared to widely used precipitation amount …

Trends in US Hourly Precipitation Variance 1949–2009 in: Journal of Hydrometeorology
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The rise in global mean temperature is an incomplete description of warming. For many
purposes, including agriculture and human life, temperature extremes may be more …

One of the most significant challenges is to know the extent to which climate change is
affecting humanity. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …