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Luis Alberto Vargas-León and Juan Diego Giraldo-Osorio
In this work, the influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the Extreme Precipitation Indices (EPIs) was analyzed, and these ENSO-forced anomalies were compared with the long-term change in the EPIs. The annual time series of the EPIs were ...
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Abdulhakim Bawadekji, Kareem Tonbol, Nejib Ghazouani, Nidhal Becheikh and Mohamed Shaltout
In the ocean, heat waves are vital climatic extremes that can destroy the ecosystem together with ensuing socioeconomic consequences. Marine heat waves (MHW) recently attracted public interest, as well as scientific researchers, which motivates us to ana...
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Nathan Felipe da Silva Caldana,Luiz Gustavo Batista Ferreira,Iara da Silva,Marcelo Augusto Aguiar e Silva
The rainfall variability has a key relevance on human activities. The frequency of extreme events, such as droughts and intense rains, results in severe impacts on crops, urban activities, water resources, health and the environment on a local or regiona...
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Álvaro Ávila, Faisury Cardona Guerrero, Yesid Carvajal Escobar and Flávio Justino
This study aims to identify spatial and temporal precipitation trends by analyzing eight extreme climate indices of rainfall in the High Basin of the Cauca River in Southwestern Colombia from 1970 to 2013. The relation between historical floods and El Ni...
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Yochanan Kushnir and Mordechai Stein
This paper examines the hydroclimate history of the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region during the 10th to 14th centuries C.E., a period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), a time of significant historical turmoil and change in the region. The stu...
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Andualem Shiferaw, Tsegaye Tadesse, Clinton Rowe and Robert Oglesby
This study first assesses the performance of regional climate models in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in reproducing observed extreme precipitation indices over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region during 1989?2005. ...
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Julia Hackenbruch, Tina Kunz-Plapp, Sebastian Müller and Janus Willem Schipper
Municipalities are important actors in the field of local climate change adaptation. Stakeholders need scientifically sound information tailored to their needs to make local assessment of climate change effects. To provide tailored data to support munici...
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Sonja Kivinen, Sirpa Rasmus, Kirsti Jylhä and Mikko Laapas
We studied climate trends and the occurrence of rare and extreme temperature and precipitation events in northern Fennoscandia in 1914?2013. Weather data were derived from nine observation stations located in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. The resul...
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Anna A. Stefanovich, Elena N. Voskresenskaya and Veronika N. Maslova
The tourist and recreational conditions of the Mediterranean-Black Sea resorts are closely related to hydrometeorological anomalies, which in turn are largely associated with the North Atlantic climate. The aim of this paper was to study the change and v...
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Leso Munala, Elizabeth M. Allen, Andrew J. Frederick and Anne Ngunjiri
Severe weather events can be a catalyst for intimate partner violence, particularly in agricultural settings. This research explores the association between weather and violence in parts of East Africa that rely on subsistence farming. We used IPUMS-DHS ...
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Faisal Alsaaq and Shamji V.R.
Climate change can give rise to significant changes in the intensity and frequency of extreme events. In the present study, extreme wave events off the central-eastern coast of the Red Sea, near the city of Jeddah, were investigated using a 39-year wave ...
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Lucy Giráldez, Yamina Silva, José L. Flores-Rojas and Grace Trasmonte
The most extreme precipitation event in Metropolitan Lima (ML) occurred on 15 January 1970 (16 mm), this event caused serious damage, and the real vulnerability of this city was evidenced; the population is still not prepared to resist events of this nat...
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Dong Eun Lee, Jaehee Kim, Yujin Heo, Hyunjin Kang and Eun Young Lee
The impact of climatic variability in atmospheric conditions on coastal environments accompanies adjustments in both the frequency and intensity of coastal storm surge events. The top winter season daily maximum sea level height events at 20 tidal statio...
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Wei Zhang and Xiaosong Yang
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Ibrahim Hassan, Robert M. Kalin, Jamiu A. Aladejana and Christopher J. White
The Niger Delta is the most climate-vulnerable region in Nigeria. Flooding events are recorded annually in settlements along the River Niger and its tributaries, inundating many towns and displacing people from their homes. In this study, climate change ...
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Huiling Hu and Bilal M. Ayyub
Climate change is one of the prominent factors that causes an increased severity of extreme precipitation which, in turn, has a huge impact on drainage systems by means of flooding. Intensity?duration?frequency (IDF) curves play an essential role in desi...
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Dan Li and Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Railway networks are exposed to various environmental conditions. It is thus critical that infrastructure components can tolerate such effects by design. Railway sleepers are a critical safety component in ballasted track systems. Prestressed concrete is...
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Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Lei Wu, Keiichi Goto and Yanuar Muhammad Najih
For modern infrastructures, structural concrete has been widely adopted for various components and structures such as railway stations, platforms, walkways, railway bridges, tunnelling, concrete sleepers, concrete foundation of overhead wiring structures...
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Mingquan Lü, Yi Jiang, Xunlai Chen, Jilong Chen, Shengjun Wu and Jun Liu
The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world. Monitoring the spatiotemporal distribution of extreme precipitation offers valuable information for adaptation and mitigation strategies and reservoir management scheme...
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Li Na, Risu Na, Jiquan Zhang, Siqin Tong, Yin Shan, Hong Ying, Xiangqian Li and Yulong Bao
As the global climate has changed, studies on the relationship between vegetation and climate have become crucial. We analyzed the long-term vegetation dynamics and diverse responses to extreme climate changes in Inner Mongolia, based on long-term Global...
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