Economic aspects of possible land use strategies and protection measures in coastal zones as a response to global environmental change are examined. First, some key elements are mentioned that are of critical importance for water and land management in coastal zones. Next, various socio-economic repercussions are discussed. In this context, research needs will be addressed. Subsequently, these ...

In the purview of global warming, the present study attempts to project changes in climate and quantify the changes in aridity of two coastal districts in south India under the RCP 4.5 trajectory. Projected climate change output generated by RegCM 4.4 model, pertaining to 14 grid points located within the study area, was analyzed and processed for this purpose. The meteorological parameters tem...

A survey of remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation methods in forest ecosystems Dengsheng Lu, Qi Chen, Guangxing Wang, Lijuan Liu, Guiying Li & Emilio Moran a Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbon Cycling in Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Sequestration, School of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'An, China b Center for Global Change and Earth Obse...

Long-term trends in the mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere are areas of research of increasing importance both because they are sensitive indicators of climatic change and because they affect satellite-based technologies which are increasingly important to modern life. Their study was an important part of CAWSES-II project, as they were a topic of Task Group 2 (TG-2) ‘How Will Geospace Re...

Simulations of world history, like the real thing, are complex systems whose outcomes most often (if not always) constitute highly contingent events. Rarely (if ever) will researchers be able to find unqualified main effects that explain important outcome measures that affect the security and prosperity of the world community. The problem of contingency for testing hypotheses about the causes o...

Aerosol size distribution and new particle formation in western Yangtze River Delta of China: two-year measurement at the SORPES station X. M. Qi, A. J. Ding, W. Nie, T. Petäjä, V.-M. Kerminen, E. Herrmann, Y. N. Xie, L. F. Zheng, H. Manninen, P. Aalto, J. N. Sun, Z. N. Xu, X. G. Chi, X. Huang, M. Boy, A. Virkkula, X.-Q. Yang, C. B. Fu, and M. Kulmala Institute for Climate and Global Change Res...

1 Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat de les Illes Balears, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain 2 Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry Research, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia 3 Laboratório de Biotecnologia de Algas, Departament...

Dominant climatic factors controlling the lifetime peak intensity of typhoons are determined from six decades of Pacific typhoon data. We find that upper ocean temperatures in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific (LLNWP) and sea surface temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific control the seasonal average lifetime peak intensity by setting the rate and duration of typhoon intensification...

Departments of Biology (K.J., A.F.-C., A.M.J.) and Pharmacology (A.M.J.), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599–3280; School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia (Y.T., J.R.B.); Centro de Biotecnología y Genomica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, E–28223 Pozuelo de Alarcon, ...

The pattern of vegetation change in response to global change still remains a controversial issue. A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset compiled by the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) was used for analysis. For the period 1982–2006, GIMMS-NDVI analysis indicated that monthly NDVI changes show homogenous trends in middle and high latitude areas in the nor...