Regional climate models (RCMs) are the state-of-the-art tools employed for downscaling of information from the coarse resolution global circulation models on a local scale. Due to RCMs’ increasing popularity for regional climate change studies, their validation is becoming more important. Two present climate simulations performed with the regional climate model ALADIN-Climate/CZ within a framew...

Most models of the potential effects of climate change on forest growth have produced deterministic predictions. However, there are large uncertainties in data on regional forest condition, estimates of future climate, and quantitative relationships between environmental conditions and forest growth rate. We constructed a new model to analyze these uncertainties along with available experimenta...

On palaeoclimate time scales, enhanced levels of geological and geomorphological activity have been linked to climatic factors, including examples of processes that are expected to be important in current and future anthropogenic climate change. Planetary warming leading to increased rainfall, ice-mass loss and rising sea levels is potentially relevant to geospheric responses in many geological...

Abstract In the coming few decades, projected increases in global temperature and humidity are generally expected to exacerbate human exposure climate extremes (e.g., humid-heat rainfall extremes). Despite growing risk of stress (measured by wet-bulb temperature), it has received less attention East Africa, where arid semi-arid climatic conditions prevail. Moreover, no consensus yet been reache...