The depletion of shallow groundwater has seriously affected the sustainable development water resources in North China Plain (NCP). Based on 556 well monitoring observations over a period 13 years, we quantitatively evaluated sustainability NCP via various indices (e.g., reliability, resilience, vulnerability, and indices), further discussed contribution different drivers (including climatic no...

An intense epidemic of dengue haemorrhagic fever in 1998 prompted the Thai government to investigate the feasibility of focalized vector (Aedes aegypti) control programmes. We tested for correlations of three indices of Aedes larval abundance (housing index, container index and Breteau index) against 38 socio-economic and four climatic variables. Availability of public water wells, existence of...

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) has been identified as one of the major C sinks in the global carbon cycle, of which the exact size and spatial distribution are still difficult to determine quantitatively. Estimation of the amount of SOC present using remote sensing is mostly based on the overall decrease in reflectance in the solar reflective part of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, moisture c...

The concept of vulnerability is delimited by dynamic social and multigenerational processes involving at least three dimensions: exposure to risk trajectories, internal and external capabilities of reaction and possibilities of adaptation based on both the intensity of risk and the resilience of people. In order to identify and describe the synthetic indices of vulnerability, there was an integ...

Temperature and precipitation are major forcing factors influencing grapevine phenology and yield, as well as wine quality. Bioclimatic indices describing the suitability of a particular region for wine production are a commonly used tool for viticultural zoning. For this research these indices were computed for Europe by using the E-OBS gridded daily temperature and precipitation data set for ...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between four bioclimatic indices for cattle (environmental stress, heat load, modified heat load, and respiratory rate predictor indices) and three main milk components (fat, protein, and milk yield) considering uncertainty. The climate parameters used to calculate the climate indices were taken from the NASA-Modern Era Retrospective-...