The impact of climate change on biodiversity in Nepal: Current knowledge, lacunae, and opportunities

A Bhattacharjee, JD Anadón, DJ Lohman, T Doleck… - Climate, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Nepal has an extreme altitudinal range from 60–8850 m with heterogeneous topography
and distinct climatic zones. The country is considered a biodiversity hotspot, with nearly a …

Estimating maximum daily precipitation in the upper Vistula basin, Poland

D Młyński, A Wałęga, A Petroselli, F Tauro, M Cebulska - Atmosphere, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to determine the best probability distributions for calculating the
maximum annual daily precipitation with the specific probability of exceedance (Pmaxp%) …

Error-component analysis of TRMM-based multi-satellite precipitation estimates over mainland China

B Yong, B Chen, Y Tian, Z Yu, Y Hong - Remote Sensing, 2016‏ - mdpi.com
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis
(TMPA) products have been widely used, but their error and uncertainty characteristics over …

Precipitation trends over the Indus basin

NY Krakauer, T Lakhankar, GH Dars - Climate, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
A large population relies on water input to the Indus basin, yet basinwide precipitation
amounts and trends are not well quantified. Gridded precipitation data sets covering different …

Impact of irrigation method on water use efficiency and productivity of fodder crops in Nepal

AK Jha, R Malla, M Sharma, J Panthi, T Lakhankar… - Climate, 2016‏ - mdpi.com
Improved irrigation use efficiency is an important tool for intensifying and diversifying
agriculture in Nepal, resulting in higher economic yield from irrigated farmlands with a …

Map** and attributing normalized difference vegetation index trends for Nepal

NY Krakauer, T Lakhankar, JD Anadón - Remote Sensing, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Global change affects vegetation cover and processes through multiple pathways. Long time
series of surface land surface properties derived from satellite remote sensing give unique …

An improved coupled framework for glacier classification: an integration of optical and thermal infrared remote-sensing bands

V Singh, MK Goyal - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
This study evaluates the applicability of optical and thermal infrared (TIR) bands by the
applications of two different satellite sensors for characterizing debris covers of Zemu glacier …

Prediction of rain occurrence and accumulation using multifrequency radiometric observations

A Maitra, R Chakraborty - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A nowcasting technique has been proposed to estimate the impending rain accumulation
using ground-based radiometric measurements at Kolkata (22.65° N, 88.45° E), a tropical …

Using mixed probability distribution functions for modelling non-zero sub-daily rainfall in Australia

MM Hasan, BFW Croke, S Liu, K Shimizu, F Karim - Geosciences, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Probabilistic models for sub-daily rainfall predictions are important tools for understanding
catchment hydrology and estimating essential rainfall inputs for agricultural and ecological …

Predicting the impacts of climate change on the potential distribution pattern of endangered Himalayan natives (Ulmus wallichiana and U. villosa) in Pakistan

RU Khan, N Ali, IU Rahman, SU Rahman - Arabian Journal of …, 2021‏ - Springer
Climate change negatively affects living biota and environment, particularly for those of
restricted ecology and distribution range. Here, we applied the maximum entropy algorithm …