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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in Southern African Savanna Rangelands: Threats, Impacts and Solutions
Savanna rangelands provide diverse communities across southern Africa with livestock and wildlife-based livelihoods, as well as extensive ecosystem services. Historical usage patterns, however, are increasingl...
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A unified explanation for the morphology of raised peatlands
Raised peatlands, or bogs, are gently mounded landforms that are composed entirely of organic matter1–4 and store the most carbon per area of any terrestrial ecosystem5. The shapes of bogs are critically importan...
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Open AccessMilankovitch-paced erosion in the southern Central Andes
It has long been hypothesized that climate can modify both the pattern and magnitude of erosion in mountainous landscapes, thereby controlling morphology, rates of deformation, and potentially modulating globa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sustainable On-Street Parking Map** with Deep Learning and Airborne Imagery
In large cities, a considerable amount of traffic congestion is caused by drivers actively looking for unoccupied parking spots, leading to reduced average velocities on the streets, reduced air quality, and an i...
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Open AccessThe role of cyclonic activity in tropical temperature-rainfall scaling
The attribution of changing intensity of rainfall extremes to global warming is a key challenge of climate research. From a thermodynamic perspective, via the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, rainfall events a...
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Remotely Sensed Rain and Snowfall in the Himalaya
Waters sourced in the Himalaya flow through the Ganges and Indus basins, which are some of the most densely populated regions of the world. Both communities in the mountains and those downstream are highly dep...
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Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections
Climatic observables are often correlated across long spatial distances, and extreme events, such as heatwaves or floods, are typically assumed to be related to such teleconnections1,2. Revealing atmospheric tele...
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Impact of the Atatürk Dam Lake on Agro-Meteorological Aspects of the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
In this study, the spatial and temporal impacts of the Atatürk Dam on agro-meteorological aspects of the Southeastern Anatolia region have been investigated. Change detection and environmental impacts due to w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Locality-Based Graph Clustering of Spatially Embedded Time Series
The growing amount of sensor data poses significant challenges for rapid and meaningful analysis of large datasets. Across different scientific disciplines, complex networks are used to detect connections betw...
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The spatiotemporal variability of precipitation over the Himalaya: evaluation of one-year WRF model simulation
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used to simulate the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation over central Asia over the year April 2005 through March 2006. Experiments are performed at...
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Spatiotemporal characteristics and synchronization of extreme rainfall in South America with focus on the Andes Mountain range
The South American Andes are frequently exposed to intense rainfall events with varying moisture sources and precipitation-forming processes. In this study, we assess the spatiotemporal characteristics and geo...
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Glaciers and Monsoon Systems
This chapter will analyze the impact of monsoon systems on glaciers. Most of the tropical glaciers in the Andes and Himalayas vary greatly in time and space, and are heavily influenced by their corresponding m...
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Complex network analysis helps to identify impacts of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on moisture divergence in South America
We investigate the temporal evolution of moisture divergence and its spatial clustering properties over South America. Our analysis focuses on dependencies on the phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENS...
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Regional climate model sensitivities to parametrizations of convection and non-precipitating subgrid-scale clouds over South America
This study provides a first thorough evaluation of the COnsortium for Small scale MOdeling weather prediction model in CLimate Mode (COSMO-CLM) over South America. Simulations are driven by ERA-Interim reanaly...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Complex Network Approach to Investigate the Spatiotemporal Co-variability of Extreme Rainfall
The analysis of spatial patterns of co-variability of extreme rainfall is challenging because traditional techniques based on principal component analysis of the covariance matrix only capture the first two st...
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Multi-annual variations in winter westerly disturbance activity affecting the Himalaya
Winter westerly disturbances (WWD) are the primary climatic influence within High Mountain Asia during the boreal winter. Here we investigate variations and changes in WWD over the period 1979–2010 and relatio...
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Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks
We present a detailed analysis of summer monsoon rainfall over the Indian peninsular using nonlinear spatial correlations. This analysis is carried out employing the tools of complex networks and a measure of ...
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Himalayan groundwater
Rivers draining the Himalaya provide vital resources for almost half of the world's population. A combined model–data analysis suggests that the contribution of groundwater to the annual water budget in the ce...
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Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover
The present state and future evolution of Himalayan glaciers has been controversial. An analysis of remotely sensed frontal changes and surface velocities from glaciers in the greater Himalaya between 2000 and...
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Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution of the Southern Central Andes: the Argentine Puna Plateau and Adjacent Regions between 22 and 30°S
The history of the Puna Plateau and its marginal basins and ranges in the Eastern Cordillera and the northern Sierras Pampeanas structural provinces in northwestern Argentina impressively documents the effects...
