Abstract The frequency and intensity of drought events are increasing with warming climate, which has resulted in worldwide forest mortality. Previous studies have reached a general consensus on the size-dependency resistance to drought, but further understanding at local scale remains ambiguous conflicting evidence. In this study, we assessed impact canopy height broadleaf deciduous southweste...

Abstract. In this study we analyze drought features at the European level over period 1901–2019 using three indices: standardized precipitation index (SPI), evapotranspiration (SPEI), and self-calibrated Palmer severity (scPDSI). The results based on SPEI scPDSI point to fact that Central Europe (CEU) Mediterranean region (MED) are becoming dryer due an increase in potential mean air temperatur...

Future changes in drought characteristics Greece were investigated using dynamically downscaled high-resolution simulations of 5 km. The Weather Research and Forecasting model driven by EC-EARTH output for historical future periods, under Representative Concentration Pathways 4.5 8.5. For the analysis, standardized precipitation index (SPI) precipitation-evapotranspiration (SPEI) calculated. Th...

Drought is an extreme phenomenon that will likely increase in frequency and severity the current context of climate change. As such, it must be studied to improve decision-making process affected areas. a semi-arid zone, Guadalquivir River basin, located southern Iberian Peninsula, interesting area perform this study. The relationship between meteorological hydrological droughts using drought i...

Drought prediction is the most effective way to mitigate drought impacts. The current study examined ability of three renowned machine learning models, namely additive regression (AR), random subspace (RSS), and M5P tree, their hybridized versions (AR-RSS, AR-M5P, RSS-M5P, AR-RSS-M5P) in predicting standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) multiple time scales. SPEIs were calcu...

Abstract Nepal is located on the southern slope of Central Himalayas and has experienced frequent droughts in past. In this study, we used an ensemble 13 biased corrected models from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) to assess future drought conditions over under three shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP126, SSP245, SSP585) using Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration ...

Droughts significantly impact land carbon uptake by reducing the gross primary productivity (GPP). Projections suggest an increase in severe and extreme droughts twenty-first century. Despite importance of on uptakes, it remains unclear about GPP responses under different drought severity its changes current climate changes. Using four state-of-the-science products, we showed that moderate (−1 ...

Over a 3-month period, six immunocompromised patients developed one or more episodes of Burkholderia pickettii bacteremia and/or catheter infection. Vials of a commercially available, "sterile" saline for injection which had been used for flushing the patients' indwelling intravenous devices were implicated as the common source of the organisms. No further cases were diagnosed once the use of t...

Cronobacter (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) is a genus comprising seven species regarded as opportunistic pathogens that can be found in a wide variety of environments and foods, including powdered infant formula (PIF). Cronobacter sakazakii, the major species of this genus, has been epidemiologically linked to cases of bacteremia, meningitis in neonates, and necrotizing enterocoliti...