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...
Contrasting biophysical impacts of vegetation growth and type transition greening on local temperature in Southwestern China
Available online 5 November 2025
There is a noticeable greening trend observed in China over the first two decades of the 21st century attributed to both vegetation growth and type transition. However, the comparative impacts of these...
Comprehensive evaluation of multi-source reanalysis datasets for surface atmospheric parameters over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Available online 1 November 2025
The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate. In situ observations are sparse due to its harsh environment, making reanalysis datasets an essential alternative. However, their accuracy...
Irrigated agriculture on the southern and northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains faces different risks of water scarcity
Available online 1 November 2025
Irrigated agriculture dependent on runoff from the Tianshan Mountains underpins socioeconomic development in the arid regions of Central Asia. However, ongoing warming and agricultural expansion profoundly...
Expansion of thermokarst lakes along the Mo’he county section of National Highway G111 in Northeast China during 1989–2020
October 2025
Thermokarst lake dynamics crucially affect permafrost degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, hydrological and geomorphic processes and ecological responses in cold-region environments. However, the...
Evaluating ISIMIP3b bias-corrected data for precipitation extremes in China during 1981–2100
October 2025
The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) bias-corrected data have been extensively used for climate change impact assessments, despite being derived from only five global climate...
High-resolution Arctic sea ice lead variations during wintertime (2016–2023) from SAR observations
October 2025
In the Arctic, sea ice leads are crucial for the exchange of energy between the ocean and the atmosphere. Leads exhibit a wide range of widths, from several meters to tens of kilometers, with narrow...
Rapid attribution prototype for extreme high temperature events in China
October 2025
Understanding the causes of extreme events and projecting their future changes are essential for society's adaptation to climate change. Although several entities have proposed different prototypes...
Variations in Greenland surface melt and extreme events from 1958 to 2023
October 2025
Surface melt and subsequent runoff have been the main contributors to recent Greenland mass loss. However, previous studies mainly focused on the extent and persistence of surface melt. The variations...
