Infectious diseases of animals are of huge socioeconomic and public health importance & climate change is one of the predictable factors to affect the future pattern of disease occurrence, disease spread, spatial and temporal distribution. The earth’s temperature has risen at an average of 0.3 to 0.7 °C since 1900 & 20-30% of all vertebrate animals are expected to get extinct if the average tem...

Based on bias-corrected future projections from the Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) regional climate model under both RCP4.5 and 8.5 scenarios over China, extreme climatic events at middle end of twenty-first century are investigated in this paper. The performance PRECIS is validated using comparisons with observations HadGEM2-ES projections, bias correction adds fideli...

Concerns about the potential effects of anthropogenic climate change have led to a closer examination of how climate varies in the long run, and how such variations may impact rainfall variations at daily to seasonal time scales. For South Florida in particular, the influences of the low-frequency climate phenomena, such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Atlantic Multi-decadal ...

India is the second largest producer of potato in the world. The Indo-Gangeticplains (IGP) is the main potato growing region accounting for almost 85% of the1.8 Mha under the crop in India where it is grown as an irrigated crop during thewinter season. Since IGP is in sub-tropical plains, duration of the thermally suitablewindow is the main determinant limiting yields. Hence the impact of clima...

In this paper, we introduce our initiative to use the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb) to improve the accessibility of climate models developed by NASA/GISS. This initiative aims to increase the general public’s literacy of climate change to promote their participation in climate change issues. Three groups of Geoweb applications that wrapped around the climate models are presented. The first is a w...

With a vast area of marginal land, the Loess Plateau of China is a promising region for large-scale production of second-generation energy crops. However, it remains unknown whether such production is sustainable in the long run, especially under climate change. Using a regional climate change model, PRECIS, we analyzed the impact of climate change on Miscanthus production in the Loess Plateau....