[1] Published research has suggested that urban and agricultural activities in central Arizona may be enhancing monsoonal precipitation in the region; therefore, this study employed cloud-to-ground lightning data and topographic data to reveal spatially anomalous zones of lightning activity in central Arizona. A multiple linear regression model with topographic variables as predictors explained...

Gridded climatological data derived for Bhutan from internationally available sets either come at a very low spatial resolution, or do not provide daily data, contain few in situ measurements. We present newly developed high-resolution (1 km) gridded set covering the years 1996–2019 precipitation and maximum minimum temperature (BhutanClim). As input, we used quality-controlled homogenized up t...

Water-related soil erosion is a major environmental concern for catchments with barren topography in arid and semi-arid regions. With the growing interest irrigation infrastructure development regions, current study investigates runoff sediment yield Gomal River catchment, Pakistan. Data from precipitation gauge gridded products (i.e., GPCC, CFSR, TRMM) were used as input SWAT model to simulate...

Quantifying the ecological patterns of loss of ecosystem function in extreme drought is important to understand the carbon exchange between the land and atmosphere. Rain-use efficiency [RUE; gross primary production (GPP)/precipitation] acts as a typical indicator of ecosystem function. In this study, a novel method based on maximum rain-use efficiency (RUEmax) was developed to detect losses of...

A dendroclimatic analysis was used to assess the climate-growth relationships of Abies alba Mill. over the last century in marginal populations of Central Italy. Tree-ring cores were collected in five mixed silver fir forests at low and high-elevation sites of the Apennines range in Tuscany and Marches. Regular and moving correlations functions were applied to tree-ring width series and monthly...

Using monthly gridded 500-hPa data, two synoptic indices are defined to better understand the principle mechanisms controlling intraseasonal to multiannual winter climate variability in New England (NE). The ‘‘trough axis index’’ (TAI) is created to quantify the mean longitudinal position of the common East Coast pressure trough, and the ‘‘trough intensity index’’ (TII) is calculated to estimat...