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Climate Risk Management, 2020 Increased frequency and intensity of flash floods and landslides in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam represent the most damaging hazards to the production activities and livelihoods of rural households, which are heavily reliant on agriculture.
Nga Thanh Thi Pham +3 more
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A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2019 Study region: This study has three spatial scales: global (0.5°), macro-regional, and country scale. The database of drought events has specific entries for each macro-region and country.
Jonathan Spinoni +8 more
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Weather and Climate Extremes, 2019 The site of the Samoan Parliament Complex Redevelopment Project is in a coastal environment hazard zone as a result of high risk of several hazards, including damaging winds and flooding due to stormtides.
John E. Hay, Peter Hartley, Jay Roop
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Climate Risk Management, 2018 Climate change is a cross-cutting issue and, as such, is most effectively addressed when mainstreamed in development planning. Assessing climate risk and mainstreaming adaptation into development plans ensures that hard-won development gains are not ...
Katharine Vincent, Willem Colenbrander
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Context matters: Context-related drivers of and barriers to climate information use
Climate Risk Management, 2018 This review addresses a critical research gap concerning why climate information (CI) is used (or not) and contributes to narrowing the knowledge-action gap to improve climate adaptation.
Julia A. Flagg, Christine J. Kirchhoff
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Mediterranean Sea climatic indices: monitoring long-term variability and climate changes [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2018 We present a new product composed of a set of thermohaline climatic indices from 1950 to 2015 for the Mediterranean Sea such as decadal temperature and salinity anomalies, their mean values over selected depths, decadal ocean heat and salt content ...
A. Iona +6 more
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Climate Risk Management, 2018 The concept boundary organization has been introduced to identify and explain a specific way of organizing the interface between science and policy. Although the original meaning of the concept has been criticized, the term has come to be frequently used
Karin M. Gustafsson, Rolf Lidskog
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The CRUTEM4 land-surface air temperature data set: construction, previous versions and dissemination via Google Earth [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2014 The CRUTEM4 (Climatic Research Unit Temperature, version 4) land-surface air temperature data set is one of the most widely used records of the climate system.
T. J. Osborn, P. D. Jones
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Uncertainty in satellite estimates of global mean sea-level changes, trend and acceleration [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2019 Satellite altimetry missions now provide more than 25 years of accurate, continuous and quasi-global measurements of sea level along the reference ground track of TOPEX/Poseidon.
M. Ablain +9 more
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An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2020 Several sets of reference regions have been used in the literature for the regional synthesis of observed and modelled climate and climate change information.
M. Iturbide +30 more
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