The tropical Atlantic ocean plays a key role for climate variability in sensitive regions of the surrounding continents: Previous studies suggest that inter-annual variability of sea surface temperature (SST) in the equatorial Atlantic impacts rainfall variability over northeast Brazil and the coastal regions surrounding the Gulf of Guinea (Chang et al. 2006; Kushnir et al. 2006; Brandt et al. ...

A 124 (1882–2005) summer record of total surface energy content consisting of time series of surface equivalent temperature (TE) and its components T (mean air temperature) and Lq/cp (moist enthalpy, denoted Lq) is developed, quality controlled, and analyzed for Columbus, Ohio, where long records of monthly dewpoint temperature are available. The analysis shows that the highest TE occurs during...

Abstract This study compares the impacts of climate, agriculture and wetlands on spatio-temporal variability seasonal daily minimum flows during period 1930–2019 in 17 watersheds southern Quebec (Canada). In terms spatial variability, correlation analysis revealed that were mainly negatively correlated with agricultural surface area spring, summer fall. winter, these positively wetland March te...

Precipitation trend analysis, on different spatial and temporal scales, has been of great concern during the past century because of the attention given to global climate change by the scientific community. According to some recent studies, the Italian territory has been suffering a precipitation decrease, especially in the last 50 years, and the southern areas seem to be more affected. The aim...

Shifts in rainfall frequency and intensity can lead to heavy crop loss rainfed agricultural systems. Small-scale farmers who plant with limited resources need carefully select management strategies that are well suited for their environment. Farmers must choose between planting higher-yielding varieties take longer mature lower-yielding be harvested sooner. To better understand the interactions...

Abstract This paper has examined the variability and trends of rainfall in Borana zone, southern Ethiopia. Monthly data from 1981 to 2018 were obtained National Meteorological Agency (NMA) Mean, standard deviation coefficient variation employed analyze temporal variability. Mann–Kendall (MK) test Sen's slope estimator (SEE) used determine trend its magnitude, respectively. The inverse weighting...

Based on the University of Utah Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation feature (PF) database, tropical cyclone PFs (TCPFs) are identified for over 600 storms that reached tropical storm intensity level or above around the globe during eight TC seasons from the period of 1998–2006. Each TC season includes 6 months yr. Six basins are considered: Atlantic (ATL), east-central Paci...