Midlatitude mountain regions are particularly sensitive to climate change because of an active snow albedo feedback (SAF). Here, the SAF is characterized and quantified over the complex terrain of the Colorado Headwaters region using high-resolution regional climate model simulations. A pair of 7-yr control and pseudo-global warming simulations is used to study the regional climate response to ...

internationally recognized golestan forests are among the most endangered features threatened by anthropogenic activities. being located in north-west of iran, south-east of caspian sea, gorganroud watershed is mostly influenced by deforestation activities. in this study the identification of regional atmospheric and hydrologic patterns and their role in conforming floods in gorganroud water ba...

Abstract Flood-related risks to people and property are expected increase in the future due environmental demographic changes. It is important quantify effectively communicate flood hazards exposure inform design implementation of risk management strategies. Here we develop an integrated modeling framework assess projected changes regional riverine inundation risks. The samples climate model ou...

Climate change is expected to have a large impact on water resources worldwide. A major problem in assessing the potential impact of a changing climate on these resources is the difference in spatial scale between available climate change projections and water resources management. Regional climate models (RCMs) are often used for the spatial disaggregation of the outputs of global circulation ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report, published in 2007 came to a more confident assessment of the causes of global temperature change than previous reports and concluded that ‘it is likely that there has been significant anthropogenic warming over the past 50 years averaged over each continent except Antarctica.’ Since then, warming over Antarctica has also be...