Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

Response of the intertropical convergence zone to climate change: Location, width, and strength

MP Byrne, AG Pendergrass, AD Rapp… - Current climate change …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a planetary-scale
band of heavy precipitation close to the equator. Here, we consider the response of the ITCZ …

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

MS Morales, ER Cook, J Barichivich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of
long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes …

Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

NL Bindoff, PAA Stott, KM AchutaRao… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - hal.science
This chapter assesses the causes of observed changes assessed in Chapters 2 to 5 and
uses understanding of physical processes, climate models and statistical approaches. The …

Evolution of land surface air temperature trend

F Ji, Z Wu, J Huang, EP Chassignet - Nature Climate Change, 2014 - nature.com
The global climate has been experiencing significant warming at an unprecedented pace in
the past century,. This warming is spatially and temporally non-uniform, and one needs to …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

R Fu, L Yin, W Li, PA Arias… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
We have observed that the dry-season length (DSL) has increased over southern Amazonia
since 1979, primarily owing to a delay of its ending dates (dry-season end, DSE), and is …

Re-examining tropical expansion

PW Staten, J Lu, KM Grise, SM Davis… - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Observations reveal a poleward expansion of the tropics in recent decades, implying a
potential role of human activity. However, although theory and modelling suggest increasing …

Expansion of global drylands under a warming climate

S Feng, Q Fu - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
Global drylands encompassing hyper-arid, arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas cover
about 41 percent of the earth's terrestrial surface and are home to more than a third of the …

Recent poleward shift of tropical cyclone formation linked to Hadley cell expansion

S Sharmila, KJE Walsh - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Recent research indicates that the annual-mean locations of tropical cyclones have
migrated toward higher latitudes. Concurrently, an anthropogenically forced tropical …