Quantification of selected SDGs in the context of China's climate mitigation pathway
Available online 18 March 2025
China has set targets for achieving peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality, supporting the global climate change mitigation targets. Meanwhile, after the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were...
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Projection of sea ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago based on CMIP6 assessments
Available online 8 March 2025
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) includes the critical region of the Northwest Passage (NWP) and is one of the areas with the most severe sea ice conditions in the Arctic. Currently, studies on...
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Understanding water flowpaths and origins in an Arctic Alaskan basin: Implications for permafrost hydrology under global warming
Available online 8 March 2025
Global warming is progressing more rapidly in the Arctic compared with other regions of the world, and the increasing temperature has caused gradual permafrost thaw, resulting in significant changes...
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The freezing‒thawing index and permafrost extent in pan-Arctic experienced rapid changes following the global warming hiatus
Available online 7 March 2025
Global ground surface temperatures experienced a rapid increase following the end of the global warming hiatus in 2013. The rapid temperature increase has potential to drive changes in FDD/TDD and permafrost...
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Impacts of snow cover on the cooling mechanism and performance in the crushed-rock interlayer embankment
Available online 5 March 2025
Most researches assume snow cover as an unventilated thermal resistance to discuss its impacts on the crushed-rock interlayer embankment (CRIE). However, as a porous medium, its role in altering ventilation...
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Evaluation of the performance of WRF9km in simulating climate over the upper Yellow River Basin
February 2025
Understanding the current climate in the Yellow River Basin is essential for accurately predicting future climate change and assessing its impacts on water resources and ecosystems; however, existing...
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Climatic impacts on electricity consumption of urban residential buildings in China
February 2025
Evaluating the effects of climate change is crucial for developing effective strategies for both mitigation and adaptation policies. However, a comprehensive quantification of the precise effects of...
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Wind power correction model designed by the quantitative assessment for the impacts of forecasted wind speed error
February 2025
The errors in wind power forecast will incur additional cost. It is critical to quantify the relationship between forecasting error in wind speed and power output. Unlike previous works that have rarely...
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Characteristics of Musta Glacier surges and their responses to climate change between 1976 and 2023
February 2025
Understanding the differential responses of various tributaries of the same glacier to climate change under similar climatic conditions in the Karakoram is crucial for unraveling the complexity of glacier...
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Assessment of flood loss in administrative units based on improved vulnerability curves
February 2025
The vulnerability curve is a key method for assessing flood loss risk, which contributes to the improvement of flood prevention and relief systems. However, existing vulnerability curves are typically...
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Future changes in population exposure to intensified heatwaves over three major urban agglomerations in China based on excess heat factor
February 2025
Heatwave events (HWs) have become more frequent and intense due to climate change and urbanization, posing risks to human health, yet the influence of rapid temperature fluctuation on human adaptation...
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Future climatic risks faced by the Beautiful China Initiative: A perspective for 2035 and 2050
February 2025
Identifying high-risk areas for climatic disasters and their overlaps during the implementation of the Beautiful China Initiative fills a critical gap in disaster risk research, which often lacks quantitative...
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Regional reallocation of zero-carbon ammonia production in China with carbon neutrality targets
February 2025
Current studies have shown that local feedstocks such as coal, natural gas, and solar resources support regional industrial decarbonization pathways but fail to consider inter-regional cooperation....
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The interaction between thermokarst lake drainage and ground subsidence accelerates permafrost degradation
February 2025
Since it is not viable to directly evaluate permafrost change based on remote sensing, thermokarst lake drainage (TLD) and ground subsidence serve as indicators for depicting permafrost degradation....
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Technology pathway to decarbonisation in the building sector based on a policy review of major economies
February 2025
Building decarbonisation is crucial to achieve the carbon neutrality targets. Although many studies have been conducted, a gap remains in the research concerning technology development and policy design....
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Traditional ecological knowledge in High Mountain Asia: A pathway to climate resilience in agriculture amidst changing climates
February 2025
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) often represents centuries of empirical observation and adaptation to specific ecological conditions, which is relevant to meaningful nature-human relations. Yet,...
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Calibrating the simulated summer precipitation trend over the southern slope of the Tibetan Plateau in CMIP6 models using a sub-selection method
February 2025
Precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is crucial for Asian water balance and global climate patterns. The southern slope of the TP (SSTP), a precipitation center in summer, has experienced a long-term...
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Assessing the added value of convection-permitting modeling for urban climate research: A case study in eastern China
February 2025
Accurate urban-resolving climate data are essential for urban climate research and applications. However, General Circulation Models (GCMs) often lack the resolution and urban representation needed...
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Projection for the occurrence dates of heat stress in North China
February 2025
High humidity has been causing extreme heat stress during summer in North China, presenting threats to human life. Although future changes in the intensity and frequency of heat stress have been well...
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The sensitivity of the Asian summer monsoon simulation to horizontal resolution and air‒sea coupling in the FGOALS-f climate system model
February 2025
The relative importance between horizontal resolution and air‒sea coupling on improving Asian summer monsoon (ASM) simulation skill remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the sensitivity of...
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Climate warming and wetting poses a severe threat to permafrost engineering stability on the Qinghai‒Xizang Plateau
February 2025
Permafrost underpins engineering in cold regions but is highly sensitive to climate change. The mechanisms linking climate warming, precipitation changes, and permafrost degradation to infrastructure...
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Development of a high-resolution dataset of future monthly surface solar radiation by combining CMIP6 projections and satellite-based retrievals
Available online 28 February 2025
Accurate projections of future surface solar radiation (SSR) are important for assessing the impacts of climate change and the potential of solar energy. However, climate models from the Coupled Model...
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Degradation of potential winter roads threatens vulnerable communities’ freight accessibility in the pan-Arctic region
Available online 27 February 2025
Winter roads, which are seasonal roads built on frozen surfaces, serve as a socio-economic lifeline in the pan-Arctic region but are sensitive to amplified Arctic warming. Potential winter roads (PWRs)...
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Impact of climate change on landslides along N-15 Highway, northern Pakistan
Available online 20 February 2025
Landslides, which are aggravated by climate change, greatly threaten mountainous regions like northern Pakistan. However, existing research lacks a complete, region-specific analysis of the climatic...
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