Barbara Neumann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Juliane Zimmermann, Robert J. Nicholls
Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend is expected to continue into the future, we i...
Ian Burton, Robert W. Kates, Gilbert F. White
The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing recent theoretical and methodological changes in the investigation of natural hazards, the authors describe how research...
Razin Ahmed, Victor Sreeram, Yateendra Mishra, Muammer Din Arif
Integration of photovoltaics into power grids is difficult as solar energy is highly dependent on climate and geography; often fluctuating erratically. This causes penetrations and voltage surges, system instability, inefficient utilities planning and financial loss. Forecast models can help; howeve...
Minze Stuiver, G. W. Pearson, T. F. Braziunas
Calibration curves spanning several millennia are now available in this special issue of R adiocarbon . These curves, nearly all derived from the 14 C age determinations of wood samples, are to be used for the age conversion of samples that were formed through use of atmospheric CO 2 . When samples ...
Md. Fazlul Karim, Nobuo Mimura
Clark Gray, Valerie Mueller
The consequences of environmental change for human migration have gained increasing attention in the context of climate change and recent large-scale natural disasters, but as yet relatively few large-scale and quantitative studies have addressed this issue. We investigate the consequences of climat...
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...
Pelayo Menéndez, Íñigo J. Losada, Saúl Torres-Ortega, Siddharth Narayan et al.
Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. We provide high resolution estimates of the economic value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km worldwide. We develop a probabilistic, process-based valuation of the effects of mangroves on averting damages to people and property. We coupl...
Shamsuddin Shahid, Houshang Behrawan
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...
Charlotte Benson, Edward Clay
The study consists of a state-of-the art review and three country case studies: on Dominica, a small island economy (Benson and Clay 2001); on disasters and public finances in Bangladesh (Benson and Clay 2002a); and on climatic variability in southern Africa, with a country study of Malawi (Clay and...
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...