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Rossana Merola,Douglas Sutherland
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This paper sheds light on the scale of fiscal consolidation that will be needed toensure long-term sustainability and on the potential benefits of institutional reforms inmitigating budget pressures of social spending. Based on alternative scenarios, res...
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Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Florence Colleoni, Nerilie J. Abram, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Daniel A. Dixon, Mark England, Vincent Favier, Chris J. Fogwill, John C. Fyfe, Ian Goodwin, Hugues Goosse, Will Hobbs, Julie M. Jones, Elizabeth D. Keller, Alia L. Khan, Steven J. Phipps, Marilyn N. Raphael, Joellen Russell, Louise Sime, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Michiel R. van den Broeke and Ilana WaineraddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
Quantitative estimates of future Antarctic climate change are derived from numerical global climate models. Evaluation of the reliability of climate model projections involves many lines of evidence on past performance combined with knowledge of the proc...
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Rossano Ciampalini, Elizabeth J. Kendon, José A. Constantine, Marcus Schindewolf and Ian R. Hall
Climate change can lead to significant environmental and societal impacts; for example, through increases in the amount and intensity of rainfall with the associated possibility of flooding. Twenty-first-century climate change simulations for Great Brita...
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Maria Aguilera-Vidal, Juan J. Muñoz-Perez, Antonio Contreras, Francisco Contreras, Patricia Lopez-Garcia and Bismarck Jigena
This article provides a general methodology for calculating the retreat of the coastline and the volume of sand necessary to renourish a beach due to sea level rise (SLR) in the medium-long term. An example is presented, Victoria Beach, and a projection ...
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Paolo Reggiani, Amal Talbi and Ezio Todini
In Water Resources Planning and Management, decision makers, although unsure of future outcomes, must take the most reliable and assuring decisions. Deterministic and probabilistic prediction techniques, combined with optimization tools, have been widely...
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Muhammad Usman, Rodrigo Manzanas, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, Burhan Ahmad, Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri and Cornelius Dudzai
This work evaluates the suitability of linear scaling (LS) and empirical quantile mapping (EQM) bias correction methods to generate present and future hydrometeorological variables (precipitation, temperature, and streamflow) over the Chitral River Basin...
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Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Shahid and Saad Ahmed Jamal
Climatic data archives, including grid-based remote-sensing and general circulation model (GCM) data, are used to identify future climate change trends. The performances of climate models vary in regions with spatio-temporal climatic heterogeneities beca...
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Tesfaye Dessu Geleta, Diriba Korecha Dadi, Chris Funk, Weyessa Garedew, Damilola Eyelade and Adefires Worku
Projections of future climate change trends in four urban centers of southwest Ethiopia were examined under a high Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP8.5) scenario for near- (2030), mid- (2050), and long-term (2080) periods based on high-resolutio...
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Irina Pilvere, Aleksejs Nipers, Agnese Krievina, Ilze Upite and Daniels Kotovs
Today?s global food system (including production, transportation, processing, packing, storage, retail sale, consumption, losses and waste) provides income to more than a billion people all over the world and makes up a significant part of many countries...
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Alfredo Rocha, Susana C. Pereira, Carolina Viceto, Rui Silva, Jorge Neto and Martinho Marta-Almeida
Heat waves are large-scale atmospheric phenomena that may cause heat stress in ecosystems and socio-economic activities. In cities, morbidity and mortality may increase during a heat wave, overloading health and emergency services. In the face of climate...
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Kenji Taniguchi
Future variations in the ocean wave climate caused by global warming could affect various coastal issues. Using a third-generation wave model, this study produced projections of the ocean wave climate for winter around Japan, focusing on the Japan Sea si...
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Csaba Mátyás, Imre Berki, András Bidló, György Csóka, Kornél Czimber, Erno Führer, Borbála Gálos, Zoltán Gribovszki, Gábor Illés, Anikó Hirka and Zoltán Somogyi
Climate change particularly threatens the xeric limits of temperate-continental forests. In Hungary, annual temperatures have increased by 1.2 °C–1.8 °C in the last 30 years and the frequency of extreme droughts has grown. With the aim to g...
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Hayden Postle-Floyd and Tohid Erfani
Kenya?s water abstraction must meet the projected growth in municipal and irrigation demand by the end of 2030 in order to achieve the country?s industrial and economic development plan. The Masinga dam, on the Tana River, is the key to meeting this goal...
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David Peter Parsons
In 2010, the New Zealand government embarked upon an ambitious programme of broadband infrastructure investment, a process that will continue until at least 2019. Part of this investment is specifically targeted at compulsory education, with initiatives ...
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Ilias G. Pechlivanidis, Jonas Olsson, Thomas Bosshard, Devesh Sharma, K.C. Sharma
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The impact of climate change on the hydro-climatology of the Indian subcontinent is investigated by comparing statistics of current and projected future fluxes resulting from three RCP scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5). Climate projections from the ...
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Ilias G. Pechlivanidis, Jonas Olsson, Thomas Bosshard, Devesh Sharma and K.C. Sharma
The impact of climate change on the hydro-climatology of the Indian subcontinent is investigated by comparing statistics of current and projected future fluxes resulting from three RCP scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5). Climate projections from the ...
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Pavla Pekárová, Andrej Tall, Ján Pekár, Justína Vitková and Pavol Miklánek
This study aimed at the analysis and modelling of the groundwater temperature at the water table in different regions of Slovakia. In the first part, the analysis of the long-term trends of air and soil/ground temperature to a depth of 10 m is presented....
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Chihiro Kayo and Ryu Noda
Throughout its life-cycle, wood contributes to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and material and energy substitution. Focusing on wood use for piles, check dams, paved walkways, guardrails, and noise barriers, we quantified the nationwide...
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David R. Judi, Cynthia L. Rakowski, Scott R. Waichler, Youcan Feng and Mark S. Wigmosta
Flooding is a prevalent natural disaster with both short and long-term social, economic, and infrastructure impacts. Changes in intensity and frequency of precipitation (including rain, snow, and rain-on-snow) events create challenges for the planning an...
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Chiara Ciantelli, Elisa Palazzi, Jost Von Hardenberg, Carmela Vaccaro, Francesca Tittarelli and Alessandra Bonazza
This work investigates the impact of long-term climate change on heritage sites in Latin America, focusing on two important sites in the Panamanian isthmus included in the World Heritage List: the monumental site of Panamá Viejo (16th century) and...
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