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Recent Changes in Temperature Extremes and Heat Stress over Eastern India
The rise of extreme heat events and increase in heat stress under changing climate has been a major concern in recent periods. The present study has been undertaken to analyze temperature extremes and heat str...
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Assessing climate change and its impact on kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa Chev.) production in the Eastern Himalayan Region of India through a combined approach of people perception and meteorological data
Under global warming and climate change (CC), the vulnerable piece of land is India’s Eastern-Himalayan-Region (EHR), where millions’ livelihood activities are at risk. Quantifying the degree of CC-induced vul...
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Probabilistic evaluation of three generations of climate models for simulating precipitation over the Western Himalayas
The current study aimed to assess the ability of Global Climate Models (GCMs) from the third, fifth, and sixth phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) to reproduce observed rainfall over the...
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Climate Change Scenarios of India with Special Emphasis on Sundarbans Delta and Western Himalayan Region
In recent times, creation of climate change scenarios at country scale as well as different homogeneous zones, and some identified vulnerable zones are more demanding for the implementation of different adapta...
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CMIP5 based past and future climate change scenarios over South Bihar, India
The present study has been carried out to investigate the past and future rainfall and temperature change scenarios over three locations (Patna, Gaya, and Bhagalpur) falling in two agro-climatic zones (IIIa an...
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Is the Western Himalayan region vulnerable with respect to downscaled precipitation?
Statistical downscaling is the technique of linking large-scale predictors and local-scale predictands through a relationship that is assumed to be helpful to generate local-scale climate change information fr...
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Assessing future water stress scenarios over six nuclear power plant locations of India through downscaled CMIP5 models
The present study has assessed the possible water stress scenarios over six nuclear power plant locations (inland plants at Kakrapar, Kota, and Narora and coastal plants at Kodankulam, Kalpakkam, and Tarapur) ...
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Selection of suitable predictors and predictor domain for statistical downscaling over the Western Himalayan region of India
Selection of suitable predictor(s) from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis datasets for downscaling annual and seasonal rainfall over the Western Himalayas has been carried out in the present study. Size of the domain o...
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Open AccessEcosystem service assessment of selected wetlands of Kolkata and the Indian Gangetic Delta: multi-beneficial systems under differentiated management stress
A structured literature review using the search term ‘ecosystem services’ found few relevant studies relating to three contrasting wetlands in West Bengal: the unpopulated Sudhanyakhali Island in the Sundarban...
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Gridded data as a source of missing data replacement in station records
The quality of available station data over western Himalayan region (WHR) of India is poor due to missing values, and hence quantifying climate change information at the station level is more challenging. The ...
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Are GCMs and Crop Model Capable to Provide useful Information for Decision Making?
Now-a-days simulations from Global Climate Models (GCMs) are extensively used for the purpose of impact assessment and decision making vis-à-vis crop simulation models are run to study the impact of climate ch...
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Uncertainties and time of emergence of multi-model precipitation projection over homogeneous rainfall zones of India
Present study has assessed different sources of uncertainties in multi-model precipitation projection using Global Climate Models (GCMs) from coupled model inter-comparison project phase five (CMIP5) experimen...
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Understanding the Crop-Climate Interaction Using Process-Based Simulation Models
Nowadays, outputs of the global climate models (GCMs) are extensively used as inputs for the crop simulation models (CSMs) to assess the impact of climate change on different agricultural crops. As the skills ...
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CMIP5 ensemble-based spatial rainfall projection over homogeneous zones of India
Performances of the state-of-the-art CMIP5 models in reproducing the spatial rainfall patterns over seven homogeneous rainfall zones of India viz. North Mountainous India (NMI), Northwest India (NWI), North Ce...
