Extreme temperature events, which are part of global climate change, a growing threat to crop production, especially such temperature-sensitive crops as rice. As result, the traditional rice-growing areas also likely shift. The MaxEnt model was used for predicting potentially suitable rice in short term (2016–2035) and medium (2046–2065) under two scenarios developed by Intergovernmental Panel ...

Projections of future climate change depend upon future anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In preparation for its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change implemented a new approach to generating emissions scenarios, called ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCPs), which replace the scenarios in the ‘Special Report on Emissions Scenarios’ (SRES). The RCP...

For its fifth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change divided future scenario projections (2005-2100) into two groups: Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). Each SSP has country-level urban and rural population projections, while the RCPs are based on radiative forcing caused by greenhouse gases, aerosols and associated land-us...

*Correspondence: Yang Liu, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA e-mail: [email protected] Background: We aimed to quantify the excess mortality associated with increased temperature due to climate change in six major Korean cities under Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) which are new emissi...

This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate modeling community as a basis for long-term and near-term modeling experiments. The four RCPs together span the range of year 2100 radiative forcing values found in the open literature, i.e. from 2.6 to 8.5 W/m. The RCPs...

Millions of lakes inversely stratify during winter. Seemingly subtle variations in the duration winter stratification can have major ecological effects by, for example, altering vertical distribution oxygen and nutrients lakes. Yet, influence climate change on has been largely unexplored. To fill this knowledge gap, here we used a lake-climate model ensemble to investigate changes from 1901 209...