Seasonal and Ephemeral Snowpacks of the Conterminous United States
Hydrology, 2021 Snowpack seasonality in the conterminous United States (U.S.) is examined using a recently-released daily, 4 km spatial resolution gridded snow water equivalent and snow depth product developed by assimilating station-based observations and gridded ...
Benjamin J. Hatchett
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Stable isotope variations of dew under three different climates
Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) stable isotope variation • dew Technology Type(s) water vapour isotope analysis Factor Type(s) climate • temporal interval Sample Characteristic - Environment desert climate • Mediterranean climate • humid continental climate Sample ...
Chao Tian +8 more
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Potential distribution of three types of ephemeral plants under climate changes
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 BackgroundArid and semi-arid regions account for about 40% of the world’s land surface area, and are the most sensitive areas to climate change, leading to a dramatic expansion of arid regions in recent decades. Ephemeral plants are crucial herbs in this
Zhang Lan +10 more
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The potential habitat of desert locusts is contracting: predictions under climate change scenarios [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Desert locusts are notorious for their widespread distribution and strong destructive power. Their influence extends from the vast arid and semiarid regions of western Africa to northwestern India.
Jingyun Guan +5 more
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Boreal fire records in Northern Hemisphere ice cores: a review [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2016 Here, we review different attempts made since the early 1990s to reconstruct past forest fire activity using chemical signals recorded in ice cores extracted from the Greenland ice sheet and a few mid-northern latitude, high-elevation glaciers.
M. Legrand +12 more
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Expansion of the Sahara Desert and shrinking of frozen land of the Arctic. [PDF]
, 2020 Expansion of the Sahara Desert (SD) and greening of the Arctic tundra-glacier region (ArcTG) have been hot subjects under extensive investigations. However, quantitative and comprehensive assessments of the landform changes in these regions are lacking ...
Liu, Ye, Xue, Yongkang
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Life form classification and biological spectrum of Chiktan valley, North West Himalaya
Environment Conservation Journal, 2014 The life form classification and construction of biological spectrum of Chiktan valley of Kargil district in Ladakh region of North West Himalaya has been done after complete enumeration of floristic composition.
Anil K. Raina, Abdul Hamid
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On the stability of the atmosphere-vegetation system in the Sahara/Sahel region [PDF]
, 1998 A conceptual model has been developed for the analysis of atmosphere-vegetation interaction in subtropical deserts. The model can exhibit multiple stable states-in the system: a "desert" equilibrium with low precipitation and absent vegetation and a ...
Brovkin, V. +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The ecological system of the desert/grassland biome transition zone is fragile and extremely sensitive to climate change and human activities. Analyzing the relationships between vegetation, climate factors (precipitation and temperature), and human ...
Shupu Wu +4 more
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Investigating the relation between built area, occupant number and energy consumption in first modern residential buildings (Case study: 1970s houses in the semi-arid climate of Shiraz, Iran) [PDF]
Desert, 2014 Energy consumption in the residential sector is a complex socio-technical problem that can be explained using acombination of physical, demographic and behavioural characteristics of a house and its occupants.
Zahra Barzegar, Sh. Heidari
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