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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Evolution of supraglacial lakes over the pan-Antarctic ice sheet between 2014 and 2022: Assessment and the control factors
Available online 20 February 2025
Widespread supraglacial lakes (SGLs) across the Antarctic surface can accelerate land ice flow and be linked to ice shelf disintegration, further affecting sea-level rise projections. However, previous...
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Exploring the roles of recorded unprecedented rainfall-runoff characteristics and uplifted riverbeds in the catastrophic 2022 Pakistan megaflood
Available online 19 February 2025
Catastrophic floods triggered by extreme monsoonal rainfall have increasingly posed challenges in flood management, particularly in low-income nations like Pakistan. The 2022 megaflood exposed substantial...
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Fragmentation of ground surface freezing processes in Northeast China from 1950 to 2022
Available online 13 February 2025
Current studies mainly employ the onset and end dates of freezing, freeze duration and freeze depth to describe the freeze state, often overlooking the discontinuous nature of the freezing process....
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Assessing the combined effect of China's restarting of the CCER market: Coupling of CGE and GAINS models
Available online 31 January 2025
China's relaunch of the Certified Voluntary Emission Reduction (CCER) market is essential to the operation of the carbon emission trading market. Traditional single policy effect evaluation models cannot...
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Identifying practical adaptations to health risks from extreme weather events for multi-actors
Available online 29 January 2025
To address escalating health risk posed by extreme weather due to climate change, it’s particularly important to identify tailored adaptation measures for various actors, enabling them to respond quickly...
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Representative CO2 emissions pathways for China's provinces toward carbon neutrality under the Paris Agreement's 2 °C target
December 2024
China has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. It is essential to develop representative CO2 emissions pathways at the provincial level that align with the national target to facilitate...
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Detection, attribution and projection of changes in the extreme temperature range in the Northern Hemisphere
December 2024
The extreme temperature range (ETR) is the span between the highest and lowest temperature of a given year, and is a manifestation of extreme temperature variability. It is regarded as having significant...
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Elevation-dependent shift of landslide activity in mountain permafrost regions of the Qilian Mountains
December 2024
Increasing landslide activities in cold regions have been attributed to rising temperatures and consequent permafrost degradation. While previous studies have linked permafrost degradation to slope...
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Impact of ambient temperatures on Alzheimer's disease and other dementia mortality among elderly patients aged 60 years and older in China
December 2024
China has a large number of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and types of other dementia, which places a heavy burden on the public health and medical systems. As global climate change results...
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