Anqian Wang

TL;DR: To assess future drought losses, the regional gross domestic product under shared socioeconomic pathways instead of using a static socioeconomic scenario is predicted and increasing precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns are identified for the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming above the preindustrial at 2020–2039 and 2040–2059, respectively.

TL;DR: The authors determine the regional high temperature thresholds for 27 metropolises in China and analyze the changes to heat-related mortality, showing that the additional global-warming temperature increase of 0.5°C, from 1.5 °C to 2 C, will lead to tens of thousands of additional deaths, annually.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of models was used to assess the spatial and temporal distributions of droughts for the arid, the semi-arid and semi-humid, as well as the humid climatic zones in China for 1961-2017.

TL;DR: Results reveal that the ECV soil moisture can capture the large scale dynamics of regional water cycle quite satisfactorily, showing good agreement with in situ observations in their seasonal and interannual variability.

TL;DR: Based on multiple global climate models (GCMs), the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPE I) and Intensity-Area-Duration (IAD) method were used to identify drought events of the Indus River Basin (IRB) in the reference period (1986-2005) and under 1.5°C and 2.0°C global warming scenarios.