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Xinyi Huang, Shouming Feng, Shuaishuai Zhao, Jinlong Fan, Zhihao Qin and Shuhe Zhao
Agricultural drought assessment is based on soil moisture deficit during the plant-growing season. The available long-term in situ soil moisture data can be used to evaluate the drought indices? performance. Drought indices have different sensitivities t...
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Mohamed H. Elnabawi, Aysha Alhumaidi, Bana Osman and Reem Alshehhi
Cool roofs are a long-term alternative for the creation of a building?s thermal comfort as they can reduce the energy required for cooling demands and mitigate the urban heat island effect, thus benefitting both buildings and cities. Interest in cool roo...
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Agnieszka Sadlowska-Salega and Krzysztof Was
The paper is an attempt to answer the question whether the material-optimized roof construction using cross-laminated timber (CLT) is safe in terms of moisture content in the demanding northern costal climates. The proposed roof structure meets the stren...
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Galina V. Sokolova, Andrei L. Verkhoturov and Sergei P. Korolev
In the basin of the Amur River in the Russian Far East, the influence of watershed areas covered by forests on the river basin has a complex nature, and no strict functional dependency has been established yet between these two factors. A study of the Am...
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Ana-Voica Bojar, Victor Barbu, Artur Wojtowicz, Hans-Peter Bojar, Stanislaw Halas and Octavian G. Duliu
New geochronological investigations for the Slanic Formation, correlated with previous bio- and lithostratigaphical information, allow for a better succession of events for the Middle Miocene, including the absolute age of the Badenian salinity crisis in...
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Ana-Voica Bojar, Victor Barbu, Artur Wojtowicz, Hans-Peter Bojar, Stanislaw Halas and Octavian G. Duliu
New geochronological investigations for the Slanic Formation, correlated with previous bio- and lithostratigaphical information, allow for a better succession of events for the Middle Miocene, including the absolute age of the Badenian salinity crisis in...
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Jeff Romm, Esther Conrad and Inger Elisabeth Måren
Highly variable water regimes, such as California?s, contain distinctive problems in the pursuit of secure timing, quantities and distributions of highly variable flows. Their formal and informal systems of water control must adapt rapidly to forceful an...
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Jeff Romm, Esther Conrad and Inger Elisabeth Måren
Highly variable water regimes, such as California?s, contain distinctive problems in the pursuit of secure timing, quantities and distributions of highly variable flows. Their formal and informal systems of water control must adapt rapidly to forceful an...
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Li Bin Liu, Hua Mei Yang, Yue Xu, Yin Ming Guo and Jian Ni
Biomass and net primary productivity (NPP) are important factors for studying terrestrial carbon storage and the carbon cycle. Using data from existing literature, this study synthesized and analyzed a comprehensive database of direct field observations ...
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Suppapon Tetiranont, Wannapol Sadakorn, Napong Tao Rugkhapan and Lapyote Prasittisopin
An environmentally conscious architectural design of a railway station can have a substantial influence on government spending. Nevertheless, an extensive collection of guidelines for using sustainable design principles in the construction of a railway s...
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Sarah R. Wilkinson, M. Anne Naeth and Amalesh Dhar
Nature-based, low technology wastewater treatment systems can benefit small and remote communities. Adding a constructed floating wetland (CFW) to waste stabilization ponds can enhance treatment efficacy at low cost, depending on appropriate macrophytes....
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Damian Badora, Rafal Wawer, Aleksandra Król-Badziak, Anna Nieróbca, Jerzy Kozyra and Beata Jurga
The hydrological assessment of the Vistula River basin in the near future will be a key element in the development of strategies to adapt agriculture to climate change. The Vistula River basin covers 61% of Poland?s area (190,062 km2) and is mainly used ...
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Sara Bredal Ingebretsen, Erlend Andenæs and Tore Kvande
Accurate values for the climatic conditions in an air cavity, hereby called the microclimate, are crucial when calculating and simulating the performance of a ventilated roof and façade system. The climatic stress of its components and their mould and ro...
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Alexis Caron-Rousseau, Pierre Blanchet and Louis Gosselin
While externally insulated wall assemblies are widely recognized for their hygrothermal performance, few research projects have focused on the impact of shifting the entire wall insulation to the exterior side of a structural cavity in cold or subarctic ...
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Xiaohuan Xie, Haitao Liao, Ruobing Wang and Zhonghua Gou
In recent years, semi-outdoor space has become an important research subject in the field of thermal comfort. Overhead space located on the ground floor is a common type of semi-outdoor space in China?s Lingnan region with a hot and humid climate. Its th...
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Torben Valdbjørn Rasmussen, Tessa Kvist Hansen, Yvonne Shashoua, Lisbeth M. Ottosen, Louise Green Pedersen, Jens Kromann Nielsen and Frederik R. Steenstrup
The performance of nine different vapor barrier systems comprising polyethylene (PE) membranes were assessed. The vapor barrier systems comprised membranes of virgin PE, 100% new PE, regenerated PE and multilayered virgin and regenerated PE. Membranes we...
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Clare Price and Paul Elsner
Forest loss and degradation are central problems in the context of climate change and biodiversity conservation. The identification of areas of loss relies on accurate base maps. Central datasets in this context are the products of the Global Land Analys...
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Emmanuel Dubois, Marie Larocque, Sylvain Gagné and Marco Braun
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Stergios D. Zarkogiannis
Changes in the density structure of the upper oceanic water masses are an important forcing of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is believed to widely affect Earth?s climate. However, very little is known about past...
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Marcus Strang, Paola Leardini, Arianna Brambilla and Eugenia Gasparri
The uptake of buildings employing cross-laminated timber (CLT) assemblies and designed to Passivhaus standard has accelerated internationally over the past two decades due to several factors including responses to the climate crisis by decarbonising the ...
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