Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[HTML][HTML] NDVI-based ecological dynamics of forest vegetation and its relationship to climate change in Romania during 1987–2018

R Prăvălie, I Sirodoev, IA Nita, C Patriche… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forests have become increasingly stressed by climate change, including in Romania over
recent decades, but their response to climate dynamics has not yet been analysed in this …

ROCADA: a gridded daily climatic dataset over Romania (1961–2013) for nine meteorological variables

A Dumitrescu, MV Birsan - Natural Hazards, 2015 - Springer
Daily records of nine meteorological variables covering the interval 1961–2013 were used
in order to create a state-of-the-art homogenized climatic dataset over Romania at a spatial …

Spatio-temporal changes of the climatic water balance in Romania as a response to precipitation and reference evapotranspiration trends during 1961–2013

R Prăvălie, A Piticar, B Roșca, L Sfîcă, G Bandoc… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in precipitation (P), evapotranspiration (ET) and, implicitly, in the climatic
water balance (CWB), are imminent effects of climate warming. However, changes in the …

MODIS-based climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island at country scale (Romania)

S Cheval, A Dumitrescu, A Irașoc, MG Paraschiv… - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
This article provides the first country-scale climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island
(SUHI) investigated across the cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants from Romania using …

A country scale assessment of the heat hazard-risk in urban areas

S Cheval, A Dumitrescu, V Amihăesei, A Irașoc… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The connexion between the regional climate and urban environment produces local
changes in most climate features and exacerbates the magnitude and frequency of the …

The impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in Romania. A country-scale assessment based on the relationship between climatic water balance and …

R Prăvălie, I Sîrodoev, C Patriche, B Roșca, A Piticar… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change on agricultural systems has become a reality that currently
threatens food security in numerous regions worldwide. However, concrete consequences …

Recent spatio-temporal changes of land sensitivity to degradation in Romania due to climate change and human activities: An approach based on multiple …

R Prăvălie, C Patriche, A Tişcovschi, M Dumitraşcu… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The analysis of land degradation based on sensitivity models has become a widely used
scientific method for understanding the spatial pattern of this complex environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Drought impacts on vegetation in southeastern Europe

P Páscoa, CM Gouveia, AC Russo, R Bojariu… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
We evaluated the response of vegetation's photosynthetic activity to drought conditions from
1998 to 2014 over Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The connection between …

[HTML][HTML] Thermophysical characteristics of clay for efficient rammed earth wall construction

C Petcu, CF Dobrescu, CS Dragomir, AA Ciobanu… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
This case study focuses on twelve compacted clay soil samples to understand their
fundamental physical and thermal properties. For each sample, the density, thermal …