Abstract This study characterizes the hydrological regime of Upper Ayeyarwaddy River Basin (UARB) Myanmar under current and future climate change scenarios by using Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The model simulation results show that annual precipitation, actual evapotranspiration water yields are 1,578, 524 1,010 mm, respectively. These will increase 13–28%, 11–24% 42–198% two representat...

Climate change has resulted in serious social-economic ramifications and extremely catastrophic weather events the world, Tanzania Zanzibar particular, with adaptation being only option to reduce impacts. The study focuses on influence of climate variability spatio-temporal rainfall temperature distribution Zanzibar. station observation datasets rainfall, Tmax Tmin acquired from Meteorological ...

The possibility of an impact of global warming on the Indian monsoon is of critical importance for the large population of this region. Future projections within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP-3) showed a wide range of trends with varying magnitude and sign across models. Here the Indian summer monsoon rainfall is evaluated in 20 CMIP-5 models for the period 1850 to 210...

The southeastern United States hosts extensive forested wetlands, providing ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, water quality improvement, groundwater recharge, and wildlife habitat. However, these wetland ecosystems are dependent on local climate and hydrology, and are therefore at risk due to climate and land use change. This study develops site-specific empirical hydrologic mo...

Global warming has created opportunities and challenges for the survival and development of species. Determining how climate change may impact multiple ecosystem levels and lead to various species adaptations is necessary for both biodiversity conservation and sustainable biological resource utilization. In this study, we employed Maxent to predict changes in the habitat range and altitude of P...

Global aerosol direct radiative forcing (DRF) is an important metric for assessing potential climate impacts of future emissions changes. However, the radiative consequences of emissions perturbations are not readily quantified nor well understood at the level of detail necessary to assess realistic policy options. To address this challenge, here we show how adjoint model sensitivities can be u...

Seasonal changes in the climatic potential for very large wildfires (VLWF≥ 50,000 ac~20,234 ha) across the western contiguous United States are projected over the 21st century using generalized linear models and downscaled climate projections for two representative concentration pathways (RCPs). Significant (p≤0.05) increases in VLWF probability for climate of the mid-21st century (2031–2060) r...