There are increased concerns related to the impact of a possible global climatic change on Arctic infrastructure. Especially important is how the climatic scenarios may change (increase) the environmental loads the structures are designed for. This may cause increased risk of damage to infrastructure and threat to human lives. In addition, future infrastructure design in the Arctic may be direc...

Methods In total, 292 lower/southern limit and 310 upper/northern limit sites with available climatic data for all 11 extant beech species were collected by reviewing the literature, and 13 climatic variables were estimated for each site from climate normals at nearby stations. We used principal components analysis (PCA) to detect climatic variables most strongly associated with the distributio...

The present article proposes a climatic approach to the study of the interaction between influenza spreading and climatic and meteorological factors in different climatic domains of the Iberian Peninsula. This association can be used to help in the prevention and mitigation of influenza epidemics. A biometeorological index has been defined and applied to the epidemic periods that took place in ...