Showing papers in "Global and Planetary Change in 2017"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented new geochemical and palynological data from a borehole drilled at the continental slope and dated based on nannofossil biostratigraphy.

TL;DR: The water-sediment regulation scheme (WSRS) is an unprecedented engineering effort to manage the Yellow River with the aims to mitigate the siltation both in the lower river channel and within the Xiaolangdi Reservoir utilizing the dam-regulated flood water.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impacts of drought on vegetation over the entire Mediterranean basin, with the purpose of determining the vegetation communities, regions and seasons at which vegetation is driven by drought.

TL;DR: Based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), the authors investigated vegetation response to different time-scales drought across different vegetation types and homogeneous clusters in China, by annual maximum Pearson correlation (Rmax) and the corresponding timescales of drought.

TL;DR: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) hyperthermal, ~56 million years ago (Ma), is the most dramatic example of abrupt Cenozoic global warming as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated vegetation response to climate change exhibited by temperature, soil moisture, and solar radiation at Northern Hemisphere (NH) scale during the growing season and seasonal periods by analyzing satellite observations of vegetation activity and climatic data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the regional climate imprints of large tropical volcanic explosive eruptions, focusing on the impact on three major climatic modes, located in the Atlantic (the North Atlantic Oscillation: NAO and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations: AMO) and Pacific (the El Nino Southern OscillATION, ENSO) sectors.

TL;DR: The sociological imagination can be used to understand and respond to climate change as discussed by the authors, and to understand the relationships between human actions and their impacts on earth's biophysical system (ecological imagination) and the relationships within society that make up this environmentally damaging social structure (sociological imagination).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the restoration of seven balanced cross-sections and compiled thickness data of ten outcrop sections and four boreholes to reconstruct the basin boundaries, develop isopach maps, and calculate the sediment flux in the Qaidam Basin.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method (Representative-IHA, RIHA) is developed by removing repetitions based on Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) algorithm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an approach for assessing climate and land use change impacts based on river flow records for headwater and lowland reaches of rivers, using the case of Lake Urmia basin, in north-westen Iran.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatiotemporal distribution and net primary productivity of global terrestrial biomes and their dynamics in this century were quantitatively simulated and compared by using the improved Comprehensive and Sequential Classification System and the segmentation model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a commonality analysis model was applied to investigate the relationship among BAI, temperatures, atmospheric CO 2 concentration (C a ) and iWUE during 1961-2006, taking into account of both pure and joint effects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the decadal glacier mass balance in the Western Nyainqentanglha Mountains and their increasing melting contribution to Nam Co Lake using differential Bistatic SAR interferometry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of ESMs that participated in the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) in simulating historical and future fire occurrence was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present modelled climate change projections with respect to the suitability for the growth of nine near-treeline plant species of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau through niche modelling technique using CLIMEX and estimates their potential future distribution and the extent of greening in the region.

TL;DR: In this article, sediment samples from four Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) sections of western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan provinces in South China, representing a terrestrial to marine transitional setting, were analyzed for δ13C of organic matter.

TL;DR: In this paper, a tree-ring δ 18 O (18 O) was calculated from five silver fir trees collected in the western Himalaya, a region located on the northwestern periphery of the summer monsoon incursions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied atoll reef islands from a shoreline change perspective, and investigated the major local drivers controlling recent shoreline and island change, i.e. tropical cyclones and seasonal swells, sediment supply by coral reefs and human activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the Atlantic sea surface temperature multi-decadal variability on the day-by-day sequence of large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns (i.e. the "weather regimes") over the Euro-Atlantic region was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, a theory on the role of ecological catastrophe narratives in current popular culture, before going on to review existing critical work on ecologically charged popular films and novels which attempts to assess their effects on their audiences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the evolution of snow avalanche damage in the Asturian Massif (NW Spain) between 1800 and 2015, paying special attention to changes in land-use and land-cover patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sediment profile with a depth of 11.325m was examined within the deposits associated with a check dam at the outlet of the Nianyangou catchment, in the northern Loess Plateau, China, with a drainage area of 0.181km 2.

TL;DR: In this paper, water level fluctuations of Lake Nam Co, an inland lake in the central TP, were investigated using a lumped lake-watershed model, and the degree-day factor method was introduced to improve the model applicability in glacier-covered basins.

TL;DR: In this paper, the European Union-funded DINAS-COAST (D-C) data set of extreme sea level information for the global coastline has been used in many published flood impact studies.

TL;DR: In this article, a method to quantify the effects of changes in CO2 concentration during the reconstruction of climate changes from fossil pollen assemblages is presented. But the method does not depend on any particular vegetation model.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of sedimentation on rift segment and rift interaction zone evolution in orthogonal and oblique extensional settings, by means of 3D brittleductile analogue models, analysed with 4D X-ray computed tomography (XRCT or CT) methods and digital volume correlation (DVC) techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a more quantitative assessment and statistical testing of climate change signals in the light of uncertainty, based on a two-way analysis of variance, referring to 24 climate models from the CMIP3 multi-model ensemble, and extents over the 21st century.

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid application of decision tree and association rules was offered to discover affiliation between drought of Tabriz and Kermanshah synoptic stations (located in Iran) and de-trend SSTs of the Black, Mediterranean and Red Seas.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the variations of wetness/dryness across China during 1949-2014 in both space and time using the grid climate data of Time-Series (TS) Version 3.23.