Simulation of Climate Change Impacts on South-Western Asia Heavy Precipitation (Case Study: Kurdistan Province, Iran)

Impacts of climate change on rainfall indices estimation in western sub-basins of Iran

Assessment of potential climate change impacts on drought indicators (Case study: Yazd station, Central Iran)

This research studies the potential impact of climate change on future trend and changes of two well known drought indicators namely RDI and SPI in Yazd meteorological station, in central part of Iran. For this purpose, data of HadCM3 model that were resulted from GCM-runs based on the IPCC-SRES scenarios of A2 and B2 were acquired and analyzed for projection of daily Tmin, Tmax and precipitati...

The Social Impacts of Climate Change in South Asia

Sujatha Byravan Sudhir Chella Rajan 1. Background Climate change is undoubtedly the most serious environmental crisis Earth has ever witnessed. As the planet enters what many are terming the ‘Anthropocene’ period in its geological history (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000) the impacts of climate change—along with the side-by-side destruction of ecosystems associated with the relentless industrialisati...

Culicinae mosquitoes in Sanandaj county, Kurdistan province, western Iran.

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES This study aims at studying mosquito-borne diseases as the major public health threat in Iran. Sanandaj outskirts are considered suitable habitats for mosquito larvae. In view of scanty reports on mosquito-borne disease implementation in this area, a study was undertaken to determine the mosquito fauna and frequency of mosquito larvae at Sanandaj City. METHODS In order...

Climate Change Impacts on South American Rangelands