Escalating risks of anomalously hot–dry growing seasons in arid Northwest China under human influence
December 2025
The anomalous hydrothermal conditions during growing seasons, i.e. less precipitation and high temperature, could induce an unstable water resource supply and pose great threats to regional agro-pastoral...
Deceleration of tropopause rise amidst ozone recovery over Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica
December 2025
Tropopause height (H), a crucial variable for assessing upper-air climate change, is primarily modulated by temperature variations in the troposphere and stratosphere. While the recovery of Antarctic...
The tempo‒spatial heterogeneity of the association between hourly ambient temperature and injury morbidity: A nationwide large case-crossover study in China
December 2025
In the context of global warming, the impact on human health has received increasing attention. However, studies focusing on injury are limited, with most examining temperature-injury association on...
Assessing climate and transition risks to China’s agriculture under 1.5 and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios
Available online 30 December 2025
China’s agriculture faces dual risks from climate change and the transition to low-carbon agriculture, both of which pose substantial threats to food security and farmers' incomes. Understanding the...
Negligible global but substantial regional effect of vegetation greening on the 21st century permafrost
Available online 23 December 2025
Vegetation, as a key component of terrestrial ecosystems, influences surface energy, carbon and water balances, and indirectly affects permafrost dynamics. However, under the background of climate warming,...
Distribution, trends, and drivers of snow avalanche susceptibility on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau from 2003 to 2022
Available online 23 December 2025
The lack of clarity regarding the trends in avalanche susceptibility over recent decades highlights a significant research gap. This pressing scientific challenge has major implications for risk management...
Prevailing thermal models underestimate permafrost thermal state in the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for cryosphere adaptation
Available online 19 December 2025
Understanding thermal dynamics of permafrost is essential for maintaining the cryosphere eco-hydrological system and infrastructure. The mean annual ground temperature (MAGT) serves as a key indicator...
Assessing the coordination and consistency of the policy system for achieving China’s carbon neutrality goal based on text and network methods
Available online 19 December 2025
Lack of coordination and consistency in government policy-making has long been recognized as a weakness, yet its systematic quantification has been neglected. This study investigates this shortcoming...
Daily imaging from China's HJ-2A/B satellites enables yearly mapping of regional glacial lakes
Available online 18 December 2025
The rapid expansion of glacial lakes in high-mountain regions, both in number and area, increases the risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) to downstream communities. Optical remote sensing is...
Scalable rain–snow discrimination in glacierized regions using tower observations and time-lapse imagery
Available online 16 December 2025
Precipitation plays a crucial role in controlling glacier mass balance, yet accurately distinguishing rainfall from snowfall in high-altitude glacierized regions remains difficult due to the limits...
Regional disparities in extreme precipitation trends across East Asia: Observation-constrained projection and attribution
Available online 13 December 2025
Extreme precipitation events pose growing risks across East Asia. Although various studies have examined the historical and future changes of extreme precipitation, substantial uncertainties in magnitudes...
Hydrologic responses to hot droughts in the Yangtze River Basin
Available online 13 December 2025
Hot droughts, defined as droughts concomitant with high temperatures, pose a greater threat to water resources than droughts alone. However, the hydrologic responses to hot droughts and their changes...
Climate change projections over mid-high latitudes Northern Asia using an ensemble of RegCM5 simulations
Available online 10 December 2025
Mid-high latitudes Northern Asia (NAS) is highly sensitive to global warming, yet remains understudied—particularly for high-resolution regional climate model (RCM) based future climate change projections....
Updated radiative efficiencies and emissions metrics of halocarbons
Available online 10 December 2025
Accurately quantifying the radiative properties of halogenated compounds is essential for climate change research, given their potent warming potential. While radiative transfer models facilitate explicit...
Dynamic characteristics of carbon inequality in China's inter-regional trade
Available online 9 December 2025
Economic-based trade patterns can result in an imbalance between environmental costs and economic benefits, and this mismatch between regional emission rights and development rights leads to trade-driven...
Global carbon neutrality progress assessment and typology classification in 2025
Available online 9 December 2025
As the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, global climate governance has shifted from ‘commitment to targets’ to ‘implementation of actions’. Systematic evaluation of national climate progress...
Downscaling daily climate data with super-resolution and CMIP6 global climate models to predict the climate in China
Available online 8 December 2025
Traditional downscaling methods are often hampered by high computational costs and assumptions of statistical stationarity, which compromise the reliability of future regional climate risk assessments....
Modeling the 21st-century response of Greenland's Zachariæ Isstrøm and Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glaciers to atmosphere‒ocean forcing and friction laws
Available online 2 December 2025
Recent rapid retreat of outlet glaciers in Northeast Greenland has raised concerns over their future stability and sea-level-rise potential. However, large uncertainties remain in long-term projections...
Expansion and outburst process of Aksu Kule Lake in the Kunlun Mountains, Qinghai‒Tibet Plateau
Available online 28 November 2025
Rapid lake expansion and sudden outburst events have emerged as critical hydrological phenomena on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), reshaping endorheic basins and threatening downstream ecosystems and...
Autumn snow expansion and spring divergence in Northeast China (2000–2020)
Available online 26 November 2025
Mid-latitude snow has broadly declined, but Northeast China (NEC) shows a seasonal divergence that remains insufficiently explained. We integrated a cloud-free 500 m MODIS snow-phenology record with...
Possible linkage between sudden stratospheric warmings and transboundary aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau
Available online 19 November 2025
South Asian cross-border aerosols play a critical role in the climate change of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). While previous studies have investigated the transboundary transport of these aerosols primarily...
Study on the concept and framework of synergy between mitigation and adaptation
Available online 12 November 2025
Carbon neutrality and the Global Goal on Adaptation jointly drive the integration of mitigation and adaptation; however, a clear conceptual and analytical framework for their synergy remains absent....
Increasing extreme heat events in the permafrost region of the Northern Hemisphere
Available online 10 November 2025
The intensification of extreme heat events is a potent thermal disturbance that can trigger abrupt permafrost degradation. However, a systematic understanding of their spatiotemporal variation across...
Increasing coupling of hot‒dry winds and drought across China: Observational evidence and future projection
Available online 7 November 2025
Hot‒dry winds (HDW) and droughts are two prevailing climate hazards posing increasing threats to human societies and natural ecosystems. Insights into compound HDW and drought events (CHDWDs) fill gaps...
