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A Gendered Approach to Understanding Climate Change Impacts in Rural Kyrgyzstan
This chapter explores climate change impacts and the related experiences and realities of local women in rural Kyrgyzstan by combining research on the physical impacts of climate change in the Central Asian re...
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Climate Change: A Growing Threat for Central Asia
Central Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change owing to a set of critical interactions between the region’s socio-economic and environmental contexts. While some of the Central Asian countries are among t...
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Open AccessHow can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy thei...
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Global Economic Responses to Heat Stress Impacts on Worker Productivity in Crop Production
The impacts of climate change on the food system are a key concern for societies and policy makers globally. Assessments of the biophysical impacts of crop productivity show modest but uncertain impacts. But c...
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A Relational Vulnerability Analytic: Exploring Hybrid Methodologies for Human Dimensions of Climate Change Research in the Himalayas
Vulnerability assessments are critical tools when exploring the Human Dimensions of Climate Change in the Global South. Additionally, Social Ecological Systems research utilizes such assessments to describe an...
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The relationship between tropical precipitation biases and the Saharan heat low bias in CMIP5 models
This study focuses on the relationship in global climate models between three features: the Saharan Heat Low (SHL), Sahel precipitation, and the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Previous work sh...
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Is the poleward migration of tropical cyclone maximum intensity associated with a poleward migration of tropical cyclone genesis?
A recent study showed that the global average latitude where tropical cyclones achieve their lifetime-maximum intensity has been migrating poleward at a rate of about one-half degree of latitude per decade ove...
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Impact of the configuration of stretching and ocean–atmosphere coupling on tropical cyclone activity in the variable-resolution GCM ARPEGE
This study starts by investigating the impact of the configuration of the variable-resolution atmospheric grid on tropical cyclone (TC) activity. The French atmospheric general circulation model ARPEGE, the gr...
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The ability of general circulation models to simulate tropical cyclones and their precursors over the North Atlantic main development region
The ability of General Circulation Models (GCMs) to generate Tropical Cyclones (TCs) over the North Atlantic Main Development Region (MDR; 10–20°N, 20–80°W; Goldenberg and Shapiro in J Clim 9:1169–1187, 1996) is ...
