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A copula-based assessment of renewable energy droughts across Europe [PDF]
, 2022 Meeting carbon-reduction targets will require thorough consideration of climate variability and climate change due to the increasing share of climate-sensitive renewable energy sources (RES).
Bloomfield, Hannah +4 more
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On the spatio-temporal analysis of hydrological droughts from global hydrological models [PDF]
, 2011 The recent concerns for world-wide extreme events related to climate change have motivated the development of large scale models that simulate the global water cycle.
G. A. Corzo Perez +9 more
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Journal of Environmental Geography, 2020 The article discusses the causes and effects of the plague which is said to have spread over many Polish towns in 1507. The focus is on its possible causes, related to the occurrence of droughts and floods in Central Europe in the late 15th and early ...
Związek Tomasz
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Earth's Future, 2022 For many years now, studies on climate change impacts on continental hydrology have suffered from conflicting results between different approaches. On the one hand, studies relying on widely used, simple metrics of land water availability, such as the ...
Alexis Berg
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, 2023 The Great Lakes are critical freshwater sources, supporting millions of people, agriculture, and ecosystems. However, climate change has worsened droughts, leading to significant economic and social consequences.
Norinah Abd Rahman (17310374) +4 more
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Intensification of fire regimes and forest loss in the Território Indígena do Xingu
Environmental 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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Poverty involves both low income levels and high income uncertainty. Do both these dimensions of being poor capture attention in ways that distort decision-making and trap people in poverty? We examine these issues using real-life shocks faced by farmers in Brazil: random payday variation affecting income levels, and rainfall shocks that affect income ...
Lichand, Guilherme, Mani, Anandi
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2015 Although a good agricultural-yielding region when adequate rainfall is available the Little Karoo is plagued by regular, recurring and sometimes devastating droughts.
Wessel Visser
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Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil
Environmental 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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Predicting droughts and floods: why we’re studying 19th-century ocean records [PDF]
, 2021 Floods have caused unprecedented damage in Europe recently, while in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the equivalent of a year’s worth of average rainfall fell in just three days.
Marsh, Robert +3 more
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