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Intensification of fire regimes and forest loss in the Território Indígena do Xingu

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022
The contemporary fire regime of southern Amazonian forests has been dominated by interactions between droughts and sources of fire ignition associated with deforestation and slash-and-burn agriculture.
Divino V Silvério   +9 more
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A Framework on Analyzing Long-Term Drought Changes and Its Influential Factors Based on the PDSI

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2022
Drought is one of the most frequent and most widespread natural disasters worldwide, significantly impacting agricultural production and the ecological environment.
Bing Yang   +4 more
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Estimation of Water Loss Due to Evaporation in the El Cazadero Dam, Mexico, during a Drought

open access: yesCiencia e Ingeniería Neogranadina, 2021
In Mexico, large dams have been a critical component of the water supply. However, the places where they can be built are scarcer every day, a situation that adds to the high costs and social conflicts that they cause. Much of the water stored in dams is
Pedro Antonio Guido Aldana   +2 more
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Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over the past few decades in South America, and particularly in Brazil. Regional climate change projections indicate a future aggravation of this trend.
João L Geirinhas   +5 more
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Droughts and low water levels in late medieval Hungary II: 1361, 1439, 1443-4, 1455, 1473, 1480, 1482(?), 1502-3, 1506: Documentary versus tree-ring (OWDA) evidence

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Geography, 2017
As a continuation of the first paper from the late medieval drought series related to medieval Hungary, we present, analyse and compare further late medieval drought data, based on contemporary direct and indirect written sources.
Kiss Andrea
doaj   +1 more source

The Assessment of Time–Area and Clark Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph Models in Estimating Flood Discharge in Bazoft Karoon [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2012
One of the main objectives in hydrology is rainfall–runoff forecasting systems for determination of flood hydrograph in outlet of a watershed. Flood discharge could be estimated using rainfall-runoff models, which explain hydrological phenomena for un ...
Saeed Jahanbakhshasl   +4 more
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Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Improved C4 Xero-Halophyte Kochia prostrata Physiological Performance under Saline Conditions

open access: yesPlants, 2021
A significant increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration and associated climate aridization and soil salinity are factors affecting the growth, development, productivity, and stress responses of plants.
Zulfira Rakhmankulova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An early-warning indicator for Amazon droughts exclusively based on tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2020
Droughts in tropical South America have an imminent and severe impact on the Amazon rainforest and affect the livelihoods of millions of people. Extremely dry conditions in Amazonia have been previously linked to sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies ...
Catrin Ciemer   +5 more
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Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2021
Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high‐resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from SW ...
Matthew J. Jacobson   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, the main goal of the Special Issue on “Remote sensing for water resources and environmental management” was to solicit papers from a diverse range of scientists around the world on the
Timothy Dube   +2 more
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