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Dust and sandstorm: ecosystem perspectives on dryland hazards in Northeast Asia: a review
BackgroundA review of the literature was carried out to study dust and sandstorm (DSS) in terms of its ecosystem processes and relationship to other...
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Climate Variability and Change in Tropical South America
This chapter provides definitions of what climate variabilityClimate variability and change are and an overview of observed and projected changes in...
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A far-near sparse covariance model with application in climatology
Teleconnection, the strong dependence between two distant locations, provides interesting information for discovering the structures in spatial data....
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Climate and Soil Conditions Across the South Brazilian Grasslands
The climate of the South Brazilian grassland region is influenced by wet tropical air masses from the Atlantic and the Amazon during spring and...
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Circulation, Biogeochemical Cycles and CO2 Flux Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
The tropical AtlanticTropical Atlantic (TA) is a very complex region where ocean–atmosphere interactions, oceanic currents, and phenomena such as...
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Analyzing the impact of meteorological drought on crop yield of Kerala, India: a wavelet coherence approach
Drought is a natural phenomenon which is considered as an indicator of changing climatic conditions. The growth of crops is significantly affected by...
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Temperature and Precipitation Trends of the Shoulder Seasons at Polar Bear Pass (Nanuit Itillinga) – A Ramsar Wetland of Importance, Nunavut
Temperature and precipitation changes play critical roles in permafrost thaw, wetland water storage, plant growth and greenhouse gas emissions. This...
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Relationship between multi-scale climate factors and performance of ecological engineering on the Loess Plateau, China
The long-term “Grain-to-Green Program” (GGP) on China’s Loess Plateau is a major global ecological engineering project which has significantly...
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Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings of Boreal Forests
The boreal forestsBoreal, Boreal forests are widely expanded from subarcticSubarctic forest to tundraTundra, and from taigaTaiga to forest-steppe...
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Non-summer hydrothermal conditions controlling tree growth in north subtropical China are closely related to AMO and PDO
Key messagePhase transitions of the AMO and PDO promote shifts in non-summer hydrothermal conditions, which further affect tree growth in north...
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Winter–spring minimum temperature variations inferred from tree-ring δ13C in southeastern China
Long-term temperature variations inferred from high-resolution proxies provide an important context to evaluate the intensity of current warming....
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Southern Africa Climate Over the Recent Decades: Description, Variability and Trends
South of 15°S, southern Africa has a subtropical climate, which is affected by temperate and tropical weather systems and comes under the influence...
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Overview of Operational Agrometeorological Services in India
India is gifted with a variety of agroclimatic zones, each with its own characteristic features of both soil and water. This diversity presents both...
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Otolith biogeochemistry reveals possible impacts of extreme climate events on population connectivity of a highly migratory fish, Japanese Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus niphonius
Climate change, particularly extreme climate events, is likely to alter the population connectivity in diverse taxa. While the population...
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Influence of a changing wave climate on the quality and morphometry of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789), along the coasts of NW Iberia
Wave climate is shifting over the last decades along the Atlantic coasts of Europe ultimately driven by large-scale patterns of atmospheric...
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The Japan Sea: A Changing Pacific Asian Marginal Sea
The Japan Sea includes its own deep-water formation mechanics and a thermohaline circulation system similar to those of the Mediterranean Sea....
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Temperature and Salinity Changes in Coastal Waters of Western Europe: Variability, Trends and Extreme Events
Coastal marine ecosystems worldwide are not only highly affected by the effects of human activities, but also by the influence of natural climate...
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Deep-Sea Corals of the North and Central Pacific Seamounts
The North and Central Pacific are home to a number of major archipelagos including Hawaii, the Marianas, Samoa, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands, and...
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The Palaeoecological View from the Mountains
Mountains constitute an astonishing repository of scientific data about the past. In addition to often being formed of sedimentary layers that...
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Multi-centennial phase-locking between reproduction of a South American conifer and large-scale drivers of climate
Climate forcings determine the episodic occurrence of local climate anomalies that trigger the occurrence of masting events (massive, synchronized...
