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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Mendip Hills (Somerset, UK) boasts its pastoral landscape, but are also vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding due to climate change. Abstract Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli‐fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub‐genre of ecopoetry which
Chao Xie
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Where are cirrus clouds and why are they there [PDF]
The cirrus cloud climatology of Wylie and Menzel (1988) and some ancillary studies of cirrus clouds that have been made using the same data are summarized.
Wylie, Donald P.
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A Multimethod Investigation of the Lake Agnes Rock Glacier, Colorado, USA
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rock glaciers are important headwater landforms that play a key role in alpine hydrology. North American rock glaciers are estimated to contain the third largest water volume equivalent globally, and over 3800 rock glaciers have been mapped in Colorado alone. However, these features are often overlooked in alpine water budgets.
Brianna Rick +5 more
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Unseen urgency: Delay as the new denial
WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Arizona 2020 (credit: Joseph Alexander). Abstract The scientific grounds for the urgency of action to limit climate change are relatively well‐understood. Much less well appreciated, however, are the contingent, but nevertheless profound, political reasons for the urgency of immediate robust action.
Henry Shue
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Emergent Trends Complicate the Interpretation of the United States Drought Monitor (USDM)
AGU AdvancesEffective drought management must be informed by an understanding of whether and how current drought monitoring and assessment practices represent underlying nonstationary climate conditions, either naturally occurring or forced by climate change.
Zhiying Li +4 more
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Lightning Occurrence between 2016 and 2020 in Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
IngenieríaContext: Lightning is a powerful natural phenomenon that poses a risk to life and infrastructure, given the enormous amounts of energy it can transfer in short periods of time, especially in cloud-to-ground strikes.
Fernando Díaz-Ortiz +3 more
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Reports to the Nation on our changing planet. Winter 1991 No. 1: The climate system [PDF]
This pamphlet is a semi-annual report for the period April 1992 through September 1992 dealing with the study of climatology. This introductory pamphlet treats in the simplest of terms such topics as climate change, the greenhouse effect, the global heat
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