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A deep courtyard as the best building form for desert climatean introduction to effects of air movement (Case study: Yazd) [PDF]

Desert, 2010
A basic aim of low energy architecture is to create a thermally comfortable internal environment for building occupants whilst consuming the least possible amount of energy. In desert countries this aim is more difficult to achieve since high ambient air
shahin heidari
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Deserts: biodiversity + climate change

, 2023
Presentation slides given at Smithsonian NMNH on May 1st ...
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Interactions Among the Fire, Vegetation, the North American Monsoon and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the North American Desert Southwest

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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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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Present Situation, Problems and Development Strategy for Comprehensive Control in Desert Regions of China in New Era

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, Qu Jianjun, Yao Zhengyi, Pang Yingjun   +3 more
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Revealing the Fingerprint of Climate Change in Interannual NDVI Variability among Biomes in Inner Mongolia, China

Remote Sensing, 2020
An understanding of the response of interannual vegetation variations to climate change is critical for the future projection of ecosystem processes and developing effective coping strategies. In this study, the spatial pattern of interannual variability
Linghui Guo, Liyuan Zuo, Jiangbo Gao, Yuan Jiang, Yongling Zhang, Shouchen Ma, Youfeng Zou, Shaohong Wu   +7 more
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Potential Spread of Desert Locust Schistocerca gregagia (Orthoptera: Acrididae) under Climate Change Scenarios

Diversity, 2023
The desert locust Schistocerca gregagia (Forskål, 1775) is one of the most harmful migratory pests in the world, posing a major threat to agricultural production, livelihoods, and food security.
Qianhong Tang, Jianmeng Feng, Donglin Zong, Jing Zhou, Xiaokang Hu, Bingru Wang, Tao Wang   +6 more
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Passive house for a desert climate [PDF]

WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2014
The first phase of the project presented in this paper consisted of an analysis of the current conditions of the users of social housing units, and has been carried out in different Mexican climatic zones. This diagnosis focused primarily on identifying the users’ satisfaction relative to diverse aspects of the house, such as the function of the space,
I. Marincic, J. M. Ochoa, M. G. Alpuche
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Decreased cold‐sensing function of the transient receptor potential channel TRPM8 from tailed amphibians

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Despite frogs avoiding low temperatures, examination of four salamander species revealed that none avoided cold and all possessed cold tolerance. Functional analysis of TRPM8, a cold sensor, showed that all salamander TRPM8s had lost their cold sensitivity.
Tadahiro Sawao, Daiki Kobayashi, Shogo Hori, Osamu Saitoh   +3 more
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Machine learning shows a limit to rain-snow partitioning accuracy when using near-surface meteorology

Nature Communications
Partitioning precipitation into rain and snow with near-surface meteorology is a well-known challenge. However, whether a limit exists to its potential performance remains unknown.
Keith S. Jennings, Meghan Collins, Benjamin J. Hatchett, Anne Heggli, Nayoung Hur, Sonia Tonino, Anne W. Nolin, Guo Yu, Wei Zhang, Monica M. Arienzo   +9 more
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