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 …

2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Climate classification simplifies the representation of expected climate conditions by
eliminating the need to describe each climatic parameter. Climate classification is frequently …

We introduce Version 2 of our widely used 1-km Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps
for historical and future climate conditions. The historical maps (encompassing 1901–1930 …

This study provides an overview of the drought situation in Northeast Brazil for the past,
present, and future. Droughts affect more people than any other natural hazard owing to …

Sorbent-assisted water harvesting from air represents an attractive way to address water
scarcity in arid climates. Hitherto, sorbents developed for this technology have exclusively …

Higher evaporative demands and more frequent and persistent dry spells associated with
rising temperatures suggest that drought conditions could worsen in many regions of the …

We evaluate the performance of a large ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCMs) from
the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) over South America for a …

Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems.
The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate change and human …