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Jason Corburn, Patrick Njoroge, Jane Weru and Maureen Musya
Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science...
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Jérémy Bernard, Erwan Bocher, Gwendall Petit and Sylvain Palominos
The sky view factor (SVF) has an important role in the analysis of the urban micro-climate. A new vector-based SVF calculation tool was implemented in a free and open source Geographic Information System named OrbisGIS. Its accuracy and computational per...
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Crystal L. Raymond, David L. Peterson and Regina M. Rochefort
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Zachary A. Wendling, Shahzeen Z. Attari, Sanya R. Carley, Rachel M. Krause, David C. Warren, John A. Rupp and John D. Graham
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Sergey Kunin, Olga Semenova, Terry V. Callaghan, Olga Shaduyko and Vladimir Bodur
Arctic landscapes are changing dramatically in response to climate changes that are regionally four times faster than the global average. However, these vast lands are sparsely populated and ground-based measurements of environmental change impacts on la...
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Frank Emmert-Streib
The concept of a digital twin is intriguing as it presents an innovative approach to solving numerous real-world challenges. Initially emerging from the domains of manufacturing and engineering, digital twin research has transcended its origins and now f...
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Cristina Ponte Lira and Rita González-Villanueva
This editorial introduces the Special Issue entitled ?Geomatic Applications to Coastal Research: Challenges and New Developments? and succinctly evaluates future trends of the use of geomatics in the field of coastal research. This Special Issue was crea...
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Polina Lemenkova
This articles presents a new series of maps showing the climate and environmental variability of Botswana. Situated in southern Africa, Botswana has an arid to semi-arid climate, which significantly varies in its different regions: Kalahari Desert, Makga...
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Anastasiia Kolevatova, Michael A. Riegler, Francesco Cherubini, Xiangping Hu and Hugo L. Hammer
A general issue in climate science is the handling of big data and running complex and computationally heavy simulations. In this paper, we explore the potential of using machine learning (ML) to spare computational time and optimize data usage. The pape...
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Hanna Svennevik, Michael A. Riegler, Steven Hicks, Trude Storelvmo and Hugo L. Hammer
Climate change is stated as one of the largest issues of our time, resulting in many unwanted effects on life on earth. Cloud fractional cover (CFC), the portion of the sky covered by clouds, might affect global warming and different other aspects of hum...
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Hamed Mehdipoor, Raul Zurita-Milla, Ellen-Wien Augustijn and Arnold J. H. Van Vliet
The increasing availability of volunteered geographic information (VGI) enables novel studies in many scientific domains. However, inconsistent VGI can negatively affect these studies. This paper describes a workflow that checks the consistency of Volunt...
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Belinda McFadgen, Dave Huitema
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Learning from policy experimentation is a promising way to approach the ?wicked problem? of climate adaptation, which is characterised by knowledge gaps and contested understandings of future risk. However, although the role of learning in shaping public...
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David Mercer,Bob Brown
A range of innovative technologies and applications offer exciting opportunities to address environmental issues. This is particularly relevant to computers and Information Technology (IT) more generally where new computational techniques and approaches ...
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Jessica E. Halofsky, David L. Peterson, Kerry L. Metlen, M. Gwyneth Myer and V. Alaric Sample
Climate change will likely have significant effects on forest ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean regions, such as that in southwestern Oregon, USA, changes will likely be driven mainly by wildfire and drought. To minimize the negative effects of clim...
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Priyanka Singh, Sameer Saran and Sultan Kocaman
Recent advancements in spatial modelling and mapping methods have opened up new horizons for monitoring the migration of bird species, which have been altered due to the climate change. The rise of citizen science has also aided the spatiotemporal data c...
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Sergio R. Coria,Carlos Gay-García,Lourdes Villers-Ruiz,Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas,Óscar Sánchez-Meneses,Oswaldo R. Ávila-Barrón,Mónica Pérez-Meza,Xóchitl Cruz-Núñez,Gilberto Lorenzo Martínez-Luna
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This article proposes a methodology to discover patterns in observed climatologic data, particularly temperatures and rainfall, in subnational political division units using an automatic classification algorithm (a decision tree produced by the C4.5 algo...
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Ashlin Lee
The digital humanities and social sciences are critical for addressing societal challenges such as climate change and disaster risk reduction. One way in which the digital humanities and social sciences add value, particularly in an increasingly digitise...
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Amirhosein Mosavi, Farzaneh Sajedi-Hosseini, Bahram Choubin, Fereshteh Taromideh, Gholamreza Rahi and Adrienn A. Dineva
Soil erosion is a serious threat to sustainable agriculture, food production, and environmental security. The advancement of accurate models for soil erosion susceptibility and hazard assessment is of utmost importance for enhancing mitigation policies a...
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Alexandros K. Makarigakis and Blanca Elena Jimenez-Cisneros
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 210, with roughly 83 million people being added every year. The upward trend in population size along with an improved quality o...
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T. O. Kolesnykova,O. V. Pominova,S. R. Kolesnykov
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