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Vusi Ntiyiso Masingi and Daniel Maposa
Extreme rainfall events have made significant damages to properties, public infrastructure and agriculture in some provinces of South Africa notably in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng among others. The general global increase in the frequency and intensity of ...
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Genbatu Ge, Zhongjie Shi, Xiaohui Yang, Yuguang Hao, Hao Guo, Fandjinou Kossi, Zhiming Xin, Wei Wei, Zhiyong Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yanshu Liu and Junhui Liu
Although precipitation extremes exert a major influence on populations and the environment, trend analysis for the entire Qinghai-Tibetan plateau (QTP) has not previously been undertaken. In this study, meteorological data from 83 weather stations was us...
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Kabi Raj Khatiwada, Jeeban Panthi, Madan Lall Shrestha and Santosh Nepal
Global climate change has local implications. Focusing on datasets from the topographically-challenging Karnali river basin in Western Nepal, this research provides an overview of hydro-climatic parameters that have been observed during 1981?2012. The sp...
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Jeeban Panthi, Piyush Dahal, Madan Lall Shrestha, Suman Aryal, Nir Y. Krakauer, Soni M. Pradhanang, Tarendra Lakhankar, Ajay K. Jha, Mohan Sharma and Ramchandra Karki
Landslides, floods, and droughts are recurring natural disasters in Nepal related to too much or too little water. The summer monsoon contributes more than 80% of annual rainfall, and rainfall spatial and inter-annual variation is very high. The Gandaki ...
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Vindhya Kalapuge, Dilaj Maduranga, Niranga Alahacoon, Mahesh Edirisinghe, Rushan Abeygunawardana and Manjula Ranagalage
The study was conducted to analyze spatial and temporal variations of lightning activity over Sri Lanka and the surrounding coastal belt region bounded by 5.75?10.00 N and 79.50?89.00 E. Flash data collected by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on NASA?...
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Niranga Alahacoon and Mahesh Edirisinghe
Analysis of long-term rainfall trends provides a wealth of information on effective crop planning and water resource management, and a better understanding of climate variability over time. This study reveals the spatial variability of rainfall trends in...
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Prashant K. Srivastava, Rajani Kumar Pradhan, George P. Petropoulos, Varsha Pandey, Manika Gupta, Aradhana Yaduvanshi, Wan Zurina Wan Jaafar, Rajesh Kumar Mall and Atul Kumar Sahai
Analysis of spatial and temporal changes of long-term precipitation and extreme precipitation distribution at a local scale is very important for the prevention and mitigation of water-related disasters. In the present study, we have analyzed the long-te...
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Rawshan Ali, Arez Ismael, Arien Heryansyah and Nadeem Nawaz
The assessment of trends in river flows has become of interest to the scientific community in order to understand the changing characteristics of flow due to climate change. In this study, the trends in river flow of Dukan Dam located in the northern par...
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Muna Neupane and Subodh Dhakal
This study focuses on the land use change and climatic variability assessment around Kamala watershed, Sindhuli district, Nepal. The study area covers two municipalities and eight Village Development Committees (VDCs). In this paper, land use change and ...
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Stanzin Passang, Susanne Schmidt and Marcus Nüsser
This article presents the distribution of seasonal snow cover in the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh over the observation period of 2000?2019. Seasonal snow cover area and duration have been monitored and mapped based on the MODIS Normalised Difference ...
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Helani Perera, Nipuna Senaratne, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, Nitin Mutill and Upaka Rathnayake
Satellite Rainfall Products (SRPs) are now in widespread use around the world as a better alternative for scarce observed rain gauge data. Upon proper analysis of the SRPs and observed rainfall data, SRP data can be used in many hydrological applications...
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Tomás Pérez, Cristian Mattar and Rodrigo Fuster
The evidence for global warming can be seen in various forms, such as glacier shrinkage, sea ice retreat, sea level rise and air temperature increases. The magnitude of these changes tends to be critical over pristine and extreme biomes. Chilean Patagoni...
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Sardar Ateeq-Ur-Rehman, Minh Duc Bui and Peter Rutschmann
Water reservoirs planned or constructed to meet the burgeoning energy and irrigation demands in Pakistan face a significant loss of storage capacity due to heavy sediment load from the upper Indus basin (UIB). Given their importance and the huge investme...
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Alina Barbulescu and Florin Postolache
In the context of climate change, this article tries to answer the question of whether a correlation exists between the precipitation and temperature series at a regional scale in Dobrogea, Romania. Six sets of time series are used for this aim, each of ...
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Marco Arrieta-Castro, Adriana Donado-Rodríguez, Guillermo J. Acuña, Fausto A. Canales, Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu and Bartosz Kazmierczak
The aim of this research is the detection and analysis of existing trends in the Meta River, Colombia, based on the streamflow records from seven gauging stations in its main course, for the period between June 1983 to July 2019. The Meta River is one of...
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Fausto A. Canales, Joanna Gwozdziej-Mazur, Piotr Jadwiszczak, Joanna Struk-Sokolowska, Katarzyna Wartalska, Marcin Wdowikowski and Bartosz Kazmierczak
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) for domestic uses is widely regarded as an economic and ecological solution in water conservation and storm management programs. This paper aims at evaluating long-term trends in 20-day cumulative rainfall periods per year in P...
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Muhammad Azam, Seung Jin Maeng, Hyung San Kim, Seung Wook Lee and Jae Eun Lee
High spatial and temporal variation in precipitation in South Korea leads to an increase in the frequency and duration of drought. In this study, the spatial characteristics of temporal trends for precipitation and drought severity time series were analy...
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Shonam Sharma and Prasoon Kumar Singh
The current study was conducted to examine the impact of climate change on rainfall in Jharkhand state of India. It deals with the analysis of the historical spatiotemporal variability of rainfall on the annual, seasonal and monthly scale in 18 districts...
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Xuelei Zhang, Gaopeng Wang and Hejia Wang
Under the influence of climate change and human activities, the ecohydrological processes in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) present new evolution characteristics at different temporal and spatial scales. Research on the evolution and driving mech...
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Otgonbayar Demberel, Bayarmaa Munkhbat, Batsuren Dorjsuren, Terry V. Callaghan, Bilguun Tsogoo, Valery A. Zemtsov, Otgontuya Shaarav, Erdenechimeg Gongor, Zolbayar Jargalsaikhan, Nemekhbayar Ganhuyag, Aldynay O. Khovalyg and Sergey N. Kirpotin
Mt. Munkhkhairkhan is the most crucial region for understanding climate and glaciation changes in Mongolia. This study investigated the relationship between glacial area changes and the climate elements of Mt. Munkhkhairkhan in the Mongolian-Altai Mounta...
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