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...
Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Abidur Rahman, Omar Farrok, M. Mejbaul Haque
Frederick T. Short, Beth Polidoro, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
Seagrasses, a functional group of marine flowering plants rooted in the world’s coastal oceans, support marine food webs and provide essential habitat for many coastal species, playing a critical role in the equilibrium of coastal ecosystems and human livelihoods. For the first time, the probability...
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...
Dennis L. Corwin
Abstract Changes in climate patterns are dramatically influencing some agricultural areas. Arid, semi‐arid and coastal agricultural areas are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts on soil salinity. Inventorying and monitoring climate change impacts on salinity are crucial to evaluate the e...
A. Huq, E. B. Small, P. A. West, Mohsina Huq et al.
Strains of Vibrio cholerae, both O1 and non-O1 serovars, were found to attach to the surfaces of live copepods maintained in natural water samples collected from the Chesapeake Bay and Bangladesh environs. The specificity of attachment of V. cholerae to live copepods was confirmed by scanning electr...
Md. Fazlul Karim, Nobuo Mimura
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...
Alan MacDonald, H.C. Bonsor, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
Hugh Brammer
The physical geography of Bangladesh’s coastal area is more diverse and dynamic than is generally recognised. Failure to recognise this has led to serious misconceptions about the potential impacts of a rising sea-level on Bangladesh with global warming. This situation has been aggravated by account...
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 ...