By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

Photovoltaic (PV) installations in desert areas such as Middle East, Africa, four-season
countries and industrial areas suffers from loss in efficiency due to accumulation of dust …

There is no consensus on whether climate change has yet affected the statistics of tropical
cyclones, owing to their large natural variability and the limited period of consistent …

Abstract Continental United States (CONUS) hurricane-related inflation-adjusted damage
has increased significantly since 1900. However, since 1900 neither observed CONUS …

One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme
events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that have …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

We examined the number of tropical cyclones and cyclone days as well as tropical cyclone
intensity over the past 35 years, in an environment of increasing sea surface temperature. A …

Variations and trends in extreme climate events have only recently received much attention.
Exponentially increasing economic losses, coupled with an increase in deaths due to these …

The years 1995 to 2000 experienced the highest level of North Atlantic hurricane activity in
the reliable record. Compared with the generally low activity of the previous 24 years (1971 …