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Lynn Donelson Wright and Bruce Graham Thom
The shape of the coast and the processes that mold it change together as a complex system. There is constant feedback among the multiple components of the system, and when climate changes, all facets of the system change. Abrupt shifts to different state...
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Andrey V. Pnyushkov, Genrikh V. Alekseev and Alexander V. Smirnov
We investigated liquid freshwater content (FWC) in the upper 100 m layer of the Arctic Ocean using oceanographic observations covering the period from 1990 through 2018. Our analysis revealed two opposite tendencies in freshwater balance?the freshening i...
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Milena Vuckovic, Johanna Schmidt, Thomas Ortner and Daniel Cornel
The application potential of Visual Analytics (VA), with its supporting interactive 2D and 3D visualization techniques, in the environmental domain is unparalleled. Such advanced systems may enable an in-depth interactive exploration of multifaceted geos...
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Sangmin Shin, Danyal Aziz, Mohamed E. A. El-sayed, Mohamed Hazman, Lal Almas, Mike McFarland, Ali Shams El Din and Steven J. Burian
Agricultural land expansion is a solution to address global food security challenges in the context of climate change. However, the sustainability of expansion in arid countries is difficult because of scarce surface water resources, groundwater salinity...
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Chaojiao Sun, Alistair J. Hobday, Scott A. Condie, Mark E. Baird, J. Paige Eveson, Jason R. Hartog, Anthony J. Richardson, Andrew D. L. Steven, Karen Wild-Allen, Russell C. Babcock, Dezhou Yang, Rencheng Yu and Mathieu Mongin
In times of rapid change and rising human pressures on marine systems, information about the future state of the ocean can provide decision-makers with time to avoid adverse impacts and maximise opportunities. An ecological forecast predicts changes in e...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Kurtis Thome and Joseph Nigro
Urbanization is a complex land transformation not explicitly resolved within large-scale climate models. Long-term timeseries of high-resolution satellite data are essential to characterize urbanization within land surface models and to assess its contri...
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Venkataramana Sridhar, Syed Azhar Ali and David J. Sample
The Mekong River Basin is one of the world?s major transboundary basins. The hydrology, agriculture, ecology, and other watershed functions are constantly changing as a result of a variety of human activities carried out inside and by neighboring countri...
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Hirofumi Hashimoto, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Govindasamy Bala, Long Cao, Andrew R. Michaelis, Sangram Ganguly, Weile Wang, Cristina Milesi, Ryan Eastman, Tsengdar Lee and Ranga Myneni
We qualitatively and quantitatively assessed the factors related to vegetation growth using Earth system models and corroborated the results with historical climate observations. The Earth system models showed a systematic greening by the late 21st centu...
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Marie Dury, Lenni Mertens, Adeline Fayolle, Hans Verbeeck, Alain Hambuckers and Louis François
African tropical ecosystems and the services they provide to human society suffer from an increasing combined pressure of land use and climate change. How individual tropical tree species respond to climate change remains relatively unknown. In this stud...
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Souleymane Sy, Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, Benjamin Quesada, Ibrahima Sy, Amadou Moctar Dieye, Amadou Thierno Gaye and Benjamin Sultan
Land Use Land-Cover Change (LULCC), such as deforestation, affects the climate system and land-atmosphere interactions. Using simulations carried out within the LUCID (Land Use and Climate, IDentification of robust Impacts) project framework, we first qu...
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