Brief Communication: Early season snowpack loss and implications for oversnow vehicle recreation travel planning [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 Oversnow vehicle recreation contributes to rural economies but requires a minimum snow depth to mitigate negative impacts on the environment. Daily snow water equivalent (SWE) observations from weather stations in the Lake Tahoe region (western USA) and ...
B. J. Hatchett +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Millennial-scale environmental histories from North American desert southwest (SW) ciénegas were examined with existing time series for the North American Monsoon (NAM) and El Niño, in concert with published long-term records of desert vegetation and ...
Andrea Brunelle
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Uncertainties in classification system conversion and an analysis of inconsistencies in global land cover products [PDF]
, 2017 In this study, using the common classification systems of IGBP-17, IGBP-9, IPCC-5 and TC (vegetation, wetlands and others only), we studied spatial and areal inconsistencies in the three most recent multi-resource land cover products in a complex ...
De Maeyer, Philippe +3 more
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Deserts: biodiversity + climate change
, 2023 Presentation slides given at Smithsonian NMNH on May 1st ...
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Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records [PDF]
, 2009 Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the coastal settings of the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 ...
Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie +6 more
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Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States
Atmospheric Science Letters, 2023 The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management.
John T. Abatzoglou +4 more
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Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2022 [Objective] The present situation, problems, and development strategy for comprehensive control in the desert regions of China in the context of international and national conditions, science and technology, and climate change in a new era were studied ...
Xiao Jianhua +3 more
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Desert locust populations, rainfall and climate change: insights from phenomenological models using gridded monthly data [PDF]
, 2010 Using autocorrelation analysis and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)modelling, we analysed a time series of the monthly number of 1° grid squares infested with desert locust Schistocerca gregaria swarms throughout the geographical range of
Cheke, Robert A. +3 more
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Quantification of the Tourism Climate of Algeria Based on the Climate-Tourism-Information-Scheme
Atmosphere, 2018 The relevance and role of aesthetic, thermal and physical facets to climatic tourism potential over Algeria at 12.00 UTC (13.00 local time) are analyzed.
Salah Sahabi Abed, Andreas Matzarakis
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Reviewing the International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2006: What contribution towards combating global desertification and implementing the united nations convention to combat desertification? [PDF]
, 2008 During the United Nations General Assembly's 58th Ordinary Session in 2003, a decision was adopted declaring 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (IYDD). This paper critically reviews this International Year.
Barraclough +35 more
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