2520 papers
This study demonstrates that Saharan dust significantly exacerbates the sensitivity of Alpine glaciers to climate change by 11% through albedo-driven feedbacks that prolong the exposure of darker surfaces to solar radiation, thereby accelerating glacier wastage even without increased dust deposition.
This study reveals that sustained background wind speed is a critical global predictor of reduced coral bleaching severity—accounting for approximately 18% of the variation by enhancing hydrodynamic cooling—suggesting that projected future wind weakening could exacerbate bleaching risks even without additional thermal stress.
This study investigates the stress-strain response of unsaturated volcanic ash soil from Colombia, demonstrating that recompaction and increased matric suction significantly enhance shear strength and stiffness, particularly under higher confinement stresses, thereby highlighting the critical need to account for hydraulic states and compaction history in geotechnical stability analyses.
This study introduces an integrated network-based framework that combines soil interaction topology, multivariate statistics, and spatial analysis to map soil health dynamics and delineate zone-specific management strategies across the heterogeneous Tehri dam catchment in the Himalayas.
This study demonstrates that a machine learning framework incorporating engineered hydrometeorological and climate indices, such as the Orographic Index and Vapor Pressure Deficit, significantly improves the downscaling of coarse ERA5 temperature and precipitation data to station-scale resolution in Vietnam's Central Highlands, thereby providing high-fidelity climate information for agricultural and water resource management.
This study integrates volcanological, petrographic, and geochemical data from the Kumba Plain's monogenetic field to demonstrate that its basaltic lavas, derived from low-degree partial melting of a HIMU-like mantle source with minor EM1 contributions, were generated by rapid magma ascent through lithospheric fractures driven by edge-driven convection and thermal instabilities.
By integrating 600 years of paleo-reanalysis data with extensive model simulations and future CMIP6 projections, this study identifies 1540 and 1590 as the most extreme summer heat anomalies in Central European history and demonstrates that future climate scenarios could produce even more severe heatwaves linked to North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies, posing significant risks to ecosystems and society.
This study provides a comprehensive scientometric and systematic review of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) applications in climate change impact assessment, analyzing current methodological advancements, identifying critical challenges such as data limitations and model interpretability, and proposing a strategic research agenda for developing scalable and equitable GeoAI systems.
This study reveals that in Gopalganj, Bihar, the caste system systematically confines Scheduled Castes and Tribes to high-risk flood zones, where male out-migration has further intensified vulnerability by leaving behind a disproportionately female population to face ecological hazards.
This study demonstrates that inselbergs on the Borborema Plateau have served as historical refugia for endemic plant species through past climatic oscillations but face significant future habitat contraction under climate change, underscoring the urgent need for conservation strategies to protect these specialized lineages.