European extreme events climate index (E3CI): a climate service for weather induced hazard
Frontiers in ClimateIn recent years, Europe has experienced a notable increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.
Giuseppe Giugliano +12 more
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Climate index; Cold events; Extreme; Precipitations.
Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science, 2021 The cold events and Precipitation conditions having special attention in the last years due to their impact on human health, ecosystems, and other aspects such as agriculture, hydrology.
Ali. j. Mohammed +2 more
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The survey of linkage between climate changes and desertification using extreme climate index software [PDF]
Desert, 2008 Climate is the most important factor which control desertification .In order to detect climate changes in desert zones, time trend analysis is applied to extreme indices in Kashan station using extreme climate index software (ECIS).
F. Taghavia, H. Mohammadi
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Tree-growth synchrony index, an effective indicator of historical climatic extremes
Ecological ProcessesBackground Tree rings play an important role in reconstructing past climate. Growth differences among individual trees due to microclimatic conditions and local disturbances are averaged in developing tree-ring chronologies.
Hengfeng Jia +5 more
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Comprehensive index of extreme climate risk in China and urban sustainable development
Chinese Journal of Population Resources and EnvironmentClimate change severely challenges our ecosystem and society, affecting urban residents’ socioeconomic activities. Thus, assessing severe weather risk is crucial for evaluating urban sustainability; understanding trends, causes, and impacts on socioeconomic development; and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13.
Feng Dong
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Revising NCEI’s Climate Extremes Index and the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to Analyze Climate Extremes Vulnerability across the United States [PDF]
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2021 AbstractThe occurrence of extreme weather and climate events has increased in recent decades. This increasing frequency has adversely impacted economic and health outcomes, leading to an increasingly urgent need to study climate extremes. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) created the Climate Extremes Index (CEI) in 1996 to ...
Emily L. Pauline +3 more
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Extreme climate and crime: Empirical evidence based on 129 prefecture-level cities in China
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate change is having profound effects on natural and socio-economic systems, especially via extreme climate events. Using panel data from 129 prefectural-level cities in China from 2013 to 2019, this paper explores the effects of extreme climate on ...
Jiquan Peng, Zhijun Zhan
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Impact of Extreme Climate on the NDVI of Different Steppe Areas in Inner Mongolia, China
Remote Sensing, 2022 The frequency of extreme climate events has increased resulting in major changes to vegetation in arid and semi-arid areas. We selected 12 extreme climate indices and used trend analysis and multiple linear regression models to analyze extreme climate ...
Kuan Chen +6 more
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Future Extreme Climate Analysis of Jeju Using Climate Change Scenario and ETCCDI Index [PDF]
Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, 2021 According to the fifth IPCC report, artificial greenhouse gases are at their highest level since they were first observed, and climate change is expected to have a significant impact on the ecosystem, necessitating a response from Korea. For the purpose of this study, Jeju Island was selected as the target area; the annual average precipitation of the ...
Jin Woo Jeong +2 more
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Change in climatic extremes over mainland China based on an integrated extreme climate index [PDF]
Climate Research, 2011 An Integrated Extreme Climatic Index (IECI) is defined for analyzing the overall trend of change in the frequencies of major extreme climatic events over mainland China. The index is composed of 7 individual extreme indicators, i.e. the country-averaged frequencies of high temperature, low temperature, intense precipitation, dust storm and strong wind ...
G Ren +9 more
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