Wenju Cai, Lixin Wu, Matthieu Lengaigne, Tim Li et al.
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which originates in the Pacific, is the strongest and most well-known mode of tropical climate variability. Its reach is global, and it can force climate variations of the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans by perturbing the global atmospheric circulation. L...
Sue Roff, Sean McAleer, Ronald M. Harden, Mona Faisal Al-Qahtani et al.
The General Medical Council has initiated major innovations in the undergraduate medical curriculum. These requirements are forcing a rapid rate of change in medical schools throughout the UK which parallels many developments in North America. There have also been several international and national ...
Md. Fazlul Karim, Nobuo Mimura
Joel B. Smith, Stephen H. Schneider, Michael Oppenheimer, Gary Yohe et al.
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [United Nations (1992) http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf. Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that "would prevent dangero...
Frauke Feser, Burkhardt Rockel, Hans von Storch, Jörg Winterfeldt et al.
An important challenge in current climate modeling is to realistically describe small-scale weather statistics, such as topographic precipitation and coastal wind patterns, or regional phenomena like polar lows. Global climate models simulate atmospheric processes with increasingly higher resolution...
Albert Klein Tank, T. C. Peterson, Dewan Abdul Quadir, Singay Dorji et al.
Changes in indices of climate extremes are studied on the basis of daily series of temperature and precipitation observations from 116 meteorological stations in central and south Asia. Averaged over all stations, the indices of temperature extremes indicate warming of both the cold tail and the war...
Mercedes Pascual, Xavier Rodó, Stephen P. Ellner, Rita R. Colwell et al.
Analysis of a monthly 18-year cholera time series from Bangladesh shows that the temporal variability of cholera exhibits an interannual component at the dominant frequency of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Results from nonlinear time series analysis support a role for both ENSO and previous d...
Mansour Almazroui, Sajjad Saeed, Fahad Saeed, M. Nazrul Islam et al.
Abstract The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset was analyzed to examine the projected changes in temperature and precipitation over six South Asian countries during the twenty-first century. The CMIP6 model simulations reveal biases in annual mean temperature and pr...
Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, William D. Collins
Abstract A six-member ensemble of twentieth-century simulations with changes to only time-evolving global distributions of black carbon aerosols in a global coupled climate model is analyzed to study the effects of black carbon (BC) aerosols on the Indian monsoon. The BC aerosols act to increase low...
Hessel Winsemius, Rens van Beek, Brenden Jongman, Philip J. Ward et al.
Abstract. There is an increasing need for strategic global assessments of flood risks in current and future conditions. In this paper, we propose a framework for global flood risk assessment for river floods, which can be applied in current conditions, as well as in future conditions due to climate ...
M. Monirul Qader Mirza
Ahmed Ali
Bangladesh is likely to be one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. This paper discusses the possible impacts of climate change in Bangladesh through tropical cyclones, storm surges, coastal erosion and back water effect. The possible increase in cyclone frequency in the ...
Bushra Praveen, Swapan Talukdar, Shahfahad, Susanta Mahato et al.
This study analyzes and forecasts the long-term Spatio-temporal changes in rainfall using the data from 1901 to 2015 across India at meteorological divisional level. The Pettitt test was employed to detect the abrupt change point in time frame, while the Mann-Kendall (MK) test and Sen's Innovative t...
Katia Koelle, Xavier Rodó, Mercedes Pascual, Mohammad Yunus et al.
Outbreaks of many infectious diseases, including cholera, malaria and dengue, vary over characteristic periods longer than 1 year. Evidence that climate variability drives these interannual cycles has been highly controversial, chiefly because it is difficult to isolate the contribution of environme...
Vimal Mishra, Udit Bhatia, Amar Deep Tiwari
Abstract Climate change is likely to pose enormous challenges for agriculture, water resources, infrastructure, and livelihood of millions of people living in South Asia. Here, we develop daily bias-corrected data of precipitation, maximum and minimum temperatures at 0.25 ° spatial resolution for So...