Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

G Konapala, AK Mishra, Y Wada, ME Mann - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Both seasonal and annual mean precipitation and evaporation influence patterns of water
availability impacting society and ecosystems. Existing global climate studies rarely consider …

Classifying and map** rainfall seasonality in South Africa: A review

SJ Roffe, JM Fitchett, CJ Curtis - South African Geographical Journal …, 2019 - journals.co.za
Across South Africa, many activities warrant consistent and predictable rainfall patterns
which can be achieved from classification of rainfall seasonality into homogeneous zones …

Seasonal cycle of precipitation over major river basins in South and Southeast Asia: A review of the CMIP5 climate models data for present climate and future climate …

S Ul Hasson, S Pascale, V Lucarini, J Böhner - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the skill of thirty coupled climate models participating in the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) in terms of reproducing properties of the seasonal …

Spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall and drought characteristics across the Pearl River basin

S Deng, T Chen, N Yang, L Qu, M Li, D Chen - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding rainfall trends as well as drought characteristics plays a key role in
watershed development and management. In this study, the spatial and temporal …

Contrasting effects of aridity and seasonality on global salinization

S Perri, A Molini, LO Hedin, A Porporato - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Soil salinization is the most diffuse form of soil degradation in drylands, where it represents a
rising threat to crop production and ecosystem functioning. While aridity is thought to be the …

Quantifying climate change impacts on hydropower generation and implications on electric grid greenhouse gas emissions and operation

B Tarroja, A AghaKouchak, S Samuelsen - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Here we translate the impacts of climate change on hydropower generation, and discuss
implications on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and operation in California. We integrate …

Performance of the general circulation models in simulating temperature and precipitation over Iran

M Abbasian, S Moghim, A Abrishamchi - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract General Circulation Models (GCMs) are advanced tools for impact assessment and
climate change studies. Previous studies show that the performance of the GCMs in …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction in precipitation seasonality in China from 1960 to 2018

Y Mao, G Wu, G Xu, K Wang - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Changes in precipitation seasonality or the distribution of precipitation have
important impacts on hydrological extremes (eg, floods or droughts). Precipitation extremes …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots, co-occurrence, and shifts of compound and cascading extreme climate events in Eurasian drylands

H Yu, N Lu, B Fu, L Zhang, M Wang, H Tian - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Eurasian drylands are the regions that are most vulnerable to climate change. Climate
extremes have caused enormous or even devastating impacts on ecosystems and the social …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing reliability of precipitation data over the Mekong River Basin: A comparison of ground‐based, satellite, and reanalysis datasets

A Chen, D Chen, C Azorin‐Molina - International Journal of …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Precipitation plays a key role in the global hydrological cycle (Pascale et al., 2015),
combining both processes in land-surface (ie, surface runoff, infiltration, soil moisture, and …