Global warming increases the moisture holding capacity of the atmosphere and consequently the potential risks of extreme rainfall. Here we show that maximum hourly summer rainfall intensity has increased by about 11.2% on average, using continuous hourly gauge records for 1971-2013 from 721 weather stations in China. The corresponding event accumulated precipitation has on average increased by ...

In a changing climate arising from anthropogenic global warming, the nature of extreme climatic events is changing over time. Existing analytical stationary-based risk methods, however, assume multi-dimensional extreme climate phenomena will not significantly vary over time. To strengthen the reliability of infrastructure designs and the management of water systems in the changing environment, ...

Earth's ecosystem has been active for millions of years without particular problems and may lead the development of variety of animal species around the world.

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a crucial role in the climate change of China as well global change. It is therefore great practical significance to study vegetation and its dynamic changes for regional ecological protection. combination dry notable temperature disparities can lead intricate effects on region’s vegetation. However, there are few studies exploring complex diurnal variations growt...

This paper describes the application of machine learning methods to determine parameters for DeLite, a readability checking tool. DeLite pinpoints text segments that are difficult to understand and computes for a given text a global readability score, which is a weighted sum of normalized indicator values. Indicator values are numeric properties derived from linguistic units in the text, such a...

To identify countermeasures to the effects of climate warming on crop production, we mustunderstand the changes in crop phenology and the relationships between phenology and climatechange and cultivar. We used summer maize phenological and climate data in the North ChinaPlain, collected from 1981 to 2010. This study analyzed the spatiotemporal trends inphenological data and lengths of different...