Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study

Seasonality and multiannual variability of floods: case study from Eastern Poland

ITM Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/itmconf/20182300031 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. 00031

Author(s):

Grzegorz Siwek

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Flow Duration Curve ◽

Distribution Analysis ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Flow Duration ◽

Flood Season ◽

Seasonality Index ◽

Annual Distribution ◽

Flood Characteristics

Nowadays, under increasing climate change effects on the environment, we can observe increasing number of extreme phenomena, including meteorological and hydrological ones. One of such phenomena are floods. The objective of this article is the assessment of basic flood characteristics seasonality in the annual distribution. Analysis were performed based on time series of daily flow values recorded in the years 1951–2014 in three gauging stations located on rivers in Easter Poland, in upper Wieprz catchment. Floods were defined according to TLM algorithm and were assumed to be all cases of flow occurrence exceeding 10% read from FDC (flow duration curve) (Q10). Seasonality was analysed using Markham’s Seasonality Index and Period of Seasonal Concentration, analysis of autocorrelation function (ACF) as well as proposed by the author Seasonal Winter Floods Index. The distribution of floods during year indicates one flood season in year which occurs in the spring.

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Impacts of global climate change in a hydrologically vulnerable region: challenges to South African hydrologists

Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ◽

10.1177/030913339702100107 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 113-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

R.E. Schulze

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Climate Changes ◽

Global Climate ◽

Sensitivity Study ◽

Hydrological Models ◽

Climate Change Effects

South Africa is already hydrologically vulnerable and this is likely to be exacerbated by both nonpermanent ENSO-related as well as more permanently greenhouse-gas forced climate changes. Climate change effects are explained by way of the hydrological equation. This serves as a backdrop to a brief review, in a hydrological context, of projected perturbations to temperature, rainfall and potential evaporation, over southern Africa. Methodologies for simulating hydro logical responses to climate change are assessed. These include more direct GCM-derived output, with some emphasis on recent advances in climatic downscaling, and the application of appro priate hydrological models for use in impact studies. Scale problems of importance to hydrologists are highlighted. Directions to which climate change-related hydrological research efforts should be expended in South Africa are summarized, before two case study simulations, one a general sensitivity study of hydrological responses to changes in rainfall over southern Africa, the other a more specific hydrological response study to the El Niño of the 1982-83 season, are presented. The article concludes with a discussion on whether or not water resources practitioners in South Africa should respond to climate change.

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Analyzing Existing Urban Green Infrastructure to Face Climate Change Effects in Neighbourhoods: Case study – Yousef Abad Quarter of Tehran

Journal of Climate Change ◽

10.3233/jcc200006 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 47-58

Author(s):

E. Shirgir ◽

R. Kheyroddin ◽

M. Behzadfar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Green Infrastructure ◽

Urban Green ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Urban Green Infrastructure

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Low-Impact Development Practices to Mitigate Climate Change Effects on Urban Stormwater Runoff: Case Study of New York City

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering ◽

10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000770 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 141 (1) ◽

pp. 04014043 ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

Zahra Zahmatkesh ◽

Steven J. Burian ◽

Mohammad Karamouz ◽

Hassan Tavakol-Davani ◽

Erfan Goharian

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Low Impact Development ◽

Stormwater Runoff ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Urban Stormwater Runoff ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

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Climate change effects on the worst-case storm surge: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan

Environmental Research Letters ◽

10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064011 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 064011 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Izuru Takayabu ◽

Kenshi Hibino ◽

Hidetaka Sasaki ◽

Hideo Shiogama ◽

Nobuhito Mori ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Storm Surge ◽

Worst Case ◽

Climate Change Effects

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THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF APPLYING BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS IN VITICULTURAL PRODUCTION UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE CONDITIONS

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5568 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol XXI (4) ◽

pp. 299-307

Author(s):

Mariusz Maciejczak

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Effect ◽

Economic Effects ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Organic Fertilization ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Beneficial Microorganisms ◽

Direct Benefits ◽

Grape Varieties

The paper aimed to present the economic effects of applying beneficial microorganisms in viticultural production under climate change conditions. It was found that increasing climate change effects calls for a broad range of adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture, especially in viticultural production. One of them might be the innovative use of microorganisms that have the ability to interact with plants, and thus contribute to the prevention of stresses as well as respond to them, both abiotic – like drought and biotic – like pests. Based on the direct survey carried out in 2018 among experienced winegrowers from Germany, Italy and Poland, it was observed that there was a direct economic effect of the inoculation of beneficial microorganisms to the cultivation of resistant grape varieties. The majority of farmers think that such innovation in vineyards could reduce both the costs of protection and cultivation as well as increase direct benefits. Empirical evidence from the case study performed in 2018 in the Italian sustainable farm showed that such innovation, despite increasing the costs of irrigation and organic fertilization, also led to a significant reduction of artificial fertilizer and pesticide use, the costs of which predominated.

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Assessment of long-term structural reliability considering climate change effects

10.2749/ghent.2021.0052 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pietro Croce ◽

Paolo Formichi ◽

Filippo Landi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Reliability Index ◽

Structural Reliability ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Climate Change Effects ◽

Structural Resistance ◽

Change Impact ◽

Available Information

The assessment of climate change impacts is becoming increasingly relevant for many sciences and engineering disciplines. In this context, climate change may significantly affect the design of new structures and infrastructures as well as the long-term reliability of existing ones designed under the assumption of stationary climate.A methodology for the assessment of climate change impact on long-term structural reliability is presented, based on the analysis of available information on past and future climate. The procedure relies on the factor of change approach and provide tools for the adaptation of climatic load maps and the evaluation of variations of failure probability and reliability index with time.The proposed procedure will be illustrated for a relevant case study considering changes in climatic actions and different degradation conditions of structural resistance, which may also be affected by global warming.

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