Widespread concerns about global biodiversity loss have led to a growing demand for indices of biodiversity status. Today, climate change is among the most serious threats to global biodiversity. Although many studies have revealed phenological responses to climate change, no long-term community-level indices have been developed. We derived a 250-year index of first flowering dates for 405 plan...

Results of previous studies support the existence of a spatially coherent, secularly varying climate signal, propagating through a network of synchronized climate indices across the Northern Hemisphere during the 20(th) century. The signal was identified in both instrumental and proxy data sets. In this present study, we seek to detect this same low-frequency signal propagating hemispherically ...

The continuous occurrence of changes in the global climate causes significant variability in the seasonal and intra-seasonal rainfall pattern, which often leads to frequent floods and droughts in India. To reduce the magnitude of effect of such natural calamities and for better management of water resources, it is essential to predict the rainfall, well in advance. In this study the possible re...

knowledge of behavior climatic indexes can be help to planning future programs bahabad study area in the eastern part of the province of yazd with a hot and dry climate, high potential evapotranspiration and low rainfall has a high potential for desertification. the aim of this research is evaluation of classification intensity by imdpa model with emphasis to climate criteria. the indices inclu...

[1] We have applied association analysis to 17 years of climate index observations and predicted net ecosystem production on land to infer short-term (monthly to yearly) teleconnections between atmosphere-ocean climate forcing and terrestrial carbon cycles. The analysis suggests that on a global level, climate indices can be significantly correlated to net ecosystem carbon fluxes over more than...

Dominating wind patterns around Norway may change due to climate warming. This could affect transport of polluted air masses and precipitation. Here, we study relations between reactive nitrogen wet deposition and air mass transport during summer and winter expressed in the form of climate indices, at seven sites in Southern Norway for the period 1980–2005. Atmospheric nitrate concentrations de...

The energy performance of buildings depends on how effectively the building envelope responds to climate. Architects, therefore, need to design building envelopes with the consideration of local climate characteristics in the early design stage. Simplified formulas were used that evaluate the heating and cooling energy demand of building envelopes, which were applied to a model building with en...