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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Climate downscaling"”.
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A standardized framework for evaluating the skill of regional climate downscaling techniques
Regional climate impact assessments require high-resolution projections to resolve local factors that modify the impact of global-scale forcing. To generate these projections, global climate model simulations are commonly downscaled using a variety of statistical and dynamical techniques. Despite …
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The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections of coarse resolution global climate models (GCMs). While GCMs are useful …
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Capability of CORDEX RCMs in simulating extreme rainfall events over South africa
… of extreme rainfall events from regional climate models (RCMs) could help reduce the impact of these events. The present study evaluates the ability of nine RCMs in simulating extreme rainfall events over South Africa, focusing on the Western Cape (WC) and east coast (EC) areas. This study …
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Investigating the link between southern African droughts and global atmospheric teleconnections using regional climate models
… This study evaluates the capability of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) in simulating the Southern African droughts. It uses the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI, computed using rainfall and temperature data) to identify 3-month droughts over Southern Africa, and compares …
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Potential impacts of climate change on hydrological droughts in the Limpopo river basin
Climate change possibly intensifies hydrological droughts and reduces water availability in river basins. Despite this, most research on climate change effects in southern Africa has focused exclusively on meteorological droughts. This thesis projects the potential effect of climate change on the …
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Characteristics of precipitation and extreme precipitation events over the Drakensberg Mountain range in past and future climates
… are among the most sensitive regions to climate variability and change, the potential impacts of global warming on precipitation and extreme precipitation occurrences over the Drakensberg are poorly understood. This thesis examines the characteristics of precipitation and extreme …
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Understanding the characteristics of droughts over Eastern Africa in past and future climates
… and hydrological droughts in present and future climates at the regional and river basin scales. To accomplish that we have applied five objectives; i) Study the temporal and spatial characteristics of eastern Africa droughts modes, ii) Investigate how some atmospheric teleconnections influence …
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Incorporating microclimate into habitat suitability analysis for plethodonitd salamanders
Climate has substantial influence on the distribution of species, and climate change puts many species at risk of extirpation or extinction due to diminishing range sizes. Understanding how organisms may respond to climate change is important for spatially predicting suitable habitat for …
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Near-Surface Air Temperature in Complex Terrain: Daily Predictions of Fine-Scale (30 m) Temperature in the Snake Range, Nevada, USA
… the most important component of the mountain climate, and scientists have been studying it for centuries. Recently, researchers have used arrays of inexpensive temperature sensors to observe and understand temperature across the landscape. Much of this work has focused on landscape scale …