Combustion particulate emissions in Africa: regional climate modeling and validation A. Konare, C. Liousse, B. Guillaume, F. Solmon, P. Assamoi, R. Rosset, J. M. Gregoire, and F. Giorgi Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Toulouse, France JRC, IES-GEM, Ispra, Italy International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy Rece...

Climate models have become an important tool in the study of climate and climate change, and ensemble experiments consisting of multiple climate-model runs are used in studying and quantifying the uncertainty in climate-model output. However, there are often only a limited number of model runs available for a particular experiment, and one of the statistical challenges is to characterize the di...

The forest shelterbelt (afforestation) project in northern China is the most significant ecosystem project initiated in China during the past three decades. It aims to improve and conserve the ecological environment in the project areas. The tree belt stands along the southern edge of the sandy lands, nearly paralleling to the Great Wall. This study used a regional climate model to simulate the...

A wide range of infectious diseases may change their geographic range, seasonality and incidence due to climate change, but there is limited research exploring health vulnerabilities to climate change. In order to address this gap, pan-European vulnerability indices were developed for 2035 and 2055, based upon the definition vulnerability = impact/adaptive capacity. Future impacts were projecte...

INTRODUCTION There has been increasing interest in pragmatic trials methodology. As a result, tools such as the Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary-2 (PRECIS-2) are being used prospectively to help researchers design randomised controlled trials (RCTs) within the pragmatic-explanatory continuum. There may be value in applying the PRECIS-2 tool retrospectively in a systematic revie...

Aim NARCliM (NSW/ACT Regional Climate Modelling project) is a regional climate modelling project designed to provide regional climate change data for use in impacts and adaptation research across sectors. Method The climate models used were carefully chosen to satisfy the following criteria:  The chosen models perform adequately for the recent past compared to observations.  The chosen models...

Severe droughts have been associated with regional-scale forest mortality worldwide. Climate change is expected to exacerbate regional mortality events; however, prediction remains difficult because the physiological mechanisms underlying drought survival and mortality are poorly understood. We developed a hydraulically based theory considering carbon balance and insect resistance that allowed ...

the present study illustrates the long-term changes in selected socioeconomic variables (population,industrial activities, settlement dispersion, and land-use) together with climate aridity trends in thriasio, the larger industrial area of greece located twenty kilometers far from athens. this region, originally devoted to agriculture, experienced fast industrial and economic development during...

1.0 INTRODUCTION Much progress has been made in modeling trace gases such as ozone and ozone precursors; however, relatively large uncertainties are still associated with urban, regional, and global-scale model predictions of aerosols (mass, size distribution, composition, physical characteristics, and optical properties) and aerosol direct and indirect forcing. A key step in improving the repr...