Extreme characteristics and causes of the drought event in the whole Yangtze River Basin in the midsummer of 2022
Available online 29 September 2023
Due to their huge socio-economic impacts and complex formation causes, extreme and continuous drought events have become the focus and nodus of research in recent years. In the midsummer (July–August)...
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The 2022 record-breaking high temperature in China: Sub-seasonal stepwise enhanced characteristics, possible causes and its predictability
Available online 29 September 2023
In the summer of 2022, an unprecedented and long-lasting high temperature swept central-eastern China, causing significant societal effects. However, the sub-seasonal characteristics, causes and predictability...
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The impact of OFDI on firm pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from China
Available online 28 September 2023
Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) is a crucial decision in the internationalization strategy of firms and they confront diversified environmental policies and practices of host countries, when...
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Off-farm income promotes energy transition in the Pan-Third Pole cross-national region
Available online 22 September 2023
The Pan-Third Pole region comprises multiple nations affected by climate vulnerability and energy inequality, wherein promoting energy transitions in rural households would provide a path to combat...
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Assessing CMIP6 simulations of Arctic sea ice drift: role of near-surface wind and surface ocean current in Model Performance
Available online 22 September 2023
Sea ice drift is a critical parameter for understanding the rapid changes in Arctic sea ice. Since the release of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), there has been a lack of...
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The reversal of surface air temperature anomalies in China between early and late winter 2021/2022: Observations and predictions
Available online 21 September 2023
During winter of 2021/2022, the temperature in China is characterized by a warm-to-cold transition, and the average temperature anomaly in February 2022 is –1.6 °C, the coldest February in 2013–2022....
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Application of a concrete thermal pile in cooling the warming permafrost under climate change
Available online 19 September 2023
Permafrost degradation caused by climate warming is posing a serious threat to the stability of cast-in-place pile foundations in warm permafrost regions. Ambient cold energy can be effectively utilized...
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Projected heat wave increasing trends over China based on combined dynamical and multiple statistical downscaling methods
Available online 15 September 2023
Extensive investigations on the projection of heat waves (HWs) were conducted on the basis of coarse-resolution global climate models (GCMs). However, these investigations still fail to characterise...
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Causes of 2022 summer marine heatwave in the East China Seas
Available online 9 September 2023
Recent occurrences of marine heatwaves (MHWs) in coastal China seas have caused serious impacts on marine ecosystem services and socio-economics. Nevertheless, the underlying physical process, including...
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Understanding the physical processes in the evolution of a cold air outbreak over China in late November 2022 from a Lagrangian perspective
Available online 1 September 2023
From 26 November to 1 December 2022, intense cold air masses swept across China from northwest to south, resulting in a nationwide cold air outbreak (CAO) case characterised by drastic and sudden temperature...
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Extreme weather as a window: Exploring the seek and supply of climate change information during meteorological disasters in China
August 2023
Public engagement is essential for China to address climate change; however, few studies have explored how to encourage climate awareness among Chinese residents. The objective of this study is to explore...
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Methane emissions from shale gas production sites in southern Sichuan, China: A field trial of methods
August 2023
Shale gas is an important alternative natural gas source that can meet China's growing energy demand. However, methane emissions during shale gas production could largely determine whether it could...
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Improvement and optimization for the first order decay model parameters at typical municipal solid waste landfills in China
August 2023
Landfill gas (LFG) generation is commonly modeled by using a first-order model. Methane generation potential (L0) and methane generation rate constant (k) are two key parameters in the first-order model....
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Historical and real-time estimation of snow depth in Eurasia based on multiple passive microwave data
August 2023
Current snow depth datasets demonstrate large discrepancies in the spatial pattern in Eurasia, and the lagging updates of datasets do not meet the operational requirements of the meteorological service...
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Amplification of warming on the Tibetan Plateau
August 2023
The accelerated warming over the Tibetan Plateau relative to global means has attracted considerable attention from the scientific community. Nevertheless, the timescale, seasonality and dominant causes...
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Increased southerly and easterly water vapor transport contributed to the dry-to-wet transition of summer precipitation over the Three-River Headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau
August 2023
The Three-River Headwaters (TRH) region in the Tibetan Plateau is vulnerable to climate change; changes in summer (June–August) precipitation have a significant impact on water security and sustainability...
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Uncertainty of temperature rise under nationally determined contributions and carbon neutral policies
August 2023
Nationally determined contributions raised by Paris Agreement aim to control the temperature rise below 2 °C or even 1.5 °C at the end of the 21st century, compared to pre-industrial levels. However,...
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Performance of climate reanalyses in the determination of pan-Arctic terrestrial rain-on-snow events
August 2023
Rain-on-snow (ROS) events can cause rapid snowmelt, leading to flooding and avalanches in the pan-Arctic and can also lead to starvation and the death of massive ungulates. Reanalysis products (e.g.,...
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Evolution of research on climate risk insurance: A bibliometric analysis from 1975 to 2022
August 2023
Insurance against climate risk is essential for mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. However, theoretical consensus regarding climate risk insurance remains elusive, and the implementation...
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The influence of increasing temperatures on highland barley yields and on the maximum cultivation altitude on the Tibetan Plateau
August 2023
Highland barley (Hordeum vulgare Linn. cv. nudum Hook. f.) is the principal cereal crop over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The response of highland barely to climate change in the past decades, especially...
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Exploring atmospheric environmental drivers of asthma among children in Shanghai, China: Evidence-informed policies are required
August 2023
It is important to identify atmospheric environmental drivers of childhood asthma because asthma is the most common chronic disease in children globally. We provided an overview of the impacts of exposure...
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Spatial differences of ice volume across High Mountain Asia
August 2023
Advanced knowledge of glacier ice volume is vital for water resource assessment. Previous studies have focused on the estimation of ice volume, but the quantitative understanding of the spatial variability...
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Response of ocean climate to different heat-flux perturbations over the North Atlantic in FAFMIP
August 2023
The diversity of surface-flux perturbations, especially for heat-flux perturbations, notably leads to uncertainties surrounding the responses of ocean climate under global warming scenarios projected...
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Marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Mexico 1983‒2021: Statistics, recent intensifications, and threats on coral reefs
August 2023
There is the current lack of comprehensive understanding of the hotspots, frequency, duration, spatiotemporal trends, and physical drivers of marine heatwaves (MHWs) within the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)....
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Total and cause-specific mortality attributable to cold spells in China: A multicity and multicounty study
Available online 28 August 2023
Climate change has resulted in an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme cold weather events, but few multicity or multicounty researches have explored the association between cold spells...
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