Cold climate interspecific hybrid grapevines (CCIHG) selected for their superior midwinter cold hardiness have expanded grape production to regions. However, extreme weather events, such as polar vortexes and the high frequency of fall spring freezes, often result in yield vine losses. The main objective this study was evaluate changes bud five CCIHG cultivars grown upper Midwest identify relat...

The data presented here argue for the regular recent presence of lynx in north-western mountainous border region Bulgaria.

We document a case of intraspecific variation in plumage colouration in Bearded Vultures that may have arisen as a functional response to climate conditions. Two subspecies, Gypaetus barbatus barbatus (Eurasia and North Africa populations) and Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis (Eastern and Southern Africa), have been described on the basis of plumage colour differences. The plumage of G. b. barbat...

Thermal comfort is usually calculated using discrete point measurements. This procedure not suitable to study thermal for inhabited areas with rugged terrains where climate gradient high. The wide availability of remote sensing data and GIS tools has revolutionized management, processing, visualization. present paper implemented digital elevation data, tools, a computational algorithm generate ...

Abstract The southeastern interior of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain) is characterized by a complex orography, which determines pronounced altitudinal gradient, significant slopes, and marked valleys with important temperature inversion processes. In this work, to analyze yearly seasonal evolution minimum temperatures, six indicators related temperatures were used: frost days (FD) number below −2...

Decreasing heating needed energy of building located in mountainous areas without any urban infrastructure of energy supply and services is one of the most important things to get thermal comfort. Accordingly, using building conditions based on different types of applicability and passive design strategies should be considered. Therefore, the objective of this study was to achieve the pro...

In this paper, a glacial module based on an enhanced temperature-index approach was successfully introduced into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate the glacier runoff and water balance of a glacierized watershed, the mountainous region of the Yarkant River Basin (YRB) in Karakoram. Calibration and validation of the SWAT model were based on comparisons between the simula...

This study tried to understand the mountainous households’ perception of climate change and its impacts on food security in the Lamjung district of Nepal. The study attempted to find out changes in households food security and daily activities in the face of climate change for the last twenty years. The study started with the 150 household surveys along with participatory rural appraisal to und...

Satellite-derived precipitation can be a potential source of forcing data for assessing water availability and managing water supply in mountainous regions of East Asia. This study investigates the hydrological utility of satellite-derived precipitation and uncertainties attributed to error propagation of satellite products in hydrological modeling. To this end, four satellite precipitation pro...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) have shown numerous applications for subsidence monitoring. In the past 10 years, the Persistent Scatterer InSAR (PSI) and Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) approaches were developed to overcome the problem of decorrelation and atmospheric effects, which are common in interferograms. H...