Climate changes and their elevational patterns in the mountains of the world

NC Pepin, E Arnone, A Gobiet, K Haslinger… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying rates of climate change in mountain regions is of considerable interest, not least
because mountains are viewed as climate “hotspots” where change can anticipate or …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources

KN Musselman, N Addor, JA Vano… - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
In many mountainous regions, winter precipitation accumulates as snow that melts in the
spring and summer, which provides water to one billion people globally. Climate warming …

Dramatic declines in snowpack in the western US

PW Mote, S Li, DP Lettenmaier, M **ao… - Npj Climate and …, 2018 - nature.com
Mountain snowpack stores a significant quantity of water in the western US, accumulating
during the wet season and melting during the dry summers and supplying much of the water …

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity

ZA Holden, A Swanson, CH Luce… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Western United States wildfire increases have been generally attributed to warming
temperatures, either through effects on winter snowpack or summer evaporation. However …

World's demand for food and water: The consequences of climate change

SMF Islam, Z Karim - Desalination-challenges and opportunities, 2019 - books.google.com
This study focused on analysis of global food demand and supply situation by 2030 and
2050, water demand-availability, impact of climate change on world water resource, food …

Water and life from snow: A trillion dollar science question

M Sturm, MA Goldstein, C Parr - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Snow provides essential resources/services in the form of water for human use, and climate
regulation in the form of enhanced cooling of the Earth. In addition, it supports a thriving …

Snowmelt rate dictates streamflow

TB Barnhart, NP Molotch, B Livneh… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Declining mountain snowpack and earlier snowmelt across the western United States has
implications for downstream communities. We present a possible mechanism linking …

Effects of climate change on snowpack and fire potential in the western USA

DR Gergel, B Nijssen, JT Abatzoglou, DP Lettenmaier… - Climatic Change, 2017 - Springer
We evaluate the implications of ten twenty-first century climate scenarios for snow, soil
moisture, and fuel moisture across the conterminous western USA using the Variable …