The Institute for Soil, Climate and Water developed an early warning and decision support system funded by the National Department of Agriculture. The system went operational in October 2000. The system is refered to as Umlindi ( Zulu word for the watchman) and provides information on fire, vegetation condition, water satisfaction index (crop yield prediction and drought monitoring model) and r...

Pollen analysis of radiocarbon-dated samples from the arctic coastal plain of Alaska shows that vegetation of 14,000 years ago reflected a climate colder than the present, and that there has been a progressive warming, culminating in the present cold arctic climate. The record indicates that the Arctic Ocean has been covered with ice since the time of the Wisconsin glacial maximum, suggesting t...

A premiere free-access and peer-reviewed frontier journal site, serving the needs of thermal-fluids community. See latest research or submit an article. Quickly share your with global community, for increased citations impact at no cost.

A necessary condition for a good probabilistic forecast is that the forecast system is shown to be reliable: forecast probabilities should equal observed probabilities verified over a large number of cases. As climate change trends are now emerging from the natural variability, we can apply this concept to climate predictions and compute the reliability of simulated local and regional temperatu...

Poor adaptation to climate change is a major threat to sustainable rice production in Nigeria. Determinants of appropriate climate-change adaptation strategies used by rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria have not been fully investigated. In this study, the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies used by rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria were investigated. Data were obtained thr...