Changing rapid weather variability increases influenza epidemic risk in a warming climate

Temperature variability in a changing climate

Concern about how climate variability in the future might be affected by global warming is widespread. A simple, powerful and commonly cited (standard) conceptual model for the impact of global warming on temperature variability is embodied by the supposition that current variability has a normal or Gaussian probability density function (PDF) and that global warming shifts this distribution to ...

Impact of Climate Variability on Cool Weather Crop Yield in Ethiopia

The research examined effect of climate variability on yield of the two dominant cool weather cereals (wheat and barley) in central highland and Arssi grain plough farming systems of Ethiopia using eight round unbalanced panel data (1994-2014). The stochastic frontier model result revealed that production inputs for producing wheat and barley in the two farming system had significant effect. Cr...

Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities

Medicane risk in a changing climate

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Evidence linking rapid Arctic warming to mid-latitude weather patterns

The effects of rapid Arctic warming and ice loss on weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere is a topic of active research, lively scientific debate and high societal impact. The emergence of Arctic amplification--the enhanced sensitivity of high-latitude temperature to global warming--in only the last 10-20 years presents a challenge to identifying statistically robust atmospheric responses...