Search Results - "International journal of climatology"

WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas by Fick, Stephen E., Hijmans, Robert J.

“…ABSTRACT We created a new dataset of spatially interpolated monthly climate data for global land areas at a very high spatial resolution (approximately 1 km2)…”
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The Central Chile Mega Drought (2010–2018): A climate dynamics perspective by Garreaud, René D., Boisier, Juan P., Rondanelli, Roberto, Montecinos, Aldo, Sepúlveda, Hector H., Veloso‐Aguila, Daniel

“…Central Chile, home to more than 10 million inhabitants, has experienced an uninterrupted sequence of dry years since 2010 with mean rainfall deficits of…”
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Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe? by Spinoni, Jonathan, Vogt, Jürgen V., Naumann, Gustavo, Barbosa, Paulo, Dosio, Alessandro

“…ABSTRACT As a result of climate change in recent past and unsustainable land management, drought became one of the most impacting disasters and, with the…”
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Comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 simulations of precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon by Xin, Xiaoge, Wu, Tongwen, Zhang, Jie, Yao, Junchen, Fang, Yongjie

“…We evaluate and compare the simulation of summer precipitation in China and the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) by eight climate models from Phase 6 of the…”
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Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the CRU TS3.10 Dataset by Harris, I., Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J., Lister, D.H.

“…ABSTRACT This paper describes the construction of an updated gridded climate dataset (referred to as CRU TS3.10) from monthly observations at meteorological…”
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Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring by Beguería, Santiago, Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Reig, Fergus, Latorre, Borja

“…ABSTRACT The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was developed in 2010 and has been used in an increasing number of climatology and…”
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Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts by Marengo, J. A., Espinoza, J. C.

“…ABSTRACT This paper reviews recent progress in the study and understanding of extreme seasonal events in the Amazon region, focusing on drought and floods. The…”
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Candidate Distributions for Climatological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI) by Stagge, James H., Tallaksen, Lena M., Gudmundsson, Lukas, Van Loon, Anne F., Stahl, Kerstin

“…The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), a well‐reviewed meteorological drought index recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and its…”
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Comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 models in simulating mean and extreme precipitation over East Africa by Ayugi, Brian, Zhihong, Jiang, Zhu, Huanhuan, Ngoma, Hamida, Babaousmail, Hassen, Rizwan, Karim, Dike, Victor

“…This study examines the improvement in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase Six (CMIP6) models against the predecessor CMIP5 in simulating mean and…”
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An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross‐validation experiment by Gutiérrez, J. M., Maraun, D., Widmann, M., Huth, R., Hertig, E., Benestad, R., Roessler, O., Wibig, J., Wilcke, R., Kotlarski, S., San Martín, D., Herrera, S., Bedia, J., Casanueva, A., Manzanas, R., Iturbide, M., Vrac, M., Dubrovsky, M., Ribalaygua, J., Pórtoles, J., Räty, O., Räisänen, J., Hingray, B., Raynaud, D., Casado, M. J., Ramos, P., Zerenner, T., Turco, M., Bosshard, T., Štěpánek, P., Bartholy, J., Pongracz, R., Keller, D. E., Fischer, A. M., Cardoso, R. M., Soares, P. M. M., Czernecki, B., Pagé, C.

“…VALUE is an open European collaboration to intercompare downscaling approaches for climate change research, focusing on different validation aspects (marginal,…”
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ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record by Freeman, Eric, Woodruff, Scott D., Worley, Steven J., Lubker, Sandra J., Kent, Elizabeth C., Angel, William E., Berry, David I., Brohan, Philip, Eastman, Ryan, Gates, Lydia, Gloeden, Wolfgang, Ji, Zaihua, Lawrimore, Jay, Rayner, Nick A., Rosenhagen, Gudrun, Smith, Shawn R.

“…ABSTRACT We highlight improvements to the International Comprehensive Ocean‐Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) in the latest Release 3.0 (R3.0; covering 1662–2014)…”
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A comprehensive evaluation of soil moisture and soil temperature from third‐generation atmospheric and land reanalysis data sets by Li, Mingxing, Wu, Peili, Ma, Zhuguo

“…Soil moisture and soil temperature, reflecting a synthetic climate regime, are vitally important for climate change assessments and adaption. As historical in…”
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WRF‐based dynamical downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis data for High Mountain Asia: Towards a new version of the High Asia Refined analysis by Wang, Xun, Tolksdorf, Vanessa, Otto, Marco, Scherer, Dieter

“…The High Asia Refined analysis (HAR) is a regional atmospheric data set generated by dynamical downscaling of the Final operational global analysis (FNL) using…”
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Antarctic temperature variability and change from station data by Turner, John, Marshall, Gareth J., Clem, Kyle, Colwell, Steve, Phillips, Tony, Lu, Hua

“…Variability and change in near‐surface air temperature at 17 Antarctic stations is examined using data from the SCAR READER database. We consider the…”
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Daily gridded meteorological variables in Brazil (1980–2013) by Xavier, Alexandre C., King, Carey W., Scanlon, Bridget R.

“…ABSTRACT Basic meteorological data are essential for evaluating impacts of spatiotemporal variability in climate forcing on hydrology and agroecosystems. The…”
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Assessment of GCMs simulation performance for precipitation and temperature from CMIP5 to CMIP6 over the Tibetan Plateau by Lun, Yurui, Liu, Liu, Cheng, Lei, Li, Xiuping, Li, Hao, Xu, Zongxue

“…General circulation models (GCMs) are indispensable for climate change adaptive study over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is the potential trigger and…”
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Selecting representative climate models for climate change impact studies: an advanced envelope‐based selection approach by Lutz, Arthur F., ter Maat, Herbert W., Biemans, Hester, Shrestha, Arun B., Wester, Philippus, Immerzeel, Walter W.

“…ABSTRACT Climate change impact studies depend on projections of future climate provided by climate models. The number of climate models is large and…”
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Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling by Abatzoglou, John T.

“…Landscape‐scale ecological modelling has been hindered by suitable high‐resolution surface meteorological datasets. To overcome these limitations, desirable…”
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Evaluation of daily precipitation analyses in E‐OBS (v19.0e) and ERA5 by comparison to regional high‐resolution datasets in European regions by Bandhauer, Moritz, Isotta, Francesco, Lakatos, Mónika, Lussana, Cristian, Båserud, Line, Izsák, Beatrix, Szentes, Olivér, Tveito, Ole Einar, Frei, Christoph

“…Gridded analyses of observed precipitation are an important data resource for environmental modelling, climate model evaluation and climate monitoring. In…”
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World drought frequency, duration, and severity for 1951–2010 by Spinoni, Jonathan, Naumann, Gustavo, Carrao, Hugo, Barbosa, Paulo, Vogt, Jürgen

“…ABSTRACT In the context of climate change characterized by rising temperature and more extreme precipitation regimes, drought is one of the most relevant…”
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