Soil moisture scarcity has become the major limiting factor of vegetation restoration in the Loess Plateau of China. The aim of this study is: (i) to compare the spatial distribution of deep (up to 5 m) soil moisture content (SMC) beneath the introduced shrub Caragana korshinskii Kom. under different precipitation zones in the Loess Plateau and (ii) to investigate the impacts of environmental f...

[1] The reasons for the inter-annual variability of dust transport from the Sahara across the Atlantic are not well-understood. Here we address this issue by defining three new climate indices that capture the position and intensity of the zone of near-surface convergence over West Africa, a part of the global Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). We then relate these indices to a 38-year reco...

Satellite precipitation products play an essential role in providing effective global or regional precipitation. However, there are still many uncertainties the performance of satellite products, especially extreme analysis. In this study, a Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) late run (LR) product was used to evaluate rainstorms southern...

In the past two decades, severe drought has been a recurrent problem in Iraq due part to climate change. Additionally, catastrophic drop discharge of Tigris and Euphrates rivers their tributaries aggravated situation Iraq, which was formerly one most water-rich nations Middle East. The Kurdistan Region (KRI) also conditions. This study analyzed Landsat time-series dataset from 1998 2021 determi...

Glaciers are susceptible indicators of climate change and crucial parts the world’s water cycle. In context global warming, we took Urumqi Glacier No.1 (UG1) as an example, which is situated at source River on northern slope Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, combined with data Daxigou Meteorological Station from 1980 to 2020, glacier mass balance its response extreme discussed. The results suggest ...